1 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:34,640 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,520 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:38,679 --> 00:00:45,560 to me Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter at Radio 4 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:51,719 Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash 5 00:00:51,799 --> 00:00:58,039 Great Detectives. You're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast 6 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,200 software. Our listeners support and appreciation campaign continues. You can become one of 7 00:01:03,239 --> 00:01:10,120 our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little last two dollars per month at Patreon dot 8 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:15,920 Great Detectives dot net. This is the last day of our campaign. 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For seven months, You've been working with federal and 18 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:27,680 state agents and breaking a narcotics ring. You've apprehended the small fry. Next 19 00:02:27,719 --> 00:02:38,960 in the line, the big man. Your job get him. Dragnet the 20 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:43,560 documented drama of an actual crime. While the next thirty minutes, in cooperation 21 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,360 with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the 22 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:51,840 side of the law through an actual case, from official police files, from 23 00:02:51,879 --> 00:02:55,560 beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your 24 00:02:55,599 --> 00:03:01,560 police force and action. It was Wednesday, July night. It was warm 25 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,639 in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out on Narcotics Bureau. 26 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,599 My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is that Brown Chief Detectives. My name 27 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,280 is Friday. I was on the way into work and it was three point 28 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,080 fifty eight pm when I got to Room twenty four, Narcotics Bureau. Ah, 29 00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:19,639 right, Joe, feel better, I'm not quite as tired. Ben 30 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:28,319 Costello think was a long haul narcotic romo. Okay, began out Jenna meeting 31 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,639 for five minutes. Chief Brown's roll thing. Okay, I want to pick 32 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:38,159 up my stuff in the Captain first, Hi skipper, look a little better 33 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,199 Friday. Get some rice? Yeah, a couple of good meals. That's 34 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,599 the trouble with the Flats gang. They never knew where to eat. Sit 35 00:03:43,639 --> 00:03:45,560 down, Joe, I want to talk to you. We got a couple 36 00:03:45,599 --> 00:03:50,479 of minutes before the meeting. You will probably be getting this all up and 37 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,199 down the line from here, and I just want to let you know that 38 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,319 we think you and all the men in the operation to a fine job. 39 00:03:55,879 --> 00:03:59,120 My part wasn't much. You did more than I did. Oh, we 40 00:03:59,199 --> 00:04:01,159 all worked, but you in the dirty end of it. Good job. 41 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:08,639 Here's your equipment you need it now? Oh real, thanks as you're riding 42 00:04:08,759 --> 00:04:12,759 cards. You've got six shells. That's all about it. Sure, thank 43 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,279 you, you're back at it. Yep, here's one for you. Look 44 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,000 at this. What's that you got? Mug shot of a girl picked up 45 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:27,079 in a narcotics rad last night. Pretty girl, long blonde hair, beautiful 46 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,519 eye. She looks young high school girl she was when that picture was taken 47 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:38,000 nineteen forty seven. She was sixteen. Yeah maybe this one, yeah, 48 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,279 same girl. Yeah, that's the way She looked at eleven thirty last night 49 00:04:42,319 --> 00:04:46,360 when we picked her up. She looks fifty nineteen years old, three years 50 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,759 on heroin. She might as well be dead. She is eight o'clock this 51 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:55,079 morning. Let's go, It's time for the meeting. You just looked at 52 00:04:55,079 --> 00:04:58,600 the best reason I know of for getting Belma. She get her stuff from 53 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:01,439 Belmont. Costello pushing to it. You got his stuff from Belmont, the 54 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:10,399 only one. Amara. Let's go, all right, William, anybody brief 55 00:05:10,439 --> 00:05:13,439 you only Corstella interviewed Joe. No, no, not yet, Chief Ronald 56 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:23,680 for the end. Here we are, chief gentlemen, come on in you 57 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,519 We men all know each other. Yeah, Craig, Captain White, I 58 00:05:27,519 --> 00:05:30,720 think you're and your MENO policewoman, Yes, sir. How are you Florence? 59 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,040 Hello, guys, Woman in spector Virtual Becknes State Narcotics. How do 60 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,240 you do? Oh? Yeah, Bill craigates in charge federal narcotics. Hello, 61 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,360 how do you do? Well? We got down to Belmont procedure. 62 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:43,680 Let's see how we stand on the castell O case. Why do you want 63 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,879 to fill everybody in an information we got from rough Costello? Yes, sir, 64 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,959 after his arrest Monday night, We interrogated Costello for about four hours and 65 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,920 fronted him with the package he sold a Friday here other stuff test Crime Lab 66 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,920 ran it through about a third of an ouncer heroin, Fair Quality makes It 67 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,360 and stuff. The man we picked up with Costella, Tony Morris, was 68 00:06:02,439 --> 00:06:06,160 questioned as well. He corroborated Costella's story. What'd you get from him? 69 00:06:06,879 --> 00:06:10,279 Well, he told us he had a great deal of information on the big 70 00:06:10,319 --> 00:06:14,000 man in the operation Belmont, that he wouldn't tell us a thing unless we 71 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,920 made a deal with him. What kind of a deal he wanted everything, 72 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,199 But we finally agreed that the only thing we might possibly work out was his 73 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:25,120 prison term. We called in the U S District attorney. We talked to 74 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,079 another four hours how to work out. District attorney told Costella the only thing 75 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,920 he'd do for him was to have his prison terms run concurrently rather than consecutively. 