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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. Dragnet is
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Speaker 8 (02:24):
It was Monday, April eighteenth. It was cold in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of Internal Affairs Division.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Fulton. My
name's Friday. I was on my way into the office
at was seven fifty eight am when I got the room,
thirty six squadroom. Marie, Hi, we're keeping you up. There's
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a couch down the hall. Maybe you can use that.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah. Remember a couple of months ago Faye was on
that quiz show.
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Yeah, yeah, it seems I heard something about that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, one of the prizes was a dog. You know,
they were going to give us a little putt. Turned
out they were giving away cockers. They're nice dogs and thoroughbreds.
Fan me talked it over and decided we'd rather have
one of those those basset hounds. What are they One
of those dogs with a little short hind legs and
long ears, you know, long faced bassot hounds. MP. See
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him in the magazines. You know they got sad eyes,
always look so sad. Yeah, they're hard to get. We
had to wait a while and I got the call Saturday.
Pup was there and went out and picked them up.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
Named him Hector.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah that's it, Hector. Why why? Because the old expression
kind of fit since Hector was a pup. You get it,
Joe Hector, So he's still a pup, old Hector, the pup.
I was up with them all night. He couldn't sleep,
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kept whining.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
You still work here, don't you know?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I just stayed up and kind of hummed to him
the company, we're.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Still working here? Oh this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, there's a couple of mug shots over there from
second man.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I'll be glad to get to bed tonight.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Excuse me, yes, ma'am, something do for you.
Speaker 10 (04:12):
Man down room thirty eight Bunco told me to come here, Yes, ma'am,
the better that's his name, said, see you why to
report something?
Speaker 9 (04:19):
All right? Would you like to sit down?
Speaker 10 (04:21):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Well, we do for you.
Speaker 10 (04:26):
I think it's been too long.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
What's that well?
Speaker 10 (04:28):
I paid for it over a month ago. I'm tired
of waiting.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You want to tell us about what you mean?
Speaker 10 (04:32):
Well, Henry should be home, but now it's been over
a month. Who's Henry my husband? Henry Farewell. When I
gave the man the money, said he'd get Henry out
of jail right away. That's what he told me. What
man the man who came to see me, well, yes,
ma'mber who was he? A policeman?
Speaker 9 (04:52):
Eight twelve am. We continued to talk to the woman.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
She identified herself as missus Henry Farewell, and she gave
us the full story.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
One of this man approached just a minute, mister Smith.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
I got it all written down, ma'am, got it right
here in my bed yep here it is March sixth
That's when I met him.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Where was it? Where'd you meet it?
Speaker 10 (05:14):
He come to the house my house, told me wanted
to talk to me about something, said it was important.
I didn't know him. There wasn't any reason he'd have
anything important to talk to me about. But he said
he knew the mister you mean your husband. That's right,
Henry Farrewell. See you in prison, yes, been there for
three and a half years.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
We don't like to ask this miss Farewell, but it's
necessary burglary.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
That's what he was convicted for. Judge told him he'd
go to jail for five years to life.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
M hm, Was this the first time he's been in jail?
Speaker 10 (05:45):
I thought so. First, I thought it was all a mistake.
They was wrong about the mister. Yes, they weren't. Came
out in the trial. Seems he'd done the same thing
before twice before. I didn't know about it when we
got married. Didn't have any idea. The mistress my second husband,
first one died ten years ago. Woman my age gets lonely.
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So when mister Firewell asked me to marry him, I
said yes. Then I found out about stealing.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
This man said he knew your husband's that's right.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
Told me they met several years ago. Then he went
on to tell me how the mister could get out.
What do you mean the way he told it, if
you had friends who knew the right people, you could
get out of jail. What's that If the right people
were paid, a man could get out of prison.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And he wanted you to give him some money.
Speaker 10 (06:38):
Not at first, when he came to the house at
the beginning, he didn't even mention it. Not at all.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
When did he bring it up?
Speaker 10 (06:44):
Oh? About a week later, came over in the afternoon.
I was out in the yard, and he said he'd
met the people who were important, the ones who could
get the mister out of prison.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Did he say, oh these people were.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
No, just told me he'd met him.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
What happened then?
Speaker 10 (07:02):
On March fourteenth, he told me that it could be
arranged for the mister to get out of jail.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Tell me, did he tell you how this could be done?
Speaker 10 (07:12):
Well? From what he told me, he'd talked to the
right people. That's the way he said it, the right people.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
I see, if.
Speaker 10 (07:19):
He gave him five thousand dollars, the mysterie could be
turned out five thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
Yes, I told him I couldn't give him that much,
that I just didn't have it.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Would the man say when you told him that?
Speaker 10 (07:30):
Ask me how much I could give him? I said,
if I sold a few things, did what I could
to get more money, I might be able to pay
three thousand, five hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And what'd you say about that?
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Say'd be all right, No, no, no. He told me
I'd have to go back and talk to the people,
asked them if it would.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Be enough when'd you see him again?
Speaker 10 (07:52):
Two days he came back.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
What'd he say? Then?
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Told me it'd be okay, the money'd be enough. I
got it to get and.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Gave it to him that same day.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
No, no, it was two days later, on March sixteenth.
