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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Dragnet.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a narcotics detail. A steady
flow of drugs is coming into your city. The prime
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buyers are juveniles. Weeks of effort failed to turn up
any lead to the source. Your job find.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For
the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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Dragnet is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
It was Monday, January tenth. It was cold in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We were working the day.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Watch out in Narcotics Detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The
boss's Captain Wallers. My name is Friday. We're on our
way back from the cell block. And it was nine
forty seven am when we got to the interview room.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Fell ming section.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Sit down there, all right, Marlly, you wanna tell us
about what while you're here. It's on the booking slip
you saw it. We'd like to hear it from you. No, go,
you won't tell us. I'd like to, but I can't.
All right, let's go over it again. From where the beginning?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Where were you picked up.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Corner fifth in Maine? For what? Cop said? I had
a handful of pot?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Did you well?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
He found it? Said it was mine, but it wasn't. No,
where'd it come from? I don't know how much. You
turned a couple joints, and you don't know where it
came from. You heard it once?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Mary? Do you think that story's gonna hold in court?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I gotta tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, well, why don't you start?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Okay, you win, get your notebook, cot go ahead.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I just got out of the movie Triple Features, spent
the whole afternoon in the place Tom I left.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It was dark.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I walked up to the corner, trying to figure out
what to do. You know, all of a sudden, this
guy come down the street, running fast. He came right
at me. I thought he was gonna bang in me
the way he was running, not looking where.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
He was going. You know, now I'll get the picture.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
I'm standing there, minding my own business, and here comes
this fella, perfect stranger. I never saw him before in
my whole life. He runs right up to me and
he gives me a package. He just hands it to me,
and he says, hang on this, I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
So that he left. Next thing I know, a car
pulls up. Two cops. Get out. I got a chain on.
I'm brought in here. That's the way it happened. That's right.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
You didn't know anything about what the guy was giving you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
No, you like to tell us what this fella looked like.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I mean, the one who gave me the package, that's it.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
He's a tall about twelve 't two, pure green, Harry Wharton,
kind of a crew cut, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Short.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Yeah, you shouldn't have any trouble picking up a guy
like that. You think you're doing yourself any good with
this kind of an attitude. I don't know what you're
talking about. I'm trying to give you the story, all right, Morley,
you just pulled the top of him. We got your
and you know it. Officer shook down your house this morning.
We found a couple of pounds of manicured marry over
fifty six. We don't need your word to Nania. You've
already had it, then why you're aroused at me?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We want to know where it came from. I buy
it from a fellaw the one twelve feet tall. That's right.
Let me see your arms morning. Come on, you've been
this way? Roll up your sleeves all right? Now the
other one? How long you've been off? Boy? Somebody tell
me what's going on around it's place?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
It's full of crackpots. You've got a question hanging morley, Well,
the answer ain't here.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You know where to find it?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
All right, I'll lay it out. I bought the grass, said,
what if a couple of fellas I know who are that?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
You've had it only part way? That's as far as
I go. You're afraid of them, I'm not afraid of anybody.
Then why not give us the names. I wouldn't be
able to find a place on the street. We'll build
a wall around you know they get through, we'll be
in front of you.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well you'll get hurt.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Why don't you tell us where your marijuana connection is.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I won't be a finger.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
They're pretty good friends. Anythink m these men you're protecting anything?
A lot of you don't think.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I guess so so much they'll let you sit here
while they're on the outside. I'll get out.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It'll be a while, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
But when I do, I'll stay alive. I'll be able
to walk around, look them in the face. Will they'll
know what I did. I carried the beef. They'll know.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Well, don't look too close, you'll see him laughing at it.
Kenneth Harris Morley was returned to his cell and held
to answer charges of violation of the State Narcotic Act
of Felony. Frank and I went back to the office
no closer to the source of marijuana that had been
flooding the city. In the past three months, the juvenile
crime had risen sharply. Neighborhood merchants were reporting burglaries and
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acts of vandalism attributed to teenagers. In talking to some
of the youngsters, we found that most of the crimes
were the result of tea parties. We'd been working with
a narcotic detail of Juvenile Division, but even by pooling
our knowledge of the drug traffic in Los Angeles, we've
been unable to come up with a head person in
the operation. Arrests had taken place, but none of the
people apprehended could or would tell us who was running
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the campaign. Known peddlers were questioned, informants were checked and rechecked,
but when all of the work was evaluated, we were
right back where we'd started. Monday twelve fifteen pm, we
met with Captain Wallers and filled him in on the
latest developments.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
That's right, my Yeah, Well we talked to him. Uh no,
he wouldn't give us a time of day.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh sure enough.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Yeah, well, at least a step up it, it'd be something.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Well.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
The only thing we can figure is the gun has
got all the boys lined up and they're scared. Mm hm,
Well until we find a way to open them up,
we're gonna stay there.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah. Yeah, If we turn anything, we'll let you know.
Right bye. Fatigue Georgia Street. They do any good?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
No, they knocked over another plant last night. We're out
in the valley, guys selling driving style. Customers pulling the driveway,
honk the horn. A couple of minutes later, the pusher
comes out and makes us sale. He said no, they
talked to him for a couple hours. Won't even admit
he's in California.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
How's he explain? The plant doesn't drive to does a wise.
His just won't tell where it comes from.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Another dad, I'm getting to think we've seen everyone in town.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I guess narcotics Friday.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, that's right, Yes, I remember. Is that right? Do
you name it? Now? It's one forty five, now, it's
fifteen minutes. I will see you there. What's that Smith?
My partner?
