WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 Dragnet. 00:03.000 --> 00:10.000 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:10.000 --> 00:21.000 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:21.000 --> 00:24.000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to auto theft detail. 00:24.000 --> 00:29.000 The recovery rate of stolen automobiles in your city has dropped far below normal. 00:29.000 --> 00:39.000 Evidence points to an organized gang of car thieves. Your job, break it up. 00:39.000 --> 00:43.000 It was Tuesday, June 14th. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of auto theft detail. 00:43.000 --> 00:47.000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Nelson. My name is Friday. 00:47.000 --> 00:52.000 We were on our way out from the office and it was 1127 A.M. when we got to 2564 Dewey Avenue. 00:52.000 --> 00:54.000 Apartment 3G. 00:54.000 --> 01:00.000 Want to try it again? 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 Oh, hi Joe, Frank. 01:02.000 --> 01:03.000 Hi, Whitey. 01:03.000 --> 01:04.000 Morning. 01:04.000 --> 01:05.000 Thanks. 01:05.000 --> 01:07.000 Come on out in the kitchen. 01:07.000 --> 01:09.000 Washing out some socks. You don't care if I finish up, do you? 01:09.000 --> 01:10.000 No, go ahead. 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 I got up this morning. I figured I'd better get it done. 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 I haven't got a clean pair to my name. 01:14.000 --> 01:16.000 Try your chair and sit down. 01:16.000 --> 01:19.000 Thank you. 01:19.000 --> 01:20.000 What did you want to see me about? 01:20.000 --> 01:21.000 A couple questions. 01:21.000 --> 01:22.000 I'm not in the fire, am I? 01:22.000 --> 01:24.000 Not with us. 01:24.000 --> 01:25.000 Couldn't remember anything. You never know. 01:25.000 --> 01:26.000 No. 01:26.000 --> 01:27.000 What is it? 01:27.000 --> 01:29.000 You still working at that garage? 01:29.000 --> 01:31.000 Night shift. Check in at four. 01:31.000 --> 01:33.000 Just got something to do with my job? 01:33.000 --> 01:34.000 Might have, yeah. 01:34.000 --> 01:38.000 Look, fellas, you know their history. I'm not going to try and hand you a lot of slush, but I'm clean. 01:38.000 --> 01:39.000 Half a dozen guys will tell you that. 01:39.000 --> 01:42.000 I haven't got off the line since the last time I was tagged. 01:42.000 --> 01:45.000 Well, you're in no trouble, Whitey. We figured maybe you could give us a hand. 01:45.000 --> 01:46.000 Here's the switch. 01:46.000 --> 01:50.000 Me giving you some help. It usually works the other way. 01:50.000 --> 01:51.000 What are you looking for? 01:51.000 --> 01:55.000 A lot of cars going someplace, Whitey. We're trying to find out where and who's driving them. 01:55.000 --> 01:56.000 Thought maybe you might have heard a rumble. 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 There's always something going around. 01:58.000 --> 01:59.000 You got anything? 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 Won't do me any good if it goes outside. 02:01.000 --> 02:02.000 They won't open the door. 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 There's supposed to be three of them. 02:04.000 --> 02:05.000 What do you know about them? 02:05.000 --> 02:08.000 Two men and a woman. Two fellas are supposed to be pretty heavy. 02:08.000 --> 02:09.000 Any names? 02:09.000 --> 02:12.000 No, they're planted pretty close. Even the rumble's not solid. 02:12.000 --> 02:15.000 A couple of days ago, I talked to a guy down at the garage. 02:15.000 --> 02:18.000 He was telling me about the operation. Said it was big. 02:18.000 --> 02:19.000 He know the people? 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 Enough to be in the same bar. 02:21.000 --> 02:24.000 Told me he tried to get a piece of the action, but they're not cutting any of it. 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 Can we talk to this guy? 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 I can't stop you, but I can't give you a hand either. 02:28.000 --> 02:29.000 What do you mean? 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 I can't tell you where to find him. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 Does he come around the garage much? 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 No, he comes in once in a while. Talks. Nothing regular. 02:34.000 --> 02:35.000 What does he do for a living? 02:35.000 --> 02:36.000 Drives. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 Hmm? 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 Stop car races. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 Oh, I see. Does he got a name? 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 Call him Tops. I don't know the rest. 02:42.000 --> 02:43.000 You know what he's talking about? 02:43.000 --> 02:46.000 I think so. He likes to yak, but he's on it straight on this. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Did he give you any details on the operation? 02:48.000 --> 02:52.000 I didn't ask a lot. I figured the less I know about deals like this, the less I can get in trouble. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 Yeah. 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 Look at that. 02:55.000 --> 02:56.000 Huh? 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 The way that sock is worn. Argyle. Good ones. 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 Cost me five bucks. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 Look at that hole in the heel. Right in the middle of the two covers. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 How do you mend a sock like that? 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 What do you mean? 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 Well, how do you sew it up? Use one color and it louses up the argyle part. 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 Use the color of the argyle and it'll go into the foot part. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 Sock people ought to figure some way around it. 03:12.000 --> 03:13.000 Yeah. 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 Might as well throw them away. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 Any word on what they're doing with the cars? 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 I didn't hear it. 03:19.000 --> 03:20.000 They turning up? 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 No, not where we can find them. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 Smart. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 Are they local people, why not? 03:24.000 --> 03:28.000 I don't know. I don't think so. I can't tell you why. I just don't think they're from L.A. 03:28.000 --> 03:29.000 Mm-hmm. 03:29.000 --> 03:30.000 They scoring pretty good? 03:30.000 --> 03:31.000 Yeah, they are. 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 Last two weeks we figured they've taken a half a dozen cars. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 Well, how do you lay it on them? 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 Well, the way they're working, the M.O. points to the same gang. 