That's when I gave him the money.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
I see.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
It's been over a month now and the mister still
hasn't been turned out. I wrote to him, but he
doesn't say anything about coming home. I don't think he
knows anything about it now. I don't want to cause
any trouble. Just want the mister out of prison or else.
I want my money back.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
He told us this man was a policeman.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
In what city?
Speaker 10 (08:26):
I don't understand.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Well, what city did he work in? Or what city
did he say he worked in?
Speaker 10 (08:30):
Here in Los Angeles right here?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Did he show you some identification?
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Oh? Yes, I wouldn't just hand over the money without that.
I saw his badge.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
It look like this one.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
Let me see, yeah, huh m, just like that one,
same thing.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Did he give you a name?
Speaker 10 (08:50):
Yes, he said he was Jim Sorvel, Sergeant Jim Sorvel.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That's so r V E L L. That's right, I'll
check it.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Did you see anything else to identify him? But what
do you mean, well, did he show you any other cards,
anything else?
Speaker 10 (09:06):
You mean it might be a wrong name, that's right.
Oh no, I'm sure about that. I wouldn't just hand
my money over to anybody. I was sure. What do
you mean I saw his driver's license?
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Did he tell you where he worked?
Speaker 10 (09:19):
You mean in what department? That's right, Yes, it's one
of the reasons I believed him because of where he worked. Well,
right here in the city hall.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Well, I continued to talk to missus firewell, Frank put
in a call to personnel. Three minutes later, he called
me out into the hall.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Let me close the door. What do you got, Well,
I checked the personnel records.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
You know.
Speaker 9 (09:45):
What'd you find out?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It looks like she was telling the truth. What there
is a Jim Sarvell City Hall closer than that?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Auto theft Detail.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
We put in a call to Auto Theft Detail and
asked the sergeant James Sarvell, see us right away.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
Well, the victim waited in the squad room.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Frank and I took the officer down to the interrogation room.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
We had sit down.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Jim yeah, thanks. Well, what's it all about?
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Well, it's a rough one, Jim. We hope you got
the answers.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I'll give me a try.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
How long you been a policeman?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Twelve years?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
How long you been working auto that, Jim?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Two years? This time? I worked there before, about five
years ago. Uh huh, Well what's this all about? Anyway?
Speaker 9 (10:33):
You know a woman named Farewell?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, I don't think I do.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
How about a man Henry Farwell? Nah?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I think so. I wait a minute, hm, uh, few
years ago when I was working Burglary, seems we had
a suspect of that nore. Yeah, big guy fallen twice
before the way I remember bad name around.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Time, might be the same one.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
What about him? I already went to the joint a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Well, his wife came in here this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
Say she gave a man thirty five hundred dollars to
get Farewell out of jail. Lawyer, you know, some kind
of a deal.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
This fella said he knew the right people, told her
a little juice that opened the doors for row Man.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Uh, how do I fit into this?
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Well, this guy told her he was a policeman, showed
her id to prove it?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Uh, what name yours? You believe her?
Speaker 9 (11:31):
No, we don't wanna. We figure we get your side
of the story first.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Well, there's nothing to tell you, Friddy. I had no
part in the action. That's the truth.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
I hope it stands out.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's got to. I don't know anything about to deal,
nothing at all. I wouldn't know the woman if she
walked in here right now.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Well, then you don't mind letting her take a look
at you?
Speaker 10 (11:44):
Then?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, I know, bring her in right?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
How'd she happened to pick me?
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Told us the fella that took her gave your.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Name must be a goof up someplace.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
You got your driver's license? Yeah, wanna show him?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Sure? Next line is take it out of your wallet,
isn't he?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
I don't like this any better than you do, Jim. Yeah, yeah,
you got your badge on you?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah? You want that too?
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Well, I don't wanna see it, alright.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Ms Firewell says the suspect showed her a badge, says
it look good.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I don't think it was mine.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Uh yeah, I wanna step inside.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Miss Firewell, Yes, thank you?
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Alright, Miss Farewell. You know this man?
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Yeah, seems I've seen him someplace before. Yes, I'll be.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Careful and look carefully. Do you know where you've seen him?
Speaker 10 (12:56):
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Take your time, be sure, yes, mayor please be sure.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
Here's little shorter. He had a mustache before. But I
can tell, I can tell for sure, what's that He's
the one that took my money.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Missus Farewell was taken down the hall, where she made
a complete report. We continued to interrogate Sergeant James Servell,
but he maintained his innocence. He was suspended from the
police department, penning an investigation by our detail and the
District Attorney's office.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
The week went by. During that time, we talked to
Sauvel's friends and the men he worked with.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
His financial condition was investigated. He owed some money, but
he was not behind in his payments. His bank account
didn't show any large deposits, and from what we could
find out, he was not living beyond his means. If
he was guilty, he hadn't spent any of the money
that he'd taken. We asked the Stat's office to make
a run on Conman, who had used a similar approach.
They came back with a list of eighteen possible suspects.
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We pulled the mugshots from the packages on the men
and we drove out to see missus farewell.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
She showed us into the living room of a very
small house.