76 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,240 Not much to pay for what we got, Costello gave us enough to 77 00:06:36,319 --> 00:06:41,199 enable just to start moving on Belmont right away. We've had his emoll confirmed, 78 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,920 got a list of most of his pushes. I wouldn't get to him 79 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,560 any definite plan. Gee, Oh White and I have been talking over here 80 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,399 with Craig and Beck worked out what we think might be a pretty good plan. 81 00:06:51,319 --> 00:06:54,360 Uh, Craig, do you want to lay out how your men are 82 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,680 going to handle it? From the federal end, we'll work from out of 83 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,480 town toward the center here to check his contacts across the state lines. We've 84 00:07:00,519 --> 00:07:03,160 already choiced connections to the East New York Syndicate. We'll keep working that in 85 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,279 Beck, how about your state narcotics man? We work inside the state line 86 00:07:08,319 --> 00:07:12,079 here. We've already checked out part of his operations. We've located sauces in 87 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,240 San Francisco, Vegasfield presidents far south of San Diego or California. We'll draw 88 00:07:16,279 --> 00:07:19,000 all those ends up tight. Keep moving, You fellows will both give us 89 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:23,319 a hand if we need a systems You bet fine. Why what are we 90 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,800 going to do locally? It's going to be a case of taking what we 91 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:28,959 know and finding out what we don't know. Putting the two together seems to 92 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,199 me to be a case of watching the man at all times. Belmont shouldn't 93 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,720 be able to blow his nose without one of our men knowing. He's going 94 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,399 to be a tremendous underticking. You're all know the tough job. It is 95 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:41,959 shadowing narcotics man. The fidgity hypersensitive. They recognize anything out of the ordinary 96 00:07:41,959 --> 00:07:44,720 at once. For that reason, it can't be a one man operation. 97 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:47,279 Everybody's got to work, or undercover won't work this time. They're no doubt 98 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:51,160 alerted, so we'll work it from another angle. When we start, we've 99 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:56,639 already started. Belmont lives in Manhattan Beach. His houses under surveillance has been 100 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,920 since yesterday. I can impress upon all of the the importance of not letting 101 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:01,920 not out of your site for an instant. A narcotics buy could be made 102 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,639 in thirty seconds. If we're not there at the instant, we lose him. 103 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,240 Do we have anything a toil as to when he might be ready to 104 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:11,519 deal again? Nothing. Nobody seems to know. Belmont's exact operating time could 105 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,759 be any time, and in order to prosecute him, we've got to be 106 00:08:15,879 --> 00:08:18,480 there when the narcotics are in his possession or under his control. So all 107 00:08:18,519 --> 00:08:22,160 we start to live with him and stay as close as we can without being 108 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,399 tabbed until there's a buy. That's it. Captain White has all the assignments 109 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:28,240 for our local mentor Okay, We'll watch him, We'll stay close to him. 110 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:35,159 If he makes a move, be there. The meeting lasted four hours. 111 00:08:35,639 --> 00:08:37,720 During that four hours, a plan was formulated which we hoped would end 112 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:41,600 in the successful apprehension of the number one man in Pacific Coast narcotics traffic, 113 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,320 Arthur Z. Belmont. How do you watch a man is every move for 114 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,320 twenty four hours, day in, day out, without his knowing it. 115 00:08:50,039 --> 00:08:54,639 How do you watch a man whose very existence depends upon not being watched, 116 00:08:54,799 --> 00:08:58,279 who is expertly schooled in every trick and device of police surveillance, whose method 117 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:01,639 of operation will change with the slightest disturbance of his daily routine, And if 118 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:05,960 that mo changes, you've lost him. Thursday, July tenth, in the 119 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:11,639 small Los Angeles suburb of Manhattan Beach, population ten one and seventy two, 120 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:16,519 three very ordinary events took place. A public nurse began a house to house 121 00:09:16,519 --> 00:09:20,879 survey. She asked the simple question, have you ever been vaccinated for smallpox? 