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Real Life Real Crime | The Life of a Police Officer: Stories from the Field
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Americans love using their credit cards the most secure and hassle free way to pay. But D.C. politicians want to change that with the Durbin Marshall credit card bill. This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed, allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards. Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price. Tell Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose.
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Learn more@guardyourcard.com hey everybody and welcome to.
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Real Life, Real Crime the Podcast and I am Cindy Overton. Woody asked me to do a pickup today Intro for today's podcast we got hung up on a few things Woody wasn't able to record this week. So thankfully Mr. P.T.
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Allen has sent me a few more stories for instances like this and I.
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Am going to share one of his stories. So y' all enjoy and happy Saturday.
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Good afternoon and welcome to sunny South Georgia. I am not Woody Overton. I'm PT Allen and I'm going to record this today just in case Ms. Cindy and and Trooper Woody need a day off. I thought I'd go ahead and record this, get it done with. However, be patient with me. This is the weekend of the air show in South Georgia and I am directly in the flight line of the air show, which means the United States Navy Blue angels in their FA18 Super Hornets might be passing directly over me at any moment. So when I hear them coming, I'm gonna have to pause. Bear with me and all of you out there. Please continue to pray for the Overton family. Grief. Grief is is complex. I know everything you read says there's five stages to grief, but in those five stages there is not a timeline. Grief does not have a calendar. It does not have a limit. You don't punch a clock. Please continue to pray for the family and let them work this out in their own time. I know this because I lost a daughter a few years ago. Many times I have heard Mr. Woody described frequent flyers and those of you who've never worked in law enforcement, you might not realize exactly what a frequent flyer was or is that somebody who gets arrested for committing a crime most office often in a officer's presence and I had one heck of a frequent flyer in my law enforcement career. As I told you, I started with a small police department and got recruited recruited away for a lot more money by the sheriff's office and I don't know of anybody in in the economy we had back then who could survive simply on the salary paid To a law enforcement officer, I certainly couldn't. I had not gained custody, custody of my daughters yet. And back in those days, in the early 90s, $862 a month child support was a lot of money. So I worked a part time job. I've told you, back in those days, I was considered a pretty competent gunsmith. And in all honesty, I made more money by accident as a gunsmith than I ever made in law enforcement. So I would work my, my 12 hour shifts, pretty much three or four days a week. We had those rotating three on, four off shifts. And the rest of the time I would work as a gunsmith. The local bait and tackle shop, which also sold firearms, set me up a workbench behind a little wall back in the rear of the shop so I could work on firearms. They did not charge me any rent. They allowed me to work there with free electricity because of the amount of business that I brought into their shop. If somebody's coming in to see me, they're also going to buy ammunition, slings, optics, scopes, all manner of accessories. So it worked out well for the both of us. So I'd been a law enforcement officer for several years and one afternoon I'm back there working on a firearm. And the guy who was the counterman running the store that day, I'm going to call him Mr. Jerry, a decorated United States Marine Corps veteran from Vietnam, served two tours, and just one of the greatest people you'll ever meet in your life. He was working the counter and in comes this woman. Of course, my attention is focused on the firearm that I'm working on customizing. It was a gentleman who had an accuracy problem. He wasn't hitting what he was pointing at with his rifle. And, and that was kind of my specialty. I really enjoyed that. So I've got my attention focused on the firearm and, and I hear this woman say, I want to buy a fishing license. And Mr. Jerry says, do you have your identification? And she replies, no. Correction, she Jerry says, do you have your driver's license? And she replies, I don't have a driver's license. Well, that's some kind of identification is required. So jury says, do you have a state issued identification card? She says, no. And I recognize her voice. I recognize her as what Woody calls a frequent flyer in quotation marks. And I'm going to use her real first and middle name. It was mary Alice. And Mr. Jerry asked, Mary Alice, do you know your Social Security number by heart? And she says no. And that's when it occurs to Me, I spoke up and I raised up above the work I was doing, And I said 25455 and gave Mr. Jerry the remainder of Mary Alice's Social Security number. And if you're