Speaker 7 (06:23):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
All right?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
See you there? Right?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
What do you guys remember Hugo Kenley? Kenley from Mule
we talked to last year in the Redford thing. Oh yeah,
a little guy kind of nervous, that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Says he wants to see us.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, he's got infu in, some heroin that's coming into
the country from more European stuff. Uh, three kilos over
six pounds. Frank and I left the office and drove
out to see Hugo Kenley. A year prior, he'd been
instrumental in aiding us with the apprehension of the gang
bringing heroin in from Mexico. Because of his cooperation, he'd
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been placed on the ovation, and neither of us had
seen him since. On a telephone, he said he'd meet
us in a small restaurant down on Spring Street, and
Frank and I entered the place. We saw Kenley in
one of the rear boots.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Back there by mister Freddy, you go, you know Frank Smith? Sure,
how are you? Mister Smith? By Kelly?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
All right, you go.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
What he got for us?
Speaker 9 (07:23):
You gotta promise one thing. What's that I'm a mile away?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
All right, that's the way you want it.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
It's gotta be all right, go ahead, way at kend
of me was a rumble, nothing for sure.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah. About three weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
I tagged the place out in south end of town.
Stopped in there once in a while for some fish
and chips, you know when I can eat.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Well, there was a couple of guys at the bar.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And we got to talking.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
One thing led to another. All of a sudden we're buddies.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Uh huh you say this was three weeks ago?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Yeah, I go ahead, got so I drop in every
night shoot the breeze with him.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
A couple of times we went out together, had dinner,
hit a couple of strip joints on Western you know,
moved aroun Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Week ago one of them took me home. I got
sicked and he said he dropped me off, told me
it was not his way when he stopped at a
drug store and I got some pills. When we were there,
he got a cup of coffee. We got talking. You know,
he wanted to know if i'd go to work for
him doing what pushing age? Yeah, said they were expecting
the shipment. They and good stuff in European. He said,
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as soon as I got here they'd want unloaded. Fast said,
I could make myself a couple of bills.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
When's the stuff come in? I don't know for sure,
sometime next week. The way they talked, they said something
on the phone about it being a good sign shipman.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Word I got was three kilers cut. No, now they're
gonna do that here.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
They know who's shipping. No.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
I figured it'd be better if I didn't show too
much interest. You know, these guys are using naggots. They
don't want to lose.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What can you tell us about them? Two of 'em
lay the guns? Why?
Speaker 9 (08:48):
I don't think so. Somebody else has got the keys.
They just lunged for the ride. What about the names Milo,
Goff and Drew friends them they stood before Yeah one
what Milo has fallen for two eleven? Drew's had a
couple of four fifty nine and two forty five, any
big time, Mila's seen the joint?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
What about Frans? Yeah, Q and fulsome they owe any
time now. They didn't say what about jobs. Nothing, They
wouldn't work if it was against the law. Who else
is in with him?
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Well they're it as far as I know. They got
a lot of mules pushing grass for him now, all
waiting for.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
The heavy stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Anybody know who the power is?
Speaker 9 (09:23):
No, even Milo and Drew don't talk about him just now?
And then they mentioned the man that's all the man.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Anything about him? Nothing you can tie down.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
They talked to him, not with me or an You
know where they sleep? I'm not sure, Milos said once
they had a pad over on Adams.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
How'd they pick you? M why'd they open the door
for you? Well? You set them up. They're pretty hinky.
Why ring you in? Why I told you?
Speaker 9 (09:45):
We got to talk and when we met, we had
a couple of friends we both.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Know in the business. Yeah, how come they didn't call
one of them?
Speaker 9 (09:52):
And they want no part of a needle. They don't
want anybody with him that might cop I guess they
figured I was sack.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
What do you want out of this year? Though, huh,
what do you draw your play? You're not dealing for
free this time.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
I don't like what they got played. What you get
the whole town slic stuff. You're gonna set up distributed ships,
get the route start and then bow out.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Figured this ship and to get them going.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Said something about grass too. Yeah, there's a lot of
it around town. Now did it come from the same
two guys?
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Most of it? You really got it made? Gonna go
big time? May get killing and get out.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Where's the weed coming from? I don't know for sure,
same gun behind it, the way they talk. Yeah, you
can't tell us anything about it?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
No, all right?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
You want to give us a description of this mile
O and Drew Fransen? Sure everything, where they live, what
they who their friends are.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
It's gonna take some time.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
We got it, Yeah, I figured, okay, if we go
someplace else to talk, sure where, it don't make any
difference once it's out someplace. I don't want word to
get back to them. You know, there's only one way
you're really gonna nail these guys. Yeah, join them.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You want to set it up?
Speaker 9 (10:58):
You're asking, is your idea? Yeah, but I don't want
any part of their action. I told you they played
two rough for me.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Well, you know, how can you set up a contact
who one of us? I was gonna know nobody else
for real? If you want it that way, how about.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
It long way round?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You said yourself, it's the only way.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
What happens if they find out, we'll be there. I'm
not worried about that. Well what will I?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
We left the restaurant and drove over to MacArthur Park.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Kenley gave us complete descriptions of the men who knew
was Milogue, golf and drew friends, and we made arrangements
to meet with him again the following day, and then
Frank and I went back to the office. We ran
the names and descriptions through R and I, and we
found that both men had records listing charges of robbery, burglary,
and assault with the deadly weapons. A check through our
file showed that neither of them had been involved in
narcotics operation before. We checked their friends and the places
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they were known to frequent. Every place we went, we
ran into the same wall he had talked to us.
