Viewer discretion is advised. Now, stop. Heads up. >> [music and singing] >> It's not some marijuana out there. Marijuana smoker. Crawl out. Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Yeah, I enjoy working in Lafayette. We have a good culture down here. We you know, there's a lot of uh good food, good music, a lot of good local live music. My brothers actually have a local band. Uh they play a lot of live shows around here. I try to catch one whenever I can. We have a vehicle uh We have an officer that's chasing a stolen vehicle up ahead. The vehicle's refusing to stop. He's coming back this way. He's southbound in the northbound lanes on University. I'll call it out, Mike. Yeah, he just bailed. >> [screaming] >> If he was going through the yards, he couldn't have beat us here. We're at Madeline and Poplar. Mike's back at University. They're going to be doing a canine track. >> [panting] >> We just cleared this yard while we were over here. >> Okay. Yeah. Is that shed locked? Yeah. I wonder if you find a 62 Oh, look at the crawl space under there, too. I think he may have went south. Hey, he's right here. COME OUT. LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS. BACK OUT. I'M GOING to send the dog in after you. Let me see your hands. You see his hands? Yeah. Let me see the other hand. Hey, man, let me see your hands. I got both of them. Come on. Come out, sir. Which way is he coming out? You want him this way, Ron? Huh? You want him this way? No, I if he's coming out to y'all. All right. Crawl slowly while keeping your hands in front of you. Keep coming. >> Crawl. I don't want to hear excuses. Keep crawling. Come out. Keep coming. Keep coming. I ain't do nothing wrong. No, man. We already saw you run out of that car, man. That wasn't me, man. All right, man. They had three people in the I hear you. I hear you. I thought you were sleeping, man. And the man And the man ducking under the seat holding a gun to me telling me to drive. >> So, you were driving that truck? >> I I want to let y'all know I was forced to drive. By who? A dude named Dylan with a gun. Cuz he has warrants. I need to write a statement. I'm just going to let y'all know that. What's your name? What's your name? I'm Tyson. Tyson what? You trying to tell these people they had a man with a gun try to force me to drive, man. What's it to me? You just let us But I I was forced to drive, sir. What's your name? What's your name? Mr. Milanzo. >> Did they also force you to run after you got out of the car? Why didn't you come to us for help then? Because he told me to run or he was going to kill me. See, have a seat. We were all over the area looking for you. Man, this man is on bad drugs. He's crazy, man. Put your feet in. I'm the one that went to stop you at the hotel, okay? Yes, and they had a man cocked under the seat just like this. How when he seen the law man get get behind us. That's what I'm trying to tell you. >> You looked right at me. Yeah, I looked at you cuz he said don't panic. I had to shoot that I wouldn't scared on nothing. >> you just didn't jump out the car? What's he going to do if the police are there? >> Shoot the gun. When you hit the telephone pole right here, only one person came out the car. I was the one chasing you the whole time. I was running from you the whole time. They had somebody forcing me to drive. So, who was forcing you to run from us after you got out of the car? >> He told me he was going to kill me if he would have He was under the house with you. He was under the house with you. >> No, sir, he ran. >> How come you didn't come out and say I wasn't chasing How come you didn't come out and say, "Hey, man, some guy just had a gun to my head." You seen all the police lights He said he was going to kill me if I would have get caught and tell them who he was. So, you saw all these police cars out here. You didn't want to come out and say, "Hey, this guy just had a gun to my head." You didn't think that'd be saving the hot under the house? I'm just trying to save myself from getting killed, man. You trying to save It sounds like more like you're trying to save yourself from going to prison. No, I'm trying to save myself from getting killed. You know what your charges are? What's my charges? >> You know what you're going to jail for? What his charges is? >> You're going to jail for stolen vehicle. You're going to jail for aggravated flight from that car chase. >> I didn't know it was a stolen vehicle. And plus I was forced to have to You're going to be able to explain all that in court. I'll be back with you in a minute. Hang tight. He was the only one that came out the car. You saw him bail out? Yeah. Yeah. I saw him come out. I couldn't see where he went after that because the building >> Yeah, and everyone came in right behind us. The door slammed shut. That