wondering, I'm not using her last name because that's kind of like the movie Beetlejuice. If you say the name three times, that demon is going to appear. I had arrested her for drug offenses, burglary, theft, prostitution. As difficult as that was to imagine. Can't see her having a whole lot of customers waiting in line. And that is what a frequent flyer truly is. If the cop that is has arrested you a bunch of times, has memorized your Social Security number, having typed out that report repeatedly, you know you're a frequent flyer. And she got her fishing license and she went fishing that day. Everything ended well. So that's what Mr. Woody means by a frequent flyer. Later, keep in mind, I'd worked for a police department for five years, sheriff's office for five years, then got recruited to our state patrol. And in my early days I was working a whole lot of traffic. I hadn't been recognized as being a good instructor yet, hadn't been recognized as being a good investigator. So I pretty much had basic state trooper duties working traffic on the highways, an investigation now and then, and not any of what I considered was the fun stuff. So one afternoon I'm out on a interstate highway, two lanes in either direction, four lane highway divided by a median, and I was at my favorite place to work. It was on interstate number 20 at mile marker 160. I absolutely loved that place. You never knew what you were going to find. I had about 2200 yards as vehicles came around a corner. And in Georgia the limit is 500ft where they could see you. I had 2,200 or 2,500 yards where they could see me before I saw them. And I was operating laser speed detection. The reason that this was a great place is not so much the speed that put people's lives and property in danger, but you never knew what you were going to find. I ran across rolling domestics where the male driver was punching his wife in the face as they went down the highway. I found rolling meth labs, which these guys are cooking meth in a white Ford panel van going down the interstate, taking it to Augusta, Georgia to sell for profit. I found a lot of weed, which, hey, if you got less than an ounce on you, I don't care. That is your personal stash. Dump it out on the roadway, kick it into the dirt and you're free to go. But if you got 58 pounds, yeah, that's for sale and that's going to kids, school children, people that don't have any business getting that weed. So I really had a lot of fun there. I really enjoyed it and enjoyed enforcing the law there. I enjoyed it so much at one point my fellow officers remember, if you've not heard my police brutality recording where I tell about how cruel we were to each other, that might be one to go back and listen to. My fellow officers hung a cardboard sign 2ft by 3ft on the opposite side of the bridge. In huge black letters on this cardboard sign PT's perch. So people would know who was going to lock them up as they came around the corner. Thanks guys. So one afternoon I'm sitting there minding my own business, not bothering a soul. I rarely stopped a vehicle that was less than 90 miles per hour in a 70 zone. Those, those are the people that are putting your family, your children in, in danger and your property in danger. So I was, that was pretty much my limit. I'm sitting there running laser, having a good time. It was a great day. Oh, I'd already stopped several and actually found locked up a, a guy that day for possession of Vicodin, a narcotic with intention intent to distribute. He had a bunch well over 300 pills and that's dangerous stuff and if you didn't know that, go back and watch episodes of the TV show House where the doctor gets addicted to Vicodin. It's pretty detrimental. This particular afternoon as I'm sitting there, I get a call from dispatch back at post 25 Thompson and shout out to one of the best dispatchers on earth. I'm gonna call him Stuart. He hasn't given me permission to relieve release his last name and he calls me, he says, 4, 6, 9, my badge number. Be on the lookout for a blue, dark blue or royal blue Hyundai Sonata with dark tinted windows, two male occupants. He goes on to elaborate. The driver just shot the front right tire off of a semi in a fit of road rage. Well, we've got this big blue book that is titled official code of Georgia annotated. That is Georgia law. And in that book that says you can't do that shit, that's wrong. So I start looking for said vehicle. No more than five minutes later, a royal blue, dark blue Daiw Laganza of all things with dark tinted windows comes around the corner. But it is only occupied by one male. What caught my attention was in a 70 mile per hour zone. He was traveling 45 miles per hour in the fast lane. So that can tell me, hey, he's fallen asleep, he's been driving too long, he's under the influence, he's lost. Maybe he's having vehicle mechanical difficulties. I'm willing to help this guy any way I can, even if that is the person that shot the tire off the tractor trailer truck. So I lock him in at 45 and a 70 in my handy dandy laser speed detect detection device which I am still certified and trained to use. And I head out to the interstate to pull him over. As soon as he sees the blue light lights behind him, he jets. He guns it. Now this is in my early days. I was driving a 2000 Ford Crown Victoria. The top speed of that vehicle is 128 miles per hour before the governor kicks on. And it won't go any faster than that.
