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♪ bad boys ♪
- ♪ whatcha want, whatcha want... ♪ - Stop!
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪
♪ when Sheriff John Brown come for you? ♪
- Good boy! Good boy! - All right!
Let me see your hands.
♪ bad boys, bad boys ♪
♪ whatcha gonna do ♪
♪ 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 in the city of Lafayette here
for about nine years now and...
I've been working with the department a little over seven.
The city has just grown.
We've had a lot of people come here.
The growth-- we welcome it.
But with the growth comes a lot of crime,
so it's keeping us busy. We have a lot to do,
which is good. It's job security,
so I can't complain about that.
It's the '06.
Let's just make the stop on it.
Trying to catch up to a possible stolen vehicle.
It's a Chevrolet Malibu.
It's matching the description of a stolen vehicle
that we have. Year's the same,
it's kind of driving erratic.
It ran the stop sign back there,
ran a red light, so we're just checking on it.
Just making sure it's gonna stop,
they running.
432, foot pursuit. Stay in the unit!
Running towards... Marne.
Going towards Foch.
Black male...
...khaki pants.
- Give me your hand! - Watch it,
- watch it, watch it. - Traffic.
I didn't even do...
We got one in custody.
Man, I didn't do nothing
I think he did something on the sidewalk there too.
Sandy, just make a pass on that sidewalk.
Hey, check that VIN, make sure that's the vehicle.
- May be a switched tag. - Hey.
I can't breathe.
I can smell marijuana on him.
- Oh yeah. - We could smell it when we were behind him.
- What's your name? - Oh God.
Can I catch my breath, please?
Just relax, man. Why you running?
Of course you can't breathe.
432, it's Code 4.
I got my ID in my right pocket.
There's the weed.
- What's your name, man? - My ID in my pocket.
What's your name?
I didn't ask you where's your ID.
- I asked you what your name was. - Vanti.
Why you running, man?
I tell you what.
- You have the right to remain silent. - Say...
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
Hang on one second, man.
- Why you running, man? - I got a traffic warrant.
- Can I see it? - Yes sir.
Okay, what about the weed in your pocket, man?
What you know about that?
- It's mine. - It's yours?
- Yes sir. - Okay.
Is there anything else in that car I need to know about, man?
- No sir. - All right, have a seat in that car.
All right. Can I use the phone please?
We gonna talk about that, all right?
Just have a seat for now.
But I-- Can I get my phone right here please?
Let me finish doing what I gotta do,
then we'll talk about a phone call.
Right now we think it's gonna be stolen.
We hadn't confirmed it yet.
Let's confirm this real quick.
- That ain't it. - That's not it?
- Nope. - Huh?
- No, it's not. - It's not.
It still may be stolen, but it ain't the one--
It's not that one right there.
No, the handle was supposed to be gone on it.
The handle and the...
We run the vin--
Yeah, it looks like we got a bag of weed in there.
This is gonna be for the passenger right here,
- in plain view. - Same thing that he had on him.
- 32-Alpha. - Let me talk with him.
How you doing, man? What's your name?
- Nathan. - What?
- Nathan. - Nathan what?
Okay. They read you your rights, man?
- Yes sir. - Okay.
What's your partner running for, man?
I don't know. He just said the car was stolen
and I was trying to get out of the car.
Why he thinks the car's stolen?
- I don't know. - You don't know?
So let me ask you this, man-- there's some--
there's some marijuana in a little plastic bag
on the center console in plain view.
That's for you or what? No sir.
- Who's it for, your partner? - It's-- it's not for me.
So what if he says it's for you?
- It's not mine, sir. No sir. - It's not yours?
Okay. So you don't have any idea
why he'd tell you that vehicle's stolen?
No sir, he just told me to get out and run.
I was like, "Where do you want me to go?"
He was like just follow him,
and I just got out of the car.
So you obviously went the other way.
- Yeah. - So you just run when people tell you to run,
when the police are behind you?
I went running-- I went running to go nowhere.
I was just running to the side.
If you're not doing nothing wrong,
you know you shouldn't be running.
I didn't wanna just stay in the car. I got outta it.
You got some ID on you, man?
- No sir. - You don't have any warrants or nothing, no?
- I don't know. - All right, man.
Sit tight, I'm gonna come talk with you in a little bit, all right?
He's saying it's stolen. He said his friend
was saying it was stolen the whole time.
The NCIC hit didn't come back
as a 68, so--
Where's he at? He's in your vehicle, Dan?
- Yeah. - Let's go talk with him.
Hey, man.
Why-- why y'all running, man? 'Cause you had a warrant?
I got a city warrant for traffic.
Okay, so that vehicle's not stolen, man?
That-- that's my girlfriend's vehicle.
