Nightwatch: Undercover Stolen Goods Sting Comes to Emotional End | A&E

[man] We're headed back to that location. You're on E-main. Oh... -[Robb] Dog it, I hate that. -[radio beeps] Disregard. [laughs] Wait, wait, wait! That's why I hate scanning. They're gonna type me a message. All the dispatchers are like, "Hi!" That is pretty funny. You're getting old. I guess you guys heard me on E-main. [man on radio]<i> Uh...</i> [Bethany laughs] [man on radio] [Robb] Hey, come over to Cruis-A-Cade real quick. We're gonna hit this warrant. [Bethany] Where are we going? To meet... Jake and Dave have a warrant for a burglary suspect. <i> We've been working undercover for several weeks</i> trying to get a burglary suspect to sell us some stolen items <i> on OfferUp.</i> <i> But the sale kept falling through.</i> [officer] All right, guys, that burglary where we're trying to do the deal and buy the stolen stuff from OfferUp? Yeah. The stuff that was stolen was a couple TVs and a guitar, was actually pawned at the pawnshop on Kennedy. [Bethany]<i> The suspect made a big mistake</i> <i> because all the pawnshops</i> <i> are required to get a name and address</i> <i> for everyone they deal with.</i> [David] The guy that pawned it, they issued a warrant for him for the burglary and grand theft. We're gonna go there and try to pick him up on that warrant. He has a carry and conceal firearm charge. It's also in there as being a registered known gang member. We can't say definitively, but he does match the description of somebody -in the surveillance video. -Gotcha. [David] So we'll ride by there, try to grab this guy real quick. [Robb]<i> We're responding to the suspect's house.</i> We want to catch him off guard. <i> We want to be ready just in case</i> <i> he does anything stupid.</i> [man on radio] I'm not sure which one it's gonna be. This place is like a... maze. Uh, probably all the way down, huh? [Bethany]<i> As we pull up to the apartment complex,</i> <i> we're trying to find his building,</i> but it's pretty difficult because of the way the apartments are set up. None of these make sense. I have no idea. [Robb] Or they might have the address wrong. Does anybody else know this place better? I'm gonna just go in the first building. [car door opens] [woman] [Robb]<i> We're looking around in the apartment complex,</i> <i> and a young lady asked who we were looking for.</i> I don't take her up on it 'cause I don't want word to get out that we are looking for this guy. [officer on radio] [Bethany] No. This is the most complicated little place I've ever been in. How the heck... [man on radio] [Robb] Oh, jeez. <i> As we're heading to the right building,</i> <i>this lady tells me that her son really likes the police,</i> <i> which is something we don't hear very often.</i> How old are you, buddy? [boy] Five? [woman] What's he play? [woman] [Robb] You gonna run the ball? [Robb] You fast? Hey, I want to give you this for being good and for playing football. [woman] Oh! [Robb]<i> I gave him one of the junior police badges</i> because he really likes the police, <i> and I wanted him to feel important.</i> Put that on your shirt when you get home. All right, buddy, I'm counting on you, okay? All right. <i> I always try to spend time with the kids</i> 'cause I want 'em to see us as good examples. [indistinct radio chatter] [Robb] Is there any lights on? <i> We find the right apartment and I go around</i> and peek into the window to see if I can see the subject. Someone's on the couch. Knock on the door. [knocking] -[radio beeps] -[Robb] Knock on it again. [knocking] [Robb] [David] We're gonna kick the door in if you don't open it. It's the police. Open the door! I see you right there. You got three seconds to open or we're gonna kick it. One! We're gonna kick it! [suspenseful music plays] [suspect] [Robb] You were online selling a bunch of stolen stuff, and then you went to the pawnbroker and you sold some stuff that were stolen that you took in a burglary which came back on your DNA. [suspect] [officer] [suspect] [suspect] [woman] [Robb] But this is who we were looking for. <i>As we're arresting the suspect,</i> the lady and the son we were talking to earlier that we gave the badge to come walking up to us. [Bethany] That's your sister? [Robb]<i> It is hard to arrest people in front of family.</i> Let me talk to you real quick. Come here. <i> I take the suspect's sister and her children</i> <i> into the apartment</i> <i> because I want to explain to them</i> what's going on in private, and I don't want the little boy to see his uncle getting arrested. He either did a burglary, or he pawned the stuff from the burglary. And the detectives want to talk to him. I'm the officer that's in charge of coming and getting him when they get probable cause to arrest him. [woman] [Robb]<i> I don't think there was any hard feelings.</i> She knew even though we had to arrest her brother, really we're just there to do our job. He wants to be on the force. [Robb] Remember what you said. Be good for your mom and play hard. You promised, right? We'll see you later. [suspect] [Bethany] You can start thinking if whoever you bought those things from is gonna help you in the long run. [suspect] [Bethany] Usually if somebody sells something for way less than what it's worth, what can you assume? It's stolen. <i> The suspect is being booked on two felonies.</i> He could be facing some serious time for that. <i> Hopefully this will serve as a wake-up call</i> <i> so he can be a better role model for that little boy.</i> [Robb] The little kid was really nice. I worry about him because if you're raised in this environment and no one breaks the cycle, they see that their mother and fathers, their older brothers and sisters and they're out stealing and that's the only thing they know. It doesn't seem wrong. And I've seen it for 21 years.

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Length: 6min 13sec (373 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 13 2024