Dragnet: The Big Blonde

The story you were about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a bunker of fugitive details. A man tells you he's been taken for a large sum of money. He thinks it was a swindle.

Your job? Well done. The document had drawn over 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 prescribed from official police violence.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Monday, September 12th. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working a day watch out of Markleview to detail.

And by this time, it's meant the boss is Captain Gideon's planning is right. I was on my way back from communications. It was 2 17 PM when I got to room 38. Uncle Fugitive. Oh hi, John.

Hi. I got it. Uncle Fugitive of Friday. Yes, that's right. But when'd you see him last? Well, how much was it? All right, sir. We'll be here. Well, right away if I were you. Fellas coming in to talk to us.

Yeah. So you gave a friend, I guess, $40,000. Oh. Kind of broke up their friendship. What do you mean? The guy skipped out. 2.42 pm. The man who had telephoned came into the office. He told us that his name was Jeff Planar.

He said he had a real estate business on Rosha Boulevard, and that his home residence was on Rossmore, near Olympic. He also said that on the previous two, he had given $40,000 to a man who called himself Philip Bonham.