Dragnet: The Big Drills

You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a burglary detail. For the past 18 weeks a gang of safe men have been breaking into large grocery stores all over the city. They work fast. You can't localize their operations.

Your job? Get them. 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.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Wednesday, September 16th, it was hot in Los Angeles. We were working a day to watch out a burglary detail.

My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Wisdom. My name's Friday. It was 7.45 AM when I got to the service station on the corner. The phone booth. 2524 please. Hi, Dick. This Friday. You Romero there?

Oh, not Joe. Thank you. This Friday, Ben. Yeah, where you been? Well my car again, something's wrong with that distributor. I'm gonna leave it at the service station. I'll grab a street car down, huh?

Hey, where at this time? Wilson, I'm gonna stay got to do a lot of good, aren't they? I'm one up from last night. I didn't get into sleep either. Just that time to go home, brush my teeth when this thing broke.

Okay, you said Melrose and Green? Yeah, that's right. I won't wait for ya. I'll go right on out there. Okay. I'm strong and real with just that. Right. I can get over there as fast as I can.

Okay, I'll see ya later, huh? How'd you all just imagine? Yeah. Scammer just said. How's he look? for 18 weeks Ben and I had been assigned to this same case. The burglary gang was victimizing only Wilson Brothers markets throughout the city and in surrounding towns adjacent to the city of Los Angeles. Their criminal activities had given them well over $100,000 stolen from