122 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:26,159 She started canvassing twenty seven blocks from the home of Belmont. Policewoman Florence 123 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:31,399 Caswell. Two Japanese gardeners new to the city of Manhattan Beach began soliciting work. 124 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:35,759 They started asking for jobs thirty eight blocks from the home of Belmont Sergeant 125 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:41,720 ten Fujikuni and Patrolman John Kagawa. A team of surveyors driving a station wagon 126 00:09:41,759 --> 00:09:45,840 marked with the seal of Los Angeles County began taking linear measurements for the proposed 127 00:09:45,879 --> 00:09:50,559 enlargement of storm drains in the area. They started fourteen blocks from the home 128 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:58,519 of Belmont Lieutenant John Bigham, Central Narcotic Sergeant Van Romero and myself. Okay, 129 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,879 Ben bringing the rod, let's knock off for lunch. What do you 130 00:10:01,879 --> 00:10:05,559 want to eat? John? The wagon better take the transfer where these kids 131 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:09,399 might pick it up. I got it. I can't keep your sand out 132 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,600 of my shoes. Might as well get used to it. We're a long 133 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:16,600 way from home. Nine years on the job. Is the first time I 134 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:20,039 ever brought my lunch into paper sack. Know it's Joe's might change your whole 135 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:24,559 way of living when I sit in the front. No, I'm getting back. 136 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:33,480 Tell us. Have a look the local paper, No Hat Beach Sentinel 137 00:10:33,519 --> 00:10:35,039 down the bottom page, one in the box. Read it. Let me 138 00:10:35,039 --> 00:10:41,759 see, Well it's good. What is it? Joe? Read that loud? 139 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:46,559 Well it says, preliminary work on storm drains started surveyors. Well, 140 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,679 it goes on to say that surveyors have started taking measurements for the new drains. 141 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,960 Captain White's idea, had the story planet even got a release in the 142 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,000 Planning Commission, won't hurt us a bit? Well, you said, lunchtime, 143 00:10:58,039 --> 00:11:01,799 I've got enough here for the whole department. Four hard boiled egg. 144 00:11:03,399 --> 00:11:09,360 See what kind of sandwich is that? True devil le egg that's here? 145 00:11:09,639 --> 00:11:13,879 She even put him on egg bread. I hate a looks like the captain 146 00:11:13,919 --> 00:11:20,360 driving up the street. Yeah, that's him driving a city car. Chief 147 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:31,840 engineer, how's it going? Bigging cime? Slow? How'd your lunch? 148 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:35,879 What do you got? Deviled egg? Sandwich has got plenty? Can't stand 149 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,279 him all about having the cheese? Yeah? Thanks, there you go. 150 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:48,559 H how's everybody else doing? Very slow? Takes time? Gotta keep taking 151 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:50,240 her time. If we tip it before we got close enough, bell mounts 152 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,600 on his wife. How long are we gonna have to keep our distance? 153 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,240 Not much longer. We can't take a chance of starting everybody out right on 154 00:11:58,279 --> 00:12:00,960 top of the bell mount All right, look funny to him? Anybody else 155 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,720 would be okay? The average person in your operations might look normal, but 156 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:09,799 we can't afford to try to get it by Belmont that way with a hop 157 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:11,240 cutter. You never know. It's not something I said. We don't know. 158 00:12:11,279 --> 00:12:15,000 We just can't take any kind of a chance. That's what I mean. 159 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,679 You might have tarted right on Belmont's front lawn, and he's never got 160 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,200 wives. We wouldn't want to risk it. Belmont went out of his house 161 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,480 today on the go quite a bit. Left his house at nine thirteen am, 162 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,960 went out of the shop right market, bought a half, found a 163 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,679 bacon, two dozen eggs, loaf of bread over. Sergeant Hodges waited on 164 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:39,120 him. He's clerking in the grocery department. Then he drove over to his 165 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,639 neighborhood gas station, got a full tank of ethel and two parts of oil 166 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:46,320 cleary wake, drove home, got back at nine forty two. Are still 167 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:50,759 there? Yeah, by the time you guys were back at it him right, 168 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,000 Okay, Ben want to grab some of the gear, Yeah, I 169 00:12:54,679 --> 00:13:01,600 go, Thank Joe, Huh give me a leftover bread crush, William. 170 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,480 I'll give them to sig though. Yeah, sure, you go. Well, 171 00:13:05,799 --> 00:13:09,759 foot by foot, we're getting closer to Belmont, I hope nobody kIPS 172 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:15,600 it. Nobody should unless you don't trust those girls. We surveyed the city 173 00:13:15,639 --> 00:13:18,399 of Manhattan Beach for five weeks. Policewoman Caswell, posing as a nurse, 174 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:24,240 continued canvassing everybody concerned with a job of standing watch over Arthur Z. Belmont 175 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,039 carried out their routine. Day by day. Daily reports came in from everyone 176 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,440 in the operation. These reports would be shifted at Central Narcotics and progress reports 177 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,039 compiled for the use of those in the field. On the Belmont case. 178 00:13:35,759 --> 00:13:37,720 All police cars as well as city cars such as we were employing, were 179 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:43,440 equipped with three way radio communication. All personnel were in constant contact with one 180 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,960 another. Wednesday, August twelfth, it was the decision of Captain Lynn White 181 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:52,240 that the idea of ourp posing as city surveyors had been exhausted. Further use 182 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,279 of this could possibly arouse suspicion. Belmont lived at twelve twenty seven Ocean Avenue, 183 00:13:56,559 --> 00:14:00,720 two days before we were called off a surveying job the city, least 184 00:14:00,759 --> 00:14:03,639 the private residence at twelve sixteen Ocean Avenue. A van load of furniture was 185 00:14:03,639 --> 00:14:09,279 moved in drapes and curtains were hung. Regular deliveries of daily newspapers and milk 186 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,600 were made to the house To all outward appearances the house was occupied by an 187 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:16,879 