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♪ bad boys ♪
- ♪ whatcha want, whatcha want... ♪ - Stop! Get on the ground.
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪
♪ when Sheriff John Brown come for you? ♪
Taser! Taser! Taser!
- Ow! Ow! - ♪ bad boys, bad boys ♪
- ♪ whatcha gonna do ♪ - They're running.
♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
♪ bad boys, bad boys ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do when they come for you? ♪
Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement.
All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
I've been with Richland County Sheriff's Department
approximately three years now.
I love being a cop.
I feel like this is my calling.
Something I've always wanted to do.
I always love giving back to the community,
and I can do that numerous different ways
being in law enforcement, whether that's helping
assist people in stressful situations,
or deterring some crime in their neighborhood.
All right, okay, now, if you wanna come up here,
I'm gonna get this one for an illegal u-turn.
I'm at the light on Monticello.
About to pull this car over.
He just made an illegal u-turn
crossing a double yellow line.
We're gonna pull him over here,
see what's going on.
4-5-7, go ahead.
At 6199 Farrow Road.
All right, Rains, we're inbound, Monticello.
He hasn't stopped yet.
Coming up on Joan right now.
And there are children in the back room.
Trying to pull this car over.
He's not stopping at this point.
Still on East Muller.
Going onto the railroad tracks.
Coming up on Seaboard Ave.
Taking a right onto Forest Drive.
Yeah, I'll call it now.
Go ahead and take the lead.
I'll call it.
Yeah, we got some more units behind the vehicle right now.
We're trying to catch up to him here.
Right onto Randolph.
He's probably gonna bush back here.
Left on High Circle.
Let me see your hands!
Get on the ground! Get on the ground!
Get on the ground right now! Get on the ground!
Don't be reaching! Don't be reaching!
I'm not reaching. I'm not reaching.
Any weapons on you?
No, sir.
- All right, stand you up, okay? - Yes, sir.
Bring your knees to your chest.
What you running for?
I don't have a license, Officer.
- All that for no license? - Yes, sir.
- That was really smart, wasn't it? - No, it wasn't.
- You should've just pulled over. - I didn't know that.
- I didn't know what to do. - Huh?
- I didn't know what to do. - What made you pull over?
- I realized I wasn't gonna be able to run. - Huh?
- I realized-- - You realized you wouldn't be able to get away?
Yes, sir.
Best decision you made all night, right?
I mean, not really, but I don't know.
All this 'cause you didn't have a license?
All this 'cause I don't have a license, Officer.
- Whose car is this? - This is my girlfriend's car.
Does she know you have it?
Um...
I have to work.
I mean, that's really all I can say.
She was with my mother. I had to go to work.
Do you know this individual right here?
- Do you know this house? - I do. That's why I came over here.
- That's why you came over here? - So they can call my mom
and call my girlfriend and let everybody know.
- Let them know the car is out here. - All right, so there ain't
- nothing in this vehicle? - No, there ain't nothing
- in here, Officer. - No bombs, no guns, no drugs?
- No, nothin'. No, nothin'. - You got any warrants?
- No warrants. - No warrants?
- So you ran 'cause you didn't have a license? -'Cause I don't have a license.
- Do you know how many charges you stacked up because-- - Mean, I'm-- I'm...
I was in a decent place, Officers.
I mean, I'm working, I'm paying child support,
I'm paying bills, I'm helping everybody out, I mean...
- Okay. - I mean, I apologize tremendously.
I really... 'Cause that was--
- It was dangerous and I mean, I'm-- - It was very dangerous.
I'm-- I'm scared. I'm a good driver, but I'm scared.
I'm glad I just didn't tear a car up and all that other stuff.
But I didn't mean to take you all through all this.
I apologize. I truly do.
- What's your first name, boss? - Angelo.
Got an ID or something on you?
It's in one of these-- No, it's in the console.
- Do you know Angelo? - Yeah, he's my cousin.
All right. You know why he was running today?
I have no idea. I'm...
To my recollection, he's supposed to be at a job.
Basically what happened was we were doing
a safety checkpoint, he did an illegal u-turn,
took off on us, I tried to pull him over
for the illegal u-turn, took off at a high rate of speed.
