Dragnet: Benny Trounsel - Narcotics

Here's another in NBC's Great Parade of New Shows. Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. NBC brings you Drag Net. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to narcotics detail.

For more than two months, doctors' offices have been burglarized, hospital pharmacies pillaged drug stores robbed medical supply firms ransacked with one purpose in mind the theft of narcotics the criminals are expert coming vicious your job get them triangnet the documented drama of an actual crime investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home your family

and your light. For the next 30 minutes transcribed in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your police force in action.

It was Thursday, March 23rd, it was windy in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out in narcotics. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Backscrant, chief of detectives. My name's Friday. I was on my way back from the record bureau and it was 10.35 p.m. when I got to room 24.

Narcotics detail. Yeah, okay. I will be right over. Thank you. You get anything, Jill? Nothing we don't know already. How about you? That was a county hospital on the phone. Doc Welch. Put it fairly. I told him we'd be right over.

What's he got? Once you got one of our informants, Benny Traumzel. Ready? Let's go. What's with Benny? Bad shape, somebody's worked him over. They find him in an alley off the south lane. Yeah? Top says Traumzel talked before he passed down.