Speaker 10 (14:06):
Now, then, what is it this time? He come to
bring my money back? No, ma'am, where am I going
to get it? Seems like a long time. The mister's
still in prison and I haven't got my money.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Man, we'd like you to look at some pictures, if
you would.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
What for we'd like to see if you recognize any
of the men.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Sure, I've got nothing else to do. Let's see him.
Here you are, man, mm hmm, yeah, mmm, yes, sir?
All right, now, looked at the pictures. Now I get
the money? No, man, when do I get it?
Speaker 9 (14:38):
But we haven't able to recover it yet? What we
haven't found it yet?
Speaker 10 (14:41):
What about that man you got saurvel? What about him, ma'am?
Make him tell you where the money is he took it?
Make him tell from.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
What we've been able to find out, he hasn't got it.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Now we get down the cases.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
Huh, what's that?
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Let's lay the cards on the table. I'm getting pretty
mad about it. When I first came to see you.
I wanted the money back, either that or to have
the mister out of prison. Either one. It didn't much
matter which, but I did want one of them.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
Thisss man, I understand.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
Now you've got the man who took the thirty five
hundred dollars, got him in jail, and you tell me
you can't find the money. Is that right, this man?
Speaker 9 (15:16):
That's right?
Speaker 10 (15:17):
You want to know what I think? You want to know?
Speaker 9 (15:19):
What's that?
Speaker 10 (15:20):
I think you're all in it together. That's what I think,
the whole bunch of you're all in the thing together.
You say so, but I think different. Now I'm going
to tell you something, mister Friday. I'm not going to
wait anymore. I want the money back, or I'm going
to the newspapers again. I'll tell them what's happened. They'll
get me some actions free. No, I won't. I've done
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all my waiting already. You think that just because I'm
an old woman, you can push me around while you
just got another thing coming. I want that money, and
I want it right now. And if I don't get it,
you're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
We're doing everything we can to get your money.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Then you better start doing more because I'm not happy
at all. All You copshoul stick together well this time
it's not going to do you any good.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
You don't understand Miss Farewell.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
I think I do, maybe too much. I'll tell you
what I'm going to do. I'll give you just three
days to get that money back, or I'll scream my
head off to the newspapers. You've got the man in jail.
Next thing, you'll be telling me you didn't do it.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
We're not sure he did.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
Uh huh, Well he did. I guess I know. I'm
the one he stole from. He's the man, and I
want to see him in prison.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Tool If he's guilty, that's where it'll go.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
I'm telling you he is. What more do you need?
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Just one more thing? What's that proof? Frank and I
went back to the office and met with Captain Fulton.
We laid out the results of our investigation.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
According to what the victim had told us, we had
the right man in custody, but according to the evidence
we'd found, it was a case of mistaken identity. Two
days later, on Thursday, April twenty eighth, we got a
call from a bartender out on Vermont Avenue. Frank and
I drove out to see him.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
I'd like to see Vince Elkhart, I'm him.
Speaker 11 (16:58):
What do you want, police.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Officer, was Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
Speaker 11 (17:02):
Oh yeah, I want to come back here.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We can talk.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Yep, fine, all right, what you want to see us about?
Speaker 11 (17:12):
I know I'm letting myself in for a lot of trouble.
Anything you guys can do to help me out, I'd
appreciate it, but I ain't ask him for a special treatment.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Well, I suppose you tell us what it is.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
Well, night before last, a couple of kids came in.
They sat at the bar, ordered to drink. Well, they
look kind of young, so I asked to see their id.
Plane it safe, you know, go ahead. Well, they showed
me their driver's licenses. I checked him. Looked all right
to me. So I served him. Yeah, yes, I made
him kind of embarrassed. They only had one and then
shoved off. There was no sooner out of the place.
When this guy came up told me he wanted to talk.
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What about said the two kids are under age? Minus
that I'd served him, and the beef was hu.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Who was he?
Speaker 11 (17:49):
That's why I called you Maybe I was wrong serving
the kids. Maybe I did make a mistake, but I
sure I ain't gonna stand for no shakedown, not a
pennies with this man tried it did He sure told
me if I off, he'd forget what he's saw.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Who is he?
Speaker 11 (18:02):
Cup name of Jim Survell.
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Speaker 8 (19:34):
We got a description of the man who tried to
blackmail Vince Elkhart at match Sergeant Jim Survell, Well, I
continue to talk to Elkhart. Frank put in a call
to the policeman and ask him to come over to
the bar. It took him twelve minutes to get there.
He was brought into the place and confronted by the bartender.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Would you turn around? Sure?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
How's that?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Uh huh? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (19:56):
How about it?
Speaker 11 (19:58):
Hasn't any dog as far as I'm concerned, Well, he's
the wrong man.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
We made arrangements for Vince Elkhart, the bartender, to come
down to the city Hall and go through the mug books.
He was unable to find a picture of the suspect.
We contacted CII up in Sacramento and asked them to
check their files.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Thursday, five thirty pm, we returned to the bar.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
No, come right down to it. I guess I should
have known he wasn't a cop. Should have known it
all along.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Have you seen this fellow before?
Speaker 11 (20:29):
I'm not sure about that. It seems like I might have,
but I can't be sure. We do a pretty good
business in here. A lot of people. He might have
been around, but I can't name a day of time.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Was he with anybody then that he was in here?
