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Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only

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the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're

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a detective sergeant. You're assigned to narcotics detail. A band

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of dope peddler's launch is a full scale operation in

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your city. Their merchandise marijuana. They're victims, high school students.

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Speaker 3: Your job get them.

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Speaker 4: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. Well the

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next thirty minutes. In cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,

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you will travel step by step on the side of

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the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files,

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from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is

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the story of your police force in action.

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Speaker 5: It was Thursday, April eleventh. It was warm in Los Angeles.

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We were working the day watch out in Narcotics Detail.

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My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Kearney. My

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name is Friday. I was on the way back from

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R and I and it was ten twenty five am

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when I got the Central.

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Speaker 6: Station Narcotics Detail. Yo, Hi, le'd you find out? Talk

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to the corner he finished posting the broading. Cause of

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death multiple fractures of the skull, internal injury.

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Speaker 7: The boy was seventeen years old.

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Speaker 8: To check the car, well, the kid must have been

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doing at least seventy when he hit that streetlight.

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Speaker 6: It's a real mess. Car was really wound around that pole.

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We're going to have to dig up a fast dan

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you somewhere I was racking.

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Speaker 8: There was only one way to burn it out, To

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find the big man and throw the book at him,

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make him an example. I'll never forget.

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Speaker 7: If you check with juven bureau.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the evidence has been booked with the property clerk.

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How about the boy's parents? Missus Moore wasn't feeling too early,

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drove her home. Father still down in the hall Inspector

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Walker's over.

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Speaker 6: Can we talk to him now? Yeah, he should be

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free by now. Let me check the book. Already dead,

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there's no calls.

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Speaker 7: Oh, okay, let's go.

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Speaker 8: Well, there's only one thing fortunate about this whole thing.

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Speaker 7: What do you mean a.

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Speaker 8: Kid being alone when he cracked up would have been

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a slaughter if he had a car full of his

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friends with him.

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Speaker 9: It's still pretty grim.

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Speaker 8: How's the boy's father taking it?

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Speaker 7: Usually pretty Rauh. He should be able to help some.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, mister Morrow, Yes, Sergeant Inspector asked me to wait.

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Speaker 8: Here for him.

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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, this is my partner, Sergeant Friday.

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Speaker 6: Mister Tomorrows, I just don't understand it's, Sergeant, I don't

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understand any of it.

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Speaker 7: My boy can wasn't a type to go racing around

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like that in the car. He never took the car

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without permission. I just don't know what got anyway.

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Speaker 6: Had you noticed it all, whether your boy was acting

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a little strange.

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Speaker 7: Last few weeks or so?

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Speaker 10: No, of course I only saw ken in the morning,

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a few hours in the evening.

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Speaker 7: I'm at the office all day. Why'd he last well?

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Speaker 8: Was he going out very often on school nights? Uh?

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Keeping odd or unusual hours.

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Speaker 10: You used to go to the library three or four

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nights a week to do a school work. Got home

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about midnight a few times, and I warned him about, Uh,

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did you.

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Speaker 8: Have any way of knowing if he was really spending

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his nights at the library?

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Speaker 7: No, what, I took his word for it. Ken didn't

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lie to me. What's this have to do with the

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auto accident? Size? And I don't think I understand.

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Speaker 6: The officer's investigating the accidents there they checked over the

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car after where was it?

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Speaker 7: Where the break's bad? What they find?

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Speaker 5: Yeh, yeah, when you see this small metal case, we

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found it in the front seat, on the floor of

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the car.

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Speaker 7: What's that stuff inside of this belonged to Ken?

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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, we think he was usually one four, but

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I don't know. It's marijuana.

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Speaker 5: Men and women who traffic in narcotics all the way

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from the small time peddler to the big wholesaler. Rated

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among the lowest kind of criminal. One step lower you

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find an even more vicious kind, those who lure youngsters

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into the deadly trap of narcotics, who feed on the

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nickels and dimes by supplying their young victims with dope.

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Speaker 8: The death of.

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Speaker 5: Seventeen year old Kenneth Morrow was the second of its

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kind within eight months. It seemed to stem from unidentified

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suspects who were making it their business to build a

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thriving marijuana trade among.

