Arrests don't get any easier than this

[Hambo]

Detectives have it so easy.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/us/florida-man-police-test-meth-arrest-trnd/index.html

[blues]

I've read similar stories in the past. It's hardly sporting.

Reminds me of my "Dialing for Dopers Case" I've related here in the past.

[Drang]

Ohio police warn meth users drug 'may be contaminated with the Zika Virus,' offer free testing | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/30/ohio-police-warn-meth-users-drug-may-be-contaminated-with-zika-offer-free-testing.html)
Assistant Chief Dennis Blankenship said the Facebook post, which has racked up more than 3,100 reactions and 800 comments as of Wednesday afternoon, wasn't intended to lead to arrests.Uh-huh.

[jlw]

I made a DUI arrest in the lobby of the Sheriff's Office. It's one of three arrest total I have made in the lobby. One other was a woman who came to file a complaint... against a different agency that had executed a search warrant on her residence. I knew they had taken out an arrest warrant on her; so, I arrested her. The other was an irate woman who was given the opportunity to leave and then tried to attack one of the office ladies.

Those are both topped by the guy who ran up to one of our deputies and admitted to child molestation. The mother had found out, and dude was in legit fear and decided our jail and prison was safer than facing the mother.

[Hambo]

Ohio police warn meth users drug 'may be contaminated with the Zika Virus,' offer free testing | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/30/ohio-police-warn-meth-users-drug-may-be-contaminated-with-zika-offer-free-testing.html)Uh-huh.

That is pure evil genius.

[LockedBreech]

Those are both topped by the guy who ran up to one of our deputies and admitted to child molestation. The mother had found out, and dude was in legit fear and decided our jail and prison was safer than facing the mother.

If it was my mom, he's absolutely right. I was almost kidnapped as a kid and my mom came sprinting out of the house with a shotgun.

[psalms144.1]

That sounds like hunting over bait - not sporting at all...

[Coyotesfan97]

The you’ve won a free TV/ come and get it letter to the people on the warrants list always make me laugh.

[Nephrology]

The you’ve won a free TV/ come and get it letter to the people on the warrants list always make me laugh.

I do not doubt for a second that this is a surprisingly effective tactic

[Coyotesfan97]

https://youtu.be/TiLX4bkKguA

Get your free DVD player here courtesy of Chandler PD

[Trooper224]

Drunks stopping to ask for directions, suspended drivers driving to their court appearance, drug pushers wanting someone arrested for shorting them, been there done all that. Thank God they aren't all raving geniuses.

[Jeff22]

In my state after you make an OWI arrest the arrested party can be released to a responsible party who will sign the waiver form. The responsible party has to be sober and have a valid photo ID with a current address.

And sometimes the responsible party drives over and you discover they are suspended or revoked or wanted or drunk themselves. About once a year I get involved in a situation where the responsible party in a case like that gets cited or arrested.

But recently we've had a BUNCH of instances in the last few years where the responsible party is currently suspended or revoked but comes to get their friend in a taxi or an Uber, and as long as they're sober, that's okay.

[RevolverRob]

Drunks stopping to ask for directions, suspended drivers driving to their court appearance, drug pushers wanting someone arrested for shorting them, been there done all that. Thank God they aren't all raving geniuses.

The quote I heard on a LivePD episode a few weeks ago was, "We're really good at catching the stupid ones."

This was after a woman who called the police, was arrested. She was complaining that her husband came home drunk for the 50th time in a row (or whatever) and she punched him in the face. She injured her hand and wanted to file a police report. The arresting officer had a great deal more decorum than I would have had, he very calmly said, "Ma'am, you're telling me you punched your husband in the face when he was drunk and injured your hand?"

"Yes! And I want to file charges, he hurt me!"

"You're under arrest ma'am."

___

I don't think I coulda done that with a straight face. My hat's off to those of y'all who can.

[45dotACP]

Heard from a friend on the job...

"We catch mostly the dumb ones, but we catch so many!"

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[ssb]

In my state after you make an OWI arrest the arrested party can be released to a responsible party who will sign the waiver form. The responsible party has to be sober and have a valid photo ID with a current address.

And sometimes the responsible party drives over and you discover they are suspended or revoked or wanted or drunk themselves. About once a year I get involved in a situation where the responsible party in a case like that gets cited or arrested.

But recently we've had a BUNCH of instances in the last few years where the responsible party is currently suspended or revoked but comes to get their friend in a taxi or an Uber, and as long as they're sober, that's okay.

While assisting with a checkpoint, I was a witness to the following: Female driver arrested for DUI, two young children in the vehicle. Officers agreed to release the children to a relative rather than have DCS collect them, and officers then call the father informing him of the situation. He agreed to pick the children up. Having been told that his girlfriend was just arrested for DUI by those same officers he spoke to on the phone, the father of the children shows up to collect them and is also found to be DUI.