average family. Actually, it provided another blind from which we could continue to 188 00:14:16,919 --> 00:14:22,159 observe. Belmont short wave radio equipment was installed in an upstairs room. Ben 189 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,840 and I were assigned the night watch. Another car just stop in front of 190 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:31,120 belmonts how many does that make? A Greek car? Just meant yeah, 191 00:14:31,879 --> 00:14:45,080 prote where let me see watch Kirtain? Yeah? Belmont answered the door. 192 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:48,759 He's letting them in. Something's doing. What do you think I know? 193 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:52,120 You called Captain White, didn't you? Oh? Ago just after the first 194 00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:54,960 carpool? Then store park and aning and comes back way and a better check 195 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:03,120 with everybody again. This portable seemed to warm up slower than our car radio. 196 00:15:05,519 --> 00:15:11,320 There we go Unit one forty K to unit one forty five K one 197 00:15:11,759 --> 00:15:16,720 five K. Go ahead, just checking your location the same, that's right, 198 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:20,399 pushing and cliver. We got three cars to cover. Now stand by 199 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:26,960 Roger, unit one forty K to one forty three K, one forty three 200 00:15:26,039 --> 00:15:33,159 K. We got it standing by location still good, stand be talking to 201 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,480 you. Stand by one forty one forty nine K one forty nine K. 202 00:15:37,679 --> 00:15:41,799 Go ahead, stay put. We've got three cars now, yeah, we 203 00:15:41,879 --> 00:15:46,519 heard still the same spot. Stand it by Roger? Ye? Just they 204 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:50,960 haven't you going away? Off? Good? Go them on Porchla just went 205 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,919 out. Let's see three guys came in the first car, two in the 206 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,000 second, two and the third. Is that right? Yeah? Seven? 207 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:03,519 Alto hey Compton bell Man. Maybe he's running for yo. Then any changes 208 00:16:03,559 --> 00:16:07,519 since you've called me? Another car? Anybody you know him? Too? 209 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:12,720 Dark? So they're facing that's joke, gray black packet, sedan, green 210 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:17,200 cherry. That might be for me. I told the office they could reach 211 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:23,919 me again. What yeah, big him? You must be wrong. Sure 212 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:30,639 he's not lying? All right? Thanks? Yeah you sure? Belmont hasn't 213 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:34,039 left his house since you came on duty. Couldn't possibly not without somebody in 214 00:16:34,039 --> 00:16:41,279 the details, buttony He got out somehow he made a buye. Captain White 215 00:16:41,279 --> 00:16:45,240 called the office and talked to Benny Arodondo, or narcotics undercover man. He 216 00:16:45,279 --> 00:16:51,159 confirmed the fact that somehow Belmont had a meet and successfully completed a narcotics transaction. 217 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,200 None of us could figure how, and we didn't know when the meat 218 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,679 took place. Eredondo told us that the buy had been made sometime in the 219 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:02,080 past ten hours. The arresting office that recovered a portion of the narcotics two 220 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,720 bendles of heroin. They were found in the possession of one of Belmont's runners, 221 00:17:04,759 --> 00:17:07,920 Archie Scott. I can't figure it. What do we do now? 222 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:11,799 Giver sit tight and watch those three cars in front of Belmont's house over there. 223 00:17:12,279 --> 00:17:15,839 Maybe he didn't have to leave the house to make a buy. That's 224 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:18,640 the way I got it. Pay those cars down there. Those are the 225 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,799 first visitors he's had in the past twenty four hours, as far as anybody 226 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,759 knows. We've watched it close. Sometimes it's like it it looks like somebody's 227 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:30,559 coming out over there. Two guys, how many in there? Eight? 228 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:36,640 Contain Belmar All right, Friday get to the car. Yeah, they started 229 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:41,160 to move out yet no five. See if you said that's all them, 230 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,839 they're heading for the car. Yeah, looks like a three way switch and 231 00:17:44,839 --> 00:17:48,559 we'll see when they start to move out. Tension our units and special details 232 00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:51,519 standby. Here's the license numbers here. Oh good, I knew those things. 233 00:17:51,519 --> 00:17:56,000 Green Chevys headed south, black packets going north, SOEs a dodge coop. 234 00:17:56,079 --> 00:17:59,119 Uh huh, Dodge turn left at the corner. It's headed east now 235 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,079 got it? One forty K to all units in Special detail. Unit one 236 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:07,559 forty nine K one forty nine K go ahead nineteen forty six. Green Chevrolet 237 00:18:07,599 --> 00:18:11,759 Sa'dan licensed six to one William eighty five to two, headed south on Ocean 238 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:19,400 Roger. Unit one forty five K one twenty five K go ahead, nineteen 239 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,720 forty seven. Gray Dodge coop license one x ray one eight nine eight headed 240 00:18:23,759 --> 00:18:30,079 east on Clippers Street. Roger one forty three K come in, one forty 241 00:18:30,079 --> 00:18:36,839 three K YEP nineteen thirty nine, Black packaged Sedan licensed six Mary six seven 242 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,960 seven eight headed north on Ocean Roger down spotted could be a dry run. 243 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:45,559 He couldn't afford to chance it either way. Nothing to do now but wait 244 00:18:45,599 --> 00:18:52,240 to that it's right and pray for rain. It was eight minutes past eight 245 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:56,200 pm. We sat back and waited for the reports to come in from the 246 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,559 cars. At eight twenty five pm, seventeen minutes after the alert was broadcast, 247 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,039 Unit one forty nine K