Viewer discretion is advised. >> Now stop [music] bad some marijuana. I'm a marijuana smoker. Call up. Hold it. >> Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are innocent [music] until proven guilty in a court of law. >> I definitely enjoy the investigative aspect. I like hunting down suspects. I like trying to dig and find out what I can. um get to know them as best as I can even though they I don't know them or they don't know me and just locating them and um getting justice for the victim pretty much. >> So right now we're attempting to locate a subject uh that is known to District 3 as the target of the month uh for the month of March. Uh we're trying to locate the subject. He's got a warrant uh violation of probation, burglary, and fleeing to elude. Uh so we're trying to uh go to one of the many addresses that he's known to be at. Um see if we can uh locate him. >> I need an open window. I'm going to go back. back. >> Hey. [screaming] HEY, STOP. 362 1031 on foot. We're heading southbound through the through the residential. >> Stop. Make it. YOU'RE NOT GOING to make it. Get your hand behind your back. >> [snorts] >> Let me SEE YOUR OTHER HAND, KEVIN. >> HI, 62. WE'RE 10:12. We're going to be on the street just south of them. >> Oh, you're not going bad? >> Cuz you got a warrant. Please turn around. >> Got anything in your pockets, Kevin? >> Hey, try to sit up for us. Okay. Can you sit up for us? >> Yeah. >> Yes, you can. We just took our co. >> Thanks, man. Why'd you run? >> Scared. Didn't want to go to jail. >> What are you scared about? >> Just didn't want to go to jail. >> You didn't want to go to jail. >> I got work tomorrow. I didn't want to go. And >> why don't you just turn yourself in? Could have been a lot easier. >> I [sighs] know, >> right? You've been running for a while, right? [snorts] >> I mean, I don't mean today. I just mean in general. >> Oh, I just picked a dumb thing going on probation. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Well, you kind of made it a little worse. Okay. >> Cuz you caught another charge. >> Resisting arrest. >> Resisting without violence. >> On top of your others. You understand? >> Yeah. >> Hang tight. Okay. >> Yep. All right. What happened when you got to the door? >> I got to the door. I saw someone that looked similar to Kevin. I said Kevin twice. He said, "No, I'm Scott." But Kevin's inside. He immediately let me inside. As soon as I went inside, I got on the radio, keyed up, let you guys know I was going inside. Um, lost visual of him and that's when I heard Bronson was in a foot pursuit and I found out that you guys later made contact with him. >> Yeah. Well, I was behind the wrong house. I heard you I heard you get on the radio say that we were that you were going in. I heard you call at 10:31 and I just sat I had to sit at the back of the house with the fence and just wait to see where you were going to come from. >> That's when I saw him running. You were behind him and then that's when we gave we were in 10:30 or pursuit and we ended up tackling him up over here. >> Yeah, it was a good catch, man. Good tackle. >> It was awesome. >> This is dad. >> What's up, man? >> We're going to let you talk to him if you want to. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> Uh just briefly. Okay. >> All right. >> Cuz we need to get going. >> Sure. What's up? today around for a while. >> Well, give us a call when they get there. >> Yeah. >> You got your you got your free minute or so and on the phone. >> Give us a call. We'll we'll find out what's going on. >> Yeah. >> You get uh give us further notice. >> Yeah. >> All right. Yeah. >> All right. Talk to you in a while. >> All right. Talk. I'll call her soon. >> All right. So, with you running today, did you think you were going to get away? I mean, you seemed >> No. >> No. >> So, why even try it? >> It was the dumbest thing I've ever done. >> Yeah. >> I I don't know why. I just >> I don't know why I do that. I really don't. It's just like just whatever. You came there, you seen me, you should have just took me like I don't know why I do that. >> Well, listen. You're going to go ahead and take care care of everything now, right? >> Yeah. I'd be locked up. Hopefully start off with a clean slate once you take care of everything. >> Probably gone for a while. >> Is that why you were running? You figure you're going to be gone for a while? >> Yeah, I'm looking at the least 5 years. So, I figured what the hell >> you understand your charges today. The violation of probation, the warrant that we had out since