was the only door that was open on the whole car. It was the driver's side. >> After he bailed, nobody else bailed. Good job, man. Got it. On to the next one. During my time in this job, I've come to realize that cops tend to marry nurses, teachers, or other cops. And I'm part of that stereotype. Now, I just got recently engaged to my fiance, and she's also police officer, and we're we're as happy as we could be right now. Well, I've got a call of a suspicious vehicle. It's been there for a while, loud music playing. So, we're going to see what's going on. Can you drive? All right. Hey, buddy. Keep your foot on the brake. Keep your foot on the brake. Keep your foot on the brake. Hey, come here. Hey, relax. Put your foot on the brake. Pump the brake. Get out of the car. Put it in park. Put it in park. It's in park. It's in park. All right, get out of the car. Relax. Cuz I told you to keep your foot on the brake. What's wrong, buddy? Step out. How much? Do you have any weapons on you? No, no weapons. You passed out at the wheel here at the intersection. Got your ID on you? Yes, sir. You can turn around and talk to me. Look at me. Woah. You all right? You good? Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. >> What's the issue? Why are you sleeping at the wheel here? >> I've had a long day. I'm I'm I'm going home. >> Okay. Where's home? 45th or 45th Street. >> You almost made it. I almost made it. >> Okay. Is this car registered to you? It's my my wife's car. All right. Yeah, thanks. Appreciate it. Take a look at me. You have anything on you that's I need to know about? No. Let me pat you down real quick. Turn around. You can relax. You take medications or anything like that? >> No, sir. No? Nothing? No, sir. You just that tired? Yeah. How long you've been awake? What time? How long have you been awake? I don't I don't know what your your question is. What's the I'm I'm trying to gather why you're passed out at the wheel. And if you're that tired, I'm asking you how long you're awake. That's all. Like I said Is there anything in the car I need to know about? >> No. Let me pat you down real quick. >> Yeah, go ahead. All right, go ahead and stand over there for me. Hold your watch. I'm not a receiver. Your phone over here. Hey. So, you said there's nothing in the car? Yes, sir. Okay. You said you're not prescribed Hey, stop. Stop, back up. Go turn around. You're not prescribed any medications, right? Cuz I asked you that question. Correct? Yes, no? Yes, you asked me if I was on any medications. I'm not on any medications. Okay. 14 and don't mail the tape. All right, walk back for me real quick. There's some uh pills in his driver's side door there in a little small baggy. Take a seat. All the way in. There's a little individual sales bagging of pills right here in the door. Four of them look like morphine. Other three We'll have to do We'll check them all on drugs.com and identify them, but right now it's two different types. But he's going to go for the pills at least? He got his own pills. There's drugs.com you can go on here. It's a resource we use as law enforcement over here to identify uh medications and prescriptions. And it's actually uh valid to uh profess in court as a way for us to identify these drugs. So I've identified both types of these pills and so they're oxycodone's and the blue ones are going to be alprazolam. I didn't realize that I had those Had what in the car? I was There There was pills in the car. Did you buy that little baggy? Um yes, I did. Okay, when did you buy that baggy? Um I just bought the little baggy. You were coming from the place you bought it? Uh no, actually I was coming from Waffle House. From Waffle House? So you bought them, went to Waffle House and you were heading home? Yes. Okay, so it's pretty cut and dry. All right, you're going to be going to jail tonight for possession of a controlled substance. Is there anyone that can pick up your car if it's close or we're going to have to impound it? No, I was just asking if my wife pick up my car. >> If she she can come here and do so, we'll gladly do that for you. Can you can you explain to her that uh if if maybe tell her that it wasn't a controlled substance >> Does she Does she have to know about your problem? Uh she she does, but I don't want to lose my wife and kids. I'm not going to lie to your wife. All right, that's just not my character. I'm not going to lie to anybody like that. Okay, especially someone that's probably doesn't deserve to be lied to, especially in the position you put her in. So I'm going to let you guys talk if she comes to pick up the car, okay? I believe this is her. We don't really want to impound the car if we didn't have to. There's no use of her suffering for his decision, so I'm going to talk to her real quick, explain what's going on and then let her