Do you remember?
Speaker 11 (20:40):
I don't remember. A matter of fact, I don't even
remember him coming in. Just all of a sudden, after
the kids left, he was at the bar tossing me.
The pitch really sented me to think a carpet pull,
a stunt like that.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
What'd you tell him when he asked you for the payoff.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Set for him to get out of the place, that
if he was going to make a pinch, to go
ahead and do it or else clear out.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Did he leave?
Speaker 11 (20:59):
Yeah, but I didn't give him any choice. Walked out. Hello, Yeah,
that's right, just a minute advance, Yeah, catch the fall
with it?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah, excuse me, yeah, go right in here, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Hello, yeah that's right.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Who oh yeah, I don't know, Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Well it's nice though, Sure I thought about it.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Okay, yeah, goodbye, you guys must live right hum that
was him, the phony cap. Yeah, he'll be right over.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Frank and I took up positions in the back of
the bar. Twenty minutes later, the suspect walked in.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Hi, okay, Hello, don't you give me cokai.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Sure looks like 'em.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Uh sure been cold lately?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Huh yeah, I do much business slow night.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
Here's your drink, Nks, where can we talk? It's all
right here they what about the two guys in the back.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
They won't bother anybody?
Speaker 11 (22:28):
Both guessed.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
M alright, O car, what about it?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You mean the payoff?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
They talk the boys downtown, They say, let you off
the hook for seven fifty.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Your license is worth more in it, and I suppose so.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But I gotta know what I'm buying. Who out these
guys downtown?
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Well, that doesn't come in with. All you gotta do
is dig up the money. How high does the juice go?
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Just then? How far up does the payoff go?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
All the way to the top.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Ain't we had enough?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Right? Yes, sir, you play along with us and you'll
do all all right?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
This is him?
Speaker 9 (23:02):
All right, mister, let's go we you're talking about what
is this?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Police officers? You're under arrest? Oh what suspicion? Grand theft?
Impersonating an officer? And we ought to be able to
figure out a couple more on the way downtown.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Oh, hey, you guys, you're wrong. You made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Sure we have standstill.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
You're gonna be awful sorry about this?
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Sure? I got a lot of friends in town, some
of them pretty high.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
M hm, you mind giving me a names, the numbers.
I want to be sure I got the right dope
on you guys, Tome I get through. You'll both be
working so far out you'll need a passport.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
To get home.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Got it all figured, haven't you?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Front backing in the middle?
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Like reading the story.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Well, I don't know about the first part. Yeah, but
I can tell you how it's going to end.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
The suspect was taken down to the city hall. He
refused to give us his name, and a thorough search
of his person failed to turn up anything to aid
and identifying him. His fingerprints were rolled while we waited
for the results of the jack Frank and I talked
to the suspect in the squad room.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
How long you figure you're gonna be able to keep
this thing up?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
What you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
No?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Come off? What we've got your dead to rights and
you know it news to me. Why don't you tell
us who you are?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I forgot you know?
Speaker 9 (24:07):
A man named Jim Sarvel.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I don't think so.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
According to that bartender you said you were Sorvel.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Well he's got a big mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Look have you ever been arrested? I forgot you better
get your memory back? Why okay, I d smith? Yeah
h wait a minute, toss me that pat nice?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
All right?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Forty six?
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, all right? Fifty two? Okay, all right, thanks a lot.
You better get in touch with those big friends of yours.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
I will when it's necessary.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No time just came up. We got your record bull
name Charles Bobo Keiren a oftener. You've fallen too, license California.
He wants for GTA, he wants for attempted romery. There's
an outstanding on for Eureka and two from out of state,
all three uncharged of extortion. That's why I read the
rest of it.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
How about it?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
You don't have to. I'm in the box.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Where's the badge in the driver's license?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
My place?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Where's that hotel over on Grand?
Speaker 9 (25:17):
Where'd you get the badge?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Bought it? Guy? I know it's one of the old ones.
Mark doesn't no difference.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
How about the license?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Made that up myself?
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Why'd you pick sorvel look like a.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Good dodge a cop who's gonna cause trouble? Why him
tag the cleaning store out in Highland Park one night?
Must be the place where the sorvel does business.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Clerk thought I was him. We got to talking, things
just worked out.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
What about the prison deal? How'd you build that for yourself?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Well? I know a guy up at Q he buddies
up with a prisoner. He gets all the information and
cuts a letter.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Out to me, and I pulled the swindlew how many
times you work the deal?
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Collected three? The last one was an old woman.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
What'd you take?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Thirty five hundred?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Just you and the guy up in the giants at
all Rys?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Yeah, you wanting to make a statement? Sure, all right,
we'll call a snariper.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Look, can you tell me something?
Speaker 9 (25:57):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (25:58):
The two out of state? I should think the extra divevy,
we don't call it. Why would rather do my time
here in California? It's nicer here, Yeah, prettier. That's a
nice Sceneer in California's different.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
Well, I wouldn't worry. You won't see much of it.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
The story you've just heard is true. The names were
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Speaker 3 (26:23):
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Speaker 8 (02:24):
It was Monday, April eighteenth. It was cold in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out of Internal Affairs Division.
