"♪ Whatcha gonna do ♪" "♪ When Sheriff John Brown ♪" "♪ Come for you?" "♪" "♪ 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?" "♪" "ANNOUNCER:" "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." "(over radio): 911." "What's going on?" "There's a man in my house." "(over radio):" "Who is he?" "I don't know." "(over radio):" "How did he get in?" "I don't know." "(over radio):" "Who's the female?" "My mother." "(over radio):" "Does your mom have any weapons on her?" "Like a knife." "(over radio):" "What kind of knife?" "Is it a kitchen knife?" "Well, it's a plastic knife." "(over radio):" "Stay on the line, we're getting an officer out there." "OFFICER DAVE BROOKS:" "Just got dispatched to a lady's house where a person called saying that a guy broke into her house." "She has no idea who he is, and right now she's holding him at bay with a plastic knife." "(over radio):" "Okay, apparently, the mom was able to get him out." " He should be in the..." "BROOKS:" " She just advised, he left the house." "See if we can't catch him in the yard, or if he's fled on foot." "(garbled radio transmission)" "Get on the ground." "Get on the ground." "Do it now." "Oh, no, no, no." "Let me tell you." "Get on the ground." "They're gonna kill me!" "BROOKS:" "Stop resisting." "Hold on." "Get your other arm out." "They're gonna kill me." " Please..." " Hey, stop resisting, okay?" " They're gonna kill me..." " You'll be fine once you stop resisting." "BROOKS:" "She..." "it was him, so..." "Okay." "BROOKS:" "We'll see." "Stand up." "Have you taken any drugs tonight?" "No." "Marijuana?" "No." "Meth?" "Coke?" "Please, I want to explain to you guys in the car." "No cocaina?" "No." "No, nada?" "BROOKS:" "Okay, who's trying to kill you?" "I want to explain to you guys, please." "BROOKS:" "Okay, are you on meth right now?" "(sobbing)" "Hector?" "Hector, look at me." "Nobody's gonna kill you because the police are here right now." "All right?" "OFFICER CHRISTOPHER COLOMA:" "We're here to help you, okay?" "Talk to my partner." "BROOKS:" "But you got to let me know what is going on." "Why are you breaking into people's houses?" "I'll tell you the truth." "BROOKS:" "Talk to me." "But not right here." "Take me to..." "take me to the police department." "I need to talk to you." "BROOKS:" "Nobody can hear us." "It's just the police right here, and we're gonna go back here and let's talk." "COLOMA:" "Have a seat." "Watch your head." "Put your foot in." "BROOKS:" "Hector, right now, they're gonna press charges against you for home invasion and burglary, okay?" "Two felonies." "All right?" "Unless I get your side of the story to find out what exactly happened, I can't help you, and I can't work with that, okay?" "I can't tell you anything right now." "You know why?" " 'Cause you guys can't hold..." "COLOMA:" " Hey, Hector?" "Huh?" "COLOMA:" "Let's be honest with each other." "When's the last time you smoked meth?" "I don't smoke." "COLOMA:" "You don't smoke meth?" "No." "COLOMA:" "Do you snort it?" "Do you snort it?" "When's the last time you snorted it?" "'Cause I can tell you right now you're acting paranoid, okay?" "(barking)" "BROOKS:" "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "I'm just scared." "BROOKS:" "Just kind of a little shook up a little bit?" "Yeah." "Okay." "BROOKS:" "So what-what happened today?" "I don't know." "I, uh, in..." "I stay with my daughter in the room." "My daughter sleep in there." "And we-we..." "the room over there." " And I saw the dog, uh..." "BROOKS:" " Starts barking?" "Right?" "Bark, bark, bark, but no..." "Yeah." "I said, "What happened"" ""to my dog?" You know?" "And I get out from my room." "I saw him run over here and run over there, go to over there." "BROOKS:" "Inside your house?" "Yes, inside my house." "BROOKS:" "So he's inside in the hallway?" ""Yeah, somebody want to kill me," he said like that." ""Somebody have a