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[Adam Bercovici] It was
November 15th, 2003.
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And I was, uh, you know
having a margarita.
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And my phone rings,
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and it was John Miller, who was
our Civilian Deputy Chief at the time.
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And I'll never forget
what he said. He said,
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"How fast can you get 30
guys down to Burbank?"
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And I go, "What's up, boss?"
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And he says, "I've got one dead and one
circling the drain, both Burbank officers."
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[Stehr] This stuff doesn't happen
in the city of Burbank, and it did.
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[sirens wailing]
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[Mike Pavelka] What started
as the murder of my son,
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got bigger, and bigger,
and bigger.
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[officer 1] They had a direct pipeline
source to a super lab from Mexico.
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[TV presenter] Rival drug
cartels have waged a deadly war...
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[TV presenter 2] Victimssuffered a violent death.
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[TV presenter 1] ...12 moredead bodies.
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[policeman 2] Influence and
might, they've got it all.
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[Mike Pavelka] It was shocking to me,
that someone at the top of city government
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was swept up in the
investigation.
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[Bercovici] A lot of people
watch The Wire, but we lived it.
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[Stehr] Burbank is
a nice suburb.
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It's a bedroom community.
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And of course, we
have the studios.
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Great little downtown area.
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[Stehr] We have a smaller department
of approximately 170 officers.
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Before the incident,
no one during my, uh,
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entire time on the department,
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had ever been shot and killed.
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[multiple gunshots]
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[Stehr] It's not one of
those days you forget.
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At 6:30 in the evening,
my cell phone went off.
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And it was the watch commander
advising me that there'd been a shooting.
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And he told me that this
one was really bad.
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Ah, it looks like we have one officer
possibly dead, we have another officer shot,
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maybe automatic weapons.
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[siren wails]
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[Stehr] I had been promoted
nine months earlier to captain,
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and I was still getting
to know um, the job.
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I left the restaurant immediately
and I just thought, um,
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"This really can't
be happening."
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Came up to the scene which was at
the Ramada Inn, on San Fernando road.
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It was almost
a surreal location. I mean,
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there was a sea of police cars and
paramedics treating Greg Campbell,
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treating Matt Pavelka,
our two officers shot.
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Greg had a background in
military and a background in SWAT.
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Everybody knew Greg.
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Matt was a newer officer, I
believe he had nine months on.
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We were trying to figure out
what had happened.
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Uh, we just didn't know,
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I had gotten information that Greg
Campbell had pulled into the parking lot.
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They made a traffic stop, he requested
backup and that's all the information we had.
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Last I heard, both officers are in the
surgery and being operated on at this time.
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[Stehr] I asked someone to
take me quickly through the scene.
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It was just an overwhelming
looking crime scene.
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Um, bloody gruesome scene.
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[police officer] Around
this side, yep.
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[Stehr] First thing I noticed, you
know, there was a black Escalade.
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And on front of the black Escalade, a dead
suspect was handcuffed to the front bumper
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by the responding officers.
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But I felt this probably involved
a whole group of people.
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Because I saw shell casings,
which appeared to be everywhere,
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six handguns on the ground,
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three car doors open on
the suspect vehicle.
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There was meth in the car
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and I saw an automatic
weapon on the front seat.
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We were worried about the
safety of our neighborhoods.
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Because whoever did it,
shot two officers.
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Obviously they wouldn't
hesitate to shoot anybody else.
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[police radio chatter]
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So due the enormity
of the situation,
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the amount of outstanding
suspects, two officers shot,
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um, searches that
needed to be done,
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Burbank PD could never supply
that amount of officers.
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I requested outside assistance
from our neighboring jurisdictions.
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Glendale PD,
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Pasadena PD,
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Los Angeles Police Department,
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California Highway Patrol,
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Sheriff's Department,
US Marshals, the FBI.
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So it was a huge response.
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2003, I was the
officer-in-charge
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of one of LAPD's
most elite units,
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Major Crimes.
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Our unit was created after
9/11, to aggressively
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pursue terrorism in LA.
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[Bercovici] We did amazing stuff,
we got a rocket launcher off the street.
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We were kicking doors, grabbing
computers, grabbing suspects,
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finding Hezbollah and Hamas and Al-Qaeda
operatives in the city of Los Angeles.
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It was crazy, so crazy that the FBI calls
me one time and goes, "Who are you people?"