My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Fulton. My
name's Friday. I was on my way into the office
at was seven fifty eight am when I got the room,
thirty six squadroom. Marie, Hi, we're keeping you up. There's
(02:45):
a couch down the hall. Maybe you can use that.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah. Remember a couple of months ago Faye was on
that quiz show.
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Yeah, yeah, it seems I heard something about that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, one of the prizes was a dog. You know,
they were going to give us a little putt. Turned
out they were giving away cockers. They're nice dogs and thoroughbreds.
Fan me talked it over and decided we'd rather have
one of those those basset hounds. What are they One
of those dogs with a little short hind legs and
long ears, you know, long faced bassot hounds. MP. See
(03:16):
him in the magazines. You know they got sad eyes,
always look so sad. Yeah, they're hard to get. We
had to wait a while and I got the call Saturday.
Pup was there and went out and picked them up.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
Named him Hector.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah that's it, Hector. Why why? Because the old expression
kind of fit since Hector was a pup. You get it,
Joe Hector, So he's still a pup, old Hector, the pup.
I was up with them all night. He couldn't sleep,
(03:50):
kept whining.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
You still work here, don't you know?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I just stayed up and kind of hummed to him
the company, we're.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Still working here? Oh this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, there's a couple of mug shots over there from
second man.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I'll be glad to get to bed tonight.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Excuse me, yes, ma'am, something do for you.
Speaker 10 (04:12):
Man down room thirty eight Bunco told me to come here, Yes, ma'am,
the better that's his name, said, see you why to
report something?
Speaker 9 (04:19):
All right? Would you like to sit down?
Speaker 10 (04:21):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Well, we do for you.
Speaker 10 (04:26):
I think it's been too long.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
What's that well?
Speaker 10 (04:28):
I paid for it over a month ago. I'm tired
of waiting.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You want to tell us about what you mean?
Speaker 10 (04:32):
Well, Henry should be home, but now it's been over
a month. Who's Henry my husband? Henry Farewell. When I
gave the man the money, said he'd get Henry out
of jail right away. That's what he told me. What
man the man who came to see me, well, yes,
ma'mber who was he? A policeman?
Speaker 9 (04:52):
Eight twelve am. We continued to talk to the woman.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
She identified herself as missus Henry Farewell, and she gave
us the full story.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
One of this man approached just a minute, mister Smith.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
I got it all written down, ma'am, got it right
here in my bed yep here it is March sixth
That's when I met him.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Where was it? Where'd you meet it?
Speaker 10 (05:14):
He come to the house my house, told me wanted
to talk to me about something, said it was important.
I didn't know him. There wasn't any reason he'd have
anything important to talk to me about. But he said
he knew the mister you mean your husband. That's right,
Henry Farrewell. See you in prison, yes, been there for
three and a half years.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
We don't like to ask this miss Farewell, but it's
necessary burglary.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
That's what he was convicted for. Judge told him he'd
go to jail for five years to life.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
M hm, Was this the first time he's been in jail?
Speaker 10 (05:45):
I thought so. First, I thought it was all a mistake.
They was wrong about the mister. Yes, they weren't. Came
out in the trial. Seems he'd done the same thing
before twice before. I didn't know about it when we
got married. Didn't have any idea. The mistress my second husband,
first one died ten years ago. Woman my age gets lonely.
(06:09):
So when mister Firewell asked me to marry him, I
said yes. Then I found out about stealing.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
This man said he knew your husband's that's right.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
Told me they met several years ago. Then he went
on to tell me how the mister could get out.
What do you mean the way he told it, if
you had friends who knew the right people, you could
get out of jail. What's that If the right people
were paid, a man could get out of prison.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And he wanted you to give him some money.
Speaker 10 (06:38):
Not at first, when he came to the house at
the beginning, he didn't even mention it. Not at all.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
When did he bring it up?
Speaker 10 (06:44):
Oh? About a week later, came over in the afternoon.
I was out in the yard, and he said he'd
met the people who were important, the ones who could
get the mister out of prison.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Did he say, oh these people were.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
No, just told me he'd met him.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
What happened then?
Speaker 10 (07:02):
On March fourteenth, he told me that it could be
arranged for the mister to get out of jail.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Tell me, did he tell you how this could be done?
Speaker 10 (07:12):
Well? From what he told me, he'd talked to the
right people. That's the way he said it, the right people.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
I see, if.
Speaker 10 (07:19):
He gave him five thousand dollars, the mysterie could be
turned out five thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
Yes, I told him I couldn't give him that much,
that I just didn't have it.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Would the man say when you told him that?
Speaker 10 (07:30):
Ask me how much I could give him? I said,
if I sold a few things, did what I could
to get more money, I might be able to pay
three thousand, five hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And what'd you say about that?
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Say'd be all right, No, no, no. He told me
I'd have to go back and talk to the people,
asked them if it would.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Be enough when'd you see him again?
Speaker 10 (07:52):
Two days he came back.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
What'd he say? Then?
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Told me it'd be okay, the money'd be enough. I
got it to get and.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Gave it to him that same day.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
No, no, it was two days later, on March sixteenth.