gun."" "BROOKS:" "Okay." "Yeah, I said, "Calm down."" "Calm down." ""What happened?" "Tell me."" "You know?" "BROOKS:" "So he starts screaming?" "He's, like, "Somebody's got a gun, somebody's got a gun?"" "Yeah, yeah." "BROOKS:" "Okay." "And then at some point, you had a plastic knife that you were kind of holding him by, holding him back?" "Yeah, I said, "If you don't get out, I-I want to hit you," I said." "I so scared, you know?" "BROOKS:" "Right." "Yeah, I have it." "I have it over there." "BROOKS:" "Can we come back here?" "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "BROOKS:" "Do you know how he got in your house?" "Maybe he come this way." "BROOKS:" "Have you ever seen him before?" "No." "BROOKS:" "So you have no idea who he is?" " No." "But he don't..." "BROOKS:" " Where's the knife that you were holding him at bay with?" "Yeah... (woman muttering)" "BROOKS:" "Oh, okay." "COLOMA:" "Is that a real one?" "Yeah, I said, "You..." "I'm gonna hit you."" "BROOKS:" "Well, here, let me see this, let me see this." "Yeah, "I'm gonna hit you like this," yeah." "BROOKS:" "So that's a real knife that you had." "Yeah, that's a real knife." "BROOKS:" "It's not a plastic knife." "Yeah." "BROOKS:" "Did you ever hit him with this?" "I said, "If you don't..." "(speaking gibberish)"" ""You gonna run to me..."" "I throw like this, you know?" "BROOKS:" "Okay." "Because I'm scared, too, you know?" "BROOKS:" "Okay." " Yeah, I'm scared what happen, to..." "want to hit me or..." " Right." "Well, this is your home." "You got to defend yourself." "Right, yeah." "That's right." "BROOKS:" "Right." "Okay." "That's my husband's something, you know." "BROOKS:" "You could have done some damage." "You definitely could have done that." "I said, "Just stay there."" "Police coming now."" "Police come to help you if something happen." "After that, he come out all around here, but he go to the room, the door." "He opened the door." "BROOKS:" "Okay." "He opened the door, and that's why he open the door." "I push him out." "After that, I close the door, lock the door." "BROOKS:" "Okay." "That's why the police-- they try, he go out." "BROOKS:" "And then we showed up?" "Yeah, that's right, uh-huh, that's when the police come." "BROOKS:" "Okay." "OFFICER ANTONIO GOMEZ:" "I'm not saying you're lying, but you haven't told me anything." "I tell you right now because they kill already, so I don't care." "GOMEZ:" "Okay." "Well, tell..." "They kill my wife, they kill my father-in-law, my mother-in-law." "They kill my-my-my daughter." "GOMEZ:" "Okay, but why were they trying to kill you?" "Because this guy..." "(sirens blaring)" "GOMEZ:" "I'm trying to help you out." "(crying):" "This guy raped my..." "This guy raped my daughter." "GOMEZ:" "He what?" "I can't understand you." "This guy raped my daughter." "They tell everyone if we tell something to you guys, he's gonna kill everyone." "GOMEZ:" "He raped your daughter?" "OFFICER RAY LOPEZ:" "Hector, we have a unit over at your house right now, and they just..." "they just contacted your wife and your daughter, and they're both okay." "Everything you guys talking, he hear." "They not gonna make a deal 'cause I don't want they kill my daughters and my wife." "That's the point." "BROOKS:" "I think we're done." "Yes, you guys think?" "BROOKS:" "Okay." "Your wife and your kid are okay." "You sure?" "LOPEZ:" "Yeah, we have a unit over there right now talking to them." "Your wife and your kid are fine." "BROOKS:" "Hector, I think you're a little meth'ed out right now... (Hector mutters) ...and that you're thinking things that aren't really happening." "My leg's... my leg's shaking 'cause I've got morphine in..." "BROOKS:" "Because you've been doing meth all day." "Early, yeah, I do." "BROOKS:" "How-How long ago?" "Like, probably, like, uh, three hours." "BROOKS:" "So about three hours ago, you did some meth?" "LOPEZ:" "And is this your straw that you snort