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Up until this point, I did not have a whole lot of respect for machinery Made in South Korea, with the exception of the Daewoo full auto machine gun that I had fired in practice while in the DMZ demilitarized zone in South Korea. And that thing was awesome. It used the same magazines and cartridges that our US issue M16 rifles used. And it was a nice piece of machinery. But Korea Korean automobiles, I did not like them one bit. And I'll still say that today because of my wife's Hyundai Azero, which has been nothing but a pain in the butt. So I get in behind this guy and he jets. All I can do is 128 he's doing in the lower 140 mile an hour zone. The chase is on. We cross over the county line from Warren County, Georgia into McDuffie County, Georgia. And he's hauling tail. And I'm doing my best just to keep a visual on him. I haven't even gotten a tag number yet. So as we get into McDuffie county, we're approaching an exit. And underneath the exit is a sheriff's department car parked in the shade. And to this very day, I'm going to say the deputy in that car was dead asleep and could not hear the radio traffic, that I was in high speed pursuit. I had other troopers coming to assist me and I was going to get this guy. Well, this guy sees the deputy underneath the overpass in the shade. Didn't know he was asleep. Our offender thought this must be a trap. So our bad guy decides to take the exit rather than get close to the deputy who I think is asleep. He takes a nip exit and turns to the right. At that point in time, there was another county deputy who I'll, I will call Mark in a convenience store. And Mark was getting himself a cup of coffee and a glazed donut with vanilla white icing and sprinkles on top. Deputy Mark did not hear my radio traffic or transmissions until he got out to his car. Apparently he had his handheld radio turned down kind of low. And as he's getting back to his car, he hears that I am in a high speed pursuit. And I've got at this point a few other troopers with me, including my post commander, Sergeant First Class Mark Bentley, one of the greatest law enforcement officers I've ever met and a great leader, a great guy, and yes, he's given me permission to use his name. As I'm headed up the off ramp going to apprehend this guy that has committed felony fleeing, reckless driving, speeding in the parameters of super speeder in Georgia and several other traffic Offenses not sure if this is the guy who shot the tire off the semi yet my transmission goes out. So Sergeant Bentley passes me and I can't get out of third gear. It the transmission will not shift and this guy is just walking away from me. So I mentioned the other Mark coming out of the convenience store with his cup of coffee and his donut with vanilla white cream icing and sprinkles on top. He opens the door of his patrol car, sets his cup of coffee in the cup holder and he has the donut in his right hand. He hears my radio traffic and thinks, oh, I should go block this road so this high speed pursuit does not go past a school zone and endanger any school children that might be leaving school that day. Excellent idea. Good job Deputy Mark. No sooner had he pulled out in the roadway, he gets hit head on by this blue Hyundai, correction blue Daewoo Laganza and totals his vehicle. Now you're probably asking Captain Pablo, how did you know the donut was in his right hand? Because when the airbag deployed, it shoved that donut straight into his right eye. Deputy Mark. God love him, he's such a great guy and a courageous, excellent law enforcement officer. Oh, he just did a stellar job. However, let's talk about his skin tone. He was about three shades darker than the phone I'm holding in my right hand right now past sunset. If he had his eyes closed and his and wasn't smiling, he'd be pretty much invisible. He had a dark, dark complexion. When the airbag deployed that shoved that donut onto his right eye. Of course, once he recovered from the collision, he jumps out and starts pursuing the suspect who is then flat on foot. GSP Sergeant Bentley had already had a 10 second head start on me and about a 15 second start on Deputy Mark and we start chasing this guy on foot. Sergeant Bentley jumped out, only with the sidearm that was on his hip. I grabbed Mr. Shotgun at that point in time we were issued Mossberg brand model 590 AC1. The short barrel, 14 inch 12 gauge pump action shotgun. I grabbed that sucker because I have no idea what this offender is capable of doing. I could run pretty fast back in those days in my youth and I was just getting ready to pass GSP Sergeant Bentley when I racked my shotgun. And that is a language everybody on earth understands. When you hear that chink, chink of a shotgun, that means