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Speaker 8: High school students.

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Speaker 5: Thursday, eleven am, we continued to question the dead boy's father,

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Thomas Morrow.

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Speaker 8: What he couldn't tell is anything further that might help.

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Speaker 5: Friday, April twelfth, we checked with the principle of the

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high school which Tomorrow boy attended. We talked to the

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boys teachers and checked the school record. His marks had

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been above average till about three months before, when they

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began to fall off for no apparent reason. We got

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a list of most of the boy's friends from his

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teachers and we started checking them out. One was a

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sixteen years old blonde girl, Peggy Keane, supposed Lukenneth Marles's girlfriend.

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Speaker 11: Yes, Ken and I went around together for a while.

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He was a real nice boy.

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Speaker 7: Did you see each other quite a bit, BigGAN for

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about five.

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Speaker 11: Or six months. Yes, we got along fine. Just after

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Christmas was the last time I went out with him,

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and we double dated.

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Speaker 8: Did he seem all right to you then, I mean

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did he act different at all?

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Speaker 11: Well, a little different, yes, not silly, you know, he

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just wasn't like he used to be. You mean, well,

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he didn't talk the same. Ken was a real nice

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boy most of the time. Because he started getting in

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with their own crowd, he began to swear, you know,

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bad talk things like that.

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Speaker 7: When did all this start? Peggy, do you remember just

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before Christmas?

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Speaker 11: I think I'm not sure, poor Kim.

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Speaker 7: Is there anything else you might have known it?

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Speaker 11: I don't know. Ken used to be pretty good about

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his studies, and all of a sudden it seemed he

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just didn't care. Sometimes he'd come into the library. We

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used to study there, and he'd make a lot of noise.

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He just changed, that's all. For a while, we didn't

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see each other there anymore.

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Speaker 8: Well, why was that paid?

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Speaker 11: We just didn't come down. I called his house a

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couple of times. His folks said he was at the library.

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I didn't say anything to him.

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Speaker 8: Well, Ken have many friends here at school? Do you

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know that?

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Speaker 11: Not many?

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Speaker 8: No, I see all those he did have. Who would

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you say was closer to him?

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Speaker 11: Gee, I don't know, sergeant or half a dozen of them.

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Ken used to be with all of them.

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Speaker 7: No one boy in particular, well, Bob Leavelle.

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Speaker 11: Maybe I saw Ken and Bob's car a few times.

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Speaker 7: Does Leavelle go to school here, Yes.

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Speaker 11: He's a senior. Ken used to work with Bob down

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the cafeteria after school, but he got in the mix up.

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He was fired, Bob was fired. No, Ken, he was

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really doing the ladies down there. Does the cooking Bob

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still works there?

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Speaker 7: Would he be at the cafeteria now?

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Speaker 9: Do you know?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 11: I think so. The fountain's open until about three to thirty.

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Speaker 8: And you think that this Bob Leavell was about the

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closest friend that Ken had, Huh?

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Speaker 11: I think so? The only one I know. Anyway. Have

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you talked to Ken's folks?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: We have.

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Speaker 11: I feel so sorry for him. Gee, I think I

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have to go now, Sergeant, I have a chemistry class.

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Speaker 6: Just one more question, Peggy, last time he went out

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with Ken on this doubles date?

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Speaker 7: Who was the other couple?

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Speaker 8: Do you remember?

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Speaker 11: I don't remember their names. There were some kids I

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never saw before Kim knew them. It wasn't much of

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a date.

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Speaker 8: Where did you go?

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Speaker 11: We started for the show, but Ken changed his mind.

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He wanted to go to the beach, and Park was

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acting funny, talking all the time, saying silly things. The

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other boy was the same way.

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Speaker 8: Oh were they drinking?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 11: I never saw Kim take a drink. I couldn't smell

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any liquor on his breath.

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 11: It was such a silly thing.

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Speaker 9: Was that?

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Speaker 11: Well maybe it's just my imagination, but Ken and this

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other boy had a real terrible musty smell about him.

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I kidded them about it, and they said they'd been

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to a tea party. That's where they got it. They

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kept talking silly like that all evening.

