Dragnet: The Big Sucker

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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 partners.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Tuesday, November 9th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of Bunko Fugitive Details.

My partner is Frank Smith, the boss is Captain Diddiam. My name is Friday. I was on my way back from the record division and it was 11.40am when I got to room 38. 38. Bunko detail.

Did it check on? Yeah, there's three possibles. The descriptions don't match too well. We'll have to check them all out again. Uh-huh. The battle with Justin said he'd give us a hand. That's good. Should we get on it?