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Welcome to Crazy Cop Stories. JoinDoctor Carlos says he shares crazy cop stories.
Let's get started. Well, it'sa whole new year and we're going
to restart this podcast up. Andwe started getting a lot of listeners downloading
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the podcast. We hadn't realized thatbecause we kind of took a break for
about a year. So we're backnow, so hopefully we'll be able to
provide you I don't know if wecan provide you daily, but hopefully weekly
crime. I'm not going to putany fixed amount per week. I don't
want to waste you with the uselesspodcasts. So if we see a story,
it may be one, two,three episodes in a week. It
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could be one episode, could bethree, just depending on how many crazy
dumb stories we see about criminals outthere. So again you'll be I would
recommend that you put subscribe to it, get alerted. That way, when
a story pops up, you'll knowand you won't miss it, and you'll
hear with some of the dumb thingsthat people do, at least criminals do.
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If Florida man wanted by the copstry to throw him off his trail
by placing a big sign outside hishouse. That's right, the sign said,
Johnny Yates does not live here.To his surprise, it didn't work.
Yea's forty one. It was wantedby the Pope County Shriff's office.
I'm sure we're gonna get a lotof stories from Pope County on aggravated battery,
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false imprisonment, and then tampering charges. Was eventually locked up. Deputy
showed up at yates lakeland Land homeat around two forty five after getting a
tip that he was holed up inside. When the deputies arrived, they notice
a note written on a dry eraseboard in front of a window. Johnny
Yates does not live here. Thepost said, Gee, a dry eraseboard
never lied to us before? Shouldwe believe it? But he's asked the
deputy's question someone leaving the house whoconfirmed that Yates was inside. But after
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surrounding the house for an hour andcalling for the fugitive to come out,
the cops had to take it tothe next level was enough. When the
surrender smoke was dispensed, deputies calledout some more, but still no response,
So the second helping of surrender smokewas dispensed, yet still no response
was it true that he wasn't there. Finally, the deputies and the canine
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entered the house and he was hidingin a modified chest of drawers. Johnny
was arrested and taken to jail.He was not arrested for perjury in this case.