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Speaker 8: Let's see. Was the musty smell all over the car,

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just on the bat.

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Speaker 11: All over kind of made me sick, but they didn't

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seem to mind it.

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Speaker 8: Well, look, I'd like you to think real careful, Peggy.

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Have you ever come across that musty smell in anybody

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around the school here?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 11: I have a couple of times. Makes me sick.

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Speaker 7: What is it?

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Speaker 8: Who did you notice it on? Peggy?

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Speaker 5: Bob Levell, Ben and I went back to the principal's

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office and checked the record on Robert Leavell, who was

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eighteen years old, and he was scheduled to graduate in June.

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The registrar told us that there was a good chance

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that he wouldn't be graduated because his marks had been

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poor for the.

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Speaker 8: Better part of the year. They dropped even lower during

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the present semester. Lavell had played football the year before and.

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Speaker 5: Had made third string on the All city team. Who

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was well liked by his teachers. For the last two years, he'd.

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Speaker 8: Worked part time at the school soda farmer. We went

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down to interview him.

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Speaker 9: Nice said up, huh yeah, catfeteria soda farm. Wasn't like

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that in my day.

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Speaker 8: There must be the boy there behind the counter.

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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, let's sit down. How about that, Jill?

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Speaker 8: What's that?

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Speaker 9: That's sign hanging up their idiots?

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Speaker 6: Spatial five scoops of ice cream, marsh mallow, bananas, chocolate,

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strawberry flavoring, whipped cream topping, maurso, cherry chop, nuts and onion.

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Speaker 8: No, you're reading over. That's on the Hamburger sign there.

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Oh yeah, you want something chocolate soda?

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Speaker 9: Could you make it with vanilla ice cream? Plea chock

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soda with vanilla cream?

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Speaker 8: Are you Bob Lavelle?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 8: Police officers, Bob, we'd like to talk to you.

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Speaker 12: Oh, I'm pretty busy right now. Got to clean up.

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Were you closing a few minutes. I'll make you soda

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right away.

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Speaker 9: You say chocolate.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's We'll make it brief. Did you know kenmor oh.

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Speaker 9: Bob, Oh, yeah, he used to work here. You you

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spend much time with him outside of school? I mean

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not much. Went a couple of shows together, it's about all.

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Speaker 7: I'm kind of rush now.

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Speaker 8: When was the last time that you saw him? You

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remember a week ago?

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Speaker 7: I guess too bad about Ken?

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Speaker 8: How about the night he was in the accident. Did

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you see him live?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 7: I didn't want too well. Went around with a different crowd.

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Speaker 9: It reached me in the back of those cashiers. Aunt

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Joe on the card there, yeah, oh you go, oh,

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I think.

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Speaker 7: One time grasping those things. The nuts are a dime.

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Speaker 9: Officers right down the counter, Bob. Oh, yeah, I.

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Speaker 12: Gotta get go as soon as I close.

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Speaker 7: I have to get on town.

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Speaker 5: We talked to some of Kim Murrill's friends around the school, Bob.

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They tell us that he used to drive around in

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your car with you quite a bit.

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Speaker 7: Just a couple of times around school.

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Speaker 9: And you haven't been with him for about a week

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before they acted me. And that's right, just what I

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told you.

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Speaker 7: You want a little whooped cream on that?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, theyll.

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Speaker 9: How about cherry good?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 13: Are you.

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Speaker 8: There?

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Speaker 9: You are?

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Speaker 7: Thank you too?

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Speaker 9: Night to fix a hamburger? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I really got to close up.

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Speaker 8: It's got a little late.

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Speaker 12: Officers, I'm gonna catch close up right now.

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Speaker 8: We'll make it fast.

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Speaker 5: Did you notice anything different about the Morrow boy in

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the last few weeks?

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Speaker 8: Anything peculiar at all?

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Speaker 9: You know he was saying?

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Speaker 8: Was ever?

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Speaker 7: I didn't notice anything.

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Speaker 8: Right, Look, Bob, we're gonna lay it out to you.

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Did you know he was using marijuana?

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Speaker 7: No, I didn't know anything about it.