This was off of Monticello Road.
We went all through the county.
Came back down off of Forest Drive back up this way.
- Yeah, I saw the chase on Forest Drive, so... - Yeah, that was him right there.
And he put a lot of lives in danger.
Luckily, nobody was hurt.
There's no accidents.
- That's a good thing. - It is.
You want to talk to him?
- Yeah, I wouldn't mind. - Okay.
Hey, Angelo, so you want to
tell him what happened tonight?
Man, he know I don't have a license.
- He knows. I mean, he already knows. - But--
Fine-- fine on top of fines and bills to pay
and you know what I mean? He knows.
How many kids do you have?
If I don't talk to anybody,
this is the one guy I talk to. That's why I came over here
- instead of going anywhere else. - How many kids do you have?
- Got three kids. - Three kids?
- Yes, sir. - Do you know how many children
- you might have put into danger tonight? - I realize.
You gotta take a deep breath and just stop,
because it would be a whole lot safer
for everybody and even for you.
- You know what I'm saying? - I know, man.
Sometimes I thought I was gonna be wrapped around a tree.
I just ain't wanna tear that car apart, man.
But you know, there's more things more important than a car,
more things more important than evading the police.
You gotta think about, like he said,
- other people's lives, your life. - Thought about all that, man.
- Think about-- - That's why I slowed down and came over here.
If you had wrecked, killed yourself,
the kids are wouldn't have nobody to depend on them.
You gotta think like that. You gotta let those thoughts come through your mind
- before you make-- - Man, you know I know this already.
They're trained to react to those types of situations
and picture the worst scenario, you know?
So, I mean, it's a blessing that
you know, you have good officers who can,
you know, apprehended you in a way that, well...
you know, you're well.
The community is well, you know?
Just something to think about.
All right, Angelo, so what'd you learn tonight?
I mean, it's-- I guess if I'm in this situation again,
the best thing I can do is just pull over.
Just pull over.
This ended the best possible way
this could've ended tonight.
I was speeding. Of course--
- Just be thankful at the end of the night... - I am.
- ...you're still gonna see your kids. - I mean, I am. I am. I truly am.
- All right. - Hopefully, you know, I come home tomorrow
- and apologize to them for being away for the night. - Okay.
Didn't give us any problems when he got out the car.
He's been very cooperative and respectful
the entire time since then.
I don't think he's a bad guy.
He just made a bad decision tonight
and now he's gonna have to pay for it.
So I kind of fell into this job.
I was doing a couple of part-time jobs
after I had left teaching, and an opportunity
became available, and I tested
for, at the time, Meridian Police Department
and I got hired on with Meridian Police Department.
I was working for them for approximately 18 months
before I came over to Boise Police.
So I saw this vehicle at the gas station.
A couple of suspicious-looking subjects.
They were all pretending to pump gas.
Everybody was looking in a different direction,
so they caught my attention.
I circled back around and then they didn't
use their turn signal, so I'm going to make contact with the driver.
- How many? - Three.
You want to call her out?
- Just talk to her back here? - Yeah, we can.
There's two other occupants in the vehicle.
Let's get an ID.
- Driver? - Yeah?
Go ahead and step out of the vehicle.
Keep your hands where I can see 'em.
- Step back towards me. - Backwards?
No, you can just come-- come over here.
We're just gonna talk to you.
Go ahead and just hang out here for me, okay?
- What happened? - Is that your vehicle, ma'am?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Just have a seat right here on the edge of my bumper, okay?
All right, is that your vehicle?
- Yeah. - How long have you had it?
That's my second temporary, so... Going on two months?
- Two months? Okay. - Over a month, under two.
- Do you have insurance on that vehicle right now? - No. None.
Okay. So the reason I stopped you is that
you failed to make-- to use your turn signal
to make your left to get onto Grover, okay?
You used your turn signal coming out of the gas station,
you did not use your turn signal
from Curtis onto Grover,
so that's why I stopped you, okay?
I think I did, but it's-- it's really-- it clicks really fast
'cause it's going out, unless that means it's completely out.
I think it's completely out, so...
Have you had any problems with law enforcement before?
- No. No record as an adult. - Okay.
- I've been on probation once. When I was 16. - Okay.
