Dragnet: The Big Bindle
Dragnet · May 31, 1951 · 29 min · 4,992 words
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You receive information that one of your city's most fashionable hotels is being used as the clearing house for high-grade heroin. Evidence points to an narcotics ring, the center of distribution. Your job, break it. You'll be amazed when you compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette.
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Smoke Fatima, the quality king-sized cigarette. Fatima, best of all, long cigarettes. Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
police files from beginning to end from crime to punishment dragnet is the story of your police force in action was Tuesday October 5th was foggy and rainy in Los Angeles we're working the day watch out in narcotics division my partners Ben Romero the boss is Captain Kearney my name's Friday was 8 47 a.m.
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