reported in on the gray Chevrolet Sadan. The 248 00:19:04,079 --> 00:19:10,039 car and its occupants were thoroughly searched. No trace of narcotics was found eight 249 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:14,799 forty two pm, thirty four minutes after the alert. Unit one forty three 250 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,519 K one forty K one forty three K go ahead on that nineteen thirty nine 251 00:19:19,599 --> 00:19:26,200 baggert Saedan licensed six Mary six seven seventy eight shot him down. Nothing, 252 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:30,559 They're clean. Eight fifty pm, forty two minutes after the alert. The 253 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,559 report in the third and final car came in the nineteen forty seven gray Dodge 254 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:38,559 coupe. That's it, a trace of narcotics in any of those three cars. 255 00:19:38,759 --> 00:19:41,640 Belmont beat us. It's tough love. It's going to be tougher now 256 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:56,880 he knows we're after him. You are listening to drag nets authentic stories of 257 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:07,599 your police force in action. The three cars switch. Three cars arrive at 258 00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:11,480 a given point at different times the meat takes place. The drivers of the 259 00:20:11,559 --> 00:20:15,559 various cars leave the given point at the same time. Each drives away from 260 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:18,720 the point in a different direction, making it three times as difficult to follow 261 00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:22,680 them. The practice was not new to the Narcotics Bureau or the dealers in 262 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:27,119 narcotics. It usually includes the dryer run, in which the actual mechanics of 263 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:32,160 the narcotics are carried out, but neither the merchandise nor the money is on 264 00:20:32,279 --> 00:20:36,839 hand. This practice forces the narcotics officer in the pure guesswork. If the 265 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:40,319 officer doesn't follow up, the buy could be successful. If he chooses to 266 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,759 follow up, he takes the chance of exposing himself and tipping his hand on 267 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:48,279 a rehearsal. In the case of this particular car switch, we lost but 268 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,480 taken in the car around up were seven of Belmont's trusted runners. Six of 269 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:55,799 these men refused to talk, but the seventh, Clifford Bessell, gave us 270 00:20:55,799 --> 00:21:00,400 a lead to one of Arthur Belmont's most trusted friends. His name was Floyd 271 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,559 Ketchell. He and his wife lived at three fifty seven Evergreen Drive, Linwood. 272 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:11,480 It's a nice house. Yeah, yes, police officers would like to 273 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,519 ask you a few questions. What about Well, as you probably know, 274 00:21:14,559 --> 00:21:17,799 there's been a series of burglaries here in your neighborhood. No, I didn't 275 00:21:17,799 --> 00:21:19,279 know, Oh yes, quite a few. Would you mind if we came 276 00:21:19,319 --> 00:21:22,119 in and talked to you about it. I don't know anything about any robberies 277 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:26,839 around here. Everything's okay, This is just a routine check, mister Ketchell. 278 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,640 Everybody else in the neighborhood's cooperate. I want to take this a minute. 279 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:30,920 All right, you can come in, but I have to leave in 280 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:37,359 about fifteen minutes. Thank you. You have a nice place here, mister 281 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,799 Ketchell. Yes, Now, what was it you wanted me to help you 282 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,200 with? You know a man by the name of Clifford Butsell. No, 283 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:48,559 how about Arthur Z. Belmont? Who Arthur Z Belmont? Baselle says, 284 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:52,960 you and Belmont are good friends. I don't understand this. I thought you 285 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,759 wanted to ask me about some robberies. I wonder if you'd mind rolling up 286 00:21:55,759 --> 00:21:57,720 your left sleeve and like, look at your arm? What for? You're 287 00:21:57,759 --> 00:22:00,279 a user, aren't you? No? I'm not. And you know what 288 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:03,640 we're talking about, don't you? No? I don't. Do you have 289 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,759 any narcotics here in the house? Certainly not in mind? If we look 290 00:22:06,799 --> 00:22:08,960 around, why do you want to search the house? Why won't you show 291 00:22:10,039 --> 00:22:15,480 us your left arm? Floyd Ketchel would admit nothing, but he allowed us 292 00:22:15,519 --> 00:22:18,440 to search his home in grounds. An extra detail of men was called out 293 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,880 to aid us in the search. We covered every foot of the acre of 294 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,359 ground. This took two days. We found nothing. On the third day, 295 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,000 under the flooring of an upper bedroom of the Ketchel home. We found 296 00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:32,839 Ketchel's plant. He was using heroin. You want me to call Belmont? 297 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,279 Is that the idea? That's right? He want you to set up a 298 00:22:34,319 --> 00:22:37,640 meat with him. I'm not going to write on Art. He's a friend 299 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,359 of mine. Suits yourself. We found your plant there, We've got you. 300 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:42,839 You'll be the fall guy. You mean I take all the heat? 301 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:45,759 Why not Sell put the finger on you? We got to have somebody. 302 00:22:47,039 --> 00:22:48,640 Why pick on me? We just told you we found the stuff here, 303 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,920 but Sell fingered you. You're it? Oh. You have to do is 304 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,640 make a phone call. We won't have a clean slid, but it's going 305 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,759 to sound a lot better than Core. All right, that makes sense. 