Viewer discretion is advised. >> [music] [music] [music] >> COPS is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are [music] innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. My coworkers and I all have different qualities. Uh some people are excellent with tactical things. I'm a little bit more of a social worker kind of cop. Um I like a lot of that digging to get problems solved, but uh we all work together with our different qualities, uh come together as one, and solve problems as best as we can. So, there's a white sedan that we suspected was uh in a domestic violence call yesterday. The suspect's known to have a gun, so we're going to see if we can catch up to him and see if it's him. He's not driving. Yeah, we're at Lombard in St. Louis. We're behind a 2002 Mercedes. Uh there's PC for the driver yesterday. Fill the signal tonight. For uh eluding criminal mischief, too. It's going to be Austin. And you got him pulled over? He's taking Yeah, he's taking off on us westbound. Lombard approaching Catlin. Known to carry a firearm. Yeah, he's known to carry a gun. From St. Louis. We're on our way on this way to St. Louis. Do what I got 3616, I'll be number two. Okay, he's heading to the St. John's Wood. Heading to St. John's Wood. He's bailing. He's bailing. Get someone in Pure Park. Get someone in Pure Park. Go go go go. I got somebody in Pure Park. He's bailing. Robin's waist. Robin's waist. Just Stop. Stop. Stop. You're going to Don't move. Hands behind your back. >> Don't move. Put your hands behind your back. On your head. There you go. Challenging one at gunpoint. Don't you do anything stupid. Do you understand me? >> Put the gun down. Don't do anything stupid. >> Put the gun down. >> That's not happening, Austin. >> Give him commands. All right. I'm sorry. What do you want me to do? Okay. >> over. Stay right there. >> What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? I want you to slowly roll me over. GET ON YOUR STOMACH. Slowly Keep your hands up. >> guys want ME TO DO. YOU'RE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. KEEP YOUR hands up. >> on your STOMACH. >> YOU, GET BACK. GET BACK. >> I'M NOT ARMED. WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? WHAT DO YOU WANT me to >> stomach now. >> my hands on my head. I have my hands on my head. Yes, just roll over onto your stomach. Do it now. Put your s- You don't got to do nothing. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to apply. Put your arms out. Put your arms out. Put your arms out. Out to your sides. You got him, special. Get the side. >> Put them behind your back. Go ahead and cuff him up. What did I do wrong? It's probable cause to arrest you for looting, criminal mischief two from yesterday. What? Go ahead and get the side. >> want to wait 20 minutes? Hey. Hey. Tell Jerold >> Austin, do you have any weapons on you? No. Is there anything on you that you shouldn't have? 461, I'm >> All right. Slow down. You guys can search. I'm asking if you have any weapons on you. >> can search. I don't have nothing. All right. At the entrance to the park. >> Hey. Call my female attorney. Bail me out. Okay. Bail me out. Switch feet. Switch feet, Austin. Put your feet apart. 461. Anything on you that you shouldn't Yeah, he had a tail light in my face. Wink up. Double hands and white Mercedes. He had a tail light in my face. Didn't mean to. You didn't mean to? No, I'm being charged with >> charged with yesterday for a lou? Criminal mischief two for what happened with your girlfriend? A lou again for this? I ain't got nothing on me, [ __ ] I got to check on Put on my left side of the car. What are you doing? I'm sorry. I'll switch. I told you I could search my car, you [ __ ] Search my man. So, what happened between you and your girlfriend yesterday? This is what it started everything. Nothing happened. What was the whole deal about like kick jumping on her car and all this? I don't know. I don't I don't know. That's why I'm asking you. That's just what I was told. >> over there and banged on the door and asked her to come out. >> Do you know you broke the door? I banged on it with my hand. They said >> I was knocking loud cuz they couldn't hear me. I didn't break it. I don't think I broke it. >> You you did, dude. Was it what? A little dent? No, you broke the wood frame, man. You were banging on it hard. You guys didn't find a weapon yet? I don't need no weapons. I got these two hands. I'm like you guys. That wasn't your job to point that in my face. I'm doing my job. >> out here in the streets, I see you. I'm doing my job. >> I see you as much as you see me. Believe that. >> over there. Come on. Have a good one, Austin. It's hot in here. Can you roll down the window, please? And we're going to transfer to a different car here in just a minute, so Oh, y'all can just leave it up. Just hang tight. You're