the meth with?" "Yes?" "This is yours, right?" "This is what you were using to snort the meth?" "Yeah." "LOPEZ:" "Okay." "OFFICER STEVE NOAHR:" "I talked to the mom, talked to the daughter." "I guess they've been divorced for seven years." "He doesn't pay in child support." "He doesn't come by, uh, he's big on drugs, and that was pretty much the end of it." "BROOKS:" "That was his big..." "He was freaking out that-that" " his wife and daughter were gonna be killed and..." " No." "She's actually worried that they..." "he was gonna come to the house." "BROOKS:" "Okay." "NOAHR:" "She has it all locked up, gated, padlocked." "So, yeah, that's about it." "BROOKS:" "Okay." "But they're okay and...?" "NOAHR:" "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, everyone's there." "BROOKS:" "I guess, he's just..." "He's just on a bad meth trip and..." "NOAHR:" "Yeah, they're getting ready to move so that he doesn't know their new address." "BROOKS:" "Okay." "He'll be going for burglary, obstruction, for lying to us and then, the paraphernalia for the straw." "OFFICER BRIAN STANLEY:" "New Orleans is fantastic." "I'm actually not from here." "I'm from a little town in South Georgia." "I moved here to be a police officer, and I was accepted here about three years ago, and I love my job." "I love talking to the people." "(over radio):" "Passing Louisiana, dark gray vehicle with the driver's side taillight hanging off." "STANLEY:" "Uh, we're en route to a-- follow and try to hit-- get a hit and run, a su-- fleeing subject." "Last thing we heard was Tchoupitoulas, pass-passing" "Washington, dark gray vehicle." "Not getting a lot of information, but we'll see if we can find it." "Supposedly they hit a school bus." "Luckily we got actually somebody following them, so we might be able to catch them." "We're now in the Second District, so, uh, we'll see what we can do." "621." "I am still on Tchoupitoulas, passing Austerlitz." "I believe I have actually caught up with the vehicle right now." "Uh, they had a black Saturn, damage to the driver's side, Louisiana tag." "If I can get a Second District unit over to this location." "I am one block past Constantinople." "Stand by for a Code 4." "Get out of the vehicle." "Get out of the vehicle." "Get out of the vehicle." "Turn around, put your hands on the car." "Spread your feet." "Do not move." "621." "I have a Code 4." "(garbled radio transmission)" "So what happened to the back of your car there, dude?" "Huh?" "STANLEY:" "What happened to the back of your car?" "I got hit by a car-- a bus." "You got hit by a bus and you fled the scene." " I didn't..." "STANLEY:" " Are you the witness?" " I'm the lady that seen him hit the bus at..." " Fantastic." "Go sit back in your car." "I'll be right back with you, ma'am." "Okay." "I'm on my way to pick up my wife." "STANLEY:" "What are you on, dude?" "Nothing." "I had a beer earlier, and that's it." "STANLEY:" "A beer earlier." " I go to school, I don't..." "STANLEY:" " Okay, so you hit a bus?" "I'm not trying to do nothing." "STANLEY:" "All right, you got any kind of weapons or anything on you I need to know about?" "No, sir." "STANLEY:" "Anything I'm gonna get stuckwith?" "No, sir." "STANLEY:" "Okay, as of right now, you're under investigation for hit and run." "(garbled radio transmission)" "I smell something coming out of the vehicle." "What you smell?" " I mean..." "STANLEY:" " No, that-that's fine." "The only thing I ever do is that fake stuff, and they sell it at the gas station." "STANLEY:" "Fake stuff is still illegal in the state of Louisiana." "They sell it at gas stations." "STANLEY:" "You're now under investigation for possession of narcotics as well." "They got it on the dis-- on the display cabinets and stuff." "STANLEY:" "That's fine, that's fine." "How can they sell it, but it's illegal to us?" "STANLEY:" "Come on, walk back this way." "Is there any way you could