The following day, we met with Hugo Kenley again an
outline a plan to introduce me as an narcotic buyer
from out of town. Kenley said that it takes some
time to make the arrangements, and we set up another
meeting for Saturday, January fifteenth. Frank and I began to
make plans for my going underground. I established residents at
one of the better hotels in downtown Los Angeles. Through
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Captain Waters, I was able to obtain the money necessary
up the front. Friday night, Frank and I met at
the hotel bar to go over the final details of
the operation.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Anything from Hugo.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah, No, the way we left it, he's gonna call
him in the morning.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I don't like it, Joe.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You know, if there was another way I'd take it.
I still think we ought to keep a tail on him.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
No, the way he goes laid these fellows out, they'd
spot it for sure. Anything goes wrong, they'd be gone
before you could come in. Anyway. SKIPPERD doesn't think it's
good either.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
He's a two eye Frank. If you've got an idea
how we can pull it off without taking the chance
to let me know where you Yeah, all right, let's
go over it again. Okay, we lay it out that
I got to see this step before I buy the
usual thing. Yeah, the show, I call you. I've got
the money.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You hustle over to where we.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Make the meet.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Mm.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Now, if I get the chance to call before the buy,
I will, Otherwise you'll know I got hung up.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Okay, I'll be home. You got the numbers? Yeah, soon
as I have any information, I'll try to get it
to you. You can RelA up to the skipper. All right.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
How are we gonna know if there's trouble when I phone?
If I use your first name, you know everything's all right.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
If I call you Smith, don't waste any time to
get there and get there as fast.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
As you can.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Okay, you got the ID for him? Okay, what do
you got? Well, here's the driver's license. A couple of
hotel receipts from up north, all made out to Jerry Whitner.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Jerry's Whitner. And here's some letters phone book. Where'd you
get the numbers? Jules Zemmerlin dug them up? Bars, hotels,
a couple of places that ran a book in the
Bay area. Looks all right?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I hope it works. Anybody from the office in the hotel, Yeah,
Looke's and the lobby.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
They took one of the rooms on your floor. A
couple of men there. We've got the place covered as
much as we can. As long as you're in I
we can see you as soon as you go through
the door.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
You're by yourself. And continue to make it sound good,
don't you.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I'll leave anything out, yo. You know, if you're gonna
have dinner here at the hotel, and I figure too,
there's no reason to leave. Well, I'm going back to
the office, all right. See in the morning, I'll be here. Okay,
as soon as I hear you left the hotel, I'll
get home and wait to hear from you.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You know, I try to keep us posting that. You know, well,
this isn't the first time for me. I look like
the rockers though.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Comes off.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It'll be worth it three kilos pure heroin. You know
what that's worth.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I don't know what they think, you know, I know
what it's gonna cost you.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
The next morning, at eight forty six am, I got
a call from Hugo Kenley. He said he'd set it
up for me to meet the two men. I was
to pick him up at the corner of the seventh and Broadway,
and then together we drive to Milo Goths. I went
down to the lobby of the hotel and the arrangements.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
To run a car.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
As soon as it was delivered, I put him a
call the office and told them what had happened. After that,
I left and picked up Kenley. He directed me to
drive down the Harbor Freeway and then turn off on
the Figaroa and on down to Imperial Highway. On the way,
he said that he told Golf and friends and that
I had gotten into town from San Francisco and was
in a position to take their entire supply of heroin.
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From what he said, the deal looked good. We cut
off Imperial and turned left to Grand Avenue. Kenley told
me to turn north and drive to the corner of
Grand and one hundred and thirteenth Street. They parked the
car and walked the remaining half block. The house was
well kept white stucco.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
In the front yard.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
There was a child's tricycle and a playpan. We went
up onto the porch and rang the.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Bell when I, well, this is Jerry Whitney.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I thought I told you about hi, Terry glad and
I Noah, sit down, thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Get you anything, drink cup, cuff? No, no, nothing for me?
Where's Drew? Not to get up for breakfast?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's your house.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
You don't even know that. It's not important. Let's just
keep it that way. Okay, let's deal. You're in a.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Hurry, aren't you. I don't have a lot of time
if you want to go too fast. If I buy,
it's the way it's gonna be, not with us. Okay,
see you later about the money. Soon as you show
the h I'll make a call. Scratch will be delivered.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
You want to have it with you?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Oh, you're out of your head.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
You know me better than that.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I'm not going to carry a pocket full of money
around so somebody can walk off with it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
What do we make the meat? You've got a call
when day after tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Nothing you can do to speed it up?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Nothing? Okay, I'll hear from you. Yeah, it's going to
be the place. I'll tell you that too. You play
it pretty tight. Don't you want to stay in the game?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
You want to go back with me? Hugo, sure, no
reason you have to leave? Is it nothing to keep me? Okay?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Have it your way?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I usually do you talk, big winner? That's the way
I work. So you got a big man.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Now, look, Punk, I don't like this deal, none of it.
You can't deliver, You don't know for sure when the
stuff is to be ready. You're talk big, but it
don't fit. I've seen cheap operators like you before. Don't
make any difference to me how you talk, but you
better be able to come through. Anything goes wrong with
this deal, and I'm gonna come looking for you.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Fella.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
You scare me.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
The only reason I even talk to you is I
think maybe you got something to sell. If it's what
you say I wanted.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
You got the money, we can make a deal. Let's
leave it there.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Come on you.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Yeah, we'll give you a call.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You do that, don't make it later than your set.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Keep the money handy. We get through this. I want
to get out of town. I got a date Monday night.
