Viewer discretion is advised. 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. Before I became a police officer, I was in the military for 4 years. I was in the United States Navy. And as soon as I got home, I took the test and I got right on. And I absolutely love being a police officer. I would probably do this for free if I if I had no other choice. We're going to be checking an address over in East Lynn. It was an anonymous call that just uh told us that there's a warrant suspect in the backyard. He's known to run from us. Uh he's eluded capture before, so we're going to see if we can uh take him into custody here. We're pulling down the street right now. Share 2 to 16. 17 in control. 5 17. GET ON THE GROUND. I'M GETTING UP. GET ON THE GROUND NOW. GET ON THE GROUND NOW. GET ON THE GROUND NOW. GET ON THE GROUND NOW. GET ON THE GROUND NOW. GET ON THE GROUND. HELP ME. HELP ME. PLEASE. Get Get on THE GROUND. AH! ALL RIGHT. >> SPRAYED. I GIVE UP. I GIVE UP. I GIVE UP. >> sprayed now. Get on the Get on your stomach. Hands up. Get on your stomach. >> I'm rolling over. You're going to get sprayed. I'm rolling over. Get on your stomach now. Put your hands behind your back. You're going to get it again. >> BEHIND MY BACK. Cuff me. Pepper sprayed me back here. HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. I CAN'T SEE. >> Put your other hand behind your back. You're going to get sprayed again. I can't see, Mom. They pepper sprayed me. I'm good. >> Relax. Relax. They pepper sprayed me. Yeah, just relax. Put your hands behind your back. You're still struggling. Relax. >> I'm all pepper sprayed, man. I'm good. My hands are behind my back. My hands are behind my back. I'm not moving. Hands up. Guys, get the Stop with my face. You all right? I can't see. I can't see. What are you thinking? We'll get you some water. Ah! All right. We'll get you some water, okay? >> I can't see. Can you breathe? I can't. I can't see. We'll get you some water. Just keep your eyes open, man. I know it hurts. I can't. I can't. We'll get you up front, all right? I can't. Help me, please. >> We got you, sir. Oh my god. I can't breathe. I can't see. You just got pepper sprayed, man. I can't see. You've been pepper sprayed before? No. All right. They pepper sprayed me. Come on. GET YOUR STUFF BACK. HEY, DON'T DO THAT TO MY BROTHER. LET ME KISS I LOVE YOU, BROTHER. I love you. Wait for me, please. We'll give you a call at the station, all right? >> I'm touching my brother. Ah! I know you love your brother. Let me touch him. Let me see if he's all I KNOW YOU LOVE STOP! STOP DOING THAT THE WAY YOU'RE ON HIM LIKE A BEAST. GET OUT of here. We recorded everything YOU DID. I DON'T GIVE A WELL, YOU SHOULD. I DON'T YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD HIM YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD him turn himself IN. GET OFF HIM. DON'T DO THAT TO MY BROTHER. LIKE is it me? We're going to get you water at the station, okay? Can I get some water right now? I really can't see. >> Hold on. Hold on. I got some water. Hold on. Yeah, I got some water here. >> I really can't see. We're going to roll the window down for you, Daniel. Open your eyes up. Is that better? Can you get my hair out of my face? Yeah. All right, we're just going to go to the station real quick. Keep your eyes open. >> Keep them open cuz they got a liquid inside that washes it out, okay? It's designed for that. Just keep them open. We're going to go to the station right now. >> We'll let you wash it when we get to the station, all right? Daniel, why'd you run? Cuz I don't want to get arrested. >> Why? I know, but you had these warrants for a while. I know, once we get to the station I know, but why'd you just try to run? Why don't you just turn yourself in? Can I just get some more water? My face is on fire. I cannot open my eyes. >> out when we get to the station, okay? Daniel, how come you didn't just turn yourself in a while ago? >> to get arrested. I know, but you got to face it, man. It's got Can I just get some more water before you start driving, please? That's all I'm asking. Let me see if I can talk to the officer to give you some more water, okay? My eyes is on fire. Yeah. I know you don't want to go to jail, man, but you don't want this following you for the rest of your life. >> can't keep my I'm going to pass out. I need water. >> Just breathe, all right? Just take deep breaths, okay? I've been sprayed before. Daniel. I'm going to pass out. >> pepper You're not going to pass out. You'll be all right. Daniel. You know what you're being charged with, Daniel, right? What? Disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and