bring the keys to my wife?" "STANLEY:" "Uh, more than likely, your car's gonna get impounded." "Oh." "She's waiting for me at her work, right up the street." "Can you at least let her know?" "STANLEY:" "Have a seat for me." "Go ahead and get in the car." "All the way in?" "STANLEY:" " All the way in..." " But there's stuff right here." "STANLEY:" "Just push it over." "You ain't gonna mess it up." "Hit and run." "STANLEY:" "Everybody thinks that the Mojo is nothing." "It's a" " Mojo is a-- it's an artificial marijuana." "It's a supplement, it's considered incense, but they smell-- smoke it just like marijuana." "The effect is actually longer on that and worse." "621 to 630." "I guess coming off the interstate, the black vehicle that I stopped fled the scene, traveling straight down Tchoupitoulas." "We're at Milan and Tchoupitoulas right now." "Uh, search has turned to arrest, led to a bag of Mojo." "The subject appears to be under the influence right now." "Also, he has no driver's license on him." "He's only got a Class I." "I haven't run the name or the plate yet." "Um, still just kind of securing the scene, talking to the, uh, witness who was following him." "Are you okay?" "I'm fine." "STANLEY:" "Okay." "I was just ner-- I got nervous." "STANLEY:" "Okay." "I seen him go into the-- he hit the front of the bus is what happened." "STANLEY:" "Okay." "He pulled-- he just swerved right on into it." "STANLEY:" "Okay." " And it-- and it took..." "STANLEY:" " And where was that at?" "It was on the GNO." "STANLEY:" "I know you probably have somewhere to go." "Would you mind filling out a victim witness statement form for the accident?" "Absolutely." "I don't, I don't have any place to go." "I'll do whatever I need to do." "STANLEY:" "Thank you." "Let me get that paperwork out, and, uh, do you have something to write on, or do you need to borrow my clipboard?" "Can I borrow your clipboard?" "STANLEY:" "Absolutely." "Right here where it says "sign,"" "I need you to sign right there." "Use all this." "If you need more room..." "Uh-uh..." "all I can tell you is he..." "STANLEY:" "What you saw, what you did, how we got here is fantastic." "Okay." "STANLEY:" "Okay?" "Thank you, ma'am." "I'll let you sit here." "Close your door." "I'm gonna be at my car." "I'll come back to you." "I don't want you walking around in traffic, all right?" "Thank you." "When's the last time you smoked up?" "When I smoked up?" "STANLEY:" "Smoked the, uh, Mojo?" "Oh, I haven't smoked that all day." "STANLEY:" "You haven't smoked it all day?" "So what's that I, I smell on your shirt?" "I had smoked way early this morning." "That was it." "STANLEY:" "So you did smoke today?" "I didn't smoke at all today really." "STANLEY:" " Okay, so, uh..." " That was way early this morning before I dropped her off at work." "STANLEY:" "When you hit the vehicle, why did you run?" "I didn't run." "STANLEY:" "You didn't flee the scene?" "I didn't even know I hit it." "That's how soft it was." "STANLEY:" "Sir, you see your vehicle?" "It wasn't that hard, though." "It's a big bus that caught the bumper on the back of my..." "STANLEY:" "Yeah, a big bus catching a little vehicle like that, you're gonna feel it." "You're gonna know you got hit." "I did not feel it." " It, uh, barely grazed..." "STANLEY:" " As of right now, you are under arrest for driving on a suspended license." "Uh, you're under investigation for hit and run." "You're under investigation for possession of synthetic marijuana." "You're also wanted for the five warrants out of Jefferson Parish and the, uh, two warrants out of, uh, it appears to be Orlean and Gretna." "Do you have any questions for me at this time?" "I do have a question." "STANLEY:" "What's your question?" "I was like, how is it legal for-- illegal for the stuff, but they sell it in display cases on the counter at gas stations?" "STANLEY: 'Cause you admitted to smoking it, to