I want to keep you will.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I went back to the hotel and waited. Monday morning,
I got another call from Hugo to tell me that
the meat was to take place in the hotel lobby
at ten forty five am. From there we'd go to
where the buy would be made. I got in touch
with Frank and told him what had happened. He said
the hotel was covered also the house on Grand Avenue.
Went on to say that other officers would be standing
by for my call to bring the money.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
As soon as the buy was made.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
All of the people in the place would be placed
on the surveillance and the hope that either Golf or
franz And would lead us to the head man in
the operation. Ten thirty six am, I went downstairs and
met Hugo Kenley and Milo Golf. We talked for a
few minutes while we waited for Franzen to show up.
Golf told me that the buy would be made in
an apartment out in the Hollywood area.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
So then as Franzon gets here, we'll shove a.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I got time to make a call to who man
with the money. Tell him to stand by. You gotta
be told you.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Want the money, don't y'all want to make sure he's there.
Go ahead, we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Go with you, all right, Come on, got a dime?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Yeah, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Make it snappy. He comes, Francis, just take a minute,
go where you'd been.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I had to see the man, got the package. Sena
Jerry finishes here, we can move. That's the guy. Yeah,
why you bone the head? Dumbest trick I ever heard of.
What are you mean?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
All right, mister, put your hands down by your side,
Make a move and I'll blow your spine out.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
What are you doing? What's wrong this friend of here?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
What about him?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I know him?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
He's a cop?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Drew friends and told me to stand up slowly.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
When I did, he moved in and took my gun
away from me and directed me to move out of
the phone booth and across the lobby to the hotel.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I did as I was told. Keep your head front, cop,
walk alive.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
You've got it wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
No, I haven't, your babe, I.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Ran into you a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You hung a pinch on a friend of mine names
Friday and Joe Friday. You're doing me talking.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
I didn't have any parking at Friends, and you gotta
believe that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You make it hard. Where are we going outside? After that?
We'll tell you. You know you're not gonna make it. I
don't say anything to stop us from here. I can
see five guns. You've been using bad stuff?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Keep moving?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Take him Roxie?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
All right there, friends, put your hands off of me. Cop,
Come on, take that you take it pretty smart. You
figure I'm not going to jail.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Suspects were searched and then they were taking to the
First Street station. In Franzen's pocket, we found a check
from a parking lot. Sergeant Roxy Lucarelli and his partner
checked it out and going over the car, they found
the heroin. Frank came into the office and we talked
to Drew Franzen for over an hour without getting anything
out of him. He was booked in at the main
jail twelve fourteen pm.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
We had MILEL.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Kenley brought to the interview room. Isn't going to do
you any good? You know?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Is that right? Sure?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I'm not going to tell you anything.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You don't have to.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
We know you planned to set up a distributing organization.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Now you ought to write this. We sent a couple
officers out to your place. They found a list of names.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I've got a lot of friends.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Most of them have NARCO records.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I like different people.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
We're going to talk to all of them, call.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
For some of them, move around. You'll tell us nothing.
Huh what I've got to say? You've had okay, but
I'm I want to tell you something I can't turn
it up. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You know when I first met you, I thought you
were pretty smart. Looks like I was all wrong. Yeah,
you gotta be thinking the head to take a beat
by yourself.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It won't be long.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
You better check the Narcotic Act again with the new laws.
We got enough on you to lose the key end
of cell number. And well, we'll see how it comes
out in court. You're gonna be there all by yourself.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
What about France? He's out? What do you mean? Just
what I said, he isn't here? Where is I wouldn't
know it's true?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Left here about twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Fail? Is that how he made it? It won't hurt
to tell me that he isn't here. All we got
is you. What about me? Hmm? Nobody put up bail
for me. I didn't see a line anywhere, did you.
You're not lying.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
We don't even have to talk to you, fella. I
just figured that you wouldn't want to stand all by yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You sure got good friends.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
God, it's bringing I don't know. Well the guy had
to leave the name. Maybe we didn't check.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It was Burt.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
All the guys in the world it was Burt. Maybe
I told you.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
It had to be the only one.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Who do it.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
You'd know that guy didn't say anyth about getting me out. Huh,
that does call somebody with a butt. Mmm.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
He said you wanted a statement, I'll give it.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I'll check. You can't figure why I'd do it?
Speaker 8 (22:26):
What do you mean, Bert, He's the man, a guy
who set the whole thing up, the only one who
go bail for friends, and the only one sat back and.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Didn't want any part of it.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Let us do the work, make the connections, plant the
pushes and mules.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
We did at all. He just sat back, got an
the idea where we can pick him up.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Yeah, it still doesn't make sense. Why do you leave
me here?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You keep asking the same question. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Well, is he deal? Leave me to stand for it
by myself?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
A real chanzy?
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Sure is Big Burt sitting in his house while we
do the work, taking the biggest cut. Everything's the best
with him, best house, best car, best clothes, all his
suits tailor made.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
That's so.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, he won't put a suit on his back.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
It isn't special maid. They'll find something little fit him.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The story you have just heard is true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
On June fourteenth, trial was held in Department ninety seven,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Milo' herald Goff, Drew Walter Franzen,
and Bert Michael Laurimer were tried and convicted the violation
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of the State Narcotic Deck to felony and received sentence
as prescribed by law. Violation of the State Narcotic Deck
to felony is punishable by imprisonment for a period of
not less than ten years in the state penitentiary.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
You have just heard Dragnet, the Authentic Story of your
Police Force in Action and starring Jack Webb, a presentation
of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service
Speaker 1 (25:04):
D
Dragnet.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a narcotics detail. A steady
flow of drugs is coming into your city. The prime
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buyers are juveniles. Weeks of effort failed to turn up
any lead to the source. Your job find.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For
the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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Dragnet is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
It was Monday, January tenth. It was cold in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We were working the day.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Watch out in Narcotics Detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The
boss's Captain Wallers. My name is Friday. We're on our
way back from the cell block. And it was nine
forty seven am when we got to the interview room.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Fell ming section.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Sit down there, all right, Marlly, you wanna tell us
about what while you're here. It's on the booking slip
you saw it. We'd like to hear it from you. No, go,
you won't tell us. I'd like to, but I can't.