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 What's the pattern? 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 Cars are taken in the early morning hours from in front of the owner's house. 03:41.000 --> 03:42.000 Jumper wires? 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Yeah, all late models. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 They won't touch anything that isn't fully equipped. 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 Any special make? 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 No. As long as the car has a radio and a heater, white sidewalls, they want it. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 They're not turning up? 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 No. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Maybe they're getting them out of the country. 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 No, that doesn't figure. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 We've had the border checked. San Diego's working on it. 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 Two of the jobs, we had the broadcast out within a half hour after the car was taken. 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 We couldn't turn anything. Just seemed to disappear. 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 You must have a big parking lot. 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 You said the two men were heavy. 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 That's right. 04:07.000 --> 04:08.000 How'd you come up with that? 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 Well, the guy who told me the story, you know, Tops? 04:10.000 --> 04:11.000 Yeah. 04:11.000 --> 04:14.000 When he laid the rumble out, he said he talked with one of the fellas at a bar. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 Mm-hmm. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 Told the guy he'd like a piece of the action. 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 About that time, the roof fell out. 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 What do you mean? 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 Well, the guy got real rough. 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 Said there wasn't going to be any split. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 The action was going to stay in the same corner. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 Mm-hmm. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 Showed Tops a gun. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Said if anything about the operation got out, he'd use it. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 The way Tops put it, he wasn't kidding. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 Did you get any kind of a description of the man? 04:31.000 --> 04:32.000 No. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 Did this Tops fella tell you where the bar was? 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 No. 04:34.000 --> 04:35.000 Well, okay, Whitey. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 If you hear from him again, we'd love to know. 04:37.000 --> 04:38.000 Sure. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Call you at the office? 04:39.000 --> 04:40.000 That's right. 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 I wish I could have given you more. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 I'll nose around, see if I can pick up anything. 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 We appreciate that. 04:44.000 --> 04:45.000 Don't go out in the limo. 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 You don't have to worry about that. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 I'm not going to line myself up for any trouble I don't need. 04:49.000 --> 04:51.000 Well, we'll check you later, then, huh? 04:51.000 --> 04:52.000 Yeah. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 Hope I'll have something for you in the next couple of days. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Well, if you do, it'll put you way ahead. 04:56.000 --> 04:57.000 Hmm? 04:57.000 --> 04:58.000 We've been on it two weeks. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.000 Yeah? 04:59.000 --> 05:00.000 We haven't got a place to start. 05:00.000 --> 05:09.000 On Saturday, May 27th, the first day of the operation, 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 the victim said he parked his car in front of his house 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 and returned an hour later to find it gone. 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 An immediate local and APB had been gotten out, 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 but the vehicle wasn't found. 05:18.000 --> 05:22.000 Three days later, on May 30th, there was another theft, same MO. 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 In spite of all our precautions, the thefts continued. 05:25.000 --> 05:27.000 To date, seven automobiles had been taken, 05:27.000 --> 05:28.000 and none of them had been recovered. 05:28.000 --> 05:31.000 All possible sources of information had been checked out without result. 05:31.000 --> 05:34.000 Outlets for stolen cars had been kept under 24-hour surveillance 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 without netting any new information. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 The stats office had made runs on each theft and on the general MO. 05:39.000 --> 05:41.000 When the list they returned to us was checked, 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 we were no closer to the thieves. 05:43.000 --> 05:46.000 Pressure from the victims and their insurance companies began to build, 05:46.000 --> 05:50.000 but there apparently wasn't anything we could do to stop the operation. 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 Frank and I went back to the office and ran the name and description 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 of the man known as Topps through the moniker file. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 There was no record of such a person. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 Two more days passed. Another car was stolen. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 People in the immediate vicinity were questioned, 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 but none of them had seen the thief. 06:02.000 --> 06:06.000 Saturday, June 18th, 1140 a.m. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Okay. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 I'll have that, Smith. 06:10.000 --> 06:11.000 Yeah? 06:11.000 --> 06:14.000 Oh, yeah. Can you hold him? 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 Right. He'll be right there. Yeah. 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 It's Coke. It was Whitey calling from the garage. 06:18.000 --> 06:19.000 What's he got? 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 That fella Topps. Yeah. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 He just walked in. 06:22.000 --> 06:25.000 Frank and I left the city hall and drove over to the garage 06:25.000 --> 06:26.000 where our informant worked. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 He pointed out an elderly man on the rear of the place. 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 We identified ourselves and asked him to step into the office. 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 What do you want to see me about? 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 Just a couple of questions. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 Well, I ain't done nothing. 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 No reason for you to roust me around. 06:35.000 --> 06:36.000 You're not being rousted. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 Well, it sure looks like it from here. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 Who wants to sit down? 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 I'd rather stand up. It's all the same to you. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 All right. Suit yourself. You want a cigarette? 06:42.000 --> 06:43.000 I'll have a cigarette. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 I'll have a cigarette. 06:44.000 --> 06:45.000 I'll have a cigarette. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 I'll have a cigarette. 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 I'll have a cigarette. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 I'll have a cigarette. 06:48.000 --> 06:49.000 I'll have a cigarette. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 I'll have a cigarette. 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 I'll have a cigarette. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 Yeah. 06:53.000 --> 06:54.000 Frank? 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 Yeah, thanks. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 I got a light. 06:58.000 --> 06:59.000 All right. 07:00.000 --> 07:01.000 What's your real name, Tops? 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 Henry Grayson. 07:02.000 --> 07:03.000 What do you do for a living? 07:03.000 --> 07:04.000 Well, I can get a car, I race. 07:04.000 --> 07:05.000 Stock car? 07:05.000 --> 07:06.000 Yeah. 07:06.000 --> 07:07.000 Where? 07:07.000 --> 07:08.000 Well, on different tracks. 07:08.000 --> 07:09.000 You live here in L.A.? 07:09.000 --> 07:10.000 Most of the time. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 Come back when I'm not working. 07:11.000 --> 07:12.000 You got a job now? 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 No. 07:13.000 --> 07:14.000 Figure to go back East next week. 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 Think I can line something up. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 Hey, look, you maybe got a lot of time to kill. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 I haven't. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Why don't you tell me what this is all about so I can get out of here? 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 You ever been arrested? 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 Huh? 07:22.000 --> 07:23.000 You ever been in jail? 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 Yeah. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 What charge? 07:25.000 --> 07:26.000 Well, they didn't make it stick. 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 Well, what were you arrested for? 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 Rancid. 07:28.000 --> 07:29.000 Auto or money? 07:29.000 --> 07:30.000 Auto. 07:30.000 --> 07:31.000 Do any time? 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 I told you, they didn't make it stick. 07:32.000 --> 07:33.000 Where'd this happen? 07:33.000 --> 07:34.000 Idaho. 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 That's your only arrest, huh? 07:35.000 --> 07:36.000 A couple of times for a bag. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 They hold you? 07:37.000 --> 07:38.000 No. 07:38.000 --> 07:39.000 Give me a floater. 07:39.000 --> 07:40.000 Come on, come on. 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 You guys are after something. 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 What is it? 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 You know anything about a gang of car thieves that have been working here in town? 07:44.000 --> 07:45.000 What? 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 Stolen cars. 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 Why should I have anything on it? 07:47.000 --> 07:48.000 Well, you did. 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 From where? 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 We heard it. 07:50.000 --> 07:51.000 Is it true? 07:51.000 --> 07:52.000 Lousy whitey. 07:52.000 --> 07:53.000 He told you, didn't he? 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 It's not important where we got the information. 07:55.000 --> 07:56.000 We're trying to find out if it's true. 07:56.000 --> 07:57.480 Then you'll have to look someplace else. 07:57.480 --> 07:58.480 I got nothing for you. 07:58.480 --> 08:01.000 Where'd you get the nickname Tops? 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 Huh? 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 It's a funny name. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 How'd you get it? 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 When I was a kid, I had real blonde hair, almost white. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 Other kids called me Cotton Top, shortened it down. 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 Mm-hmm. 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 You like driving for a living? 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 It's all right. 08:11.000 --> 08:12.000 Better than working. 08:12.000 --> 08:13.000 You do pretty good at it. 08:13.000 --> 08:14.000 Hmm? 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 Is there any money in driving? 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 It depends. 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 I've got a couple of bad ones. 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 Depends. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 How do you do? 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 I'm not starving. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.000 Mm-hmm. 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 Well, what do you want to know about the stolen cars? 08:23.000 --> 08:24.000 What can you tell us? 08:24.000 --> 08:25.000 Not much. 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 We'll take what you got. 08:26.000 --> 08:29.000 I got to talking with a guy one night. 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 Subject come up, we kicked it around. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.000 Turned out he had a deal going for him. 08:32.000 --> 08:33.000 A friend of yours? 08:33.000 --> 08:34.000 Never saw him before. 