synthetic marijuana." "It is illegal in the state of Louisiana." "All right?" " So..." " He's wanted, it appears to be, by, uh, pretty much everybody and their brother." "Driving on a suspended license, little bit of Mojo in his pocket." "So he's gonna be going to jail for a little while, absolutely." "DEPUTY RAMSEY JACKSON:" "I started at the probation department 11 years ago, and I started with the sheriff's office about five years ago." "It was a complete accident." "I just wanted a different schedule." "So I applied here, and I kept passing the tests." "Before you know it, I'm a full-on cop." "It was the luckiest mistake that I ever made, and I think it's kinda where I should have been." "It's kinda where I fell right into place." "Well, I'm following this car." "It looks like their license plate and tabs are expired." "So we're gonna make a vehicle stop here." "His license plate is dim." "It's supposed to be able to be seen for 30 feet." "(indistinct radio transmission)" "How you guys doing?" "Good." "JACKSON:" "Hey, you gotta put your, uh, new tabs on your car." "You know what?" "And I just told him that." "I said, "I got my tags on, and I haven't even put them in."" "JACKSON:" "Yeah, you gotta put..." "Here they go right here." "JACKSON:" "Yeah, it comes up on the radio, but, you know, plus you got to make sure nothing's on your rearview mirror." "You-you have your I.D.?" "I see you do." "You got yours, man?" "No, I don't have it." "Left it in the drawer." "JACKSON:" "What's that?" "And we was going to drink." "JACKSON:" "No, no, no." "Your I.D. is in the center." "No, I know." "I just..." "he left his in the drawer." "I knew you was gonna forget it." "JACKSON:" "Oh, okay." "Let's see what you got." " We was supposed to go..." " Are you on probation or anything?" "Yeah." "JACKSON:" "What are you on probation for?" "Possession, uh, to sell marijuana." "JACKSON:" "Oh, you don't have any marijuana, do you?" "No." "JACKSON:" "They gave you search cause?" "Yeah." "JACKSON:" "You already know you're getting searched?" "Okay." "All right." "You want to hop out real quick?" "That's cool." "You can put that stuff down." "I don't..." "Can you turn around for me?" "Possession of marijuana?" "For sale?" "All right." "I'm gonna have you sit back here with me." "There's not anything in the car, is there?" "Oh." "Right here." "Hang on the... man, it's rhythm." "Hang onto this hood." "All right." "JACKSON:" "She don't have any warrants or no probation or anything?" "Who is that to you?" "My girlfriend." "JACKSON:" "Okay." "Cool." "Is everything okay?" "JACKSON:" "Yeah." "You know he's on probation?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "JACKSON:" "Yeah, he got a search cause." "Well, this my car." "JACKSON:" "Yeah, he's in it." " Oh, okay." "Well, I'm..." "JACKSON:" " Is-is anything in it that I should know about?" "Uh-uh." "JACKSON:" "No?" "All right." "You ain't got nothing on you, right?" "No." "JACKSON:" "Okay." "Just have a seat right..." "with this guy." "How long you guys been knowing each other?" "Uh, 11 years." "JACKSON:" "Oh, for real?" "Okay." "Cool." "Oh, you know what I do got in the car is a blunt." " That's what I..." "JACKSON:" " Were you smoking on it?" "When?" "No." "I just... no." "We... we just put it out." "JACKSON:" "Well, now we have some marijuana." "He's on probation for sales of marijuana." "This is not the amount that you would have for personal consumption." "All right, so this is what we're gonna do." "Hop up for me." "Is that yours or not?" "Or her..." "Huh?" "No, I didn't know it was in there." "JACKSON:" "Say it again." "I don't know." "It's not mines." "JACKSON:" "Okay." "All right." "No problem." "Have a seat." "Here's the situation." "You're in the car." "You're on probation for that." "She's in the car." "She's not on probation for that." "Are you suggesting that it's hers?" "Did she say it was mine?" "Could she