306 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,599 You know what to tell him? Already been over all that. Call him 307 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,319 now Friday, listening on the extension. If Ketchell changes his mind in the 308 00:23:04,319 --> 00:23:25,920 middle of the conversation, I'll see that he hangs up. You know well, 309 00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:30,400 AhR right, boyd Ketchell? Hit fine? How's Hittner? She's fine? 310 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:33,079 Art? Say, I got a friend on his way to Honolulu. 311 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:37,599 He wants to take a little package along. Gotta have it, ok, 312 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,480 Yeah, old friend? You sure? Yeah? You have to be pretty 313 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,240 careful. Got hit Wednesday night down the beach. Yeah, who they get 314 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,279 and the six guys from New York get out of easy. It's a dry 315 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,839 run. I didn't know that. Nothing in the papers hasn't hit yet. 316 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,279 It Well, how much your friend need? Gonna be in the Islands for 317 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,240 quite a while. There's a couple of ounces. Should do it. You 318 00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:02,319 got the money? Now? He's good? Can you swing at tonight? 319 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,279 Boat leaves from San Francisco day after tomorrow. He hasn't got much time, 320 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,559 is he okay? I want to pick it up? Yeah? All right? 321 00:24:07,599 --> 00:24:10,480 If I bring him along, I want you to meet him. Good 322 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,319 customer. Are you sure about him? Yeah? Eight thirty at the store. 323 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,960 We'll be there art E eleven, one hundred cash. Yeah, that'll 324 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,519 be okay, kitchen he is, that'll be. I had one driver r 325 00:24:19,519 --> 00:24:26,960 on this weekending, have another. Three twenty two pm we took mister and 326 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,599 missus Floyd Ketchel back to Central Division where they were booked in suspicion of violation 327 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,359 of the State and Narcotics Act. Four PM we met in the opfice of 328 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,880 Chief of Detective stat Brown. Eleven hundred dollars Is that right? Yeah, 329 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,920 it's right. How much was in the secret service fun two hundred and twenty 330 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:42,799 three dollars note for this month. So I've gone to where you get the 331 00:24:42,839 --> 00:24:45,319 rest of it. I haven't got it all yet from Mara's the banker. 332 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,000 How you got it figured? Man? Well, let's see, I've got 333 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,359 it all written down here. First off, we've got two hundred and twenty 334 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,480 three dollars cash, and these fellows all gave us a personal checks, check 335 00:24:55,519 --> 00:24:59,000 down a hoe, and Robert gave us two hundred. Johnny Bagan put up 336 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,160 one hundred. My wife's in for one hundred and fifty, joping in thirty 337 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,759 five bucks and twenty two's like this morning. That's seven hundred and twenty dollars 338 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:10,960 you need for three hundred and eighty right, Yeah, that's why I've got 339 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,680 to figure. Okay, I think I'm going to go to the rest. 340 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,480 How about winds Cadillac you loan it to you. He's out getting it washed. 341 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,559 It's forty one, isn't Yeah, Sitan a little old, but it 342 00:25:21,559 --> 00:25:23,880 looks good when it's wise flashy ho, that's what you need. Are you 343 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,480 going to make the byway? Yeah? Catch it? It'll be with me. 344 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,200 Oh, okay, so here eleven hundred dollars. Yeah, we only 345 00:25:30,279 --> 00:25:33,480 got one hitch. It's five o'clock and the banks are closed. Not much 346 00:25:33,519 --> 00:25:40,640 time to run around getting checks cashed. It was five pm. We had 347 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,960 three hours to cash seven hundred and twenty dollars in personal checks. We split 348 00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:45,559 up and covered every possible place in the city where we were known, where 349 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:48,519 we knew they would cash them. By seven forty five pm, we had 350 00:25:48,519 --> 00:25:52,839 the eleven hundred cash. The serial number on each bill was listed and the 351 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,359 money turned over to Captain White. The scene of the meat was a hardware 352 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,559 store on East ninth Street, which Belmont used as a front. Bellmont Hardware 353 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,480 was located in a small neighborhood shopping district. On Friday nights, the stores 354 00:26:03,519 --> 00:26:07,640 remained open until nine pm. Promptly at eight thirty Captain White and Floyd Ketchu 355 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,640 pulled up in front of the store and went in. Ben and I waited 356 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,799 in our car half a block down the street was eight thirty five. There 357 00:26:15,839 --> 00:26:21,720 they already come in. Ah was to made Dubai starting the car. Here 358 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:26,240 they come. Watch for the skippers signal. Yeah there it is, let's 359 00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:44,839 go. Okay, pull over, Here come ons a clerk back there, 360 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,960 you see Belma. No, yes, sir, I help you. Mister 361 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:55,240 Bellmont around, Oh sir, and he just stepped out. Are you sure? 362 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,039 Yeah, sir, he went out back and going not a minute ago, 363 00:26:57,319 --> 00:27:00,039 Bigerman castide out there on. Yeah, he won't go for it. 364 00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:07,799 Oh there's mister Belmont. Mister Belmont, these ghing, my mom, see 365 00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:14,400 you running up the stairs. The mare's name money, I do money line. 366 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:22,200 What's that? Watch watching that trail on the stair. Oh, let's 367 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,160 go alright he