08:34.000 --> 08:35.000 All right, go ahead. 08:35.000 --> 08:36.000 Well, that's it. 08:36.000 --> 08:37.000 He had this deal working. 08:37.000 --> 08:38.000 I don't know anymore. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Why don't you do yourself a favor? 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 Why? 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 If you're not mixed up in this thing, why are you holding out? 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 I'm not. 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 I'm giving you what I know. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 I'm not telling the guy's life story, but it's all I got. 08:47.000 --> 08:48.000 All right. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 From the beginning, tell us, will you? 08:50.000 --> 08:51.000 What? 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 Everything this fella said. 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 You got nothing to hold me on. 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 As far as I'm concerned, it's okay if you do pull me in. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 A couple of days on the city, give me rent and food bills. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 All right, let's go. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 Look, if I had any information, I'd give it to you. 09:02.000 --> 09:03.000 No reason for me to hold out. 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 That's right. 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 I never saw that guy before. 09:05.000 --> 09:06.000 I haven't laid eyes on him since. 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 Then what do you stand in front of him for? 09:08.000 --> 09:09.000 What? 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 Makes you look like the patsy for the piece. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 Anybody takes a beef, it's going to be you. 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 For what? 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 Sitting in a bar, listening to some drunk? 09:14.000 --> 09:15.000 There's more than that and you know it. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 I can't tell you. 09:17.000 --> 09:18.000 Why? 09:18.000 --> 09:21.000 These guys too heavy for you, are they? 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Is that why you won't go along with us? 09:23.000 --> 09:24.000 You scared? 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 If you got to tie it down, that's the reason. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 They won't get near you. 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 You can guarantee it? 09:29.000 --> 09:30.000 We can. 09:30.000 --> 09:31.000 Okay, I'll go. 09:31.000 --> 09:32.000 What do you want to know? 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 The whole story now. 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 There's much to tell. 09:34.000 --> 09:38.000 It was in this bar one night, two fellas come in, they were both kind of guests. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 They sat down next to me and started to talk. 09:40.000 --> 09:41.000 To you? 09:41.000 --> 09:42.000 No, but they were right next to me. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 I could hear what they were saying. 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 Go on. 09:45.000 --> 09:46.000 We were talking about this deal. 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 I was all set up. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 First off, I didn't know what it was all about. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Then I heard one of them mention something about cars. 09:51.000 --> 09:55.000 It's like saying something about a new kind of camera around a photographer. 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 As soon as I heard the word cars, I started to listen. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 Good. 09:58.000 --> 09:59.000 They were having a beef about something. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 One of them wanted to start unloading right away. 10:01.000 --> 10:04.000 The other guy said they should wait for a while, dump them all at once. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 Well, they stood there and talked like that for a while. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Then one of them noticed me listening. 10:08.000 --> 10:09.000 Go ahead. 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 He leaned over and said something to the other guy. 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 The next thing I knew, I was surrounded. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 One of them on each side leaning on me. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 I didn't want any trouble. 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 I could see those two guys had a pocket full of it, so I went along with them. 10:18.000 --> 10:19.000 What happened? 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 Well, they asked me if I liked what I heard. 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 I told them I didn't hear anything. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 Said I had very bad ears. 10:24.000 --> 10:25.000 They didn't believe it. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 Said they wanted to talk me outside the bar. 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 I figured if they got me out there, I'd end up with something broken, so I didn't go. 10:31.000 --> 10:34.000 Tried to push me around, but the bartender came over and they moved away. 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 What happened then? 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 Came back. 10:36.000 --> 10:39.000 Told me if I said anything to anybody but what they were saying, they'd get me. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 One of them had a gun. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 He kind of pulled his coat back. 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 I could see it in his belt. 10:42.000 --> 10:43.000 They weren't kidding. 10:43.000 --> 10:46.000 Word that I'd talk to you gets back to them, I'm as good as dead. 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 Well, don't worry about it. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 Did you try and cut yourself in on the deal? 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 No. 10:50.000 --> 10:51.000 We heard you did. 10:51.000 --> 10:52.000 Well, it's not true. 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 I told Whitey that, but it never happened. 10:53.000 --> 10:54.000 Why'd you tell him I did? 10:54.000 --> 10:55.000 Well, I don't know. 10:55.000 --> 10:56.000 Trying to be a big man, I guess. 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 Yeah. 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 These two fellas hang around the bar? 