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All suspects are innocent until proven guilty
In a court of law.
-Deputy steven post: I grew up riding and racing dirt bikes.
I would say it,
It helped me out in the driving aspect of things
Because in racing, you know,
You have to look ahead and pick your lines and your turns
And stuff like that.
Part of this job,
Sometimes you have to drive really fast and, you know,
Dodge obstacles.
And so I avoid a lot of accidents because of it.
I attribute it to, you know, growing up racing dirt bikes.
So we're going to a call reporting party security.
They asked to, I'm assuming it's a transient to leave.
Got argumentative with them, said he was gonna shoot him.
So they're calling us to go tell him to go away.
-Security 1: If, if you stay here,
You're gonna see my burner.
-Security 2: "get out of the car.
"I'll beat all your asses one-on-one, take off the vest."
-Security 1: Yeah. He reaches into his, you know.
-Post: Have you guys ever seen a gun or anything?
-Security 2: No, I think it's just all a bunch of--
-Security 1: He claims he's a security guard
In another place but, you know.
But he keeps, you know, I'm not gonna find that
If he actually has a gun, obviously, so.
-1-8-74, clear for a plate?
How you doing, man? -Good, how about you?
-Post: Look, take your hands outta your pockets for me.
-Okay. -Post: First number is six.
Hey, stay outta the car, dude.
Stay outta the car.
Turn around, turn around. -What?
-Post: Turn around. Face away from me.
-I'm looking for my keys.
-Post: Turn around. -Wait. What's going on?
-Post: Turn around. -For what?
-Post: Turn around.
-Okay, for what though?
You're pointing a gun at me.
-Post: Face the car, dude.
Face the car. Face the car.
You're telling these guys, you got a gun.
Do not move. -Yo. Who said that?
-Post: Do not move. -Who said that?
-Where's your proof? -Hands behind your back.
-Where's your proof?
-Post: Put your hands behind your back.
- Where's your proof?
So when I don't have a gun, what's gonna happen?
Am I going to go home or what?
This is crazy.
-Post: Separate your feet, dude.
-Okay, okay. -Separate your feet.
(keys falling)
-Oh, they're my keys.
(handcuffs clicking)
Who said I have a gun?
-Post: 1-adam-74. You can downgrade them,
But keep them coming. I got one detained.
-Damn, okay. I see how you guys are.
I don't have anything on me, sir.
(bleep)
-Post: Why are you digging in your car, dude?
-I'm looking for my keys. They told me to get outta here,
To get outta here so I can go.
Why am I digging into my car, you said?
-Post: Yeah. I asked you not to dig in your car.
You're telling these guys you got a gun.
-Oh my god.
-Post: All right. Where's, you got id?
You got id on you? -No, I don't have an id on me.
-Post: You have a wallet? -No.
-Post: Step over here, dude.
- I want your badge number. I want all that (bleep).
-Post: That's fine.
What's your last name?
-I'm not telling you nothing.
I want your badge number. I want my lawyer.
-Post: You want your lawyer? -Yes.
-Post: Okay. Well, first off, you're being detained.
- Okay, for what? -'cause you're threatening these guys.
-Who says I was threatening them?
You have that on proof or what?
-Post: There's three witnesses saying
That you were gonna shoot him.
-He said that I was gonna shoot you? Oh my god.
-Post: What's your last name, dude.
-I'm not giving you nothing, bro. Get my lawyer down here.
-Post: Okay. -You guys can search the car,
I have nothing in there. -Post: All right.
Step over here.
Just throw him in your car.
He says he lives down the street,
But looks like he might live in,
Live in the car or got kicked out of his house or something.
Threatened these guys to shoot 'em.
He kept digging in his car and he has a baseball bat.
So I don't know if he wanted to fight me or what?
-I asked him to specify. You know, if it was a gun,
You know, you have a burner.
And he said, yeah, I can have a gun.
I have a license for it. So he confirmed,
That the implication was that he has a firearm.
-Okay.
And were you, what, how did you feel?
-I've never seen the guy before. I don't know if he's,
You know, all talk or if he's unhinged,
Especially 'cause he kept poking around in his car.
He said he was looking for his keys,
But I didn't know if he was looking for something else.