rolling up. I got to drive it, so I can't drive it with it open. Okay? I'll meet you over there. Yesterday, he broke down his girlfriend's door, caused some damage. Last night, officers got to a short pursuit with him. He was considered armed and dangerous as per his grandmother saying he had a weapons on him. Just a little bit of marijuana. We'll have to put that in property. This is Courtney's car? Yeah, we were there together. Can I release it to Courtney's mom? No, you can't. You release it to my hand. That Those keys don't go to her here. >> Why Why are you doing that, Austin? >> Listen, my bill of sale It's She paid for it. >> in the vehicle. Okay, that's fine, Austin. You know what? It's materialistic. That's fine. >> for it. Let's go. I'll release it to the garage >> fine. And And we'll see you in court, too. You'll see who, [ __ ] I'll call child support on you, tweaker. They don't get my keys. Okay, I've got it here. They don't touch those. Grandma's coming. Listen to Grandma's coming. We got this all taken care of. I have your car. >> I have your car. >> There's engine oil leaking, so can you drive it or overheat No, honey. I'm going to go park it. And if you want me to, I will take it to the shop. >> Can you put it No, can you just put it in your parking space, please? >> Yes, I will, baby. And I'm sorry. >> There's engine oil coming out >> you, Austin. >> I love you, too. It's cool. Okay, and I'm here for you, baby, okay? I pray for you, baby. You know I'm here, okay? I'm so sorry. You're not making good decisions. >> a taser in my face today. Hold on, though. Let's Let's put that aside. You're not making good decisions, man. Look, we run into each other, we respect each other, and I can Hold on. But what I want to do is help equal to me. What I want You pointed a taser in my face when I'm on the ground, you >> you Can you talk to me? Look at me. >> ground, handcuffed, you're pointing a taser in my face. That doesn't make sense. >> Austin, look at me, man. What if you're on the ground and I had a Glock in your face? >> I'm I'm trying to help you out here. Stop driving like that, man. They already called him. Make better decisions, all right? Thank you. We'll get you on your way. I'm constantly asked about the scar on the back of my hand. We are executing a lawful search warrant down on the lower side of the county for narcotics, and I was the man with the uh battering ram and upon swinging, although it's a glass inlay that shattered and it pretty much cut straight through the back of my hand. To me, it's a large reminder of the dangers of this job and uh you know, how things can go wrong in a split second. Deputy Pennington observed a escalate that we know well-known drug dealer uh from the other side of the county. Uh he's weaving in and out of traffic. Uh I think he spotted my vehicle back at the off-ramp. Uh he was only supposed to go right, but he turned left. He's weaving it now. He knows I'm coming for him. I think he turned. I think he made a the right right here. There it is. Right here. He just wrecked. Where did he go? Hey, go ahead. Go ahead. Get in the car. Get in the car. Get in the car. Nobody in the car. Where did he go? Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. Where? Where you at? >> [snorts] >> Copy, you 69? Yeah, copy. All right. Go ahead. Back to the truck. Pendleton got him. Off Almtree. 671. I'm going to go back. Make sure this lady and her fella is okay. Drop this hat, too. Hey, are you all right? I'm fine. Are you hurt? No, we're just scared me to death. How bad? I don't know if it's drivable. I mean, you never can tell. It'll probably be pushed out. Okay. When he hit you, what did he say anything or he just hopped out and >> He just looked ran. and ran. I couldn't tell you what he looked like. That's all right. We got him. Okay. What What what happened? I came over here cuz I figured he was going to go to this next street over and as I'm looking down the road, he runs right past my car. I get out and chase him. Started chasing for a little bit. He just kind of just stopped. >> He finally finally stopped and gave up. Yeah. Did he already He He pretty much recognized what was happening? Yeah, he recognized it back there at 77 Lee's way. >> Yeah, when he decided he was going to weave in and out of traffic, uh do stupid stuff to try to get away from us. I don't know what this dude's problem is. This driver of the car here, someone we're very familiar with. Someone driving this car we're We know him all too well. He decided he wanted to run from us. This your unlucky day. You want to talk to me? What's up? What happened? >> What's up, man? Y'all man, y'all keep [ __ ] with me, man. Why y'all keep [ __ ] with me, man? Y'all keep wanting to pull me over, man. You did All right. Well well, if if if I remember correctly, I didn't put any blue lights on you. You