you have those two warrants, okay? >> All right. All right? Yeah. We're going to get you to the station and get your eyes flushed out some more. Yeah. Once we get to the station, all right? What's that? >> Can we start driving? In a sec, okay? We just got to talk to your family. Just uh let them know what's going on. >> I know. Can I get some water? If we're just I'm to sit here, can I get some water? Well, I'm going to sit here, okay? Ma! Anything else? I love you, Ma! MA'AM, MA'AM, MA'AM. MA'AM. YOU KNOW WE HAD THE WARRANT. NO, I KNOW. I KNOW THIS GUY. I THOUGHT HE SAID MA. NO, NO, OKAY. Don't be ignorant to me. Back off me. I'M NOT A CRIMINAL. I've never been a criminal. So, back off. Nobody said you were, ma'am, okay? >> No, no. These are my children. We know that, ma'am. We're not trying to do that, okay? I have to protect myself. >> I know you are. A few weeks ago he was able to get away from a few officers in a foot pursuit. >> Several times he's gotten away. Right. Yeah, so I know tonight. Yeah. He's going to be looking at a number of charges. Disorderly conduct or resisting arrest. I know he's got a bunch of warrants. I think one of them is for robbery, so definitely good to get him off the streets. Doing this job seems like kind of a cat and mouse game, you know? They're doing whatever they can do to get away while we're doing whatever we can do to catch him. You might go from just simply talking and they're complying to being one of the biggest fights you've you've been in in your career. This car traveled over the center lane divide a few times. Going to stop him. Make sure he's not drunk. Finals on Pine Street by Frank. Reason I'm stopping you you drove over the center line a few times back on Old Buncombe Road. Okay, was the car swerving? Okay. Do you have your driver's license with you? Yes, sir. Just your car? It's my rental car. I was in a car wreck. Why are you reaching all around? Oh, I'm getting my other phone. Nothing illegal in the car? No, sir. Any weapons? You're making me nervous reaching around, man. >> I'm sorry. I'm more than happy to help. All right, step out for me. Travel 47, I'm out with 41. And if you got a little weed and you tell me about it, I can give you a ticket. Jay, have you out Mason right now? >> I just If I have to find it, it's going to go different. Face that way. I'm with him. What was that you just picked up? Don't open it. No, chill out. I'm getting a lighter. It's a lighter. IT'S A LIGHTER, BRO. SOMETHING in his hand. IT'S A LIGHTER. IT'S A LIGHTER. I SWEAR TO GOD, LOOK. I'M BACKING AWAY. IT'S A LIGHTER. LOOK. It's a lighter. PUT YOUR HANDS WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS [ __ ] [ __ ] IT'S A LIGHTER. GET ON THE IT'S A LIGHTER. PUT IT BACK BEHIND YOUR BACK. IT WAS ON THE SEAT. I put THE LIGHTER IN THERE. I SAW IT. It was a lighter. Man, I swear to god it was a lighter. What are you doing? Man, you got anything else on you? No. Roll over on your side. We're going to pat you down for weapons. I love him, man. Man, I just got work, man. I'm a working man. Y'all really don't understand. I got a problem. A situation. A move. A situation. That's it. I never do nothing. Are you serious? I'm not. He wants us to come out there. >> Are y'all serious, man? What did I do? Probably got it. Yeah, it's crack cocaine. That's what you did. >> IN MY CAR. THAT'S A RENTAL. IT'S actually going to be heroin. >> god, man. I saw it in his hand. That's why I'm pushing him up against the car and he reached his hand in here and just kind of flipped it right here. It's heroin, right? No, sir. Are you serious? Just do do what you're told, man. All right, it's over. You're under arrest. We found what you threw. >> out of my car, please? Come on. I need to get my phone, for real. We're going to get all your property. Come on. You should have just complied. >> I swear to god, man. I did not You can swear to whoever you want to, dude. I watched you throw the bag. >> You You did not watch me throw no bag. I promise you. All right, tell me what I saw. Why don't you do that? Tell me what I saw as you threw >> grabbed the lighter When I grabbed the lighter Look, are you a user? No. I swear to god. >> So, you're selling it? No, I'm not. I picked it up and I was going I'm going to tell you God's honest truth. I picked it up and I was going to take it over to my homeboy cuz he don't he know what to do with it. Can you get my money and stuff, too? You been read your rights before, man? No, y'all haven't said nothing to me. No, I mean before in your life. No. Sit down. Have you said anything? A long time ago. Sit