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Okay, that sounds exciting. There may be people involved in an armed robbery. Duke's dispatch broadcast, uh uh 1080, vehicle that Colorado was chasing, they followed it to the state line and then they had to break up, so if they locate the vehicle and it gets. In a chase, we just want to close this as soon as we can. Jared and I will poke him. We will place these spikes. They will simply extend to cross the lane of travel coming here. They take care of these vehicles, hey, they have a flat tire, take it out completely, get in, get in, get in, yes, we have them, we just have to see if once they stop, we'll see if they rescue the vehicle. be abandoned, we have four, looks like four males running north, Duke, he's definitely ready to bite someone, let's do it, clean that car, clean that car, buddy, come here, stop, we'll send the dog, stay close, get in front For me, that's always going to bite. hey, stop, we're sending the dog to Platz, hey, stop right there, I'm going to send the dog, this is your last warning, stop right there, we're putting the dog, let's see your hands, leeks Blood Duke, thanks, good Boy, just use that truck. for the coverage guys, call them one by one right there, that's good, hey, you, at the end, turn around and walk back, calm, calm, calm, calm, hey, just call one at a time we're fine now we're good now that's that's that's that's hey, oh, hey, yeah Evans, go ahead and put your gun away, just worry about the handcuffs, we got them guns, good guy, you did good, yeah, just good, that was exciting, right?

We can do an obvious search with Duke if they were involved. in an armed robbery they may have held the gun until we nailed them, but I couldn't see any gun. Those little aluminum studs are hollow and you can see where the studs have pierced the tire and then air is allowed to escape through the gap. opening up that nail and it was obviously very effective in this situation with all four tires, you know, there's at least 12 nails on that tire alone, there's no stolen property of any kind, okay, there's a lot of stuff. I'll call a wrecker for us at the very least.

They'll probably be considering an escape charge here, that's when you want the dog. I mean, you know, eliminate the threat if they face any charges, if they are involved in the theft of the vehicle or they just had knowledge that the vehicle is stolen. They'll probably just charge them in Colorado, so the reason I stopped you, for a couple of reasons, one is because your lane travels. I was traveling behind you and I know it's a bigger vehicle but you're driving on the white line and I crossed it several times oh yeah this is my first time driving a truck.

I'm practicing driving in a small house. Okay, where do you come from? I come from Las Vegas Las Vegas. Okay, I'm going to check this out. Would you mind coming? behind me to my vehicle so I can get information from you, are you okay with you having family out there or not, okay, you don't have anything illegal in the vehicle today, no, there are no illegal drugs of any kind, no, are you okay yeah? I run the police target around the outside of the vehicle. You absolutely agree that my police dogs are trained to detect the smell of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

It's actually alerting about this on the passenger side of the vehicle and with that window open, um, it's actually trying. to get in through the open window um, there's no marijuana, yeah, personal marijuana, okay, are there large amounts of any drugs in there? A couple of giants, you're not affected in any way right now, are you? I'm a little nervous, okay? You are not drinking, not just hot tea. Well, what I'm going to do is search the RV. Okay, if you only have a couple of joints and if you're not affected, we'll run some tests on you.

I'm not disabled um so I'll probably just write you a ticket okay you know what I have to go to the bathroom can you come with me so I can go? I mean, I've literally had diarrhea like four times on this trip. Just kidding, well, I don't want you to do anything inside my car, so if you need to, if you need to do what you need to do, yeah, I'd really appreciate it. Okay, and the bathroom is there. Well, I'm just making sure there's nothing. weapons here and then you can do whatever you need to do, okay, maybe in a minute here, if I can't figure it out, all this luggage belongs to you, okay, pounds of marijuana right there, so I'll handcuff you.

Okay, for the marijuana, let's go ahead and leave the tea. The reason you are detained is not because of the marijuana for personal use, but because of the large amounts of marijuana in the storage container. Okay, we'll go ahead and head back to the office. look how we can move this investigation forward oh yeah one two three four five zero five nine two sixty six pounds it's kind of eye opening just seeing the amount of drugs that are actually transported on the interstates so where are you coming from? Today, Mr. Phoenix, the reason I stopped you was for a couple of reasons, okay, uh, one initially you're getting too close to another vehicle that was behind you and then when I turned on my lights to stop you and then you entered the parking area. the railing, so I turned off my lights but I stayed behind you.

You're all over the road. I don't really know what happened. Well, can I have you return to my vehicle so I can get information from you? Can I smoke a cigarette? there, um, let's wait until later. Okay, have you ever had a driver's license? You've never had it. Okay, so you come here to see your girlfriend. How long are you going to be up here, just a couple of hours, a couple of hours, then you turn around and come back yeah, why do you have to come back? why do you have to go back? I

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with my fiancé my wife is fine, I would like to search the vehicle to make sure there is nothing illegal there, are you okay with that, are you okay with that here?

Jared wants to smoke, he's alerting all over the place, he's hitting some areas and then he moves like you can't find the source of the smell, he says there's heroin in the car, but we probably won't find it, yeah, he says there's a half gram maybe half a gram of heroin in there, he's saying there's half a gram of heroin in there, but I'm guessing there's more based on his story. Hey, we're going to have to stay tuned. He said he swallowed it when you were stopping him. Okay, she's saying you swallowed half a gram. Yes, can you make it go back up?