-Post: Did you feel threatened by what he told you?
-Yeah, I did. -Post: Okay.
Do you desire prosecution
For him threatening you in that manner?
-Yes. -Okay. Just hang tight for a minute.
-Yeah.
-I'll get all your info in a second.
-Yeah, just hang tight, okay. -Yeah, no problem.
-You guys are towing my car? -I'm sorry?
-You guys are towing my car? -Yes, sir.
-Why? -You're under arrest.
-For what? -Deputy post was trying
To talk to you about it, but you said you--
-Yo, god, no, no. -You said you were
Uncomfortable talking to him.
-Yeah. He pointed a gun at my face.
Why am I being under arrest for? I don't have a gun.
You guys don't have anything on me?
Yes, I have a knife.
-He was gonna talk to you about that
When we get to the station, but.
-Why? Why am I going to the station?
I didn't do anything wrong.
-Because it's almost midnight.
It's cold. It's dark.
-I got into it with my wife. That's why I'm out here.
-And then these guys came to mess with me.
-So that's what we-- -what the hell is going on?
Are you serious, bro?
-Why didn't you just leave when they asked you to leave?
-I said I was leaving. I was trying to find my keys.
I was trying to find my keys and the officer got here.
He pointed a gun in my face. I didn't know he was an officer.
I thought he was just another security guard.
-So why were you giving the security guards a hard time?
-I wasn't giving them a hard time.
They were giving me a hard time.
-Why'd you threaten him with a gun?
-I don't have a gun and I didn't threaten him.
I know you don't have a gun 'cause we searched your car
-Well, obviously, yeah. You searched everything.
-But why would you tell somebody that you've,
-You've had a gun -I didn't tell 'em anything.
-No? -No, they're lying.
-I didn't tell 'em anything. -Oh, all three of 'em are lying?
-Yes. Yes. -About it?
-So you didn't say any of those things?
-No. I didn't say anything.
-That you were threatening them and? -No.
I didn't say any of those things.
-No? -No.
-That's weird that they would say that then.
-Yeah.
-Do you know them from somewhere else?
-No, I do not know them.
-Oh. So they, what, what would they have against you?
-I'm another security guard. I work for...
-That they would frame you and say that
You had a gun and were threatening them.
-I honestly don't know. Maybe they just hate, you know,
Maybe they thought I was homeless.
They just wanted to (bleep) with me.
-I definitely don't think that they're trying to do that.
-Ah, come on, man, really?
Don't take my car, bro. -It's gone.
-Okay.
-Dunlap: Anything else? -No.
-Post: Luckily, dude, he didn't have a gun.
I'm glad it ended safely, peacefully.
-So am I! Yeah, I'm glad this was the outcome, man.
It was the best we could've gotten.
-I wish he would've, just you know-- -just left?
-Just left. You know what I mean?
Like it would've taken him--
It would've taken him about 10 seconds
To turn his car on and go.
And then that would've been the end of the night.
-Well, he's going to jail for threatening you
And we'll go from there.
All right, man. Have a good one.
-Po bryson redd: We're one of the few departments
That actually prefers to ride solo versus two-man.
And our mindset behind that is if you're solo,
There's gonna be more cars on the street.
But when you got somebody else in the car,
It makes the shift go by a lot faster.
So you got somebody to talk to,
Somebody to bounce ideas off of.
So you're not distracting somebody else on another call.
(indistinct radio chatter)
Po ii moses fierro: Okay. We're going to a family disturbance,
A fight went on and someone got hit and someone is possibly
Knocked out on the ground right now, unconscious.
So we're gonna go check out and see what's going on.
(police radio chatter)
-Redd: What's going on?
-Fierro: Come over here, come to this side.
-Redd: Come here. Ma'am, come right over here.
-Fierro: Come to front of my car,
Come to the front of my car.
That's fine. Come to the front of my car.
-Okay. -Put your hands on the bar.
-Man: I'm not gonna fight a woman.
How I was raised.
-Okay. What happened to the back of your head?
-She bit me. -She bit you?
-Yeah.
-Okay.
- Can I put my hair up before you handcuff me?
-Fierro: Sure, go ahead. Okay, what's your name?
-Jorge. -Jorge?
So do you guys live over here?