That's your girlfriend's vehicle?
Please, I can take my jacket off?
Just relax for now. Okay, you got it on.
If you didn't run, you wouldn't be in that situation.
- Right? - No, I just got paranoid.
Ah, I understand. I understand.
- Being real, like-- - Y'all been smoking a little bit tonight or what, man?
Your eyes are kinda bloodshot.
How much y'all been smoking?
Just smoked a blunt.
Just smoked a blunt?
All right, is that what y'all were doing
whenever we lit y'all up?
That why y'all really ran?
No, 'cause I knew regardless y'all would've smelled it--
All right, the two of you are--
- there was some more weed on the center console. Who's that for?
What I had on me was for me, sarge.
So the rest is for him? For your partner?
- I'm taking my charge. - Okay, man.
Just sit tight, man. We'll see about getting the shirt off
- and getting a phone call, all right? - All right.
It wasn't the stolen car we were looking for,
but it still turned out good.
They both had some weed in their possession.
Both have warrants for their arrest.
- So... - Both charged with resisting arrest.
Good deal.
I was an officer in Florida
for about six and a half years.
And I've been a officer here for about two and a half years.
The big difference in Florida
is really just the type of drug people abuse up here.
Methamphetamine's huge up here,
whereas in Florida it was more crack cocaine,
in the city I worked, and prescription pills.
The city now of Springfield is very busy.
It seems to not matter, the day of the week anymore.
We're headed to an apartment complex.
I guess a woman called in saying a male showed up
with orange hair and a white t-shirt
with a knife in his hand at her front door.
Then he walked away and supposedly went back to his apartment,
so we'll see what we got.
I got my hand here. I got a cigarette.
You know what? It doesn't matter about how powerful
it is when there's five or six of them down there.
It's powerful as if it was one--
So what's the deal with the knife today?
Well, let me explain this to you, officer.
These people downstairs have repeatedly
decided that they want to smoke their pot outside.
- Okay. - All right?
I have, in front of other neighbors,
said that-- do not do that, because
I could at any time be exposed
to going to do a drug test, right?
- Okay. - And if it's bellowing up over here,
which they don't mind it, and they have no problem doing so,
then I do have a problem,
because if you have an apartment and you wanna smoke your shit
then you need to go in where you live at,
whether you have a newborn child or not.
Because probably that's where the newborns all come from.
Why are the neighbors telling me that
you're running around with a knife, beating on everybody's door?
Because I've had threats.
I've had somebody that was just
abused and assaulted
- on my front here... - Okay, so--
...over the bullshit that lies within
this whole lair of this craphole
that I live in,
which I'm getting out of at the end of the month.
There's statements about you running around with a knife--
Throwing beer cans off the ledge...
This is not false. Is that what you're saying?
...and at police cars as they pass by.
Oh, I was throwing cop--
beers at car cop--
- cop cars? - Supposedly.
Is there a tr--
- For one, sir, you need to reevaluate... - Repeat that.
...your statement there, because--
Did you see a beer can being thrown at your car?
- It was my car. - Why are you going to people
that you think are just smoking weed
with a knife in your hand? That makes people a little nervous.
Because they've done it! And there was a security guy here...
- What was the point of the knife? - ...just before...
- What was the point of the knife? - ...that brought it up.
What was the point of the knife?
Because I wanted to ask 'em for onions.
I don't even see-- I don't smell any food,
- any remnants of food. - Well, because I didn't have an onion.
- All I smell is beer. - I didn't have an onion.
James, what kind of beer do you drink?
- Tonight. What kind are you drinking? - It doesn't matter.
What kind you got tonight, though?
- Are you all out or do you got any left? - Well, no, it--
- it was Milwaukee's Best. - Okay, so why are they thrown
- on the ground down there? - Well, I don't know.
Do you not have to use trash cans like everybody else?
Where can you show me where it's thrown?
There's two 16-ouncers, tall boys, down there, man. Right there and there.
- Well, I don't know. - We're done arguing, sir.
- You're gonna come with us. Let's go. - Stand up.
- We're sorry, ma'am. - You don't come over here and do any ***** thing
when the ***** mean to be--
Did you-- You could've called us tonight.
- Does Mr. Prebee-- - You could have called us tonight.
Does Mr. Prebee answer a ***** answer his calls?
You could've called in a drugs complaint, right?
This ain't gonna solve the problem around here.
- Sir, there's ways to go about it-- - I'm done.
- I'm done. I know. - There's better ways to go about it
than showing up with a knife to people and threatening them.
I know. But you can't get nothing across to these people
- no matter what you do. - Call us and call in a drugs complaint.
Sir, I've done that forever and ever and ever.
I'm the bad guy?
You're not the bad guy.
You just got a little misunderstood, I guess.