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 Huh? 10:59.000 --> 11:00.000 Have you seen the two men around the bar before? 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 No. 11:01.000 --> 11:02.000 It's the first time. 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Any of the other people in the place seem to know them? 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 Mm-mm. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 They leave the place before you did? 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 Yeah, finished up their drinks and walked out. 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 They have a car? 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 If they did, I didn't see it. 11:11.000 --> 11:12.000 I stayed where I was. 11:12.000 --> 11:13.000 Figured maybe they were waiting for me. 11:13.000 --> 11:14.000 Didn't leave the place until just before 2. 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 You think you'd know them again if you saw them? 11:16.000 --> 11:17.000 Yeah, I'm sure of it. 11:17.000 --> 11:18.000 Well, wait. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 I get to come downtown and look through some pictures. 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 Well, I don't like to be a finger. 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 Well, you haven't got much choice, fella. 11:23.000 --> 11:24.000 I suppose not. 11:24.000 --> 11:25.000 All right, let's go. 11:25.000 --> 11:28.000 Now, don't forget, you guys said you'd take care of me. 11:28.000 --> 11:29.000 We will. 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 Those fellas find out I'm on your side, they'll try to kill me. 11:31.000 --> 11:32.000 Nothing's gonna stop them. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 Yeah, we think there is. 11:34.000 --> 11:35.000 What? 11:35.000 --> 11:36.000 What's the matter with us? 11:36.000 --> 11:47.000 We took Henry Grayson back to the city hall and had him check the mug books. 11:47.000 --> 11:49.000 He was unable to identify the suspects. 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 We ran his name through the record section and found that he had no arrests in the state 11:52.000 --> 11:53.000 of California. 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 At his own request, it was returned to his home. 11:56.000 --> 12:00.000 Local broadcasts and APBs were put out carrying the description of the two male suspects. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 A week passed without result. 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 Monday, June 27th. 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 I got it. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 Auto theft Friday. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Yes, sir. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 That's right. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 When was that? 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 No, we can't take one over the phone. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Oh, well, I'm sorry, too. 12:19.000 --> 12:20.000 That's right. 12:20.000 --> 12:21.000 You live in Hollywood? 12:21.000 --> 12:22.000 I see. 12:22.000 --> 12:26.000 Well, now, if you'll get out of the police station on Wilcox Avenue, that's right, in 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 Hollywood, they'll take it for you. 12:29.000 --> 12:32.000 1358 between Sunset and Santa Monica. 12:32.000 --> 12:33.000 That's right. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 You betcha. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 Bye. 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 Bye, Seth. 12:36.000 --> 12:37.000 Bicycle. 12:37.000 --> 12:41.000 The fellow says his kid left it in front of the house, came back, and it was gone. 12:41.000 --> 12:42.000 That's right. 12:42.000 --> 12:43.000 Something we can do for you? 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 I'd like to talk to somebody about a stolen car. 12:46.000 --> 12:47.000 Well, sit down. 12:47.000 --> 12:48.000 We'll take the information. 12:48.000 --> 12:49.000 Yes, sir. 12:49.000 --> 12:50.000 Thank you. 12:50.000 --> 12:51.000 All right, sir. 12:51.000 --> 12:52.000 What can we do for you? 12:52.000 --> 12:53.000 You're a policeman? 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 That's right. 12:54.000 --> 12:55.000 It's Frank Smith. 12:55.000 --> 12:56.000 My name's Friday. 12:56.000 --> 12:57.000 How do you do? 12:57.000 --> 12:58.000 I'm Joel Pennant. 12:58.000 --> 12:59.000 All right, sir. 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 What do you want to see us about? 13:00.000 --> 13:01.000 I think I bought a stolen car. 13:01.000 --> 13:02.000 Why do you think it's stolen? 13:02.000 --> 13:05.000 Well, just the way it was handled, the whole thing's got something funny about it. 13:05.000 --> 13:06.000 Where's the car now? 13:06.000 --> 13:08.000 I got it parked outside in the other street over there. 13:08.000 --> 13:10.000 You have the license number? 13:10.000 --> 13:11.000 Yeah, I have. 13:11.000 --> 13:12.000 Do you want it? 13:12.000 --> 13:13.000 Yes, sir. 13:13.000 --> 13:14.000 We can check it for you. 13:14.000 --> 13:15.000 I got it written down here. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 All the information's someplace. 13:17.000 --> 13:18.000 Pink slip, too. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 Oh, yeah, here it is. 13:19.000 --> 13:20.000 All right, fine. 13:20.000 --> 13:21.000 Thank you. 13:21.000 --> 13:22.000 I'll take a check. 13:22.000 --> 13:23.000 Okay. 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 Thanks. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 I sure hate to put you in all this trouble. 13:27.000 --> 13:28.000 That's all right. 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 I feel silly if it turns out okay. 13:29.000 --> 13:30.000 Why do you think the car is stolen? 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 Well, I own this little place up near Lancaster. 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 It's kind of a bar and a couple of cabins for tourists. 13:35.000 --> 13:36.000 We're out of town a ways. 13:36.000 --> 13:37.000 We don't do a lot of business. 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 Enough to make a pretty good living, but it's all hard work. 13:39.000 --> 13:40.000 Yeah. 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 Day before yesterday, that was Saturday, this guy came in to the place, had something to 13:43.000 --> 13:44.000 eat. 13:44.000 --> 13:45.000 We got to talk. 13:45.000 --> 13:46.000 You know, nothing important. 13:46.000 --> 13:47.000 Yeah. 13:47.000 --> 13:48.000 He told me he's on his way back east to find a job. 13:48.000 --> 13:51.000 Talked about how he's having a lot of trouble, lost his job and all. 13:51.000 --> 13:53.000 He had this new car parked right outside. 13:53.000 --> 13:54.000 Said he just bought it. 13:54.000 --> 13:55.000 Asked me if I knew anybody who'd buy it. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 You mean he wanted to sell the car? 13:57.000 --> 13:58.000 Yeah. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 He just got it and he needed the money to get wherever he was going. 14:00.000 --> 14:03.000 Told me he paid cash for it and he wanted to get some money out of it. 14:03.000 --> 14:04.000 Yeah. 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 Said he didn't want to take a loss, but he didn't have the price to gas for it. 14:06.000 --> 14:07.000 So he wanted to sell it. 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 All right, go ahead. 14:08.000 --> 14:12.000 I asked him how much he wanted, quoted a figure, a couple hundred dollars under wholesale. 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 It seemed like a good deal, so I bought it. 14:14.000 --> 14:15.000 Yeah. 14:15.000 --> 14:16.000 But then other guys come in and want to sell things. 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 I learned the hard way, so I asked him if he could prove he really owned the car, that 14:19.000 --> 14:20.000 he didn't steal it. 14:20.000 --> 14:21.000 Yeah. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 I didn't say it like that, you understand. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 If the deal was honest, I didn't want to scare him off. 14:24.000 --> 14:25.000 Yeah. 14:25.000 --> 14:28.000 I went to Pinkslip and told me where he bought the car. 14:28.000 --> 14:29.000 It's a place called Brompton Auto Service in Hollywood. 14:29.000 --> 14:30.000 Did you contact them? 14:30.000 --> 14:31.000 Yeah, I put a call right through. 14:31.000 --> 14:32.000 What'd they say? 14:32.000 --> 14:33.000 Well, they went through a big thrash about it. 14:33.000 --> 14:36.000 I talked to a couple of secretaries before I got to the sales manager. 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 He checked the records and he said the car had been purchased from them. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 He gave me the man's name and everything. 14:40.000 --> 14:43.000 Nothing about the deal then to make me think there was anything wrong. 14:43.000 --> 14:44.000 Pinkslip, the car people. 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 Yeah. 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 I bought it. 14:46.000 --> 14:47.000 Gave the man a check. 14:47.000 --> 14:49.000 We drove into town and I dropped him off at the bus terminal. 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 He said he'd cashed the check on Monday. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 That's today. 14:51.000 --> 14:52.000 Yeah. 14:52.000 --> 14:55.000 I had a friend come into town this morning, checked at the bank and they told me that the check had cleared. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 That it was cashed first thing. 14:56.000 --> 14:57.000 They opened the doors. 14:57.000 --> 14:59.000 I got worried about it and decided I'd better talk to you. 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 Yeah. 15:00.000 --> 15:01.000 How about it? 15:01.000 --> 15:02.000 Well, it's stolen all right. 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 I had a feeling. 15:03.000 --> 15:04.000 Anything on it? 15:04.000 --> 15:05.000 No, I checked the report. 15:05.000 --> 15:06.000 Yeah. 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 It's the bunch we're after. 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 While the victim, Joel Pennant, looked through the mug books, 15:18.000 --> 15:21.000 Frank and I went over to the bank and picked up the check the suspect had cashed. 15:21.000 --> 15:24.000 The name on the Pinkslip had been run through R&I, but there was no record on it. 15:24.000 --> 15:27.000 The check was handed over to Larry Sloan in handwriting. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 The Pinkslip was sent to the crime lab where it was found to be a forgery. 15:30.000 --> 15:35.000 We checked the phone book for a listing on the Brompton Auto Service, but we found none. 15:35.000 --> 15:40.000 The victim had made a note of the phone number and from it we were able to obtain the address where the telephone was installed. 15:40.000 --> 15:43.000 It was a large office building on 7th Street. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 Frank and I went over to see the superintendent. 15:47.000 --> 15:50.000 Yeah, this is where they were at 926. 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 When did they move out? 15:51.000 --> 15:54.000 Oh, sometime over the weekend. I'm not sure of the day. 15:54.000 --> 15:55.000 I'm off on Saturday and Sunday. 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 I see. 15:56.000 --> 15:59.000 They hardly ever come down to the building on my day off. 15:59.000 --> 16:00.000 Yes, sir. 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 How long were they in the office? 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 Oh, a couple of weeks. They wanted a place for a month. 16:03.000 --> 16:07.000 They paid for it in advance. They told me if things worked out, they'd take a lease. 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 Yes. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 I guess things didn't work out. 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 Did they leave any forwarding address? 16:12.000 --> 16:13.000 No, they didn't. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 What can you tell us about them? 16:15.000 --> 16:19.000 Not much. I only talked to them a couple of times. Seemed nice enough. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 Did they tell you what kind of business they were in? 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 No, said they were trying to get a new product started. 16:23.000 --> 16:26.000 Told me most of their work would be over the phone. 16:26.000 --> 16:29.000 Did they pay for the office by check or cash, you know? 16:29.000 --> 16:30.000 Cash. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 Said they didn't have their checks printed up yet. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 They use the name of any kind? 16:34.000 --> 16:35.000 I don't think I understand you. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Did they call each other by name? 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 Yeah, they did when they were looking over the office. 16:39.000 --> 16:40.000 Do you remember them? 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 Let me think a minute. 16:42.000 --> 16:46.000 When it comes to me, one of them was called Tom. 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 The other one was named Ralph. 16:48.000 --> 16:49.000 No last name? 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 No, I didn't hear them. 16:51.000 --> 16:52.000 What about the woman? 16:52.000 --> 16:55.000 They called her Lerner. Remember that when they introduced her. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 Nicky Lerner. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 Has the office been clean since they left? 16:59.000 --> 17:00.000 No, it hasn't. 17:00.000 --> 17:01.000 All right, sir. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 We'd like to have some men from our office go over the place. 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 Sure, glad to help any way I can. 17:06.000 --> 17:07.000 Fine, thank you. 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 Can you come downtown and look at some pictures for us? 17:09.000 --> 17:10.000 The criminals? 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 Well, of some possible suspects. 17:12.000 --> 17:13.000 See if I can pick them out, huh? 17:13.000 --> 17:14.000 That's right. 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 Better will. Wait here, I'll get my coat. 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 Go right with you. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 Second thought, you'd better wait in the lobby. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 We can go right out the door. It'll be faster. 17:22.000 --> 17:23.000 I'll be fine. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 Let's go. 17:25.000 --> 17:28.000 I can't hardly wait to get home and tell my wife what's happened. 17:28.000 --> 17:32.000 She's all the time after me because I never have nothing interesting to tell her at night. 17:32.000 --> 17:33.000 Yes, sir. 17:33.000 --> 17:34.000 It's going to be different this time. 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 Give her a story that'll really make her mouth hang open. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 She's going to be a dozer. 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 You guys could do me a favor, though. 17:40.000 --> 17:41.000 What's that? 17:41.000 --> 17:43.000 Could you drive me home after I look at the pictures? 17:43.000 --> 17:44.000 We'll see what you get there, yes, sir. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 I'd like you to be in a black and white car, if you can swing it. 17:47.000 --> 17:48.000 All right. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 Make the story more exciting, you know, heart-hitting. 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 Yeah. 17:51.000 --> 17:54.000 Something else if I come home in a black and white police car. 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 What's that? 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 My wife will believe me. 18:09.000 --> 18:12.000 We took the superintendent down to the city hall, but he failed to identify the suspects. 18:12.000 --> 18:17.000 The crime lab crew went over the office they had used, but they were unable to find any useful information. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 Another week passed. 18:19.000 --> 18:23.000 During that time, we had reports that four of the stolen cars had been sold. 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 The circumstances in each case were the same. 18:25.000 --> 18:30.000 In each instance, we checked out the address the suspects had used as a front without result. 18:30.000 --> 18:33.000 Tuesday, July 5th, Frank and I walked into the squad room. 18:33.000 --> 18:36.000 Well, it's not the same, Joe. 18:36.000 --> 18:37.000 It's not the same at all. 18:37.000 --> 18:38.000 It's all changed. 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 It has. 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 Sure? 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 It doesn't make any difference how you try. It just doesn't come off. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 What are you talking about? 18:44.000 --> 18:45.000 The fourth, Joe. The fourth. 18:45.000 --> 18:46.000 The fourth, huh? 18:46.000 --> 18:47.000 Yeah. 18:47.000 --> 18:51.000 Remember how when we were kids they had firecrackers and them torpedo things you threw against buildings, stuff like that? 18:51.000 --> 18:52.000 Yeah. 18:52.000 --> 18:53.000 No more. 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 All they got now is sparklers. 18:54.000 --> 18:55.000 Sparklers and them fountain things. 18:55.000 --> 18:56.000 Is that so? 18:56.000 --> 18:57.000 Yeah. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 Well, they're nice. They look pretty, but it's not the same. 18:59.000 --> 19:00.000 Mm-hmm. 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 I remember getting up on the morning of the fourth. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 You see who the first kid in the block was to get a can in the air. 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 Real contest light. 19:06.000 --> 19:07.000 What? 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 Get a can in the air. 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 You know, put a firecracker under a can, light it off. 19:10.000 --> 19:14.000 Real contest in our block so you could be the first one in the morning of the fourth. 19:14.000 --> 19:16.000 Didn't you ever do that? 19:16.000 --> 19:17.000 Yeah. 19:17.000 --> 19:18.000 We sure did. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 Never forget it. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 It's not the same now. 19:22.000 --> 19:25.000 Yeah, but it's a lot safer now, isn't it? 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 I'll get it. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 Autosap Friday. 19:30.000 --> 19:31.000 Yeah. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 Mm-hmm. 19:33.000 --> 19:34.000 That sure might be. 19:34.000 --> 19:36.000 That's worth checking anyway. 19:36.000 --> 19:38.000 Right. We'll be right over. 19:38.000 --> 19:40.000 It's Mott over in forgery. 19:40.000 --> 19:41.000 Yeah? 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 Just picked up a printer that had been cashed with checks. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 Checked his plant, found something we might be able to use. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 What? 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 65 pink slips. 19:55.000 --> 19:58.000 We went over to room 29 and met with Sergeant Hal Mott. 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 He told us that he and his partner had picked up a suspect on suspicion of forgery. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 When they searched the man's home, they found a printing plant 20:03.000 --> 20:06.000 where the suspect had been making up phony checks. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 They'd also found master plates for automobile pink slips 20:08.000 --> 20:10.000 and a quantity of the slips themselves. 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 Under questioning, the suspect admitted to forgeries 20:12.000 --> 20:15.000 but denied any knowledge of the automobile registrations. 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 Frank and I took him to the interrogation room. 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 Their true name is Harry Larwill, is that right? 20:19.000 --> 20:20.000 Yeah. 20:20.000 --> 20:21.000 You want to tell us about those pink slips? 20:21.000 --> 20:22.000 I don't know anything about them. 20:22.000 --> 20:23.000 You printed them, didn't you? 20:23.000 --> 20:24.000 I guess so. 