My guess is that the DCS worker didn't have to work very hard.

[blues]

I reported this one elsewhere (https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?22365-The-5th-Amendment-quot-Don-t-Talk-to-the-Police-quot&p=505193&viewfull=1#post505193) but it's worth a replay...


In what I call the "Dialing For Dopers Caper", a late DEA partner of mine was "interviewing" a perp we had arrested with several hundred kilos of coke secreted within hollowed out books. He was giving Paul a really hard time and eventually I went in and read him the riot act.

He began to cooperate and gave us a phone number which was supposedly where we could get in touch with his co-conspirators.

I spoke reasonably fluent Spanish back then and I called the number, (which turned out to be a gym), and told the guys in a panic that the "merchandise" was compromised, and that I was leaving it at the self storage unit (where the original perp was going to bring it). The guy who answered the phone told me that I should wait with it and he'd be along later to take care of it.

We put a team armed with SMG's around the rental unit and waited. About an hour or two later three strapping Cuban dudes showed up, armed, and asked to be shown the "mercancia" (merchandise). We showed them and then arrested them before they could load up their vehicle with the coke.

Turned out, after a long interview, that they had nothing to do with the case from the get-go but were simply responding when "opportunity knocked". The number the perp had given me was just made up on the spot out of the thin air. What were the odds that I'd call a number at random and hook up with a few mopes in search of a score?

You can't make this stuff up.

I asked the ringleader how he knew to go there to pick up the load. He said some Colombian guy called him and told him that the dope was about to be seized by the police. "And yet you still went?"

The look on his face when he found out that this "Anglo" was the "Colombian" he had spoken to was priceless.

[Rock185]

I agree, sometimes arrests are easy,and you can't make some of this stuff up. I've arrested several people in the lobby of the PD. Once a suspect vehicle crashed after a pursuit. We called a wrecker to tow the car. Wrecker driver rolled up drunk, and was of course, arrested. My partner and I once arrested a burglar who'd cut himself breaking class to gain entry to a residence. We insulted him by telling him he couldn't even do a burglary right, and bet he'd never even been able to steal anything at a burglary without hurting himself. Burglar was so offended he showed us another house he'd broken into, without hurting himself, and stolen jewelry. We recovered the stolen jewelry, and booked the burglar for the second burglary. It goes on and on:rolleyes:

[Poconnor]

I was following a car/ suspected DUI one night, just as I was reaching for the overhead lights he stops and jumps out; yells “you got me, I’m drunk” . I mailed a letter to a burglar to come get his “check” for selling stolen golf clubs. Low hanging fruit indeed.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

I might have told this before:

When I was in high school (Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn), the school fronted on a shopping street (Flatbush Avenue). Around the corner from the school was the local precinct - the 67 th according to google today. It is in the afternoon about the time of a shift change with tens of officers and some horses in front of the precinct. A guy grabs a woman's purse on the street. He runs down the street as she yells that he grabbed her purse. He turns the corner towards the precinct with folks chasing and yelling at him. Of course, I follow as a kid. All the officers and horsies lined up charge towards the guy like a movie. He reverses and runs back down Flatbush Avenue with the Charge of the Light Brigade after him. This is the truth, I see one officer draw his gun (the old wheel gun). Another says - Oh, for God's sake. The officer reholsters. I was standing right next to them. The miscreant makes the turn on to Church Avenue where he is swarmed in front of the Kenmore theater. I see an arm waving a purse sticking out from the the scrum and he is yellling - I didn't do nothing!

A squad arrives and he is shoved into it. He looks rather battered and worse for wear. A Brooklynite says to an officer: Hey, wha happened to him! An officer responds: Well, sir - he fell down. You could fall down, sir.

The citizen replies that is quite alright and the miscreant is taken to wherever such went at the time.

The crowd of HS school kids like me who ran up and down the streets following the charge were delighted by the show.

[Coyotesfan97]

We train in secluded, dark commercial business districts oftentimes. We’ll have 6-8 Tahoe’s parked on a dark street. While we’re waiting to run our dog on the training search we stand in the dark. It’s amazing how often BoB (Burglar on Bike) shows up riding dark without a light. You can actually see when he notices all the cop cars because the pace slows and the bike weaves back and forth while he’s deciding what to do. Most of them try to brazen it past us whistling by the graveyard but they always get told to stop. It’s amazing how many warrants you can clear sometimes.

[Jim Watson]

This was after a woman who called the police, was arrested. She was complaining that her husband came home drunk for the 50th time in a row (or whatever) and she punched him in the face. She injured her hand and wanted to file a police report. The arresting officer had a great deal more decorum than I would have had, he very calmly said, "Ma'am, you're telling me you punched your husband in the face when he was drunk and injured your hand?"