down, dude. What's your name again? Leondre. Leondre, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in No, no, no, no, no, no, no, not till y'all tell me why. Y'all got to And can you loose these handcuffs, please? Okay, please. Sit down, dude. Please, please, can you loose the handcuffs? Sit down, I'm going to sit you down. You already slammed ME ON THE GROUND FOR NO REASON. You have the right to talk to an attorney and have him or her present with you while you're being questioned. If you cannot afford to hire an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you before any questioning if you wish. Do you understand that? That's all I'm asking. I'm not Do you understand I'm not answering nothing until I talk to me a lawyer. You have anything hidden in your butt, dude? I got one for me to smoke. You worried about some weed? Is there anything else in your butt in your pants? Face that way, dude. Okay, I I Can I get it out, please? Face around. No, I know. Okay, thank you. But I swear to God, that that other stuff was not mine. I promise you. Set it on the back. What else is back there? That's it, man. Cuz you're going to jail if you take anything in the jail. We got everything. Hey, sir, just let you know, I already checked my backseat. So, we didn't stuff anything under the seat. But I promise You did it or not? No, I didn't. Okay, thank you. But I swear to God >> You banging or something? No, don't frisk my butt. I'm Okay, I'm good. I'm good. I promise No, man. You need to keep your seatbelt on and if you do anything else, we'll tie your feet together. >> Okay, okay, I'm good. I'm No seatbelt. Then just act like an adult, dude. I will. I will. I swear to god, no seatbelt, please. I promise you, I got no seatbelt. All right? I really don't want to lose my job. Look, man. We're going to see a judge at 2:30, okay, sir? No, I can't see no Oh my god. No. All right. I'm just testing this uh substance I believe to be heroin with this uh test kit. Basically, uh you break break these ampules. Uh if it turns to that green color, it'll be a positive. But you can already see it's turning green right here in the bottom. So, that'll be a positive for heroin. So, we got possession of heroin, possession of marijuana, >> Yep. interfering, >> Yep. You good, bud? Yes, sir. All right. We did test it. It was heroin, not hash, so Oh my god. You thought it was hash? But look, look. No. Yeah, but you still get out tonight on bond, man. All right. It is what it is. We're going to be cool with you. Just be cool with us, all right? Uh I've been with Boise PD now for about 4 and 1/2 years, uh total of 19. I know that that's kind of a common thing that when you ask a police officer what he wanted to do, that he always wanted to be a police officer, but for me, that was the truth with my dreams and worked out for me. Yeah, we're stopping this car right now. It's uh got a front signal that's apparently the bulb is out on it. The rear one works, but the front one's not, so we'll stop him and have a talk with him about it. 2317 traffic 720 give me the family friend. How we doing tonight? Can you hear me? How you doing, man? I'm good. Can you uh hand me your driver's license, registration, insurance? Reason I stopped you, bud, your front signal is not working to the left. I know. Okay. You know that's not working? Yeah. Then what's going on with it? It needs a bulb. Could you turn your car off? Are you living right here now? I'm dropping me off. I'm dropping him Dropping you off? Okay. What's your name? Charlie. Yeah. Hold on a second, Charlie. You don't have ID on you? Nope. What are you doing out with these guys tonight? Oh, I just got to back from my friend's house playing video games at home. You had to go to your friend's to play video games? And how old are you? 15. You had anything to drink tonight? No. Nothing at all? No. Anybody been drinking? So, I was just like hanging out with friends cuz All right, stay right where you're at. I'm going to come over and talk to him. You just kind of sound like you've got slurred speech. Is that how you always talk? >> No. You know? Because you're nervous or what? >> Yeah. Don't be nervous. I'm just talking to you. Okay? Okay. Okay. Have you Have you taken anything tonight or any alcohol? Nothing at all? Everything's cool there? Let me take a look at your eyes, okay? Just keep your head still. Follow my finger. Just with your eyes. All the way out. Be honest with me, man. Be honest with me. If you're not being honest with me, then it's going to go south. Come on out. I drank a little bit. >> All right, now we're getting somewhere. Come on out. You guys been drinking, too? No, sir, I haven't. Have a seat right here for me on the on the curb. All righty. No, down here a little bit for me. Okay? Anything in your pockets? Yes. What do you got? I stole some beer. Sit down. What do you got? Three beers in my pockets. Okay, don't move. Just stay right there. Just stay right there. 