All right, let's go over it again. From where the beginning?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Where were you picked up.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Corner fifth in Maine? For what? Cop said? I had
a handful of pot?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Did you well?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
He found it? Said it was mine, but it wasn't. No,
where'd it come from? I don't know how much. You
turned a couple joints, and you don't know where it
came from. You heard it once?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Mary? Do you think that story's gonna hold in court?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I gotta tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, well, why don't you start?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Okay, you win, get your notebook, cot go ahead.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I just got out of the movie Triple Features, spent
the whole afternoon in the place Tom I left.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It was dark.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I walked up to the corner, trying to figure out
what to do. You know, all of a sudden, this
guy come down the street, running fast. He came right
at me. I thought he was gonna bang in me
the way he was running, not looking where.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
He was going. You know, now I'll get the picture.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
I'm standing there, minding my own business, and here comes
this fella, perfect stranger. I never saw him before in
my whole life. He runs right up to me and
he gives me a package. He just hands it to me,
and he says, hang on this, I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
So that he left. Next thing I know, a car
pulls up. Two cops. Get out. I got a chain on.
I'm brought in here. That's the way it happened. That's right.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
You didn't know anything about what the guy was giving you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
No, you like to tell us what this fella looked like.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I mean, the one who gave me the package, that's it.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
He's a tall about twelve 't two, pure green, Harry Wharton,
kind of a crew cut, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Short.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Yeah, you shouldn't have any trouble picking up a guy
like that. You think you're doing yourself any good with
this kind of an attitude. I don't know what you're
talking about. I'm trying to give you the story, all right, Morley,
you just pulled the top of him. We got your
and you know it. Officer shook down your house this morning.
We found a couple of pounds of manicured marry over
fifty six. We don't need your word to Nania. You've
already had it, then why you're aroused at me?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We want to know where it came from. I buy
it from a fellaw the one twelve feet tall. That's right.
Let me see your arms morning. Come on, you've been
this way? Roll up your sleeves all right? Now the
other one? How long you've been off? Boy? Somebody tell
me what's going on around it's place?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
It's full of crackpots. You've got a question hanging morley, Well,
the answer ain't here.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You know where to find it?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
All right, I'll lay it out. I bought the grass, said,
what if a couple of fellas I know who are that?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
You've had it only part way? That's as far as
I go. You're afraid of them, I'm not afraid of anybody.
Then why not give us the names. I wouldn't be
able to find a place on the street. We'll build
a wall around you know they get through, we'll be
in front of you.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well you'll get hurt.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Why don't you tell us where your marijuana connection is.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I won't be a finger.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
They're pretty good friends. Anythink m these men you're protecting anything?
A lot of you don't think.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I guess so so much they'll let you sit here
while they're on the outside. I'll get out.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It'll be a while, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
But when I do, I'll stay alive. I'll be able
to walk around, look them in the face. Will they'll
know what I did. I carried the beef. They'll know.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Well, don't look too close, you'll see him laughing at it.
Kenneth Harris Morley was returned to his cell and held
to answer charges of violation of the State Narcotic Act
of Felony. Frank and I went back to the office
no closer to the source of marijuana that had been
flooding the city. In the past three months, the juvenile
crime had risen sharply. Neighborhood merchants were reporting burglaries and
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acts of vandalism attributed to teenagers. In talking to some
of the youngsters, we found that most of the crimes
were the result of tea parties. We'd been working with
a narcotic detail of Juvenile Division, but even by pooling
our knowledge of the drug traffic in Los Angeles, we've
been unable to come up with a head person in
the operation. Arrests had taken place, but none of the
people apprehended could or would tell us who was running
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the campaign. Known peddlers were questioned, informants were checked and rechecked,
but when all of the work was evaluated, we were
right back where we'd started. Monday twelve fifteen pm, we
met with Captain Wallers and filled him in on the
latest developments.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
That's right, my Yeah, Well we talked to him. Uh no,
he wouldn't give us a time of day.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh sure enough.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Yeah, well, at least a step up it, it'd be something.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Well.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
The only thing we can figure is the gun has
got all the boys lined up and they're scared. Mm hm,
Well until we find a way to open them up,
we're gonna stay there.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah. Yeah, If we turn anything, we'll let you know.
Right bye. Fatigue Georgia Street. They do any good?
Speaker 7 (05:35):
No, they knocked over another plant last night. We're out
in the valley, guys selling driving style. Customers pulling the driveway,
honk the horn. A couple of minutes later, the pusher
comes out and makes us sale. He said no, they
talked to him for a couple hours. Won't even admit
he's in California.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
How's he explain? The plant doesn't drive to does a wise.
His just won't tell where it comes from.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Another dad, I'm getting to think we've seen everyone in town.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I guess narcotics Friday.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, that's right, Yes, I remember. Is that right? Do
you name it? Now? It's one forty five, now, it's
fifteen minutes. I will see you there. What's that Smith?
My partner?