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Speaker 9: You have any idea where he might have gotten it?

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I wouldn't know that.

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Speaker 12: Look you mind if I lock up the counter and

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I'll come around.

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Speaker 7: The other side. Go ahead.

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Speaker 12: I didn't know that about can officer. I wouldn't know

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where he got the stuff.

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Speaker 7: You sure he was using merry?

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Speaker 11: Oh?

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Speaker 8: We found some in his car. We found some more

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in his locker upstairs.

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Speaker 7: That's tough. Anything more, officer, I got a hurry.

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Speaker 5: It's just routine, Bob. We did the same with the

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other boys we talked to. We'd like to check your locker.

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Speaker 8: You don't mind, do you.

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Speaker 7: I gotta get out ontown. I'm late now. Your locker

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just upstairs, isn't It won't take that long. It's important

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to me. I gotta get ontown.

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Speaker 8: We've got our car outside. We'll drive you down. We'll

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be down there in no time.

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Speaker 12: No, I'm already gonna ride. Can't you check it tomorrow?

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Speaker 8: Not going to take a minute, Bob, let's go.

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Speaker 7: Huh, All right?

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Speaker 12: Say, I happened to remember I didn't bring my locker

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key today.

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Speaker 8: That's so.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: Come to think of it, I don't know where it is.

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Speaker 8: I guess I lost it. Well, we must have a

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pass key around here, don't they.

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Speaker 7: I don't think so.

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Speaker 8: We'll ask at the officer.

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Speaker 12: You're putting me in a jam, Officer. That's going to

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take time. I'm due downtown.

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Bob, we got to check it.

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Speaker 12: I got my locker all jammed up with stuff. It'll

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take us an hour.

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Speaker 7: Office is down there, Jim.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, let's go.

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Speaker 12: I don't know why you're picking on me. My locker's jammed.

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They can't get it open.

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Speaker 9: Why are you picking on me?

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Speaker 7: Let's ask him here. Sorry, bou close the door. Yeah,

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I got my key, I'll show you.

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Speaker 8: Robert Levell took us to his locker and opened it.

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Speaker 5: Getting inside one of his gym shoes, we found four

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sticks of medium grade marijuana.

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Speaker 8: We took them, put him in an envelope, and sealed

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it on the way downtown.

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Speaker 5: The boy told us that he'd been buying this stuff

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for about six months and reselling it to some of

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the students at.

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Speaker 8: The high school.

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Speaker 5: Said that he paid fifty cents a piece for the

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sticks and sold them for seventy five.

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Speaker 8: He was an occasional user himself. Before we turned him

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over to the juvenile officers. He told us that a.

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Speaker 5: Man named Ray Jensen supplied him with a marijuana. Jensen's

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address was a trailer camp in the southwest part of

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Los Angeles. We drove out and checked with the operator

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of the camp. He pointed out Jensen's trailer at the

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rear of the camp.

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Speaker 9: That one's Joe, the blue and gray one.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, this is good right here. Okay, looks like Jensen's

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doing well.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, nice looking forty.

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Speaker 9: Best of mint.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, police officers, all right, open it out.

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Speaker 2: Out of here?

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Speaker 9: What's your joke?

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Speaker 8: All right?

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Speaker 9: Hold on, mister, get out, get out, all right, Jensen?

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Speaker 8: That's good bet. I'll get him a right, come on,

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get out. What's the pitch?

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Speaker 7: Where's your warrant?

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Speaker 9: It's all over the floor of Jensen marijuana?

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Speaker 7: Who tipped one of those lousy kids? Which one?

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Speaker 8: I guess you know enough of them?

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Speaker 7: You can't tab me for all that. I'm not the

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big guy? All right?

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Speaker 8: Then?

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Speaker 7: Who is? I don't know. I'm only one of the mules.

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Speaker 9: Where do you get your the big guy? The big

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Tomato that's what they call him, Yeah, big man.

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Speaker 7: Nobody sees him. I don't even know what he looks like,

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neither you. You let us worry about that.

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Speaker 8: Come on, big Tomato, that's what they call him.

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Speaker 7: You won't get him. He's smart.