-: Yeah, she was staying with us
'cause her mom kicked her out. -Who is, who is she to you?
-She was my girlfriend. -She's your girlfriend?
Was your girlfriend? Up until today? -I'm done.
I can take so much,
I can take so much but this,
Then breaking my front door and stuff.
I can only take so much.
-Officer: All right, just wanna kind of get your side.
So what's going on?
-She went out to go try to fix her mirror.
I went for a walk. I saw her over there.
Went over there, asked her what she was doing.
She said trying to fix her mirror. Asked her why?
She, she had an attitude with me.
Asked her why she had an attitude.
Didn't say much.
I ended up walking back over here.
I'm back over here.
She come back over here asking me for her phone?
I don't have her phone. -She did, what? I'm sorry.
-Asking me for her phone. -Okay.
-Don't know where her phone was at.
Then I realized that she's
Been acting really weird and stuff.
And I asked her out, has she been cheating?
And she couldn't give me a straight answer.
And I'm just done with the (bleep).
I've caught her cheating before. -Okay.
-And I took her back 'cause I really have love for that girl.
I've known her since freshman year,
But I can only have so much and she's in my house
Not doing (bleep).
I can't have that (bleep).
So I told her to grab stuff and go
And she starts acting all crazy.
She starts beating up.
She hits me on the face.
I go back onto the minivan and I lose my balance 'cause I,
-Fierro: On the hood? -On the hood. Yeah, on the hood. Sorry,
And I lose my balance and I kind of fall.
-I didn't like slam down. -Okay
-Jorge: But I just went to the ground
And she got on top of me and then she bit me.
When she bit me, I pushed her off of me.
-Okay. And then what? She just grabbed you by the head?
-She grabs my ear? -She grabs your ear.
-And then I think she tried to bite my ear,
Like mike tyson and it missed
And got me right here.
-Fierro: Alright, hang on a sec.
-What's going on today? -My mirror was messed up.
So I went to the auto zone to go get it fixed.
-The left one? Okay. -Yeah.
And we come back and he's like trying to argue with me
Saying that I'm cheating on him.
And I told him that I wasn't cheating him.
So then he takes my phone.
So then I come back here to come get my stuff.
And then I told his mom like, if I could talk to her,
And she's like, no, I don't wanna get involved.
He's like telling me to leave.
And I'm like, how am I gonna leave?
'cause I don't have nowhere else to go.
And they call the cops.
-How did he get that injury on his head?
-We were fighting.
-Okay. What happened during the fight?
-I bit him. -You bit him.
Okay. Did you use your, both teeth?
Bottom gum, lower gum?
Like do you know what you used, you just bit down?
-Yeah. -So while you were biting him,
What was he doing to you?
-Grabbing my hair. -Grabbing your hair.
-I was trying to get off of him
And he was trying to like push me off of him.
-Have you ever been arrested before for domestic violence?
You have? -Yeah.
-When was the last time? -Last year.
-Last year? Against the same guy or a different guy?
-No, it was against my mom.
-Against your mom? Okay. I'll be right back, okay.
Hey, mom, what's been going on between them as of late.
-They just started arguing today.
She just moved in like two days ago.
-Okay.
-They've been together about eight months.
She moved in like about two days ago and some reason they
Started arguing and she hit him and stuff
And he come running back in the house
And told me to call.
-But you didn't actually see him get hit?
You he just told you?
-I could, I seen them pushing each other around.
I didn't see punches.
-Was it outside or inside the house?
-It was outside. They were right here.
They were back and forth, right here.
-So it would've been like right in this vicinity?
-Yeah. They got cameras over. -So maybe that camera?
-Yeah.
-What about your neighbors over here? How are they?
-We don't know them. They just recently moved in.
-Just, just moved in. -Well, I went to open the door
Because I heard them like scream and
Like somebody was getting hit, you know,
Like the louder screams so I opened the door.
And that's when I seen him on the floor and thought,
You know, oh, he is knocked out
And he jumps up and he says, mom, she hit me.
My head hurts.
He said, call 911. I was already on the phone with them.
-Okay. -She tried pushing in.
She broke our door and everything.
-This door? She broke that today? -Oh yeah!
-Okay. -And I went to go back.