- What was he yelling about? - He was just yelling
at everybody, the meth heads in these apartments.
And then there's this guy that walked out
and then turn his music up and pulled off,
and then he threw them beer cans at his car.
- Okay. - And--
At what point did he have the knife?
When he came down to our apartment.
Like, he walked out this way with the knife in his hand.
So was he holding that knife like...
- Yeah. Yeah. - ...he was gonna stab somebody with it?
- Like this. - Yeah, just like this.
Okay.
Did you see what the knife looked like?
- It was a black-handled kitchen knife. - It was a kitchen knife.
And did he cross your guys' door at all or just--
- this all happened out on the balcony? - He stabbed the door
- with the knife. - Oh, did he?
- Pretty much. There's marks on there. - Yeah, there's a mark on there
- if you wanna look at it, yeah. - Okay.
So initially everyone's hanging out here
- and that's when he had come-- - Yes.
Okay.
- Was the paint all good before? - Those weren't here.
I don't think I've ever noticed it being all-- "Guh" like that.
He was complaining that you guys were down here
smoking weed all the time and stuff.
Don't know if that's true or not.
Obviously I don't smell it tonight.
But if we're doing that, especially with a child in the home,
we need to cut it out. I didn't smell anything,
I don't see any traces of it, but I didn't search your house.
Let's make sure that we're not doing that, okay?
Hey, James. Listen, you're gonna get booked into jail, okay, tonight.
You're getting booked on an assault charge,
'cause you had the knife and you were making some threatening gestures
- and statements towards them. - Oh.
Officer, if you want to smoke your shit,
then what you need to do is you need to take it indoors,
and they have a newborn child.
They choose not to do so, so therefore--
Yeah, they don't smoke their cigarettes inside they said
- 'cause they have the newborn. - Well, they don't smoke marijuana inside either,
but apparently it's conceiving of a child,
- they were smoking marijuana or something. - When they conceived
- their child, you said? - Who knows?
- You wanna look into that? - All right.
That's not really what we're here for tonight,
but what is with you hitting and beating on the door?
All those marks on the door-- it's like knife marks on the door, scratches.
- There is not-- No, no, no. - I'm telling you--
That was something else that was done by them.
Were you not hitting on the door...
- No. No, I did not. - ...when they closed it?
- Okay. - They don't like me,
because I don't go along with their game.
So it doesn't matter whether it's one or the other
and they're all incognito with one another.
- "Incognito"? - Yes sir.
- You mean "cahoots"? - Yes.
- Oh, okay. - I'll see you on the flip-flop.
All right.
I'm originally from St. Petersburg, Florida.
I joined the Air Force and they brought me here to Albuquerque,
and I liked the area.
When I got out, I decided to stay here
and make Albuquerque my new home.
Right now we're going to
a possible fight in progress
between a male and a female.
The caller's a passerby just saying that they saw
a man hitting a woman and it looked like
the guy was throwing her out of the van.
Drugs? Yeah, right! I'm not taking any drugs!
Oh.
276, male subject's got a knife to his throat.
He's SMA in blue jeans, no shirt.
No! I'm taking my own life!
Are you out with him?
- Taking my own life! - That's 10-4. PD is also on scene
and so is their support.
What's going on? What's your name?
- I never caught your name. - Peter.
Peter? I'm Danny with the Sheriff's Department.
Okay, it looks like you're going through a lot right now.
I am! I lost my family!
How'd you lose your family?
My wife and my son-- my six-year-old son.
- Okay. - That's horrible.
- Yeah. - How'd you lose them?
That bitch, she's a cheater.
You know what? There's gonna be a solution
at the end of this, Peter. We can go talk to her about what's going on.
Do you want us to go talk to her about what's going on?
- Yeah, go tell her. - So we can go tell her your side of the story?
- Um, she knows that... - Okay.
...that's all.
Hey, I'll tell you what, Peter.
- Don't ask me. - Peter?
I'm not gonna do this yet.
Why don't we put the knife down?
Can you put the knife down, Peter?
Hey, Peter, it's okay. It's okay, Peter.
You're going through a lot right now.
I've got two sons-- 27 years old and 18.
- You can see him. - I can't!
- Listen, we can talk-- - No. No no, man.
- We can talk to her. - I can't raise my son?
I'll just do it like the other two.
- You can raise your son. - I can't. She won't let me.
I've called. She even won't let me talk to him!
But, Peter, if you hurt yourself--
If you hurt yourself, Peter...
If you hurt yourself, Peter,
you're not gonna be able to see him.
Get away. ***** try it.
- Okay. - Yeah, I'm gonna-- Don't come at me that way!
Hey, Peter, we're not coming at you, okay?
We're just doing this for your safety.
Don't let the dog go!