"Yes! And I want to file charges, he hurt me!"

"You're under arrest ma'am."
.

My Mother knew a couple of women who got tired of husbands coming in drunk. Neither hurt her hand because one used a skillet and the other a stick of firewood. There was no police action. "The past is a different place, they do things differently there." Cooper.

[blues]

We train in secluded, dark commercial business districts oftentimes. We’ll have 6-8 Tahoe’s parked on a dark street. While we’re waiting to run our dog on the training search we stand in the dark. It’s amazing how often BoB (Burglar on Bike) shows up riding dark without a light. You can actually see when he notices all the cop cars because the pace slows and the bike weaves back and forth while he’s deciding what to do. Most of them try to brazen it past us whistling by the graveyard but they always get told to stop. It’s amazing how many warrants you can clear sometimes.

I remember one time in Brooklyn we were out on a surveillance in a rougher section in the "surveillance van" which was set up to look like one of the vans used by the various "Baby Bells".

It was hotter than hell outside and it was like being in "Das Boot" as I kept the eye via the built-in periscope. I was down to wearing a wife beater and shorts and my partner was similarly attired by this point.

At some point I see a couple of the neighborhood mopes thinking it might be fun to rip off the phone truck. I tell my partner to get ready for some fun.

A minute or two later the back door of the van opens up and these two fledgling hoods' eyes take a moment to adjust from the bright daylight to the cavernous dark inside the van when they realize there are two dudes in various states of undress pointing guns at them.

We told them we didn't have anything for them today.

They didn't know whether to shit or go blind. We didn't have time to screw with them so after a bit of fun we sent them on their way with a stern warning.

[JAD]

My Mother knew a couple of women who got tired of husbands coming in drunk. Neither hurt her hand because one used a skillet and the other a stick of firewood. There was no police action. "The past is a different place, they do things differently there." Cooper.

You're misquoting Cooper, who accurately quoted LP Hartley -- "The past is another country. They do things differently there." And domestic abuse isn't any less awful when a woman does it, or did it.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

To Blues - Being in your shorts and not arrested.

My father was a basketball referee. College and NBA. He was refereeing a game in Syracuse and when the game was over, the snow was really starting to come down. So, they usually showered up before taking the train back to NYC. However, they were told by the local law that the train station was going to shut down because of the snow so they should hurry. The officers drove them to the station without showering. When they get there, it turns out that the train is coming but delayed. My dad and his partner ref decided they had time to go into the men's room and take a sink 'bath' and change their clothes. While doing that, a dude comes in to the bathroom and runs out. He tells the law that two naked men are doing ill in the men's room. The law charges in. They see the refs they just brought to the station and laugh. They inform the worried dude that nothing is amiss. Be calm, citizen. My dad and his partner get dressed, take the train home.

So no arrest.

[Chance]

When I was in high school, we had a student call in a bomb threat from the payphone across from the front office. They caught him before he got off the phone.

[Jim Watson]

You're misquoting Cooper, who accurately quoted LP Hartley -- "The past is another country. They do things differently there." And domestic abuse isn't any less awful when a woman does it, or did it.

Thanks for the correction on the quote, I no longer have the books to look such stuff up.

I did not go into a lot of detail on the stories, but we had no doubt as to which direction the domestic abuse was coming from and it was not from the women.

[txdpd]

We got this naked woman in the street call one night. It's a full moon, she's naked, on her period, and there's blood and shit everywhere. #FML (https://pistol-forum.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=FML)

The heavens parted and the good lord spoketh upon thy radio, "We'll take that call for training purposes". Whether it was divine intervention or an FTO on a divine mission to force his rookie to quit, I do not know. Arrest do not get any easier than that.

[PearTree]

"We'll take that call for training purposes".

Nothing in this world is better than hearing that sentence over the radio. It starts as a groan when you key up for the call, then euphoria when the rookie takes it. Doesn't happen very often where I work, mainly because the majority of fto's are lazy.

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[Coyotesfan97]

We got this naked woman in the street call one night. It's a full moon, she's naked, on her period, and there's blood and shit everywhere. #FML (https://pistol-forum.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=FML)

The heavens parted and the good lord spoketh upon thy radio, "We'll take that call for training purposes". Whether it was divine intervention or an FTO on a divine mission to force his rookie to quit, I do not know. Arrest do not get any easier than that.

Thank you Baby Jesus!

I’ve been the guy saying that on the radio and the look on the boot’s face is priceless.

[Dr. No]

Thank you Baby Jesus!

I’ve been the guy saying that on the radio and the look on the boot’s face is priceless.

"Tighten your boot laces, boy, you're about to do some man shit." -- My FTO