- But I'm off everything. - Okay. And what was that for?
Paraphernalia. Weed. You know, whatever.
- Is there any of those items in the vehicle? Contraband? - No, no, no, no.
- Paraphernalia or anything like that? - Nope, nope, nope.
- I have not done that since I was a kid. - M'kay.
So where are you headed right now?
- 'Cause this is-- - I'm going to drop them off.
- Okay. - I need to get rid of them.
I gotta work at 6:00 in the morning.
Can I ask why is all this is going on?
It's almost like you guys are anticipating something.
- I just don't-- - Well, your actions were fairly evasive
when you were coming out of the gas station
and then making your turn.
All that concerns me because pretty clearly to me,
- it seemed like you were trying to drive to get away from me. - I don't have insurance.
- Okay. - And I just don't-- I don't need the ticket.
- Like, I don't need this right now. - But that-- that's not
a big deal, and that's not worth, like...
trying to speed away from the police.
- Get probable for that. - Right, but I'm--
I'm willing to give you guys ID's.
- Like, I have nothing going on. - Okay.
- I just-- I need to work at 6:00 in the morning. - Okay.
- You know, I have to leave by what time? Maybe 5:00. - Okay.
I don't need this right now 'cause I didn't use a turn signal.
- Like, come on. - M'kay. M'kay.
- Like... come on. - All right. Well, you understand that--
There's more important work that's probably going on right now.
It's a Friday night and you're pulling me over.
- I'm trying to take these kids home. - But, Alyssa, do I know you?
- Have I ever had contact with you? - No.
So there are things that we do for our safety.
- Okay? - Is someone talking to them already?
- Can we just-- I just want to get this-- - Just a second.
You got-- you got to get going places, yeah?
So chill, all right?
- Yeah, the sooner-- - The dog's gonna work the car, all right?
The sooner that we get through this,
the sooner that we wrap everything up
and the sooner you can carry on with your night
and take your friends home or do whatever you need to do.
Okay?
We're gonna drop off my girlfriend in Garden City.
And she's gonna take you guys to Nampa? Is that the deal?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Hey, bud, keep your hands out of your pockets. - Yep.
So you guys just chill, okay?
Dog's gonna be done with the car in just a second, all right?
All right.
Well, she's hitting on what looks like the driver's side window
and she's sniffing all over that,
but she didn't give any...
final response there.
The only thing she's hitting on looks like
maybe an Adidas backpack that's on the floorboard
right by where her feet would be tucked up under the seat, so...
Where the driver's seat work--
- Right. Yeah. - Okay.
Okay, so right now, we've had a dog do
an open air alert for possible narcotics,
so we're gonna look and see if we can find any narcotics
or paraphernalia in the car.
What do you got?
Oh, that's meth. Look at that.
Came out of that. It was in here.
So it looks like we possibly have some narcotics.
So this little plastic bag here,
it's all burnt up on the end,
but if you look at it, it's got the crystals in there.
That's really typical of methamphetamine.
That came in this Marlboro Smooth.
She's already admitted that all the smokes are hers, so...
That's one thing I've got.
This is in her backpack.
Typically, cases like this we'll have
some kind of thing that will be associated
with the narcotics located in the vehicle.
There we go.
It looks like a kit with her smoking device.
She's got a broken down straw, a battery...
Oh, we got a glass pipe.
What the hell? Why can't I just--
I know you can let me. Why won't you just let me smoke a cigarette?
Because I want to finish talking to you about business at hand first, okay?
- I've been so cooperative. I don't understand why I can't-- - Okay.
Alyssa, inside one of those cigarette containers
was what appears to be methamphetamine.
No, the fuck. There wasn't. There was two packs of cigarettes.
- One of them is almost brand new, right? - Right.
- With, like, one cigarette missing, possibly, out of 100. - Maybe. Yeah.
The other one had one cigarette in it, if I was correct.
- And that's all the hell there was. - Okay.
- In that center thingy that folds up. - Right.
- Right? Yeah. - That folds up. Yeah.
- Nope, there was no cigarette in there. - There was. That's bullshit.
- That's bullshit. - And there was a bag of what appeared to be-- Well--
- Alyssa, I'm just telling you that's what we found, okay? - That's bullshit.