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Speaker 15: You won't get him in eighty nine years maybe not,

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but we'll get him.

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Speaker 4: You are listening to drag met authentic stories of your

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police force in action.

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Speaker 5: Friday, April twelfth, seven pm, we searched the trailer and

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a stakeout was placed on it, and then we took

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Ray Jensen downtown to the main jail where he was

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booked for suspicion of narcotics of felony.

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Speaker 8: The next day, Ben and I went back and questioned him.

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We got nowhere. The only thing he tell us was

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that the leader of the marijuana ring was unknown to him,

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the big Tomato. That's all he could tell us.

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Speaker 5: We went back and started rechecking leads furnished just by

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some of the high school boys who had purchased narcotics

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from Robert Level.

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Speaker 8: They all ended nowhere.

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Speaker 5: Meantime, the flow of marijuana into the schools and into

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the hands of the teenage students continued. We'd no sooner

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choke off one source of supply when two more would

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turn up. We knew that there was only one real solution,

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find the gang leader and wipe out the entire supply

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and distribution set up.

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Speaker 8: We stayed on it.

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Speaker 5: Monday, April twenty second, Ben got a call from one

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of his informants that he had a lead on the

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source of marijuana on the east side of town. The

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informant's name was Willie Brick, a groundskeeper at a golf

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course near.

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Speaker 8: One of the city high schools. We go out to

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talk to him. Were located back by the clubhouse near the.

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Speaker 7: First t on the tea now arc you remember my partner,

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don't you?

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Speaker 9: Will it? Joe Friday?

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and I'm busy today big tenement.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, quite a crowd you got here. It's a nice turnout.

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Speaker 7: You've been having trouble huh at a marrying town.

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: You think you can help us? An, yeah you can.

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Dirty business. I'm working high school kids with that stuff.

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Speaker 8: It's real dirty.

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Speaker 9: Any ideas really don't know how much it's true. It's

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off a grape line down town. The boss is somebody

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they call a big tomato. It's funny man that any

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idea who we are couldn't say. It's getting lots of

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stuff in though usual feed line over from Mexico. What

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else will we here? There's more on the way. Don't

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know when though off for high school trick. I guess

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they figure they got a good business.

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Speaker 7: How beg getting to jump over?

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Speaker 8: You know?

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Speaker 9: But it's getting here most any kid can get them

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over on this sid of town. Imagine that kids and

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their team we did. How about this big tomato? Willie?

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Speaker 7: No word it though?

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Speaker 9: Just one pretty thin Yeah, there's a connection lives over

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on Houser Boulevard.

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Speaker 8: That is number.

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Speaker 9: There's someone's supposed to be the main connection for this

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tomato guy. Oh yeah, there's his address. A third number there,

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it's just six. Guy's name is Tony Childs. Is she

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supposed to handle all the stuff.

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Speaker 7: Most of what I hear gets it off from the

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big tomato.

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Speaker 9: You got about it? It's it, Tony Childs, You've got

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the address? How many thanks? Willing a thing comes up

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your call? I'm sure think how's the job out here

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better than yours? I sure wouldn't want it working every

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day around joy poppers, mules, main liners and somebody's got

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to do it Willie, Yeah, but.

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Speaker 7: Not for me, Sergeant.

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Speaker 9: Those dokes as are all nce selling jumped the kids.

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I guess you met the lowest time that chat.

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Speaker 8: We're looking for him.

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Speaker 5: We went back to the office and checked the name

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and address of Tony Childs through R and I no

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previous record. A stakeout was placed on his home and

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at his place of business. Childs himself was placed under twenty.

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Speaker 8: Four hour surveillance.

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Speaker 5: A week passed, nothing happened, Another week still nothing. There

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was no let up in the supply of marijuana finding

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its way into the city and then into the schools.

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We couldn't see the beginnings of the recket, but we

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saw the end result. The percentage of juvenile users was

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still in the upswing. Wednesday May eight, we heard rumbles

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of another big marijuana buy in the offing. Either it

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failed to materialize or we missed it. Friday May tenth,

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then and I took our turn shadowing the suspect, Tony Childs.