-So you were on the other side
While she was trying to push the door open? -Exactly.
-So you definitely knew it was her on the other side.
-Oh, oh yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah.
-Your son was inside during that time.
-Oh yeah. My daughter and my, the other two kids,
They ran upstairs 'cause they got scared.
-Okay. We'll be right back. Mom.
All right, bud. Even if you didn't wanna press charges,
What's gonna happen to your girlfriend is today
She's gonna be going to jail for battery domestic violence.
You do qualify for an emergency protection order.
What that basically means is after today, you can call first
Thing in the morning to the department of family court.
Call down there and pretty much to let 'em know that--
-What happened. -Everything happened,
And basically it'll go into effect immediately.
So this is the kind of situation you gotta get out of, man.
-He's been hitting me too,
So I don't get why he's not going.
-Fierro: All right, zaria, you're being--
(indistinct arguing)
Zaria, so what's going on is you're going to jail
For domestic violence. Okay?
-Okay! -Fierro: Okay.
-But he's not going though.
-That's right. He's not, okay. -That's (bleep).
All right. So, this way. Okay, come on.
-He's been hitting me our whole relationship.
-Fierro: Why are you still with him?
If that's going on?
-Because I'm in love with him. -Fierro: Okay.
-No! (zaria crying)
I can't go! (sobbing)
I can't. -Fierro: Okay. Okay. Okay.
So I know you're, I know you're upset.
I know you didn't want to go.
So like I said,
In, in nevada--
-I'm gonna lose my job 'cause of him.
-So if it's come to this point,
I suggest you not be with him anymore,
But you know what I see every day,
This is how these relationships start.
There's a little bit of fighting, a little bit of this,
A little bit of that. And what happens?
They get back together.
They go to jail, they get back together.
Then eventually someone dies.
That's why we take this really seriously here. Okay? So.
(zaria crying)
I'm sorry, but I'm--
-I don't understand why he's not going, like--
-Fierro: I understand, you guys been together so long,
But you gotta get out.
-Deputy phillip smith: So I've been in law enforcement now
For about 16 years.
I've learned to be patient,
To be understanding,
To try to sympathize with people who are in crisis.
We're not always here to take people to jail.
Sometimes people just need an ear to bend.
We're the one there to, to help the situation.
Not to make it worse.
(engine revving)
So I'm trying to catch up with this truck.
He just threw something out, mark it right here.
He threw something out right there.
Right there.
(indistinct radio chatter)
Unit 103.
Show me your hands!
Every one of you, show me your hands!
103?
(indistinct dispatcher response)
I need another unit.
I got three at gunpoint.
Just stay right where you're at.
-Passenger: What's going on? -(distant police sirens)
-Burgett: You wanna call 'em out? -Smith: Yeah!
-Burgett: Driver, both hands out the door.
Open that handle and come out with your hands up!
-Smith: There, there's a center passenger as well.
-Burgett: I see it.
Hey!
Face away from me and put your hands in the air!
Put your phone down.
-Driver: He, he talking to me?
-Smith: That one.
-Burgett: Walk backwards towards my voice.
-Driver: Okay? -Burgett: Lift your shirt up!
Keep coming.
Keep coming. Keep following me.
Stop.
Put your hands on top of your head.
Interlace your fingers.
Don't move for me, all right.
-Driver: All right, boss.
-Burgett: I'm cuffing.
-Driver: I'm legal, ain't I?
-Hey, hey, hey. You're good, right now.
-I don't know what's going on
But we gonna get this figured out.
-Driver: I didn't do nothing, boss.
-Burgett: Come on.
-Smith: I got ya. (police sirens getting closer)
I got one more in the truck needs to be cuffed.
-Burgett: Open the door!
-Just hold tight right there.
-Passenger: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
What's, uh, what's uh...
-Put your hands on your head.
-Passenger: Oh man, this is crazy.
-Ramirez: Hands!
-You have my hand. I cannot put it up on my head!
-Ramirez: Give me this hand. Relax.
- I'm fine. I don't understand
Why y'all have your guns pointed at us though.
That is ridiculous. -Ramirez: Come back here.
-Never have I ever-- -(radio chatter)
-Ramirez: Standby
-Never have I ever.