just decided you were just going to take off. >> Yeah, you put blue lights on, man. You put blue lights on. >> I put blue I put blue lights on so I could try to catch up to you. Who? Who you talking about? You. Why'd you run? Who? What? Why'd you run? Man, I ain't running. You didn't run? No. Excuse me, man. Y'all just keep messing with me, man. But if if I remember if I if I noticed correctly, this is your hat. Oh, this belongs to you. This hat belongs to you. This hat was This hat was in the middle back over there, just the direction where you ran. And then you ran across my partner's car back over here. So, you want to talk to me about it? >> Man, ask your extra partner how he just beat me the [ __ ] up for nothing. No, my partner didn't do anything to you. My partner detained you because you were running from us. >> Man, what is you talking about, man? You talking about, man, I AIN'T RUNNING. WHY'D YOU RUN? Did you feel like you did something wrong? Yeah, man. Y'all new racist, man. Y'all trying to send me to jail. I just went to jail for nothing, man. I don't sell no dope, man. All I do is smoke You You just You just went to jail for having marijuana on your person. Y'all watch out. All I do is smoke weed. Y'all too much winning for nothing, man. I don't know, man. I don't know, God knows, man. I don't The only thing I do is worry about driving on a suspended license, man. That's the only thing I do, y'all. >> Don't You can't do it. You can't drive. You can't have drugs. Don't do it. If you going to drive on a suspension, you got to be a man about yours and take your punishment, man. If you going to get that ticket, get that ticket. Don't run from us. You wrecked. You hit this person. You could have hurt her seriously. You run. You got us chasing after you, guns out. I mean, come on, man. For what? Man, I panicked. You panicked? I panicked, man. I Man, I put this on my life, man. I panicked, man. All right, sit tight, man. Sit tight. Just relax. Relax. Slow your Slow down, all right? This gentleman here, we know him well. Arrested him about 2 weeks ago, and apparently he just feels like we're harassing him, but you know, in truth of the matter is we know he's a well-known drug dealer in that area where he was and on Lower Side down here. EMS check you out and everything's good? Yeah, I signed off. Okay. >> I'm good. >> So, you don't need to get transported or anything like that, no? What exactly happened? Where were you when when it when it happened? >> I was second back from the the red light. It had just turned green, and Ernest was in front of me. He's a co-worker. >> Okay. He had turned, and I seen traffic coming, and I heard some screeching, and I stopped. Okay. >> I did I just moved up just a tiny bit, and I stopped right where I was, and I seen he tried to make that turn, and I knew he wasn't going to make it. Okay. And he ran right into >> Right right into you. When he When he got out of the vehicle and ran, did he say anything to you? >> No, he just looked at me and took off. And he just took off. Highways and route, they're coming here cuz they have to work the accident. So, of course, his insurance, cuz as you can see, he's living life large, so So, his insurance will be able to take care of that, huh? Oh, yeah. Listen, all right. You don't have anything you want to say? Oh, man, I don't have nothing that I really want to say, but Did you want to say something to the woman that you hit? I don't want to say nothing to nobody. I didn't hit nobody. All right, Desmond. You know you don't got no license. So, you know you're getting charged with driving on a suspension or whatever it might be. You're also getting charged with failure to stop for blue lights and siren, huh? Just wanted to let you know, all right? I grew up in Pocatello, Idaho. My father was a law enforcement officer over there. He was my role model. So, everything that my dad was doing and how he did it, I took to heart and ultimately followed a lot of his example. I need a fix for a 704211. So, I'm behind a vehicle right now that it's got a no license plate, but it's got what would look like a temporary registration. It looks like it's been handmade, so I'm going to initiate a stop up here and contact the driver and talk to him about this plate. What's the deal with the license plate here? You don't have one on your car. >> got the car yesterday. It's the bill of sale. So, you have not registered it, obviously. Uh they No, I have not. They were not open. Okay, do you have a driver's license? Okay. Is it in your wallet or is it somewhere else? Are you on probation or parole right now? I'm not. Okay, I see your inmate card there. Is that You're topped out? You're topped out? What did you do time for? Uh forgery. Forgery? So, do you have insurance at all on the car? No, it hasn't uh it hasn't gone over yet. So, when's the last time