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Speaker 7: Can you see him from here, Joe?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're still in the barbershop. There's two guys with him.

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Speaker 6: Yea and past forward. We better check in huh yeah,

482
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call in her drug store. There must have a phone.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, I'll be right back.

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Speaker 13: Narcotics please, thank you. Yeah, Johnny, it's Joe Friday. M Yeah, yeah,

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we got him paid, okay right away?

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Speaker 8: By what have you got, Tony Chiles that want him

487
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picked up right away?

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Speaker 7: How?

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Speaker 9: God?

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Speaker 8: Well, I just rated this place. I found thirty two

491
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ounces a week, and I'm supposed to have more on him.

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Speaker 6: Let's go, Come on, what do you think trouble. Don't

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be surprised. Childs like to talk to you.

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Speaker 7: That's uh.

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Speaker 8: Police officers like to talk to you and your two

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friends here down.

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Speaker 9: Can't make a copper mine in Vegas tonight. We want

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to see you downtown. First, luck, don't push me. Huh,

499
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nobody's pushing your child. We want to see you downtown.

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Come on, let's go.

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Speaker 8: Look out, Joe repend seven. Watch that's it. Three of them?

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Speaker 7: Okay, I get him, Come.

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Speaker 9: On you and I'm glad this doesn't come up. Where's

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the barber who ran outside?

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Speaker 8: Rough?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: What's your hunch, Joe?

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Speaker 6: I think one of these three is the Big Tomato.

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I don't know, let's ask him.

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Speaker 5: In search of the barber shop failed to reveal the

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presence of any narcotics. Tony Childs and his two companions

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were found to have a dozen sticks of marijuana in

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their possession. They were treated for cuts and bruises at

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Georgia Street and then booked for suspicion of.

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Speaker 8: Narcotics, a felony at the main jail. Three other men

516
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found a child's apartment at the time of the raid

517
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were also booked.

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Speaker 5: We got nowhere questioning any of them. As usual, we

519
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had the small fry, but the ring leader, the Big Tomato,

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is still in the clear, still free to hire somebody

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else to run the marijuana supply line into the high schools.

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Speaker 8: Three weeks passed.

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Speaker 5: Together with Captain Kearney and Sergeant Bob, Ben and I

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re checked our earlier leads. We ran down anything that

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even looked like it might be promising.

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Speaker 8: Nothing panned out. Wednesday June five point thirty pm we

527
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got a call from the main jail. Tony Childs wanted

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to talk to us. Ben and I went over to

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see him.

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Speaker 6: Charles, I got something for you. Been playing the stoage

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long enough. If I'm good enough for jail, so's he

532
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all right?

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Speaker 8: What do you got?

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Speaker 7: It's a big by coming off when you get him.

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Tell him how long I've been in here?

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Speaker 8: What kind of a buy?

537
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Speaker 7: Mary?

538
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Speaker 6: One of the biggest. It was set up before I

539
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got in here. Where's the mate going to be? Bruno

540
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Street with the train yards. I'll draw you a map.

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Set ups the same car pulls up and hanks a

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couple of times in an alley down there? Who was

543
00:24:05,519 --> 00:24:07,799
handling a bi A big man. Don't waste any time?

544
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When is it tonight?

545
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Speaker 5: We went back to the office and met with Sergeants

546
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bar and Jacobson eight pm. Ben and I took up

547
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our positions on the stake out, along with the rest

548
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of the men we had a clear view of the

549
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exact location where the buy was to be made.

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Speaker 8: We waited ten pm, eleven pm, no one showed. Midnight

551
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came and went. One thirty am, still no sign.

552
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Speaker 5: At eighteen minutes or two we spotted the man carrying

553
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a shopping bag emerged from behind a row of freight

554
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cars near the end of the rail yard. He made

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his way across the street to the alley. He stood

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back in the shadows.

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Speaker 7: As soon as the car gets in the alley, we

558
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pull up and block it. Huh, yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 8: Becky'll do the same thing down at the other end.

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Speaker 7: Head light's coming in the alley. Women. Yeah, now they're

561
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going on through. What's the time now? Thuman is to two.