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 Well, then don't you know? 20:26.000 --> 20:27.000 I printed them. 20:27.000 --> 20:28.000 What were you going to do with them? 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 I did it for kicks, nothing more. For practice. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 Yeah. 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 You think a story like that's going to stand up in court? 20:34.000 --> 20:37.000 Look, I copped out to the forgery rep. Isn't that enough for you guys? 20:37.000 --> 20:38.000 We want to know about those pinks. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 I already told you. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 How many counts did they get on you? 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 I don't know, 10 or 12. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 Well, then you know you're not going to do that stand on your head. 20:46.000 --> 20:47.000 Hmm? 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 You'll stand 1 to 14 on each count. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 A lot of time if they run consecutively. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 Now, come on, why'd you print the slips? 20:53.000 --> 20:54.000 What happens to me if I tell you? 20:54.000 --> 20:55.000 What do you mean by that? 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 We'll make it an easier army? 20:56.000 --> 20:58.000 We don't decide that. 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 But you see, the judge knows, huh? 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 We'll put it down like that, yeah. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Now, tell us about it, will you? 21:03.000 --> 21:06.000 I made them up for Tom and Ralph. 21:06.000 --> 21:07.000 Who are they? 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 A couple guys I know. They come to me with this deal. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 Said if I make them 100 slips, they give me 1,000 bucks. 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 I needed the money, so I did the job. 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 Yeah. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 Well, after I made them, Ralph said they could only use 45 of them. 21:16.000 --> 21:17.000 Then we had a beef. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 He gave me 500 and I gave him the pinks. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 You know where you can pick up your friends? 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 Yeah, a bar for not in Hollywood. 21:23.000 --> 21:24.000 The girl there, too? 21:24.000 --> 21:25.000 Who do you mean? 21:25.000 --> 21:26.000 I understand her name's Mickey. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, Ralph's wife. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 I guess she should be around. 21:30.000 --> 21:31.000 When did you see them last? 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 Yesterday. Ralph called me in the morning. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 He told me they were interested in the rest of the slips. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 Wanted to know if we could make a deal. 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 What'd you tell them? 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 That we could. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 I'm supposed to meet them this afternoon. 21:40.000 --> 21:41.000 Where? 21:41.000 --> 21:42.000 Drugstore in Sunset. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 He told me three of them were gonna leave town. 21:44.000 --> 21:45.000 All right. 21:45.000 --> 21:46.000 You gonna pick them up? 21:46.000 --> 21:47.000 That's right. 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 Guess they had a good thing going for them. 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 Sure were raking in the dough. 21:51.000 --> 21:52.000 Yeah. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 Ralph told me about it. 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 Said they were coining money. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 Kind of hate to see it broken up. 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 You do? 21:57.000 --> 21:58.000 Yeah. Good deal like that. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 Good ones are hard to come by these days. 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 Takes a lot of time to set one up. 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 Break this one up, they'll have to sit down 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 and figure another way to make a book. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 Kind of hurts to think about it. 22:07.000 --> 22:08.000 It does. 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 Yeah. Good deal like that shot. 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 It really hurts me. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 Think what it's gonna do to them. 22:20.000 --> 22:23.000 The story you have just heard is true. 22:23.000 --> 22:26.000 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 22:26.000 --> 22:29.000 On November 10th, trial was held in Department 89, 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 Superior Court of the State of California 22:31.000 --> 22:33.000 in and for the County of Los Angeles. 22:33.000 --> 22:36.000 RALPH NORWOOD-PRESCOTT 22:36.000 --> 22:41.000 RALPH NORWOOD-PRESCOTT 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 Ralph Norwood-Prescott, Thomas Dean Bolton, 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 and Nicky Lerner-Prescott 22:46.000 --> 22:49.000 were tried and convicted of grand theft auto five counts 22:49.000 --> 22:52.000 and received punishment as prescribed by law. 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 Grand theft auto is punishable by imprisonment 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 for a period of from one to ten years 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 in the state penitentiary. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 Ladies and gentlemen, 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 careless driving is kid stuff. 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 Most automobile accidents happen 23:05.000 --> 23:08.000 when we forget to act our age and drive carefully. 23:08.000 --> 23:11.000 Letting off steam, defying authority, 23:11.000 --> 23:14.000 showing off risks a driver's life 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 as well as the lives of other people. 23:16.000 --> 23:19.000 In your car, act your age. 23:19.000 --> 23:26.000 The life you save may be your own. 23:26.000 --> 23:49.000 Dragon is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 23:49.000 --> 24:08.000 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service 24:08.000 --> 24:26.000 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service