you've done any drugs? Uh in years. Years? Okay, what when you were using drugs, what was it you were using? Um marijuana. Weed? Okay. I got to verify the VIN on the vehicle, so do you have any weapons on you real quick? No, um Without reaching. I'm not reaching. I'm looking to see if my knife is on my side. Okay, do you think you have a knife on you? Um might be, yes. Okay, so why don't you set your center console. Okay, why don't you set your wallet on the dash and just put the cigarette down on the ground. Go and stick your right hand behind your head, your left one out the window. Your left one out the window. I am just trying to figure out why Okay, you're good, man. Just go with this What am I asking you to step out? Just keep that hand. My phone? >> Go ahead and Go and reach down and put that phone I'm trying to figure out why I'm getting Ouch. All right, you're good, man. Okay. I got my um title in the actually in the house right there next to me. All right, let's come back here and sit on the front of my car, okay? Okay. Just have a seat right there. Cross your feet for me, please. Okay. >> No problem. So, again, registration, you made up a registration, it looks like, or you put it on the date on the bill of sale, is that what you're saying? >> Yeah. Okay, so I don't know if this car is legitimate or not. Mom, can you grab my title? Okay, so you've had it how long? I just bought the car yesterday. Yesterday? Okay. So, I'm like I'm I'm still trying to go through it. I know that the people that I bought it from, they um have had past problems in the past, drug offenses and stuff like that. Okay. Like when you're saying drugs, are you saying like meth or what are you I didn't get it all. >> know. You don't know. But you have your suspicions of the people that you got it from. So, I respect that. You know that these that will hurt us. Well, that's what I was saying. I'm I was explaining to him. I mean, I'm trying to clean the car. I just bought it yesterday. Okay. Blood. What? Yeah, it's got blood on it, anyway. All right, go and turn around for me, guy. Smell the weed. Smell the weed? >> Just relax. Just relax, guy. Just relax, okay? But what Or you face this car. Jesus. What? Just relax, guy. We'll talk about it, okay? I had just bought the vehicle, anyway. Ooh. Um Little meth? I honestly don't know. Okay. Um This is ridiculous. Okay. I'm being set up. >> Just relax. I already did time. Why am I All right. Why am I being And once you come back here >> again, man. 2857. Have a seat right here on this curb. When you did meth, how were you doing meth? >> I was smoking it and snorting it. It's not You don't shoot it? No. Never have? No, I Okay. Well, obviously a loaded syringe is a concern of mine. Are you diabetic? >> No, I'm not. Okay. What would you estimate that weight at? I think we're at about maybe 3 g. Three, yeah. Brad, let's be straight with one another, man. What is it? Uh it looks like meth to me. Okay. How much did you pay for that little bag? Um I didn't pay for the bag. How'd you get it? I I honestly can't tell you how I mean, I don't know. So, people just give it to you? I don't Brad. I'm I'm being straight with you. Obviously, you understand that's a felony offense, right? Yes. Okay. So, you're going to go to jail on the possession of controlled substance methamphetamine tonight for also paraphernalia. Maybe you need a little help, man. So, he flat out honest with you. He had a bunch of meth in his pocket. A little over 2 g of rock. Okay, and he had a loaded syringe uh up under the seat. It's obviously out in the seat in his pocket, wrapped up in his bundle of money. Um so, he's going to have to go with us tonight. >> Yeah. I got an alert right here and I found a capped loaded syringe right here, which would make sense. There's odor coming from there. Look up here. What the hell? You took this out of your pocket, didn't you? What is going on? I don't I don't know. Brad. Look at me. Look up here at me. It was in your pocket. >> Are you I know, it's not In your stuff was in your pocket. What the hell? Talk to me. I know. >> You know better than that. You know I don't like drugs and alcohol in here. I know. So, what was it doing in your pocket? I'll call your job. Give me a Yeah, you're going. Hey. Thank you, ma'am. Yeah, thank you. Just let me know when I can pull that car over. >> Absolutely. When we get in the car, it's better to sit sideways. Been through this a few times. It's all right, guy. It's not like I said, it's not the end of the world. We'll We're going to work with you. Help you out a little bit here and hopefully get you some help. 132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint. Okay, gunpoint. 132 and Bush, cover is code three. 10-10. Yeah, 25-14 can transmit on tac two. 10-47 10-847 can transmit on 43-16. Okay, we'll still send a code three. >> [music]