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Speaker 8: We waited eighteen minutes past, still no sign of the

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car that, according to Childs, was supposed to be there

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for the big buy. We could still see the figure

565
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of a man with a shopping bag huddled in the alley.

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Three am z Yeah, car down there in the alley. Yeah,

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that's it.

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Speaker 16: You want to start up, yep, just enough to block

569
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the alley. That's good, all right, come on, let's go,

570
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Come on, all right, kill your engine and get out.

571
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Speaker 15: Of the car.

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Speaker 9: Joe, look out, they can't look fun. All right, let's

573
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get him out of there. Yeah, there's three. Here's the

574
00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:19,519
guy with the shopping bag, right, I got him cry

575
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snapped him cold. Yeah, that's one easy there.

576
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well right over there.

577
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Speaker 11: Well yeah, that's get his cold over there.

578
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Speaker 8: I got it.

579
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Speaker 9: That's three.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Hey, hey, look at this Joe. Fun one of him in.

582
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Speaker 6: This guy's hand can pull on marijuana. You look at

583
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the labels on those cans. Yeah, fancy solid packed tomato.

584
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Speaker 8: There he is a big tomato.

585
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Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the

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names were changed to protect the inner.

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Speaker 4: And on October third trial was held in Superior Court,

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Department eighty nine, City and County of Los Angeles, State

589
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of California. In a moment the results of that trial,

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John A. Stanton, alias the Big Tomato, along with his

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00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:20,480
associates in the Narcotic Gang, was tried and convicted for

592
00:27:20,559 --> 00:27:24,319
violating the State Narcotic Act. He received sentences as prescribed

593
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by law and are now serving their terms in the

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state penitentiary.

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Speaker 2: The radio editors of the United States and Canada the

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name Dragnet the best radio program of its type for

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nineteen fifty and Dragnet's Jack Webb the most Promising Star

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of Tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: In behalf of Dragnet, I'd like to thank the radio

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editors of the United States and Canada and the editors

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of Motion Picture Daily who conducted the voting in the

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fifteenth annual poll for Fame Magazine.

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Speaker 7: You have just heard Dragnet.

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Speaker 4: A series of authentic cases from official files. A technic

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advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police wh Parker,

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Los Angeles Police Department.

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Speaker 8: Later, here's Spellbound with Joseph Cotton on screen directors on NBC.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. This is a memorable episode because all of

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these titles have the Big This and the Big That

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in the tititle, but there's not actually a reference to

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the Big Family. But here we get the Big Tomato,

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and I love that we got an explanation for why

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this guy was called the Big Tomato. Also, it's one

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of those rare dragnettes where we get multiple bits of

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action and even rarer Ben Romero actually got to eat something.

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So it was a fun time, all right. Well, now

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it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,

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you Charlie Chan, but join us back here on Monday

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Speaker 4: Here, and I got a feeling it won't be for long.

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Speaker 17: I got the same feeling.

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Speaker 8: Wait, do you get that possle?

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Speaker 7: What's it to you?

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Speaker 17: Look, fella, don't get smart. Just lay it down on

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the floor. I'll back up a couple of steps. Oh

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that's fine.

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Speaker 9: Tell me something about sure, Julian. What did you call me?

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Speaker 7: Julian?

639
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Speaker 9: Isn't that your name?

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Speaker 7: How'd you know that?

641
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Speaker 3: I got a great memory for faces. You were pointed

642
00:30:08,559 --> 00:30:10,440
out to me about nine years ago in Detroit, when

643
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you were running with.

644
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Speaker 9: The Purple mob, and what do they call you like wearing?

645
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Speaker 8: Where do you get that claim? Chick?

646
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Speaker 3: I found it in the street.

647
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Speaker 9: I asked you something and I answered it.

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Speaker 17: John Calvin gave it to you, didn't.

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Speaker 3: She look, Julian. I think I've been very patient. I

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don't know what you want get back. You can't blame

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a guy for trying.

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Speaker 8: No.

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Speaker 17: In your place, I'd probably do the same, you see,

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But then I'm not in your place, and right now

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I wouldn't change for the world.

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Speaker 8: This is one thing I can't stand.

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Speaker 9: It's a wise cut.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.

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