That's when I gave him the money.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
I see.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
It's been over a month now and the mister still
hasn't been turned out. I wrote to him, but he
doesn't say anything about coming home. I don't think he
knows anything about it now. I don't want to cause
any trouble. Just want the mister out of prison or else.
I want my money back.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
He told us this man was a policeman.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
In what city?
Speaker 10 (08:26):
I don't understand.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
Well, what city did he work in? Or what city
did he say he worked in?
Speaker 10 (08:30):
Here in Los Angeles right here?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Did he show you some identification?
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Oh? Yes, I wouldn't just hand over the money without that.
I saw his badge.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
It look like this one.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
Let me see, yeah, huh m, just like that one,
same thing.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Did he give you a name?
Speaker 10 (08:50):
Yes, he said he was Jim Sorvel, Sergeant Jim Sorvel.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That's so r V E L L. That's right, I'll
check it.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Did you see anything else to identify him? But what
do you mean, well, did he show you any other cards,
anything else?
Speaker 10 (09:06):
You mean it might be a wrong name, that's right.
Oh no, I'm sure about that. I wouldn't just hand
my money over to anybody. I was sure. What do
you mean I saw his driver's license?
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Did he tell you where he worked?
Speaker 10 (09:19):
You mean in what department? That's right, Yes, it's one
of the reasons I believed him because of where he worked. Well,
right here in the city hall.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Well, I continued to talk to missus firewell, Frank put
in a call to personnel. Three minutes later, he called
me out into the hall.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Let me close the door. What do you got, Well,
I checked the personnel records.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
You know.
Speaker 9 (09:45):
What'd you find out?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It looks like she was telling the truth. What there
is a Jim Sarvell City Hall closer than that?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Auto theft Detail.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
We put in a call to Auto Theft Detail and
asked the sergeant James Sarvell, see us right away.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
Well, the victim waited in the squad room.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Frank and I took the officer down to the interrogation room.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
We had sit down.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Jim yeah, thanks. Well, what's it all about?
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Well, it's a rough one, Jim. We hope you got
the answers.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I'll give me a try.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
How long you been a policeman?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Twelve years?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
How long you been working auto that, Jim?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Two years? This time? I worked there before, about five
years ago. Uh huh, Well what's this all about? Anyway?
Speaker 9 (10:33):
You know a woman named Farewell?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, I don't think I do.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
How about a man Henry Farwell? Nah?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I think so. I wait a minute, hm, uh, few
years ago when I was working Burglary, seems we had
a suspect of that nore. Yeah, big guy fallen twice
before the way I remember bad name around.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Time, might be the same one.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
What about him? I already went to the joint a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Well, his wife came in here this morning.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (11:03):
Say she gave a man thirty five hundred dollars to
get Farewell out of jail. Lawyer, you know, some kind
of a deal.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
This fella said he knew the right people, told her
a little juice that opened the doors for row Man.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Uh, how do I fit into this?
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Well, this guy told her he was a policeman, showed
her id to prove it?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Uh, what name yours? You believe her?
Speaker 9 (11:31):
No, we don't wanna. We figure we get your side
of the story first.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Well, there's nothing to tell you, Friddy. I had no
part in the action. That's the truth.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
I hope it stands out.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's got to. I don't know anything about to deal,
nothing at all. I wouldn't know the woman if she
walked in here right now.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Well, then you don't mind letting her take a look
at you?
Speaker 10 (11:44):
Then?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, I know, bring her in right?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
How'd she happened to pick me?
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Told us the fella that took her gave your.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Name must be a goof up someplace.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
You got your driver's license? Yeah, wanna show him?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Sure? Next line is take it out of your wallet,
isn't he?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
I don't like this any better than you do, Jim. Yeah, yeah,
you got your badge on you?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah? You want that too?
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Well, I don't wanna see it, alright.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Ms Firewell says the suspect showed her a badge, says
it look good.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I don't think it was mine.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Uh yeah, I wanna step inside.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Miss Firewell, Yes, thank you?
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Alright, Miss Farewell. You know this man?
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Yeah, seems I've seen him someplace before. Yes, I'll be.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Careful and look carefully. Do you know where you've seen him?
Speaker 10 (12:56):
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Take your time, be sure, yes, mayor please be sure.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
Here's little shorter. He had a mustache before. But I
can tell, I can tell for sure, what's that He's
the one that took my money.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Missus Farewell was taken down the hall, where she made
a complete report. We continued to interrogate Sergeant James Servell,
but he maintained his innocence. He was suspended from the
police department, penning an investigation by our detail and the
District Attorney's office.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
The week went by. During that time, we talked to
Sauvel's friends and the men he worked with.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
His financial condition was investigated. He owed some money, but
he was not behind in his payments. His bank account
didn't show any large deposits, and from what we could
find out, he was not living beyond his means. If
he was guilty, he hadn't spent any of the money
that he'd taken. We asked the Stat's office to make
a run on Conman, who had used a similar approach.
They came back with a list of eighteen possible suspects.
(13:56):
We pulled the mugshots from the packages on the men
and we drove out to see missus farewell.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
She showed us into the living room of a very
small house.