No, I would like you to try, I just want you to know, how much do you do, how much do you do? what you normally use was just a little bit, probably not even half a gram a day, the guy says he ate a little heroin because it stops him, so we have a doctor coming here. You're saying someone ate amazing heroin, so we just want to clear it up? We don't know what the gel will do, we often find narcotics hidden in spare tires, so we'll just do an echo test to see if we get an echo.

Oh yeah, there's no echo, so probably one, two, three, four, five pounds, we just don't know. If it's heroin or meth, I guess if you release him, they'll take him okay, so those are vital signs, look, yeah, we just finished this traffic stop. We turn to the head of the prison. Now, this is heroin, it actually has like a sign. identifiers on it 27 ounces I guess it came directly from Mexico approximately seven hundred thousand dollars street value uh we have one of our police officers on a traffic stop on I-80 it's a drug trafficking case how many occupants just one and a dog and a dog and a dog back here on the curve he left his lane into the right lane first he said he's going home for the holidays he says he went to Denver to see family and then to Seattle to see family he's well he said he got there Friday or Saturday the car was rented Friday in Indiana uh I confronted him about that then he said he lied that's not where he went he said he went to California and came to find out he was transporting drugs you have about 50 pounds of marijuana, each package is about it's about a pound, we call it a suicide load because it's just suicide because they don't even try to hide it so they just put it in a trunk like that and they just put it in a duffel bag like that , so every pound in California we I'm thinking 1500 a pound to buy it and then on the street I'm thinking they'll probably double the profits.

You're thinking about selling it for about 3000 a pound, so right now we're going to be doing This, we're going to take all this marijuana into evidence. We will also take the suspect to our investigation office, where he will be interviewed by some of our detectives who come to pick up Animal Control. We get the dogs ready to take him and hopefully he can get someone to come get the dog because he's going to be in jail for a while. We will come here to interview the suspect and We will also book the evidence here uh give me your last name birthday is it okay if I talk to you now?

I'll ask you some questions no, I'm not talking about praying, okay, he requested a lawyer, so I won't be able to talk to him, he even told him happy birthday, he did. Did you hear that? Well, today is his birthday. Who was driving drugs on his birthday? I mean, that's pretty crazy. I'm pretty sure he's working on getting someone to be my guest. in Indiana, who gave you some money from here, go to California and get this, bring it here and I'll pay x amount per pound, which is probably what's happening. I don't think he's not a great pen dealer by any means.

It's probably one of the fuels, what I'm going to do is confiscate both phones. Okay, I'll apply for a search warrant to download these phones and collect information about the questions. Okay, the charges for now will be. a third degree felony is more than a pound less than a hundred pounds, so we're talking about five years in prison. One of the things I enjoy doing is looking for people transporting large quantities of narcotics, so we're going to stop this vehicle for speeding and a signal violation. How are you doing today? Guess his license please, I don't have my license, I have my ID, okay old driver's license, is this your vehicle?

Yes, Reynold, did you? rent it no, his friend did it, so why did she ask her friend to rent the vehicle? Because we don't have a license. Did you have suspended licenses? Let me ask you to turn off the car and then maybe get out of the vehicle, okay? Do you have any weapons? No sir, I can see his waist. Of course, turn around. Do you mind if she feels it? Simply place your hands behind your back, so make sure you don't have any weapons in your pockets. Okay, actually, yeah, come on. here always here I had something illegal in this car not today, illegal drugs, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, large amounts of money, no, weapons, robbery tools, okay, do you have anything illegal with you?, nothing in your pockets, nothing there.

If I just see your waist just make sure you don't have any okay, okay, let me get you up there, maybe 40 or 50 feet away, this is my k-9 partner, Duke, come on, let's go on his own. comes into the vehicle that's yours, a narcotic odor alert, so let's go ahead and look, there's a piece of meth right there, let's go ahead and, uh, I'm sure there's more, but let's go ahead and just handcuff her I'll handcuff him, it's your cigarette butt, yeah, pick it up, put it in your pocket, okay, okay, yeah, move your face away from me, spread your legs, go ahead and put your hands behind your back for me, it's well, just no.

You're not moving, okay, so the reason you're handcuffed is just because of the meth that was on the door, it's not salt, it's salt or something, well we'll try it, but right now it looks like the meth started the dead passenger seat in the bag, look, that's where the dog was going, probably about a pound of mess right there, that's a good find, Nick, hey Steve, I think there's stuff inside this front seat, I They removed and then cut the upholstery. then you can see the vacuum sealed packages again, it's hard to see, but they cut that upholstery and just pushed the packages up, it's about nine pounds of meth, we're going to go ahead and collect all the receipts, any kind of pocket trash that You can tell our investigators where they're coming from, where they're going, there may be evidence on phones or receipts that shows they've made multiple trips from wherever they're coming from, you know if it's outside of San Diego. or southern california l.a you