2317 Stay right don't touch them. Just stay. Let me get your coat, too. Just leave them. Just leave them. Okay? Sit back up for now. I don't want I don't want them broken. You're not listening to me. Have a seat, man. Where'd you steal these from? The store? Nope. Where'd you get them? Friend's house. Does he know you stole them? Nope. Were they given to you or did you take them? Took them. That's the only thing you took? Yeah. What else you got in your pockets? >> That's it, sir. And they don't even know I took this, so Well, these guys don't know you took them? Uh-uh. Is there anything else in the car? Nothing. No, no. Your mom home? Pretty sure, yeah. What's mama going to say? She's going to be flipping pissed. She's not going to be happy, is she? First time drinking in my entire life. This is what happens. Better days. I'm Officer Anderson. >> Hi. Hey, your son's been honest with me up to this point, okay? I didn't have any major problems with him. But, the problem is that he was in possession of these beers right here. He had them stuffed in his pants. And he's been drinking tonight. So, I'm going to I'm going to do him a favor and and release him back to you, but he's going to get a ticket. Okay. Okay. So, his biggest concern is that he was going to go to jail. I think this is probably something that mom can handle. With the citation and and hearing from mom, I'm sure this will get resolved, right? >> Oh, yeah. He's in trouble. Okay. Yeah. What are you doing? Being stupid. Yeah. You're in so much trouble. Why were you drinking? Trying to have fun. Have a seat right here. Mom can talk to you a little bit longer. I need to finish the citation. Mhm. Have a seat. I'm It sounds like she wants to have a private conversation with you. That's dumb. I didn't think we'd get pulled over. What? You're 15. I know, but I was still just trying to get >> You don't know, cuz look where we're at right now. You don't know. You're not supposed to have alcohol with you, period. You're not 21 years old. This dude's 15. And you're how old? 26. Okay, you're I mean Did he get the alcohol from you? No, sir, he did. >> Just give me a straight story. >> He didn't. Okay. No. What Did you know he had it? No, I didn't. >> Is there anything else in the car that I'd be concerned about? >> No. Any weed? No. Nothing? Nothing. Here's what's going to happen. You're going to get a citation like I told you for minor consumption of alcohol. Okay. And possessing it is the same charge. You're headed down a path that's not going to be good for you if you're still in beer at 15 and and out at this hour drinking. These guys are 10 years older than you. You're hanging out with guys that are allowed to do that because they're that age, but All right. for you, no. Okay? >> Well, I just thought that I was time to have some fun. No. Well, you got to you got to wait your turn. All right. Your your time to have fun for this is 21. >> You're young and you'll screw all your intestines up before you're even old enough to know what to do with your life. All right. Okay. So, I'm going to give your mom the citation cuz she's responsible for getting you down to court. Okay, she's already been explained to what's going on here. >> to miss work cuz of you. Sorry. You owe your mom an apology, I would say, right? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to take these hand >> go and do all my dishes right now? >> I'm going to take these handcuffs off you. This is the end of it, right? >> Hopefully. Yeah. Hopefully? That's probably not the answer you want to give. >> Wouldn't it be nice if they would guys would lock him up for a day? Well, in the future that could happen to you. >> That would have sucked. You don't want that to happen to you, right? >> All right. This is the end of it, right? Yeah. Okay. You owe your mom an apology. Sorry, Mom. I'm a dumbass. Sorry for what? For drinking under the age of 21 and For shoving beer in your pants? That, too. All right, have a good night. If you're waiting on him, he's in some trouble. All right. His night's over. Yeah, I guess so, huh? Mom's got him now, guys. 132 Elm Bush, I've got him at gunpoint. Okay, gunpoint, 132 Elm Bush, coverage code three. 10-34. Unit 25, 10-20 10-4 on tac two. 10-47 10-47 cancel 10-47 4360. Okay, we'll still send a code three.