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Nightwatch 54-04-05 (01) Nude Prowler
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Don Reed
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Sergeant Perkins
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Don Reed
Someday I will call upon you to do a service for me. Play the Godfather now. A champacasino. Com welcome to the family. No purchase necessary. VGW Group voidware prohibited by law. 21 plus, terms and conditions apply. 54 in service. Starting mileage 6428. 64. 28. Detectives Perkins and Walter. Police Recorder Don Reed, Central District Patrol. Tour of duty, 6pm to 2am on the night watch. District 6:04pm starting night watch. This is Don Reeve. I'm a police recorder. The sounds you are listening to are real. This is a police car reporting in service for night duty. You will actually ride with this detective unit and follow the activities of the police officers in this car. You will watch and listen with me as the cases unfold. And as you listen, remember, the people you hear are not actors and all the voices and sounds are authentic. For this is Night Watch. Night Watch for the first time through the medium of network radio, the actual on the scene report of your police force in action. There are no actors. There is no script. The investigations are recorded as they actually occur. Night Watch presented with the cooperation of the police department of Culver City, California. W.N. hildebrand. Chief, we switch you to car 54, now on patrol and to Police recorder Don Reed. Just checking our log. At 6:31pm this date, we took a stolen car report and arranged transportation home for the victim. 7:32pm Assisted West Los Angeles police at the scene of a traffic accident. Cleared 8:22pm it might be interesting to note units in the vicinity at 2091 Hazleton. That's 2091 Hazleton. A 459 there now. Unit 54, handle the call. Code 2 54. Roger. We're rolling. Well, there's our call and a report of 459. That means a burglar. A burglar is in the house and has been cited by some citizen or perhaps even the victim. We don't know. We have no further information on it and we're taking off and moving as rapidly as conditions. Now, code two, which we are running is means we just have our red light on. We're not using a siren for quite obvious reasons. We don't want to Tip off our presence. Now one thing in particular that I can feel as we're running in here on these last few seconds. I can feel the tension that has suddenly come over the car. I know I, I personally feel it. A moment ago we were cruising along, the conversation was casual and suddenly comes this call, a burglar, which in terminology of the police department of course is a 4, 5, 9. We're area now where the burglar has been reported. We've traveled perhaps I'd say two and a half to three miles since our call was originally received. Our car is now watching for the street. We'll turn off to the right when it happens. And as a matter of fact, this is it I believe up ahead our red light has been turned off. Now we're in second gear, slowing down. No, apparently this is. Yes it is too. This is the street and now our car lights have gone off. We're driving completely in the dark. The officers are watching both sides of the sidewalk to see if we can see any person at all of suspicious nature and does parents leave the house right off to the right I notice the officers observing and we're coming in now, moving out as quietly as possible. The officers are getting out of the car and we'll be right along behind them going up the walk. As I'm talking up on the front porch, there's a gentleman who is motioning the officers into the house. Let's move right on in. Standing across from me in the bedroom door is a middle aged woman clutching a bathrobe to her throat and appears to be in a very highly nervous condition. The officers are questioning her about the prowler. Let's move right on over whoever he was.
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Sergeant Perkins
And I went into the bathroom and he was in this room and I thought it was my daughter and I was in the bathroom and he walked right in the bathroom and I went to go out and he gave me a shove and I started screaming naturally. Then my husband ran out of here and my daughter just came in, see. And he was gone by the time she came back in.
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Don Reed
Could you tell me what did you look like, ma'am?
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Sergeant Perkins
He was taller than you was because he punched me and he had a white shirt on and a tie.
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Don Reed
Was he young man? Old?
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Sergeant Perkins
Yes, he was a younger man and when he went to tell me I screamed and he wasn't going to let me out of the bathroom, you know. And whenever, as soon as he put me then I, I noticed he had gray trousers and a white shirt and a tie and he was he was.
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Don Reed
Taller than you are.
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Sergeant Perkins
He must have came in this room first and dropped his coat. I don't know whether he knew these houses or whether he mixed them up. They don't get that.