August of last year, and then uh the resisting without violence, and then you provided the the false name to a Leo, which was my partner back there at the front door. All right. Do you have any questions for me? >> No. >> All right, man. Well, I wish you luck. >> I hope things get better for you. Okay. hear any other action? >> Yeah, I hope so, too. >> All right, buddy. >> All right, man. Thank you. >> Yep. >> We've been to the house a few times. >> Yeah. I heard something about him hiding in the mattress. >> Yeah. Mom cut out a a hole in the box. That's where he'll stash. >> Pretty clever. >> Yeah. >> He wasn't too clever today, though. >> No. >> No. >> He likes to run. >> Exactly. >> I was in the army for 5 years, military police, and then decided to come to Martin County. It's a great agency. The sheriff's office really takes care of you. A lot of good people live in Martin County. They they really love the sheriff's office. It motivates you to make sure that they don't have to worry at night when they're sleeping that we're going to be out here checking and keeping an eye on their property and their their community. All right, this vehicle we're stopping for no tag light. He's out of Palm Beach. We've been having a lot of burglaries, but they've been taking uh boat motors. boat motors with uh SUVs. So far, he's not stopping. >> So, if you could advise St. Lucy County, maybe they got someone close to the county line with sticks. >> 304. I got sticks just north of Brit Road. >> Uh, we're doing 50. All right. So, we're going to put out some stop sticks if we can stop. We have fleeing and eluding. Um, so we're going to stop and see what happens. >> Back off a little bit so you don't hit the sticks. >> There he is on the right with the sticks. >> I got sticks. >> He's at the stop sticks. >> I want all the units just to back off and let the air follow them until they stop. >> All right, slowing down. We're only going 40 right now. Is this one right stop? Get them surrounded and take them out. >> Here we go. Here we go. >> Clear. Stop. Boulevard. >> GET OUT THE CAR. DROP THE KEYS. Step out. >> BACK UP TO ME. TURN AROUND. TURN AROUND. BACK UP. BACK UP. KEEP WALKING. Keep walking. >> Keep walking. >> Hey, everyone. Hold on. I'm coming. Keep coming. Keep coming. Keep coming. >> Everyone, >> keep coming. Keep coming. Lay down on the ground. Get on the ground. >> What you running for, dude? >> I had weed in the car. >> Right here in this. >> You're running because you had a little weed on you. >> That little bag you had in your hand. >> That's pretty stupid reason to run >> in a vehicle. Just lean up against the car. >> Nothing else on you or in you, right? >> Cuz we're going to the jail, so it'll be another felony. >> No. Okay. Step back with me. >> All right, man. Just have a seat. I'll be back with you in a second. Okay. What's your name? >> Jonte. >> Jonte. >> All right. Jonte. Why are you running from me? >> Cuz the weed. >> Is that the only reason you ran for? I ain't really like I'm like don't look at me. I'm >> I know it's it's a lot to deal with but it's over now. >> I made something bigger than what it was cuz I had weed. I was just scared, bro. >> Just scared. >> Scared of me. >> Yeah, I'm scared of police. >> Why you scared of me, dude? I don't know you. >> Why? Yeah, I kill people. >> Oh, come on, man. I don't want to hear that. >> I killed black males. >> I would have You know what I would have done? I would have wrote you a ticket. That was it. Now you got to go to jail. I got to tow your car. Your car car's got a bunch of flat tires cuz you ran from me. All right. Now you get a felony fleeing and eluding. You know what I'm saying? Offer some little baggie of weed. Okay. Now we're tearing up the car right now. I'm not going to find nothing else. Right. >> Where you from? >> Palm Beach. >> From Palm Beach. What you doing up here? >> Uh, I'm just picking up my boy. >> Picking up your boy? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Let me go talk to your friend over here. Just sit tight. >> All right, man. Where y'all coming from? I'm just catching rods, so I'm a passenger, sir. >> You're a passenger? >> Yes, sir. >> You're a passenger? You just had a little bit of weed on you? >> Yeah, I just had a little B. I didn't even know that was >> What was up that little half a pill? Whatever that was. >> That was mine, sir. >> That was yours. >> Anxiety. >> You got anxiety? >> Yes, sir. >> All right. What uh what was your boy running from? >> I have I don't That's not my boy, sir. I just caught a ride, sir. I'm catching a ride. >> You're catching a ride to where? >> Back home to Riviera Beach. >> Where? Homes in Riviera. >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. Just sit tight. >> Let's go check out the car. >> This is where the sticks hit. >> Typically, when when someone's trying to hide something, they like to hide it around them real close because that's all they have time to do without looking too obvious. So, I like to check uh around their immediate area in the door, underneath the seat, in between the seat. There's a lot of trash, a lot of stuff in this car. Just got to go through it all. All right. There's like a uh a little white a little clear bag. >> It's got a residue in it. Possibly heroin. We'll have to field test it and see what it comes back to. But that was obviously stuff there from the driver. >> Okay, man. Well, listen up. You both are going to go to jail. Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> All right. Given all that I can't just write you a ticket when I'm chasing cars and flattening tires. I got helicopters following you. You know what I'm saying? Yes, sir. >> So, you're going to go up to the county jail for your possession of marijuana charge and uh you'll be able to bond out and go home. Okay. >> I got to get extradited back to the reveal. >> You got to get what? >> Expedited. >> Expedited? >> Yeah, cuz he's in my county. >> You got to get extradited. >> Expedited? Yeah. >> Yeah. No, you're just going to bond out. They're going to let you go home. That's it. You just have to get a ride. >> Why? You got a warrant? >> No. >> No. Then you're just going to go home. That's it. It's over. This next time, be careful who you get in a car with. Okay. All right, Jonte, this is what's going on, man. Obviously, you know what happened, right? We got in a we got in a chase. All the tires are flat. Um, that is fleeing and eluding, okay? And when you do something like that, I I can't cut you no breaks. I can't write you a ticket and tell you to go home. Okay? So, we're going to go up to Martin County Jail. They'll give you a bond. You'll post bond up there. Bond out and and go home. Okay? Next time the lights come on, the sirens come on, just just stop, you know, and walk away with a ticket instead of all this drama. offer some little baggie of weed. >> Lafayette's a great city to live in. I love living here. Every weekend there seems to some kind of festival. They have great music. The food's amazing. Uh the social scene, the night life, very diverse. They have a great university here. A lot of college sports are played in the city. Overall, it's just great. It's not hard to find something to do while you're here. >> 133 >> be code 20. It's going to be a switch plate. It's on a black GMC Envoy. We're going to conduct a traffic stop on this vehicle. It's got a switch license plate. The plate's coming back to a different type vehicle. So, we're going to contact the driver and see what's going on with it. >> Uh, we'll be at 49 northbound on ramp. Please start me another unit. It's taking a while to stop. >> Driver, step out the vehicle. >> K49. Driver, step out of the vehicle. >> Step back here. Walk to the front of my car. Who's in the vehicle with you? >> Me and my girlfriend. >> Okay. Put your hands on my push bumper. Put your hands on my push bumper. Put your phone right here. >> Listen to me. The reason I'm stopping you is that license plate on your vehicle. Doesn't belong on that vehicle. >> That's my girlfriend's vehicle. >> That's your girlfriend's vehicle. No weapons in the vehicle. Okay. Hang tight for me. How y'all doing today? All right. >> You have IDs on you? >> Yeah. Somewhere. >> Listen. Put your hands on the roof. Put your hands on the roof. Put your hands on the roof. Ma'am, put your hands on the roof. >> Oh, >> do it now. Is there a gun in this vehicle? >> Keep on the roof. >> Back passenger. Step out of the vehicle. >> You have anything on you need to know about? >> Ma'am, keep your hands on the roof. Hey, they got a gun magazine that was sitting on the driver's seat. So, it's probably going to be a gun somewhere. >> I got it. There's one. I don't know if there's more. Step out. Open your mouth. >> Turn around. Step to the back of the car. Got a going to have a Smith and Wesson 9 mm. It's probably that magazine I put on top the roof. >> All right. >> Probably going to go to this cuz it ain't got no mag in it. >> Are you convicted felon? Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> You know where the magazine for the gun was sitting? >> No, sir. >> Right on the driver's seat. Right where you were sitting. >> Okay, >> sir. That was not mine. I >> I'm I'm just telling you the facts right now. Okay. I'm not asking you any questions. I'm just telling you what's going on. >> So, you can listen to me. You can sit here and deny you had no knowledge of it. You can say that and that this that and the other, but when you're sitting on top of it, it's an issue. You're on parole. >> I'm just currently on probation right now. >> Probation for what? >> Um for possession of >> possession of >> it was um of meth. >> Possession of meth. Do you have a problem me searching that vehicle? Am I going to find any any more weapons or drugs in that vehicle? >> It's not my vehicle. >> And that's not what I'm asking. >> I'm not giving consent to anything, sir. Cuz I don't even know what I would >> right now. You're under arrest and I am going to search the vehicle. I was just asking you, but I have the the legal right to search the vehicle. >> Why am I being under arrest? So, >> okay. Right now, you're under Listen to me. Right now, you're under arrest for possession of a firearm while felinish up a search of the car. >> There's several items of uh drug paraphernalia. We got a used pipe to smoke uh crystal methamphetamine. We have a uh another pipe, a butane torch, which is what's used to heat up the methamphetamine to smoke it. Baggies, fuel syringes. We also have an additional magazine to a uh 9mm handgun, which uh most likely going to belong to the firearm that we found earlier. Your name's Amy. >> The firearm in the vehicle, who does that belong to? >> I don't know. I don't I don't do guns. I don't. >> Is that your purse right there? >> Yeah. >> Okay. I have enough to book you on it. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. So, if you want to tell the truth, but I I'm giving the opportunity for you to explain. >> It's really not my gun. It's no good ones in the back seat either. >> Okay. So, you're telling me it's for the driver? >> There was a magazine, a gun magazine for that gun sitting on the driver's seat right where he was sitting. >> Okay. >> Who is he to you first off? >> Boyfriend. >> So, obviously you've seen him with the gun before if you live together and drive in the same vehicle. Is your vehicle registered to you or him? 740. >> No, it's actually for my >> So, you're on with your new boyfriend and your ex-boyfriend's vehicle? Okay. You know, the license plate on the vehicle doesn't match. It's not for this vehicle. >> That's the reason I'm stopping you in the first place. >> Wow. >> Yeah. How did the extra magazine get in your ve in your property? >> No, I have >> I can show you what I'm talking about, too. >> Along with That's what was in the bag. >> That's not my bag. >> Okay. Whose bag is this? >> It's not mine. >> What about the scales and the pipes and everything? Are you a meth user? >> Yeah. >> How long you been using? >> Um, not >> on and off since I was 16. >> All right. Go stand by the back of the car. I'll be back with you and explain to you what's going on. >> Okay. Obviously, you got several felony drug convictions. All right. So, right now, you're going to be charged with possession of a uh firearm by convicted felon. All right. It's not >> possession of you, son. >> Okay. >> That was not my gun. the other occupants in the vehicle, they all seem to seem that you were pretty aware of that gun in the vehicle and they seen you with that gun before. >> It's not my gun. I wasn't driving that vehicle. >> Okay. Do you want to say whose gun it is if you're claiming it's not yours? >> Okay. You're going down for the the reason for the traffic stop. You may have not have been aware of it, but you're operating the vehicle. We switch license plate. Okay. And uh your driver's license is suspended. All right. So, right now, we're about to get you down to the uh jail, downtown Lafayette, the Paris jail. You'll be able to use the phone and everything else. Make contact with your girlfriend. All right. Amy, hopefully you learn take this as a learning experience. >> Oh god. Yes. >> He's going to be booked in for the gun for being a convicted felon with the gun. Uh he's got a suspended driver's license. He's not supposed to be driving in the first place. See how one thing leads to another. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> All from a switch plate. All right. Give me a second. I have your eye in just a minute. All right. 132 bush. I've got him at gunpoint. 132 coverage code. 2547 1047 can send it in 436. >> Okay, we'll still send a code three. [music] [music]