Peter, don't worry about the dog, okay?
- If I go to jail-- - All right, going to jail
- is better than dying, right? - No. No.
We don't want to see you hurt yourself, bro.
- Peter. - Peter.
We're not gonna do this, bro.
Neither am I. I'm not putting back--
My son's gone. That's all I got.
Go ahead.
- Hey, Peter. - Go ahead. Go ahead.
- Peter, we're not gonna do this, man. - Go ahead, shoot it.
Shoot it. Shoot me in the ***** head.
Do it.
Or else I'll fall on it.
- Go. No! - Need you to drop the knife.
- ***** do it! - Peter, we need you to drop the knife, man.
Just shoot me. Shoot me.
- Shoot me. Go ahead. - Peter, just lay the knife down.
- Going that way. Go ahead. Go ahead. - We need to talk.
I'll flop forward.
- Go ahead. - Peter, we need you to drop the knife, bro.
You drop the-- Drop the gun, I'll drop the knife.
Cop, come on.
All right, we drop the gun, you need to put the knife
on the other side of the wall, bro.
Okay, put it on the other side of the wall.
- Thank you. - That's what we need.
Now lay down on your stomach for me, Peter.
- Nothing's gonna happen. - I'll stand with my hands behind my back.
Turn around and put your hands behind your back
and we won't make you lay down.
Okay.
- Crap, man. - We appreciate this, Peter.
You did the right thing, Peter, okay?
- You did the right thing. - Yeah.
- Okay. - For who? Not for me.
- Do you have any other weapons? Anything else? - I don't got nothing.
- Do you have anything else? - No, just my wallet.
276, so one detained. You can 10-8 the air.
All right, Peter, let's go take a seat in my car.
We're gonna go take a seat, okay?
Peter, come over here and talk to me.
But I'm not-- We're not-- I'm not fighting with nobody.
- I know you're not. - Go ahead and have a seat, okay?
- I'm not gonna fight, man. - Go ahead and a have a seat, okay?
- Pull my pants up in the back? - Yeah.
Not too much. Right there. Easy, easy, easy.
Right there? All right, there you go.
Can I get something to drink, please?
Go ahead and talk to the sarge right here, okay?
- I told you I was a sergeant, right? - Mm-hmm.
- I appreciate you doing what you did. - I know, you live--
- Okay, what? - Peter, listen, I appreciate you doing what you did, okay?
We're not here to hurt you. You know that, right?
I know you guys ain't.
I wasn't here to hurt myself either.
Okay. What do you mean by that?
'Cause it was a spur of the moment ***** thought. That's all.
And it changed real quick, 'cause more that I thought about it,
it's not gonna hurt her.
It's gonna hurt my mom. My mom will ***** die
- if I did it. - And she'll appreciate you being a man
- and doing what you did. - I said I would.
- My word's my word. - Our word's our word too,
and that's why we did what we did.
I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
We're not here to Jack with you. We're not here to mess with you.
- Neither was I. - Okay.
He always tries to kill himself
- in front of me all the time. - He was upset over the divorce?
I don't know why. He's the one who told me to get it.
And I'm doing what he wants, so he can leave me alone.
You're gonna tell me and send pictures to me
of you being with other girls? What the ***** ?
So what happened right before we showed up?
We parked, he hit me
and then he started running across the field.
- Okay. - I've got--
So he actually hit you over by the intersection?
Right where we parked. Yeah, where the lights--
we were parked up a little bit right here.
- I pulled over and I said, "Let's just talk." - Okay.
"I gotta go. I just want one thing.
Let's end it now." You know what I mean?
How was he hitting you? Was it in the mouth?
Is that why you have all the blood all over you?
He busted my nos-- Yeah, I know I--
- I cleaned it. He busted my nose. - Okay.
And that's why you've got the blood on you like that?
Okay, I know he had a knife on.
Did he try and stab you with the knife
in any kind of way? So he didn't--
I told him to because I'm tired of it.
Just take me out of my misery.
- I mean, it's fine, do it. - Okay.
Hang on a second. I'll send the paramedics to check on you.
Just wanted to get your side of the story, man.
Like, what caused you to put the knife through your throat like that.
She cheated on me
because I told her I cheated on her.
- Did you hit her today? - No.
So how did she get that bloody nose?
As I stated, her medical founds are approved,
she gets bloody noses, out from the heat.
We got witnesses saying, we got a mark on your wife's nose,
and frankly, I don't-- I don't believe that she would just get bloody noses naturally.
So, remember the charges that I explained to you?
It's a battery against a household member.
- Uh-huh, my wife. - Household member is your wife.
Right.
132 and Bush. I got him at gunpoint.
At gunpoint. 132 and Bush.
Cover is Code Three.
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