talk to him and see if he'll be honest with her what's going on. Give him a chance first. How are you doing, Renee? Renee. How are you doing? All right, so he's in the car right now. He wants to talk to you about what's going on. All right. Like I said, I didn't want to impound the car if I didn't have to. There's no reason you shouldn't have a car. Yeah, that's my Okay, he lives close. So it worked out. He's in cuffs in the back of the cruiser right now. Like I'm going to give you a chance to talk to him. Okay. All right, I'm going to give him a chance to explain to you what's going on and we'll go from there. All right? Okay. So he's right this way. He's in the first car Frank here. Okay. What happened? I was coming home and I stopped at the stop sign and I stayed there for a while and they found something in the car. What What was in the car? What was in the car, Frank? What was in the car? There was There was pills in the car. At least you're honest. You owned up to it. Okay? It's a bad decision. You can learn from it and move on, right? The best part of policing, I get to help people. You know, everybody like we've talked about, they want to see the foot chases and the car chases and stuff, but that's a pretty small part of our job. Our job tends to be helping people and those are the stories you remember when you get older. It gives my kids a sense of pride. They really enjoy the fact that I I'm out here helping people and teaching them, you know, to help your community, serving. We are headed to a trespassing delayed right now. It's one of our habitual drug offenders. He's been acting strange since yesterday. I guess he was out screaming in his yard and I now he's terrorizing the neighbors and they think he just grabbed a female, so we're going to figure out what's going on out here. Bill. I'm out of here. What's going on, man? They had her by the hair. Who had your mom by the hair? I don't know. Somebody up there. We've already We've already cleared your house, buddy. There's nobody in there, man. So whose yard are you in here terrorizing saying that you had her get Well, you're definitely terrorizing the neighborhood, buddy. I mean, otherwise I wouldn't be back out here again. You need Can you please clear clear the rest of the house? There's two entryways that you didn't go up. There's plenty of space. >> Sure. And when I was looking through the window, it was down. I think I seen somebody in there. Mom kind of vouched for it, but Pat insists that she went back in there. Okay. Whose Whose house were you at where you told them that if they didn't get you right out here something bad was going to happen? No, I think me. I don't know what happened to Danny, but you know, she got raped. Danny, your sister? No, my girlfriend. Who got you? The guy Rob in the red car. He said, "I'll beat your girlfriend up for you." >> They put her in the car, took off. All right. True story? I don't know what happened. >> Okay. What kind of What kind of drugs are you using today, Bill? I I didn't use anything. >> You used something, buddy. Let's Let's be on the level with each other, okay? I know Danielle very well and if you're hanging out with Danielle, then she's heavily involved in meth. This is the fourth time we've come out here. Your neighbors are calling us non-stop. You've done wandered into two or three people's yards. Your mom said there's nothing in the house. We've been in the house. You have a history of drug abuse. Fair enough? So level with me. What are you on today, man, that's got you acting this way? Nothing at all today. >> Okay. Today? Well, what about yesterday, the last couple days? >> I don't know. I might have done a pill, sir. That's a Just a pill? Cuz you were out here screaming last night. I'm not lying, sir. Something was fishy with Annie. So what's this female you grabbed her hand out here? Uh no, my mom. She didn't want to go on back in there. That's fine. That's fine. >> but she insisted, so I said, "Go ahead." All right, Bill, let's side over to my car, okay, buddy? Let me check you out over here. No, you're fine. That's what we're here for, but look, I'm sorry. something's got to give, man. I know what I heard, and so everybody's trying to make me look like the bad guy. Nobody's trying to make you like anything, buddy. I'm just saying you know what's going on. I mean, I'm trying to protect my family. when three or four of your neighbors are calling me cuz you're out there in their yard or out there banging on their back door, that's a problem. What did you do to Danny? Here's what we're going to do until I figure out what's going on. I'm going to detain you. Put your hands behind your back, okay? You're not in trouble, but I don't know what's going on, okay? We're becoming a frequent flyer out here. Can he talk to Mom about it? Well, I haven't talked