please come talk to me?" "JACKSON:" "So y'all could get your story straight?" "Well, I gotta get your story straight before you guys get your story straight together." "That don't make no sense." "I wouldn't put you together and then let you guys work up, concoct whatever it is that you want to do." "I'm trying to get to the truth." "Right." "It's, uh, I don't know anything, didn't know anything about that stuff in the trunk." "JACKSON:" "All right, you ever drive that car?" "A long time ago." "Not recently." "I have my own car." "JACKSON:" "All right." "You don't know anything about it, is that right?" "Right." "JACKSON:" "All right." "Watch your..." "That bag of weed is probably not yours, but since you're the one that's in possession, since the car's in your name, and you're the one driving it, it's gonna wind up being on you." "(handcuffs clicking)" "You want to talk to me now?" "As it stands right now, I gotta wind up arresting both people." "You not talking is gonna wind up..." "it's not... you're not gonna save him 'cause he's going to jail anyway." "But y-you're just gonna go to jail as well, unless we figure out... if we could figure out is really going on here." "Nothing?" "Okay." "Well, I'm gonna talk to him." "Is he gonna tell me it's yours?" "Um-um-um." "JACKSON:" "Hop out for me." "(car door closing)" "You want to talk to me know?" "It's possible that she may not have known either." "JACKSON:" "Well, who put them in there?" "She let people use her car." "JACKSON:" "It seems like it's yours." "If you ain't got nothing to do with it, then you ain't got nothing to do with it." "But if it's yours, why would you let her go to jail for that?" "And she in the same boat." "Now when she's driving by herself, she's getting searched." "And you already know what that is." "So you maintain it's not yours, didn't have nothing to do with you?" "Okay." "Um..." "I don't want her to go to jail though." "JACKSON:" "It's a catch-22, right?" "You don't want to go down, but you don't want her to go down 'cause it ain't neither one of you guy's." "You really want me to go down for this?" "I don't want to go down for this." "You know I don't know about that stuff in there." "On probation, man." "Gonna go to prison for this." "Okay." "I hate that either one of us have to go through this, but..." "JACKSON:" "True deal." "Well, sort... because, as it stands, you already know, it's either everybody gonna wind up going, you know, I mean..." "And then I'm gonna be charged for what?" "JACKSON:" "For possession of marijuana." "Right?" "And that's a felony, right?" "JACKSON:" "That amount, right?" "I can't..." "Babe, are you serious?" "Do you really want to do this to me?" "You should have told me it was in there." "So you gonna send me to jail?" "I don't want to go down for this, babe." "I'm gonna lose everything." "No, you won't." "JACKSON:" "Wow." "All right." "Well, we see how this is gonna go." "Come on." "We-we'll have a seat right here." "You're good, you're good." "I mean, that's not mine." "It's-it-it has to be his." "JACKSON:" "Why is that?" "Because there's no other way for it to have gotten in my car." "JACKSON:" "Nobody else drives your car?" "No." "JACKSON:" "Nobody else has access to your car?" "Uh, not that I know of." "JACKSON:" "So you think it's his?" "Yes." "JACKSON:" "He-he..." "does he have keys to your car?" "They're in the house." "JACKSON:" "Does he..." "you guys live together?" "No." "He visits me though." "Oh, my God." "He really about to make me go down for this, Lord." "JACKSON:" "Okay." "Did he really do this to me, sir?" "JACKSON:" "Yeah." "As it stands, we're gonna arrest them both on transportation for sales." "They're both in the car." "Neither one of them want to cop to it." "So that's where we're at." "OFFICER (over radio):" "132 and Bush." "I've got him at gunpoint." "DISPATCHER:" "At gunpoint, 132 and Bush." "Cover is Code Three."