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Don Reed
We found a. A coat. The officers discovered a coat with a name in it. Unquestionably, I'm moving out of the house now as I'm speaking. And that was the mother. You heard the description of it. I'm moving away now. And unquestionably we will go on an investigation and determine just who what this man is. The officers now are checking to see if he is still in the neighborhood. Right now we'll move back to our car here in our police car again. And I've just been informed by one of the officers that while we were in the house on this investigation, Control one has received a second prowler call just a couple of blocks from here. As a matter of fact, another car has been dispatched to that location at 2036 Evergreen. They're holding a prowler there now. Five, four, this may be your four, five, nine. Suspect wanted on your present call Fire corps. Roger. Well, this. This very possibly is a tie in somewhere on that case. Where is that, sergeant? It's right down at the end of this block, Don. I think it's the house there with a light on it right at the corner. Right, check. We're coming to a stop now and sliding in. Our lights are out. We're skidding into a stop. And now let's get out with the officers and determine exactly what's happening. This very possibly. He's right in there, officer. Okay, thanks. Following the officers on into the house now as we're going in into the main room. And this very possibly may be the suspect that we're. We're looking for. He is in the bedroom, or rather the bathroom of a private home. The officers are in with him and he is standing in the nude at the present time. The officers have called for a blanket. He's putting. Putting up quite a fight about this whole thing. And I'll see if I can move in there. I can't quite get near enough to him now to pick up his voice because I said the man in this case, a suspect is completely nude and they are throwing a blanket around him. All right, fella, you've been placed under arrest. Let's go. While the prisoner is being escorted out of the house and I'm tagging along behind now, as. As I'm speaking, he is handcuffed with just a blanket pulled up around it. Outside of the door now. The prisoner is being placed in the back seat of unit 5O with an officer guarding him. Well, that means for us. Next stop, police headquarters. It's 10:05pm and I'm standing here at the booking desk in the Culver City police station. The suspect was positively identified by two of the victims a few moments ago. The suspect is being brought out of the detention room now. You probably can hear the cell door open and two of the officers are directing the prisoner toward the booking desk. And incidentally, he is still handcuffed and his only clothing is that blanket pulled around him. Sergeant Perkins is about to book the prisoner. What happened tonight? What happened tonight? Yeah. How'd you get involved? Chapter. His name is Murphy. Your sergeant's name is. I don't know what had the two together. And you have how I got involved. How'd you get in that house down there? The house belonged to me, Sergeant. How about the other two houses? They too belong to me, sergeant. You own property, dude? Indeed I do. Where are your trousers? Officer, may I ask you a question? Have you ever in your house, this is your own individual house. Ever gone to the bathroom without your trousers on? Sure. In my own house. Right. That house in which this particular officer and officer.
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Sergeant Perkins
Sergeant, there are about five or six.
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Don Reed
Properties in the city of Santa Monica that I own. This is the city of Culver City, not city of Santa Monica. And these people are signing complaints against you at.
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Sergeant Perkins
Is that correct?
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Don Reed
Right. Okay. And I suggest that you check with the people themselves. Well, here is your property, Snip. What property you don't have. You're being booked on suspicion of 459, which is burglary and attempt assault. Right. I say I am fully aware of that. Okay. I'm gonna take his handcuffs off. You can put him on. Dragon. Would I be going through for to ask for Parchah? We don't have any. We're buddies. Are going to try to get some for you. Just say please. May I finish talking about it? Okay. Would you do me one favor? What's that? Call district or the District Attorney. No, not directly. I'm sure you wait till Monday morning then. No, I. No, I don't have to tell either. I think perhaps you better call him out. May I say one thing? I asked you. I made a request. May I have a call on Monday morning?
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Sergeant Perkins
I have.
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Don Reed
Wait a minute. Before you go any further, I have committed no crimes. Remember this. I have asked for request college of attorney and you have said no. Right. That's all. Thank You. Well, you're demoted. Monday morning, come see me. We have moved over here to the night watch commander's office where he and Sergeant Perkins have been conferring on the many reports necessary in this case. I. I think we're about ready to clear. Right, Sergeant? In just a minute, Don. By the way, you might be interested in one or two other developments that have occurred. Really? A friend of the suspect came to the station a short while ago and brought some clothes for the prisoner. And incidentally volunteered the information that the suspect did not to his knowledge own any of the property he claimed he did during our interrogation. I see. And by the way, he also stated the prisoner had been a guest of honor at a stag party given earlier this evening. Really? Yeah. He was scheduled to be married tomorrow. You are listening to Night Watch for the first time through the medium of network radio. The on the scene activities of a detective unit on their tour of duty. The people are not actors and the voices and sounds are.
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Sergeant Perkins
Hello?
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Don Reed
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Sergeant Perkins
I went around and turned all my lights on like I do to try to keep Bibbs carried away. And I put my kittens to bed early because I have to take him to the garage. I got them in and locked the door and got in. So then naturally, I don't figure to get out no more. I'm afraid to even go out in my yard. And I was going to take a bath and something, I don't know, I just felt afraid to even strip off because I never know when he's going to be at the door, you know. And I just seemed to have that feeling. So I decided, well, I'll soak my feet and then I'll take my bath and shampoo my hair in the morning. So I went on out to go in the kitchen to fix some coffee because I always drink coffee again after dinner. And I'm in there and I had this light right in that patio there by the kitchen. And all of a sudden the light went off. You just turn it like that. But I could see and Clara, you know, just right there in my face and began to threaten me. And he says, I told you I was going to get you, and I've come to get you tonight. I've come to kill you tonight. And I made the remark. Then I said, you know, I got a gun, too. So I said I wouldn't talk like that. And I figured maybe he got afraid and he went up to walk and started up the street. And then he had his car that time, and he sat there for quite a while. I opened the front door, the screen door was hooked. And I opened the front door and stood there. I'd say, he sit there a good 10 minutes or seen that long or more. And then he come to this other window.