Speaker 7 (06:23):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
All right?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
See you there? Right?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
What do you guys remember Hugo Kenley? Kenley from Mule
we talked to last year in the Redford thing. Oh yeah,
a little guy kind of nervous, that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Says he wants to see us.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, he's got infu in, some heroin that's coming into
the country from more European stuff. Uh, three kilos over
six pounds. Frank and I left the office and drove
out to see Hugo Kenley. A year prior, he'd been
instrumental in aiding us with the apprehension of the gang
bringing heroin in from Mexico. Because of his cooperation, he'd
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been placed on the ovation, and neither of us had
seen him since. On a telephone, he said he'd meet
us in a small restaurant down on Spring Street, and
Frank and I entered the place. We saw Kenley in
one of the rear boots.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Back there by mister Freddy, you go, you know Frank Smith? Sure,
how are you? Mister Smith? By Kelly?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
All right, you go.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
What he got for us?
Speaker 9 (07:23):
You gotta promise one thing. What's that I'm a mile away?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
All right, that's the way you want it.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
It's gotta be all right, go ahead, way at kend
of me was a rumble, nothing for sure.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah. About three weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
I tagged the place out in south end of town.
Stopped in there once in a while for some fish
and chips, you know when I can eat.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Well, there was a couple of guys at the bar.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And we got to talking.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
One thing led to another. All of a sudden we're buddies.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Uh huh you say this was three weeks ago?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Yeah, I go ahead, got so I drop in every
night shoot the breeze with him.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
A couple of times we went out together, had dinner,
hit a couple of strip joints on Western you know,
moved aroun Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Week ago one of them took me home. I got
sicked and he said he dropped me off, told me
it was not his way when he stopped at a
drug store and I got some pills. When we were there,
he got a cup of coffee. We got talking. You know,
he wanted to know if i'd go to work for
him doing what pushing age? Yeah, said they were expecting
the shipment. They and good stuff in European. He said,
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as soon as I got here they'd want unloaded. Fast said,
I could make myself a couple of bills.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
When's the stuff come in? I don't know for sure,
sometime next week. The way they talked, they said something
on the phone about it being a good sign shipman.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Word I got was three kilers cut. No, now they're
gonna do that here.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
They know who's shipping. No.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
I figured it'd be better if I didn't show too
much interest. You know, these guys are using naggots. They
don't want to lose.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What can you tell us about them? Two of 'em
lay the guns? Why?
Speaker 9 (08:48):
I don't think so. Somebody else has got the keys.
They just lunged for the ride. What about the names Milo,
Goff and Drew friends them they stood before Yeah one
what Milo has fallen for two eleven? Drew's had a
couple of four fifty nine and two forty five, any
big time, Mila's seen the joint?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
What about Frans? Yeah, Q and fulsome they owe any
time now. They didn't say what about jobs. Nothing, They
wouldn't work if it was against the law. Who else
is in with him?
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Well they're it as far as I know. They got
a lot of mules pushing grass for him now, all
waiting for.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
The heavy stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Anybody know who the power is?
Speaker 9 (09:23):
No, even Milo and Drew don't talk about him just now?
And then they mentioned the man that's all the man.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Anything about him? Nothing you can tie down.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
They talked to him, not with me or an You
know where they sleep? I'm not sure, Milos said once
they had a pad over on Adams.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
How'd they pick you? M why'd they open the door
for you? Well? You set them up. They're pretty hinky.
Why ring you in? Why I told you?
Speaker 9 (09:45):
We got to talk and when we met, we had
a couple of friends we both.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Know in the business. Yeah, how come they didn't call
one of them?
Speaker 9 (09:52):
And they want no part of a needle. They don't
want anybody with him that might cop I guess they
figured I was sack.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
What do you want out of this year? Though, huh,
what do you draw your play? You're not dealing for
free this time.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
I don't like what they got played. What you get
the whole town slic stuff. You're gonna set up distributed ships,
get the route start and then bow out.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Figured this ship and to get them going.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Said something about grass too. Yeah, there's a lot of
it around town. Now did it come from the same
two guys?
Speaker 9 (10:18):
Most of it? You really got it made? Gonna go
big time? May get killing and get out.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Where's the weed coming from? I don't know for sure,
same gun behind it, the way they talk. Yeah, you
can't tell us anything about it?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
No, all right?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
You want to give us a description of this mile
O and Drew Fransen? Sure everything, where they live, what
they who their friends are.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
It's gonna take some time.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
We got it, Yeah, I figured, okay, if we go
someplace else to talk, sure where, it don't make any
difference once it's out someplace. I don't want word to
get back to them. You know, there's only one way
you're really gonna nail these guys. Yeah, join them.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
You want to set it up?
Speaker 9 (10:58):
You're asking, is your idea? Yeah, but I don't want
any part of their action. I told you they played
two rough for me.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Well, you know, how can you set up a contact
who one of us? I was gonna know nobody else
for real? If you want it that way, how about.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
It long way round?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You said yourself, it's the only way.
Speaker 9 (11:18):
What happens if they find out, we'll be there. I'm
not worried about that. Well what will I?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
We left the restaurant and drove over to MacArthur Park.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Kenley gave us complete descriptions of the men who knew
was Milogue, golf and drew friends, and we made arrangements
to meet with him again the following day, and then
Frank and I went back to the office. We ran
the names and descriptions through R and I, and we
found that both men had records listing charges of robbery, burglary,
and assault with the deadly weapons. A check through our
file showed that neither of them had been involved in
narcotics operation before. We checked their friends and the places
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they were known to frequent. Every place we went, we
ran into the same wall he had talked to us.