- There was-- That's bullshit. - One more thing.
They found this case.
And inside the-- the...
pseudo camera case is a meth pipe.
A used meth pipe.
Also, like, cut down straws, obviously used...
A little battery that's obviously being used as a part of that.
Can you tell me anything about that, Alyssa?
- No, I can't. - Okay.
But that's all inside your backpack.
I understand that.
I was not in my car, though.
Okay, but you were in your car.
This is your backpack. It was at your feet.
Yes, I'm saying that's my backpack. Yes, it's my fucking backpack.
- Okay. - Can I just smoke a cigarette?
Okay.
- I need to go to work at 6:00 in the morning. - Alyssa... Alyssa.
You understand that these items,
unless somebody claims them is--
They're not gonna claim them. Fucking charge me with it.
I don't give a shit. They're not gonna fucking claim it.
Okay. Okay. Your backpack, your stuff, your car.
Tonight the charges are possession of methamphetamine
and drug paraphernalia.
I didn't always want to be in law enforcement.
Coming from the Marine Corps with a military background,
it was a fluid transition to this new career path.
This job unfortunately deals with people on their worst day.
But it's just important to stay professional and always respect them.
We're en route to a disturbance.
A male and female are in a physical altercation.
Supposedly there's something to do with a frying pan
and someone got hit,
so we're right around the corner.
We'll be one of the first on the scene.
- Are you in the argument? - Yes, Officer.
- Do you wanna come talk to me? - No.
What's going on?
She turned around and hit me with a frying pan.
- I'm just-- I'm just defending myself. - She hit you with a frying pan?
She's over there telling a bunch of shit.
How did it start? How'd the argument start?
She's been bitching, raving all day long today.
- Did you-- Is she your wife, or girlfriend, or what? - No, she's not my wife.
She hit you with a frying pan and then you hit her?
- Where did you hit her at? - Upside the head.
- Up-- like, back of the head, front of the head, face? Where? - Face.
Okay. Can you just come on this side of the fence, buddy?
You're not in trouble right now. I'm trying---
I'm gonna-- I'm just trying to get everybody's parts,
but I don't want the ants and I don't want the dog involved,
so I want you on this side, all right?
Just come over here.
Okay.
Let me talk to your girlfriend real quick
and then we'll figure out what's going on.
You stay in control of him.
Hey, go talk to him and see if he's got the same story
- that's lined up with her. - Sure.
Then we'll switch. We'll tag team out.
Hey, ma'am, I know you just talked to my partner.
Can I just get a minute of your time for a second?
I know you're shaken up, and if you could just tell me your side.
I know you already talked to my partner, but I need to hear from you
- to see if they-- if these stories align. - I was gonna start supper
and we were gonna grill supper tonight,
and he wouldn't go out there and light the grill.
And bout 40 minutes later, I said, "Well, I'm just gonna cook hotdogs in a pan,"
and that's it. I went over there and started.
I put them in the pan, you know, and then turned
the stove on and stuff, and he came over there and he got mad at me,
and he's cussing and screaming and he shoved me.
And I shoved him back off of me
- 'cause he shoved me into the counter... - Yeah.
- ...and my side hit the counter. - Yeah.
I shoved him back and he grabbed this wrist
- and he twisted the wrist and stuff around... - Twisted your wrist?
- Yes. - Okay.
And I told her I've been having-- going to therapy
on it and stuff because I got shocked real bad,
and then I had broke it before that
and I can hardly use it.
Oh, you had a previous injury to your wrist and you twisted it?
Yes. Two of them, yes.
So basically, if I'm getting this right,
tell me if I'm right or wrong with this, all right?
So you guys have kind of been arguing on and off all day,
You're starting to get ready for dinner, for supper,
you want him to turn the grill on. He doesn't wanna do it.
- No. - You say, "Fine, I'll just do it in the pan.
- I'll cook the hotdogs in the pan." - Yeah. Uh-huh.
That turned into even more of an argument...
which then you guys got in each other's face
and then you went to push him back,
and then he pushed you back...
- Yeah, and he-- - ...and then you hit him with the pan?