is. He's trying to reach out the skylight. No, 368 00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:38,960 get on, you'll never make it. Slipping Joe, Come on, you 369 00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:48,480 didn't do that? Showcase any's going. Yeah, he's true. Piece of 370 00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:52,440 that glass right through him. Yeah, it's a rough way to go. 371 00:27:52,480 --> 00:28:06,119 And nice narcotics didn't kill him, didn't it. The story you have just 372 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:11,480 heard was true, only the names were changed to protect the innocent. On 373 00:28:11,559 --> 00:28:15,599 December tenth, nineteen forty eight, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 374 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,039 eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. In 375 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:32,680 a moment the results of that trial, twelve members of Arthur Z. Belmont's 376 00:28:32,759 --> 00:28:36,799 narcotics gang were finally rounded up by federal, state, and local authorities. 377 00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:41,200 All twelve were tried and convicted of violating the Harrison Act and the State Narcotics 378 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:47,640 Act. They received sentences as prescribed by law and are now serving their terms 379 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:56,799 in state and federal penitentiaries. You have just heard drag Nets, a series 380 00:28:56,839 --> 00:29:02,240 of authentic cases from official files advice Board. Dragnet comes from the Office of 381 00:29:02,319 --> 00:29:06,160 Chief of Police W. A. Wharton, Los Angeles Police Departments. The 382 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,880 Team of Cigarettes, best of all Long Cigarettes, has brought you Dragnet from 383 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,359 Los Angeles. Be sure to hear mister and missus Ronald Coleman in Hauls of 384 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:27,640 Idy tomorrow on NBC. Welcome Back the Big Man. Can feel like a 385 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:33,119 really uneven story. Part one is an intriguing deep dive into the seeming world 386 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:38,599 of drug dealers. Part two is a much slower paced and honestly much more 387 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:45,240 bureaucratic story in setting up this massive operation in which our heroes are ultimately two 388 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:49,200 moving parts among many. Thankfully we didn't get more of the four hour meeting 389 00:29:49,759 --> 00:29:53,640 yet. I think look at as part of the whole body of work for 390 00:29:53,759 --> 00:29:59,240 Dragnet. It serves as a counterbalance the story of the hero on his own 391 00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:03,759 ween in an exciting and dangerous and situation, and then a second part where 392 00:30:03,759 --> 00:30:07,799 he's just part of a team in a well planned and well coordinated operation. 393 00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:14,319 I also think the very short but effective scene where Friday was showing the picture 394 00:30:14,319 --> 00:30:18,039 of the nineteen year old who died from the overdose was a key moment. 395 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,359 It was a pretty lude to the action. Yes, a lot of what 396 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:29,759 the police are going to do will be very complicated, involved in slow moving, 397 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,440 but don't mistake that for it being unimportant. Yes, I need to 398 00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:40,200 revise my remarks about the police's diet that I made in Part one, given 399 00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:45,559 Friday's comments at the start of the episode about the Slats gang not knowing where 400 00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:51,240 to eat. William Conrad was playing the gang member in question who insulted the 401 00:30:51,519 --> 00:30:56,240 steam table. Friday thought was a good option, and he delivered it with 402 00:30:56,319 --> 00:31:00,640 such conviction that I totally bought that the food was awful. As a cop, 403 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,039 Friday was used to eating poorly. That's what conviction and confidence will do 404 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,119 for you. You can sell anything. You must be right, mister drug 405 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,359 dealer, where would you suggest eating? It? Does make me wonder where 406 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:18,200 the Slats gang ate Was it like a lot of greasy spoon places or were 407 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,359 they eating at places that just served junk food. Friday's a guy who I 408 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:30,480 think eats his vegetables and generally eats if not super healthy by modern standards, 409 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:36,160 is not someone who's going to be happy with getting a diet of junk food. 410 00:31:36,839 --> 00:31:40,839 It does suggest an idea for a podcast where an ex cop and an 411 00:31:40,839 --> 00:31:45,440 ex drug dealer debate their food preferences and taste. The one thing I will 412 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,519 say for the Slats Gang is that Friday probably didn't get a deviled eight sandwich 413 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:55,279 the whole time, which might be enough to get Romero to consider going undercover 414 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,720 next time. Well, listener comments and feedback. Now we have an email 415 00:31:59,799 --> 00:32:05,000 from George who says, Hi, agend Adam, I'm really enjoying rehearing these 416 00:32:05,119 --> 00:32:09,599 great Dragnet episodes and thought that the Jay Thumbrings was a particularly fine example. 