The following day, we met with Hugo Kenley again an
outline a plan to introduce me as an narcotic buyer
from out of town. Kenley said that it takes some
time to make the arrangements, and we set up another
meeting for Saturday, January fifteenth. Frank and I began to
make plans for my going underground. I established residents at
one of the better hotels in downtown Los Angeles. Through
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Captain Waters, I was able to obtain the money necessary
up the front. Friday night, Frank and I met at
the hotel bar to go over the final details of
the operation.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Anything from Hugo.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah, No, the way we left it, he's gonna call
him in the morning.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I don't like it, Joe.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You know, if there was another way I'd take it.
I still think we ought to keep a tail on him.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
No, the way he goes laid these fellows out, they'd
spot it for sure. Anything goes wrong, they'd be gone
before you could come in. Anyway. SKIPPERD doesn't think it's
good either.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
He's a two eye Frank. If you've got an idea
how we can pull it off without taking the chance
to let me know where you Yeah, all right, let's
go over it again. Okay, we lay it out that
I got to see this step before I buy the
usual thing. Yeah, the show, I call you. I've got
the money.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You hustle over to where we.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Make the meet.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Mm.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Now, if I get the chance to call before the buy,
I will, Otherwise you'll know I got hung up.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Okay, I'll be home. You got the numbers? Yeah, soon
as I have any information, I'll try to get it
to you. You can RelA up to the skipper. All right.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
How are we gonna know if there's trouble when I phone?
If I use your first name, you know everything's all right.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
If I call you Smith, don't waste any time to
get there and get there as fast.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
As you can.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Okay, you got the ID for him? Okay, what do
you got? Well, here's the driver's license. A couple of
hotel receipts from up north, all made out to Jerry Whitner.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Jerry's Whitner. And here's some letters phone book. Where'd you
get the numbers? Jules Zemmerlin dug them up? Bars, hotels,
a couple of places that ran a book in the
Bay area. Looks all right?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I hope it works. Anybody from the office in the hotel, Yeah,
Looke's and the lobby.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
They took one of the rooms on your floor. A
couple of men there. We've got the place covered as
much as we can. As long as you're in I
we can see you as soon as you go through
the door.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
You're by yourself. And continue to make it sound good,
don't you.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I'll leave anything out, yo. You know, if you're gonna
have dinner here at the hotel, and I figure too,
there's no reason to leave. Well, I'm going back to
the office, all right. See in the morning, I'll be here. Okay,
as soon as I hear you left the hotel, I'll
get home and wait to hear from you.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You know, I try to keep us posting that. You know, well,
this isn't the first time for me. I look like
the rockers though.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Comes off.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
It'll be worth it three kilos pure heroin. You know
what that's worth.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I don't know what they think, you know, I know
what it's gonna cost you.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
The next morning, at eight forty six am, I got
a call from Hugo Kenley. He said he'd set it
up for me to meet the two men. I was
to pick him up at the corner of the seventh and Broadway,
and then together we drive to Milo Goths. I went
down to the lobby of the hotel and the arrangements.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
To run a car.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
As soon as it was delivered, I put him a
call the office and told them what had happened. After that,
I left and picked up Kenley. He directed me to
drive down the Harbor Freeway and then turn off on
the Figaroa and on down to Imperial Highway. On the way,
he said that he told Golf and friends and that
I had gotten into town from San Francisco and was
in a position to take their entire supply of heroin.
(15:18):
From what he said, the deal looked good. We cut
off Imperial and turned left to Grand Avenue. Kenley told
me to turn north and drive to the corner of
Grand and one hundred and thirteenth Street. They parked the
car and walked the remaining half block. The house was
well kept white stucco.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
In the front yard.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
There was a child's tricycle and a playpan. We went
up onto the porch and rang the.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Bell when I, well, this is Jerry Whitney.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I thought I told you about hi, Terry glad and
I Noah, sit down, thank you.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Get you anything, drink cup, cuff? No, no, nothing for me?
Where's Drew? Not to get up for breakfast?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's your house.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
You don't even know that. It's not important. Let's just
keep it that way. Okay, let's deal. You're in a.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Hurry, aren't you. I don't have a lot of time
if you want to go too fast. If I buy,
it's the way it's gonna be, not with us. Okay,
see you later about the money. Soon as you show
the h I'll make a call. Scratch will be delivered.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
You want to have it with you?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Oh, you're out of your head.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
You know me better than that.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I'm not going to carry a pocket full of money
around so somebody can walk off with it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
What do we make the meat? You've got a call
when day after tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Nothing you can do to speed it up?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Nothing? Okay, I'll hear from you. Yeah, it's going to
be the place. I'll tell you that too. You play
it pretty tight. Don't you want to stay in the game?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
You want to go back with me? Hugo, sure, no
reason you have to leave? Is it nothing to keep me? Okay?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Have it your way?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I usually do you talk, big winner? That's the way
I work. So you got a big man.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Now, look, Punk, I don't like this deal, none of it.
You can't deliver, You don't know for sure when the
stuff is to be ready. You're talk big, but it
don't fit. I've seen cheap operators like you before. Don't
make any difference to me how you talk, but you
better be able to come through. Anything goes wrong with
this deal, and I'm gonna come looking for you.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Fella.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
You scare me.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
The only reason I even talk to you is I
think maybe you got something to sell. If it's what
you say I wanted.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
You got the money, we can make a deal. Let's
leave it there.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Come on you.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Yeah, we'll give you a call.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You do that, don't make it later than your set.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Keep the money handy. We get through this. I want
to get out of town. I got a date Monday night.