He took me-- he hit me in the neck up here
with his fist up in here and then up here on top
of the side of the head.
And is it pretty common for you guys to argue like this?
- We argue, but not like this. - Yeah.
He doesn't get physical like this.
- He doesn't beat me up. - Yeah.
Are you feeling a little better now that we're here at least?
- Yeah. - Do you feel safe and everything?
I'm gonna talk to my partner and see how we're gonna handle this.
Her story seems more legit.
Like, she wanted the grill on for the hotdogs,
didn't turn the grill on, so she says, "I'll put the pan on."
Goes to put in on the pan,
he's getting in her face, he grabs her wrist
'cause she's not listening to him or whatever,
when she grab-- when the wrist gets grabbed,
she tries to push him off, he clocks her in the face
a couple of times, a couple of different marks,
swelling and stuff...
And then that's when she grabs the pan,
- so hers is more self-defense. - Is that what he said to you?
Yeah, that's what he said. He's saying that--
Did you get that, too?
No. He told me he didn't touch her
until she hit him with the pan.
He did say that they were in each other's face pretty bad.
So she could've felt intimidated. I mean, he outweighs her
- and he's more masculine. - He said they've been fighting all day, too.
They've been in each other's faces all day. They've been fighting all day.
Over a barbecue. Over a barbecue.
Well, that was the last straw.
It's over how to cook the hotdogs.
- Barbecue or pan seared? - Yeah, but the barbecue was the last straw.
Unreal. Now it's a felony.
All right, I'm thinking primary aggressor is male half.
- Where are you at with that? - She's more detailed.
- Yeah. - He won't give me anything, so...
Yeah, I agree. He's contradicted himself two or three times,
just kind of being more vague. She's shaken up and I believe it,
so I think he's gotta go.
Hey, mister, come here for a sec. I need to talk to you.
That's fine.
Can you just turn around for me real quick?
- Why? - Turn around for me real quick.
I'm gonna-- I wanna take a look at your wrists real quick.
Turn around real quick.
Turn around. You're being placed under arrest
for domestic violence battery, all right?
- Lying bastards. - Nobody's lying to you.
- You're being placed under arrest. - Yes, you did.
He told me he wanted to feel my wrists. You lying son of a--
I'm the one putting handcuffs on you.
You too.
- Nobody lied to you. - Yes, you did.
We've been nothing but nice to you.
One second, ma'am. We're gonna have to talk to you some more a little bit, all right?
It's simple battery, but she is over 65 years of age, okay?
- So it is gonna be a felony. - Well, what about me?
- I'm disabled and she's gonna beat me around. - I understand.
- That ought to be a felony. - She was able to articulate the defensive portion of it.
- You weren't. - Look, it's just a charge right now, okay?
You'll have your day in court. Don't worry about it.
Come on, we're gonna go back to the second vehicle...
At least for tonight you guys are separated, okay?
And that's the best thing that's gonna happen for us.
- I'm disabled. - I understand.
Just like that?
Yeah, that's perfect.
And I'll crank the air for you, all right?
And we'll get you down to the jail
so we can get you out of...
...the car. The faster, the better.
Why are you with a guy that has this type of anger...
you know, lack of anger control
- and anger management issues? - In the last six months it's got really bad.
You definitely don't need any medical attention
- for your wrist, or your face, or anything like that? - I'm fine.
I gotta go to therapy tomorrow.
Okay, you're gonna go to therapy anyway tomorrow for that? Okay.
Well, you explain to them kind of that you re-aggravated it.
That's fine. The biggest thing right now is you're safe tonight.
He's gonna go to jail tonight.
Unfortunately, 'cause your age, it's gonna be a felony offense.
What happens is he's automatically gonna see a judge in the morning
and they're gonna place a no contact order.
What that's basically gonna say is
a judge mandating that he can't come back to you.
Unfortunately, I see a lot of these arguments
that turn physical between boyfriend and girlfriend or husband and wife,
so you should really take this or heed this
- as a warning of, like, "Hey, I need to get out of here." - I am.
You got too much going for you.
You seem like a really nice lady.
You don't need to be mixed up in all this drama,
especially physical drama like this, okay?
132 and Bush.
I've got him at gunpoint.
Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush.
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