your ass has had a bad, bad day. No sooner did I rack the shotgun when our suspect disappeared. There was a retention pond out There in the woods, dug in a correct perfect square with perfect horizontal banks. There was no going into shallow water. You went from dry ground to chest deep water. This guy disappeared. He turns around and looks at Sergeant Bentley and I and said, I didn't do nothing. And at that point in time, he had a Colt Python pistol in his right hand. He tossed it over his right shoulder and said, what are y' all chasing me for now? Let's back up just a little bit. A.357 Magnum caliber Colt Python pistol, if you have one, in blue, blue steel and in very good condition. I will pay you $2,500 for that right now. DM me, yeah, I'll take it. However, the vehicle this guy was driving was less than fifteen hundred dollars. I don't think he came across that pistol in an honest manner. So at this point, Sergeant Bentley has drawn his.40 caliber Glock model 22, pointed it right between the suspect's eyes. I have that Mossberg 590A1 pointed right between his eyes and we coax him to come get out of the water. I take him into custody soaking wet. I got him in handcuffs, got to walk him back that 300 yards to my patrol car to take him into custody. And that was kind of a long trek. As I get back, other troopers have started investigating the crash where our offender has hit Deputy Mark head on and probably at that time traveling about 70 miles an hour when the air bag went off. That concussion, that explosion shoved the donut onto Deputy Marks right eye. That left him with a white ring with sprinkles around his right eye. And much to my surprise, none of the other troopers or deputies told this very dark, complected deputy that he had a white ring around his eye. He looked like a negative of the dog that used to be in the Owl. Little Rascals, my gang. Oh, short movies from my youth. That dog was solid white and had a black ring around his right eye. Deputy Mark was solid black and had a white ring around his right eye and nobody told him a word. So I take our offender to the county jail and Sergeant Bentley calls in Georgia Department of Transportation to drain this retention pond, which they do. And they recover a stolen Colt Python revolver.357 Magnum in Great condition, other than the fact that it needed a good cleaning with one round of ammunition left. Our suspect had used two rounds of ammunition shooting the tire off a moving semi and had one left. So where's the other three? Why does he have three other empty casings in that revolver when it holds six rounds. I don't know. I don't care. All I know is I'm taking this joker to jail. Aggravated assault, reckless driving, all this kind of stuff. And I take him to the jail. And for those of you in law enforcement, or if Wittedy hasn't told you, by the time we get our report typed out, the criminal has already bonded out. Not this time. I returned to my post, which is what you would think of as my headquarters, and I'm typing this report out on a manual typewriter. Yeah, I know, I'm old. And all of a sudden, dispatch yells out, you got a phone call. I pick up the phone and this guy says, this is Detective. I can't remember his name. Smith, Jones, Wojahowitz, from Barney Miller. I can't remember. He says, we'd like to come pick up the name of that suspect. And I said, okay, sure, anytime you like. As soon as he bonds out on the charges that I have here. And this detective says, well, he killed two men in a drug deal gone bad last night here in Atlanta. I'd really like to come talk to him. That puts me at a disadvantage. Yes, Detective, you come pick him up, you can have him. When he bonds out from you, I'll have somebody pick him up and take him back to this county to face our charges. Murder pretty much outweighs everything. Thank you for listening. Thank you for liking and sharing. Please continue to keep the Overton family in your prayers. Just because the funeral is over doesn't mean the grieving is over. Ms. Cindy and Mr. Woody, I know all your listeners love you and think the world of you as Ms. Angela and I do. Keep up the good work. Thank you. And justice for Haley, please. Justiceforhailey, that draws more attention to that cause. And good night.
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Americans love using their credit cards the most secure and hassle free way to pay. But D.C. politicians want to change that with the Durbin Marshall credit card bill. This bill lets corporate mega stores pick how your credit card is processed, allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data, security and rewards. Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price. Tell Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose. Learn more@guardyourcard.com.