Speaker 10 (14:06):
Now, then, what is it this time? He come to
bring my money back? No, ma'am, where am I going
to get it? Seems like a long time. The mister's
still in prison and I haven't got my money.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Man, we'd like you to look at some pictures, if
you would.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
What for we'd like to see if you recognize any
of the men.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Sure, I've got nothing else to do. Let's see him.
Here you are, man, mm hmm, yeah, mmm, yes, sir?
All right, now, looked at the pictures. Now I get
the money? No, man, when do I get it?
Speaker 9 (14:38):
But we haven't able to recover it yet? What we
haven't found it yet?
Speaker 10 (14:41):
What about that man you got saurvel? What about him, ma'am?
Make him tell you where the money is he took it?
Make him tell from.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
What we've been able to find out, he hasn't got it.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Now we get down the cases.
Speaker 11 (14:54):
Huh, what's that?
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Let's lay the cards on the table. I'm getting pretty
mad about it. When I first came to see you.
I wanted the money back, either that or to have
the mister out of prison. Either one. It didn't much
matter which, but I did want one of them.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
Thisss man, I understand.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
Now you've got the man who took the thirty five
hundred dollars, got him in jail, and you tell me
you can't find the money. Is that right, this man?
Speaker 9 (15:16):
That's right?
Speaker 10 (15:17):
You want to know what I think? You want to know?
Speaker 9 (15:19):
What's that?
Speaker 10 (15:20):
I think you're all in it together. That's what I think,
the whole bunch of you're all in the thing together.
You say so, but I think different. Now I'm going
to tell you something, mister Friday. I'm not going to
wait anymore. I want the money back, or I'm going
to the newspapers again. I'll tell them what's happened. They'll
get me some actions free. No, I won't. I've done
(15:40):
all my waiting already. You think that just because I'm
an old woman, you can push me around while you
just got another thing coming. I want that money, and
I want it right now. And if I don't get it,
you're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
We're doing everything we can to get your money.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
Then you better start doing more because I'm not happy
at all. All You copshoul stick together well this time
it's not going to do you any good.
Speaker 9 (16:01):
You don't understand Miss Farewell.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
I think I do, maybe too much. I'll tell you
what I'm going to do. I'll give you just three
days to get that money back, or I'll scream my
head off to the newspapers. You've got the man in jail.
Next thing, you'll be telling me you didn't do it.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
We're not sure he did.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
Uh huh, Well he did. I guess I know. I'm
the one he stole from. He's the man, and I
want to see him in prison.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Tool If he's guilty, that's where it'll go.
Speaker 10 (16:25):
I'm telling you he is. What more do you need?
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Just one more thing? What's that proof? Frank and I
went back to the office and met with Captain Fulton.
We laid out the results of our investigation.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
According to what the victim had told us, we had
the right man in custody, but according to the evidence
we'd found, it was a case of mistaken identity. Two
days later, on Thursday, April twenty eighth, we got a
call from a bartender out on Vermont Avenue. Frank and
I drove out to see him.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
I'd like to see Vince Elkhart, I'm him.
Speaker 11 (16:58):
What do you want, police.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Officer, was Frank Smith. My name is Friday.
Speaker 11 (17:02):
Oh yeah, I want to come back here.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We can talk.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Yep, fine, all right, what you want to see us about?
Speaker 11 (17:12):
I know I'm letting myself in for a lot of trouble.
Anything you guys can do to help me out, I'd
appreciate it, but I ain't ask him for a special treatment.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Well, I suppose you tell us what it is.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
Well, night before last, a couple of kids came in.
They sat at the bar, ordered to drink. Well, they
look kind of young, so I asked to see their id.
Plane it safe, you know, go ahead. Well, they showed
me their driver's licenses. I checked him. Looked all right
to me. So I served him. Yeah, yes, I made
him kind of embarrassed. They only had one and then
shoved off. There was no sooner out of the place.
When this guy came up told me he wanted to talk.
(17:43):
What about said the two kids are under age? Minus
that I'd served him, and the beef was hu.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Who was he?
Speaker 11 (17:49):
That's why I called you Maybe I was wrong serving
the kids. Maybe I did make a mistake, but I
sure I ain't gonna stand for no shakedown, not a
pennies with this man tried it did He sure told
me if I off, he'd forget what he's saw.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Who is he?
Speaker 11 (18:02):
Cup name of Jim Survell.
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Speaker 8 (19:34):
We got a description of the man who tried to
blackmail Vince Elkhart at match Sergeant Jim Survell, Well, I
continue to talk to Elkhart. Frank put in a call
to the policeman and ask him to come over to
the bar. It took him twelve minutes to get there.
He was brought into the place and confronted by the bartender.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Would you turn around? Sure?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
How's that?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Uh huh? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (19:56):
How about it?
Speaker 11 (19:58):
Hasn't any dog as far as I'm concerned, Well, he's
the wrong man.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
We made arrangements for Vince Elkhart, the bartender, to come
down to the city Hall and go through the mug books.
He was unable to find a picture of the suspect.
We contacted CII up in Sacramento and asked them to
check their files.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Thursday, five thirty pm, we returned to the bar.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
No, come right down to it. I guess I should
have known he wasn't a cop. Should have known it
all along.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Have you seen this fellow before?