-Smith: So when I got behind them
Right before I hit the lights.
I seen the passenger throw a baggy of something out.
Yep. There it is. Right there.
A bag of methamphetamine.
Y'all know where the driver is?
-He's gonna be in the truck.
-Smith: Okay.
I'm deputy smith with sheriff's office.
-Hello, mr. Smith, how are you, sir? -I'm good.
Alright, this is what happened.
I get behind you guys.
Then I seen one of your passengers
Throw something out the window.
Can you tell me about that?
-I don't know, I didn't see nothing.
I don't know. If I did, I would tell you.
I was just trying to get him a ride to his lawyer.
All right, let me explain something to you.
-Yes -they're in your truck.
They're with you. -Yes, sir.
Okay? If I, if I talk to the other two
And they give me the same story,
All y'all going to jail. -I had bubba, I...
-But I'm not bubba. I'm deputy smith.
-Mr. Smith.
I, I just was taking him to his lawyer, sir.
-Stew on that for a minute. -Driver: Yes, sir, boss.
-How are you, ma'am?
- Good, how are you? -Good. I'm deputy smith
With the santa rosa county sheriff's office.
I've never seen, met you before this.
- Yeah, that's a good thing. -Where are you from?
-Here, I've been here since I was eight.
-Okay. All right. Let me ask you this.
I get behind you guys.
The next thing I know, I see a baggie fly out the window
On the passenger side.
-I didn't see anything.
-You didn't see nothing. -No, sir.
No, sir. -Are you sure about that?
-Yeah.
-Because you're the second one I've talked to.
The next one I talk to is gonna tell me the same thing.
-I'm sorry.
-And then what's gonna happen is all three
Of you gonna go to jail and charged with a felony.
-I can't tell you something I don't know.
-Okay. Well, I'm telling you what I do know.
-Yes, sir.
-How do you know these two?
- That's, dewey actually dated my mom
Way back in the day so.
-Way back in the day. You know dewey's history?
-No not really, -of course, you do.
If your mom dated dewey,
You know his history.
-Yeah, I mean. -So let's be honest.
-It's not. -Okay.
-He's an acquaintance.
He's not really my friend, but.
-But you have no idea
Where the little baggie that flew out
The passenger side where it came from.
-I don't know any baggie, so. -Okay.
Dewey.
So my question is who threw
The methamphetamine out the window?
-I don't know nothing about it.
-My problem here is I got at least a eight ball
Of methamphetamine that come outta the window,
The passenger side window of that vehicle.
You're sitting on the passenger side.
She's sitting in the middle.
That's where the big issue comes into play.
-That don't, that don't mean I throwed it out.
-I'm not saying you did. I'm trying to find out who did.
-I have no idea. -Okay.
-I know I don't, I don't,
I don't believe that y'all pulled over there
Watching that bike. You should have.
I don't know. (bleep)
-Smith: Okay. How do you know her?
-I don't know her really, haven't, that's my buddy's old,
That's my buddy's girlfriend.
-Gotcha. Hold tight for me. Watch your foot.
Ma'am, go ahead and step out for me.
All right.
You say you don't know nothing about the methamphetamine
That I found tossed out the window.
The other two are saying the same thing.
Okay.
So based on that, you're gonna go to jail today.
Being charged with possession of a controlled substance.
-Please don't, please don't-- (crying)
-Smith: Okay.
Well, I mean, I mean, what else am I supposed to do?
-Please don't! I don't know. You don't understand?
-I do. I-- -I can't say anything
'cause I didn't see anything.
-You had to say-- you had to see something.
You sitting, you sitting right between the two guys.
I don't know if it was passed from the driver to you,
To him or vice versa or if you threw it out.
You're gonna go to jail and being charged with possession
Of a controlled substance by prescription.
You got any questions?
-No.
-Okay. Go ahead and have a seat for me.
Nobody's admitting ownership of the drugs.
So based on that, I advised all three of 'em
They would be going to jail today for possession of
A controlled substance without a prescription.
-(over radio): 132 and bush, I've got him at gun point.
-Dispatch: Okay, gunpoint, 132 and bush.
-Cover's code three. -Thanks, 10.
-(indistinct radio chatter)
-Okay, we'll still send a code three.
-(theme music playing)