I want to keep you will.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I went back to the hotel and waited. Monday morning,
I got another call from Hugo to tell me that
the meat was to take place in the hotel lobby
at ten forty five am. From there we'd go to
where the buy would be made. I got in touch
with Frank and told him what had happened. He said
the hotel was covered also the house on Grand Avenue.
Went on to say that other officers would be standing
by for my call to bring the money.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
As soon as the buy was made.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
All of the people in the place would be placed
on the surveillance and the hope that either Golf or
franz And would lead us to the head man in
the operation. Ten thirty six am, I went downstairs and
met Hugo Kenley and Milo Golf. We talked for a
few minutes while we waited for Franzen to show up.
Golf told me that the buy would be made in
an apartment out in the Hollywood area.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
So then as Franzon gets here, we'll shove a.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I got time to make a call to who man
with the money. Tell him to stand by. You gotta
be told you.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Want the money, don't y'all want to make sure he's there.
Go ahead, we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Go with you, all right, Come on, got a dime?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Yeah, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Make it snappy. He comes, Francis, just take a minute,
go where you'd been.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I had to see the man, got the package. Sena
Jerry finishes here, we can move. That's the guy. Yeah,
why you bone the head? Dumbest trick I ever heard of.
What are you mean?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
All right, mister, put your hands down by your side,
Make a move and I'll blow your spine out.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
What are you doing? What's wrong this friend of here?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
What about him?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I know him?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
He's a cop?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Drew friends and told me to stand up slowly.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
When I did, he moved in and took my gun
away from me and directed me to move out of
the phone booth and across the lobby to the hotel.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I did as I was told. Keep your head front, cop,
walk alive.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
You've got it wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
No, I haven't, your babe, I.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Ran into you a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You hung a pinch on a friend of mine names
Friday and Joe Friday. You're doing me talking.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
I didn't have any parking at Friends, and you gotta
believe that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You make it hard. Where are we going outside? After that?
We'll tell you. You know you're not gonna make it. I
don't say anything to stop us from here. I can
see five guns. You've been using bad stuff?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Keep moving?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Take him Roxie?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
All right there, friends, put your hands off of me. Cop,
Come on, take that you take it pretty smart. You
figure I'm not going to jail.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Suspects were searched and then they were taking to the
First Street station. In Franzen's pocket, we found a check
from a parking lot. Sergeant Roxy Lucarelli and his partner
checked it out and going over the car, they found
the heroin. Frank came into the office and we talked
to Drew Franzen for over an hour without getting anything
out of him. He was booked in at the main
jail twelve fourteen pm.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
We had MILEL.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Kenley brought to the interview room. Isn't going to do
you any good? You know?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Is that right? Sure?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I'm not going to tell you anything.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You don't have to.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
We know you planned to set up a distributing organization.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Now you ought to write this. We sent a couple
officers out to your place. They found a list of names.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I've got a lot of friends.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Most of them have NARCO records.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I like different people.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
We're going to talk to all of them, call.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
For some of them, move around. You'll tell us nothing.
Huh what I've got to say? You've had okay, but
I'm I want to tell you something I can't turn
it up. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
You know when I first met you, I thought you
were pretty smart. Looks like I was all wrong. Yeah,
you gotta be thinking the head to take a beat
by yourself.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It won't be long.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
You better check the Narcotic Act again with the new laws.
We got enough on you to lose the key end
of cell number. And well, we'll see how it comes
out in court. You're gonna be there all by yourself.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
What about France? He's out? What do you mean? Just
what I said, he isn't here? Where is I wouldn't
know it's true?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Left here about twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Fail? Is that how he made it? It won't hurt
to tell me that he isn't here. All we got
is you. What about me? Hmm? Nobody put up bail
for me. I didn't see a line anywhere, did you.
You're not lying.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
We don't even have to talk to you, fella. I
just figured that you wouldn't want to stand all by yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You sure got good friends.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
God, it's bringing I don't know. Well the guy had
to leave the name. Maybe we didn't check.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It was Burt.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
All the guys in the world it was Burt. Maybe
I told you.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
It had to be the only one.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Who do it.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
You'd know that guy didn't say anyth about getting me out. Huh,
that does call somebody with a butt. Mmm.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
He said you wanted a statement, I'll give it.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I'll check. You can't figure why I'd do it?
Speaker 8 (22:26):
What do you mean, Bert, He's the man, a guy
who set the whole thing up, the only one who
go bail for friends, and the only one sat back and.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Didn't want any part of it.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Let us do the work, make the connections, plant the
pushes and mules.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
We did at all. He just sat back, got an
the idea where we can pick him up.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
Yeah, it still doesn't make sense. Why do you leave
me here?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You keep asking the same question. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Well, is he deal? Leave me to stand for it
by myself?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
A real chanzy?
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Sure is Big Burt sitting in his house while we
do the work, taking the biggest cut. Everything's the best
with him, best house, best car, best clothes, all his
suits tailor made.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
That's so.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, he won't put a suit on his back.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
It isn't special maid. They'll find something little fit him.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The story you have just heard is true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
On June fourteenth, trial was held in Department ninety seven,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. Milo' herald Goff, Drew Walter Franzen,
and Bert Michael Laurimer were tried and convicted the violation
(23:49):
of the State Narcotic Deck to felony and received sentence
as prescribed by law. Violation of the State Narcotic Deck
to felony is punishable by imprisonment for a period of
not less than ten years in the state penitentiary.
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Police Force in Action and starring Jack Webb, a presentation
of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service
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