Speaker 11 (20:29):
I'm not sure about that. It seems like I might have,
but I can't be sure. We do a pretty good
business in here. A lot of people. He might have
been around, but I can't name a day of time.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Was he with anybody then that he was in here?
Do you remember?
Speaker 11 (20:40):
I don't remember. A matter of fact, I don't even
remember him coming in. Just all of a sudden, after
the kids left, he was at the bar tossing me.
The pitch really sented me to think a carpet pull,
a stunt like that.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
What'd you tell him when he asked you for the payoff.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Set for him to get out of the place, that
if he was going to make a pinch, to go
ahead and do it or else clear out.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Did he leave?
Speaker 11 (20:59):
Yeah, but I didn't give him any choice. Walked out. Hello, Yeah,
that's right, just a minute advance, Yeah, catch the fall
with it?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah, excuse me, yeah, go right in here, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Hello, yeah that's right.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Who oh yeah, I don't know, Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Well it's nice though, Sure I thought about it.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Okay, yeah, goodbye, you guys must live right hum that
was him, the phony cap. Yeah, he'll be right over.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Frank and I took up positions in the back of
the bar. Twenty minutes later, the suspect walked in.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Hi, okay, Hello, don't you give me cokai.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Sure looks like 'em.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Uh sure been cold lately?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Huh yeah, I do much business slow night.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
Here's your drink, Nks, where can we talk? It's all
right here they what about the two guys in the back.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
They won't bother anybody?
Speaker 11 (22:28):
Both guessed.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
M alright, O car, what about it?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You mean the payoff?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
They talk the boys downtown, They say, let you off
the hook for seven fifty.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Your license is worth more in it, and I suppose so.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But I gotta know what I'm buying. Who out these
guys downtown?
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Well, that doesn't come in with. All you gotta do
is dig up the money. How high does the juice go?
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Just then? How far up does the payoff go?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
All the way to the top.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Ain't we had enough?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Right? Yes, sir, you play along with us and you'll
do all all right?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
This is him?
Speaker 9 (23:02):
All right, mister, let's go we you're talking about what
is this?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Police officers? You're under arrest? Oh what suspicion? Grand theft?
Impersonating an officer? And we ought to be able to
figure out a couple more on the way downtown.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Oh, hey, you guys, you're wrong. You made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Sure we have standstill.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
You're gonna be awful sorry about this?
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Is that right?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Sure? I got a lot of friends in town, some
of them pretty high.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
M hm, you mind giving me a names, the numbers.
I want to be sure I got the right dope
on you guys, Tome I get through. You'll both be
working so far out you'll need a passport.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
To get home.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Got it all figured, haven't you?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Front backing in the middle?
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Like reading the story.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Well, I don't know about the first part. Yeah, but
I can tell you how it's going to end.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
The suspect was taken down to the city hall. He
refused to give us his name, and a thorough search
of his person failed to turn up anything to aid
and identifying him. His fingerprints were rolled while we waited
for the results of the jack Frank and I talked
to the suspect in the squad room.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
How long you figure you're gonna be able to keep
this thing up?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
What you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
No?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Come off? What we've got your dead to rights and
you know it news to me. Why don't you tell
us who you are?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I forgot you know?
Speaker 9 (24:07):
A man named Jim Sarvel.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I don't think so.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
According to that bartender you said you were Sorvel.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Well he's got a big mouth.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Look have you ever been arrested? I forgot you better
get your memory back? Why okay, I d smith? Yeah
h wait a minute, toss me that pat nice?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
All right?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Forty six?
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, all right? Fifty two? Okay, all right, thanks a lot.
You better get in touch with those big friends of yours.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
I will when it's necessary.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No time just came up. We got your record bull
name Charles Bobo Keiren a oftener. You've fallen too, license California.
He wants for GTA, he wants for attempted romery. There's
an outstanding on for Eureka and two from out of state,
all three uncharged of extortion. That's why I read the
rest of it.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
How about it?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
You don't have to. I'm in the box.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Where's the badge in the driver's license?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
My place?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Where's that hotel over on Grand?
Speaker 9 (25:17):
Where'd you get the badge?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Bought it? Guy? I know it's one of the old ones.
Mark doesn't no difference.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
How about the license?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Made that up myself?
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Why'd you pick sorvel look like a.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Good dodge a cop who's gonna cause trouble? Why him
tag the cleaning store out in Highland Park one night?
Must be the place where the sorvel does business.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Clerk thought I was him. We got to talking, things
just worked out.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
What about the prison deal? How'd you build that for yourself?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Well? I know a guy up at Q he buddies
up with a prisoner. He gets all the information and
cuts a letter.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Out to me, and I pulled the swindlew how many
times you work the deal?
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Collected three? The last one was an old woman.
Speaker 9 (25:48):
What'd you take?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Thirty five hundred?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Just you and the guy up in the giants at
all Rys?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Yeah, you wanting to make a statement? Sure, all right,
we'll call a snariper.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Look, can you tell me something?
Speaker 9 (25:57):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (25:58):
The two out of state? I should think the extra divevy,
we don't call it. Why would rather do my time
here in California? It's nicer here, Yeah, prettier. That's a
nice Sceneer in California's different.
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Well, I wouldn't worry. You won't see much of it.
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The story you've just heard is true. The names were
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