417 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:15,039 Like you, I thought the questioning of the young boy was very well written, 418 00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:17,759 but with one quibble in terms of believability. I would have thought that 419 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:23,119 Ben Romero would have been the likely one to succeed, unless I've getting him 420 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,839 mixed up with other partners. Was he not a family man and probably used 421 00:32:27,839 --> 00:32:31,519 to talking to children, something that childless people are not always good at. 422 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:37,039 Joe Friday, on the other hand, while normally a great interrogator, would 423 00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:42,799 often at least in later seasons, be quite short and impatient with kids, 424 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:49,079 especially in his kurt and brash listen boy approach. While rather grating to listen 425 00:32:49,119 --> 00:32:54,000 to it at least fits his personality. But no matter, I love hearing 426 00:32:54,400 --> 00:33:00,319 these again, and I just thought i'd share the impression received as always, 427 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,519 keep up the great work well, thank you so much, George. There 428 00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:07,000 are a couple of things I would say on that. First of all, 429 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:15,480 when we're talking about the color seasons, mostly you're talking about Friday dealing with 430 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:22,839 teenage delinquents or even early twenty year old delinquents. Dealing with twenty year olds 431 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:30,680 or teenagers and dealing with six year olds are two entirely different things. I've 432 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:36,559 known a lot of people without kids who have gotten on really well with children 433 00:33:36,559 --> 00:33:42,119 they're not related to. Certainly, I tended to get on with kids, 434 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:47,640 and honestly, some of the experiences I had with my nephews and with a 435 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:54,319 neighbor kid gave me the confidence I needed to go forward with the whole adoption 436 00:33:54,640 --> 00:34:00,720 process. The other thing I would say is that I think Friday gets a 437 00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:07,799 bad rap when it comes to kids in general. Said, when he has 438 00:34:07,839 --> 00:34:14,320 the most chance encounters, it tends to be with kids who have done something 439 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:22,360 really seriously wrong. I think that there is some real care that goes into 440 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:31,960 that. I think of the season three episode nineteen d R nineteen Juvenile Division, 441 00:34:32,119 --> 00:34:38,800 where he's dealing with a badder child. Another season three episode d R 442 00:34:39,559 --> 00:34:49,199 dash O five SO two shows Friday working through a variety of different calls in 443 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:57,800 Juvenile Division. And then you have episodes like Make Kids from season one or 444 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,960 the Departure from season four, where he has some hard words but there's a 445 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:09,559 bit of an understanding that's reached. And there are other episodes like The Big 446 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:19,599 Present Where or The Big Complex where even though the juvenile's done something wrong, 447 00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:25,400 Friday is still there in a compassionate way. I tend to think at folks 448 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:35,199 misjudge Joe Friday just based on how our culture has changed and evolved, as 449 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:43,320 well as the way that dragnet repeats have sometimes been presented some of the commercials 450 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,719 for them, as well as things like the eighty seven Dragnet movie, Friday 451 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:52,000 could be quite direct, and I think that became even more the case once 452 00:35:52,039 --> 00:35:58,559 you get into the nineteen sixties. Now this could be a combination of web 453 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:05,039 pushing back against the counterculture. Or you could look at it as Joe Friday 454 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:12,320 reaching that point in his life and career as a middle aged police officer where 455 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,400 he's just reached the point where he's going to tell it like it is. 456 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:22,639 But I don't think. But I think Friday always remained a character who cared 457 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:27,159 and even though he was very much of his times, I don't think he 458 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,119 in general had a negative attitude towards kids and when you look at the whole 459 00:36:32,159 --> 00:36:37,320 work of Dragnet. But thanks for the comment, George, I appreciate it 460 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,760 all. Right. Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of 461 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:44,239 the day, and I want to go ahead and thank John. 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Of course, we'll be back next Saturday 470 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:28,760 with another episode of drag Net, but join us back here on Monday for 471 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:39,199 the Adventures of the Falcon Where. Oh all right? Uh? Yes, 472 00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:43,920 is this Mike wearing the falcon? Yes? Is the falcon speaking? Must 473 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,639 be something wrong with this connection, I thought. I never mind what your 474 00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:50,840 thought. Just tell me what you want. I want to hire you right 475 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,800 now. Yes, why are you working on something else? Yes? I 476 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,320 am drop it. This job is important to me and I'm willing to pay 477 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,119 plenty if you're out here right away. Where are you, Mike? Got 478 00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:06,920 it? You tell Olake. It's ten thirty now. I couldn't get there 479 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,199 much before midnight. I know that, all right? What's the job? 480 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:15,199 I'm working on a very important deal at the moment, and it's absolutely necessary 481 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:19,559 to keep my movement secret. I'm pretty sure that somebody's been following me to 482 00:38:19,639 --> 00:38:22,960 see me. I want you to find out who it is. You say, 483 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,079 money is no objects, Sullivan, not at all. Okay, keep 484 00:38:25,119 --> 00:38:30,079 talking, then, just exactly where is this cottage of yours? Hope you'll 485 00:38:30,119 --> 00:38:34,159 be with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments to Box 486 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,760 thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, 487 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:44,719 and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives 488 00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:49,320 from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham, Sogn and all