to Mom. Right now I want to get you restrained cuz you've been acting erratic and I don't know what's going on, man. And I'm sorry. I'm worried about my mom Dude, I get it, but I want to find out what what you got going on, okay? What I want you to do is have a seat in here. I'm going to go talk to your mom, okay? Just have a seat. Two go for. Two go for. It's me. It's Chris with the Sheriff's Office. Will called us back out here. What? Hey. Hi. Will is telling me that there's somebody hiding out in the attic. No, there's nobody up in the Okay, so has he even been back inside? I'm sorry. >> Has Will been back in here? Is he just Is he still acting kind of strange? Yes. Okay. He's nervous because I'm by myself. >> Sure, but there's nobody inside. You haven't had any issues with anything like that. I got to ask if he's telling me that somebody's in there, you know. >> No, he's fine. He's just worried about me. Is he doing drugs again? I mean, have you seen him do anything? Cuz he's acting a little odd right now. I mean, he's >> fine. Are you sure? Yeah. >> Okay, we haven't seen him do anything? Everything's okay. I just I don't understand. >> Well, I'm going to go talk to the sisters and make sure everybody's okay and if you if you need us, call us, okay? I'm fine. All right, miss. Have a good evening, okay? >> I appreciate you checking on me, but >> No problem, man. Well, that's our job. So we got to come out and make sure you're okay. >> No, it's really it's it's You shouldn't have to do this over somebody like me. Aw, that's what we're here for. >> you know, and Well, who am I going to do it for if I don't do it for you? I'm sorry. >> am I going to do it for if I don't do it for you, you know? Oh. I got to do it for somebody. Might as well be you. Yeah. All [laughter] right. All right, young lady. You have a good evening, okay? All right, what's your name again? >> Chris. Chris Weaver. So was it you that he was in the yard talking to? Yes. What did he say? >> He came up to my door Okay. and knocked on the door, but >> And you live right here, correct? Right, I live right there. And normally every once in a while Kim might come over or Steven might come over on the other side of me. So I went and answered the door. My dogs were barking and I didn't see anybody and me, I just happened to open up the door and there he >> Right. >> was. So Just hanging out in your backyard? Just hanging out there in my carport and he and he says, "Can you get me out of the neighborhood?" Okay, so you're the one that you told to get out of the neighborhood. [laughter] Okay. He says, "Somebody's after me and it's not safe for me here and I need to get out of the neighborhood." And I said, "I'm sorry, I can't take you anywhere." I don't know. I'm I'm not taking him anywhere. >> blame you. Earlier this morning, I don't know if it's his girlfriend. He's saying her life was in danger and he was on the way down to see this guy, which is a few I don't even know which one it is. >> Oh, I know. Okay. I know who they are. I asked This is my first rodeo on Gene Street. And he says Then when he comes back, he goes, "I I just went down there and nobody's there and they took her and I don't know where they took her." And he goes, "I'm going to have to get out of here." And I'm just like, Okay. "What is your >> [laughter] >> Well, we're going to do something with him today. I'm going to try to get him some help. He needs something more than short-term care, that's for sure. All right, well, how you doing, buddy? Uh hurting a little bit, sir. >> So what's hurting on you? My arm is, sir. Your arm? All right, buddy. I'm going to be putting you under a Marchman Act. You've already told me you were doing drugs last night. All right, I've got people saying you thought demons were in the attic. You were running around here with a baseball bat worried about us. I said that I I carried the bat around with me. >> Will, let me talk for a second, okay, buddy? I'm just saying Yeah, I'm explaining to you what's going to happen. You're not going to jail. Okay, sir. However, you got some stuff going on that you need some treatment for. Can we agree on that? You know, your family's I'm worried about my mom. Well, now you Well, your family's worried about you. And what we're going to do is we're going to He's going to transport you to a facility. We're going to get you some drug counseling, get you some help and see if we can't get you off this stuff because I think you'd be much better whenever you were not on it. Can we agree on that? Yes, sir. I'll be off in a couple days. Okay, buddy. All right, good luck, buddy. 132 and Bush. I've got him at gunpoint. Okay, gunpoint. 132 and Bush. Code is code three. Thanks, Pat. 10-25 14 10 transmit on tac two. 20-47 can send it on 43-16. Okay, we'll still send it code three. >> [music]