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Don Reed
This is the window on the driveway. In the bedroom?
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Sergeant Perkins
Yes, he came to that one.
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Don Reed
Where were you at that time?
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Sergeant Perkins
I was in my room, had already stripped off, and I was sitting on my bed, that is, in the Confed room. I thought, well, I got to go in there and see if I can get him going again. And I went in and I talked to him and he said, I'm coming in after you. And he had the screen either off or pulled out at that time, even when I went in, you know, in other words, he was clear to me through that hole. And so I kept talking to him and he said he wasn't leaving, he was coming in. And I said, I've got a gun here. And I even showed it, held it right out in front of me.
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Don Reed
Where was the gun at that time?
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Sergeant Perkins
It was laying right there on that dresser, right by the window. I said, see, I've got a gun in my hand. I said, if you try to come in, I'll shoot. He said, go ahead and shoot, he says. You rather get together. You wouldn't do it or something. I don't know the words he said. He said, anyway, I'm coming in after you. And he kept on coming.
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Don Reed
He started coming to the window.
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Sergeant Perkins
Then that's when he started to make his lunch in. And I pulled the trigger and then he started cursing me.
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Don Reed
And how far away were you from him at the time that you fired him?
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Sergeant Perkins
Well, I couldn't have been very far because I was up right up there talking, you know, I'm standing there by the dresser.
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Don Reed
How many feet were you from him?
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Sergeant Perkins
I couldn't say. The wonder say like that. And the dresser about three feet away couldn't have been any farther than that. I don't think I just reached here and the window there. And I'm standing there as I said, I held it and I said, I showed him the guy. And.
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Don Reed
Well, after you fired, what did he do then? Did he.
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Sergeant Perkins
He started cursing me. And then he takes off up the drive to the front door.
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Don Reed
Then what happened?
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Sergeant Perkins
Well, I come from when I heard him do that, I didn't even know I'd hit him. So I come through and I laid the gun pier where they've picked it up. And I walked up to watch because I've got a double knock on the door. And he'd have a pretty hard time getting in the door. I come up and the porch light was on, and I looked and he Was at the door. But just about the time I got there, he just went back like that.
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Don Reed
He fell back. Did. He fell back and he collapsed on the front right there.
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Sergeant Perkins
And I must have hit him because.
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Don Reed
He fell and then. Did you call the police after that? Yes, and the radio car came. Said it. Okay, fine. Thank you very much. It's 1:45am and we're back here in the office of Lt. Conlon, where he's been studying the statements given by the two witnesses that Sergeant Perkins interviewed a short while ago. Well, does that wrap up the case, Lieutenant? Yeah, Don, that's about it. Sometimes a police investigation may point up a person's guilt or clear them of any connection with a crime. Or still, again, as in this case, may tend to show the suspect's action to be justified. Well, with that, it just means completing formal reports and submitting them to the district attorney for action. From then on, it's up to the courts. Ladies and gentlemen, Police Chief W.N. hildebrand. In the case of the Prowler Tonight. He was subsequently booked for violation 459 of the penal code, which is burglary. And section 240 of the penal code, assault. The penalty of which is one to 15 years in the state prison for burglary. Or up to six months in the county jail for assault. In the case of the homicide and involving the woman who shot the man as he attempted to break into her home, the Detective Bureau under Lieutenant Bob Conlon submitted their reports and testimony to the Los Angeles County Coroner. At the inquest, where a verdict of justifiable homicide was rendered. In turn, the suspect was released from custody. Over 100,000 people come through our city each week, making our city one of the most heavily populated in the state of California. My department is cooperating in bringing you the activities of the Night Watch. In the interest of public security, no police department can be effective without the combined efforts of the citizens and the realization of the problems encountered by their officers. If through this program, our department can further that cause, then our efforts will be well rewarded in bringing you the Night Watch. Thank you. Chief Hildebrand. You have just heard, through the medium of network radio on the scene, reports of your police force in action. Every voice, every sound has been real. Night Watch is brought to you through the cooperation of the Police Department of Culver City, California, and is produced by Sterling Tracy and Jim Headlock, with technical advice by Police Sergeant Ron Perkins, and is described in the field by Police Recorder don Reed. It's 2:30am and we're just pulling into the police garage. Well, that about wraps it up, huh Sergeant? Yeah, except for making out the log. 01 to 5 4. Are you clear? Excuse me a minute. Don 54 Roger. Clear and reporting out of service. Check 54 2:31am End of night watch. Hello, it is Ryan and I was on a flight the other day playing one of my favorite social spin slot games on chumbacasino.com I looked over the person sitting next to me and you know what they were doing? They were also playing Chumba Casino. Coincidence? I think not. Everybody's loving having fun with it. Chumba Casino's home to hundreds of casino style games that you can play for free anytime, anywhere, even at 30, 000ft. So sign up now@shambacasino.com to claim your free welcome bonus. That's chumbacasino.com and live the Chumba life. No purchase necessary loss 18 plus.