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You know, I did like
investigating things.
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I liked being able to put
the pieces together and
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we had surveillance teams and
then we also had investigators.
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We were all the same unit.
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My second night with the unit,
I'm in an unmarked Trans Am
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with a LAPD guy
that I barely know.
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And we're going 120 miles an
hour, busting intersections.
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A helicopter comes
down and swoops in.
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The guy I'm with is yelling at me, 'cause
they've got guns and are pointing them at us.
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"Try to get a shot at these guys," and
I've got an MP5, I unbuckle my seatbelt,
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I stand up in the tee-tops.
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And the surrealness of it, I was,
like, "This is right out of a movie."
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[Bercovici] We were at the
top of our game.
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But when that day in November arrived,
you know, Burbank needed our help.
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As we were setting up a
perimeter and closing the freeway,
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we got word that Matt
Pavelka had passed away.
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[Stehr] So you have to
understand.
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We haven't lost an officer in the
line of duty for over 50 years, it was...
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that shocking of an event
for our department.
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Matt was a newer officer but he
was still part of the Burbank family.
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Everybody knew everybody.
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Getting that call, being told
of what happened in Burbank,
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I remember standing up,
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and the next thing I know, I'm in
the car [laughs] and I'm driving.
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[Bercovici] It was like an out
of body experience.
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Get a page from Adam Bercovici
and it was a 911 page.
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And I called him.
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My first indication that it was a big
deal was he was unusually somber.
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Adam called and asked me to
call people that were underneath us,
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so that we would all
start responding.
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You know, these things are all kinda
going through our minds, you know,
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you know, "Why are we
going to Burbank?"
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"Your officer's down,
what happened?"
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[Applin] The whole drive
thinking about the family.
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I didn't know him but
it became personal
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kind of immediately because I was,
like, "That's any one of us, you know."
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[sighs]
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Sorry.
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[exhales heavily]
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I was...
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dreading somebody having
to knock on my door.
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You know that somebody somewhere
is going to somebody's house,
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to tell them that their son
isn't coming home.
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[Mike Pavelka] I had just
spoken to Matthew
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that evening, just before he
went on shift.
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'Cause he was supposed to come to
Palm Springs the next day and I had set up
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a tee time for us to
play golf together.
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I remember him sitting at the
dining table, in the chair on the phone
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when they told him
that Matt had died.
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And he looked at me
and he said, "Matt's gone."
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So I mean, this was, like,
really shocking stuff, how...
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how my life and my wife's life
had changed in an instant.
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[Sue Pavelka] Matt was a jokester,
he was always pulling jokes on people.
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But he wanted to
make his dad proud.
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When he was little, he couldn't
wait to see his dad in the police car.
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Later when he was growing up,
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he would stick up for, you
know, other... other kids.
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That's just all he ever
wanted to do, you know,
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be in a police car and
wear a badge.
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His life was going exactly
the way he wanted it.
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Nice girlfriend, brand new house,
even had a new truck and a job he loved.
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My wife and I used to talk
about it afterwards and say,
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if Matthew had to choose which
way he would die in his life,
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he would want to
die in a gun battle.
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And don't forget we
were kinda told that,
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"Greg might not make it,
he has a head wound."
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And in my mind, I thought,
"Boy, you know,
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this might not happen once,
this might happen twice."
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[Stehr] Looking back,
I had no idea
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of all the drugs that were involved,
how many gang members were involved,
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how it was actually working
drugs for the cartel.
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But at that time, we needed to find
those responsible for killing Matt Pavelka.
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Ah, I think I heard that recording
several days after the incident.
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Someone had made a copy as
they were doing the investigation,
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and I'd heard it.
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Yeah, it's still tough. Uh, to
think that was his... uh, I mean...
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Young officer crying for help. He's
screaming for help and that's his last words.
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[siren wailing]
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[police radio chatter]
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Well, it was on this corner,
I pulled up that night
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and it had just stopped raining,
that's when I met Tim Stehr.
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[Bercovici] I introduced myself, I did
not know him. I said, "I'm Adam Bercovici,
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I'm from Major Crimes division.
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I've got about 100 people coming
here, detectives surveillance units."
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All of us in law enforcement
joined together.
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But we all understood from the very
beginning that this was Burbank's case.
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[police radio chatter]
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It was assumed that
we were searching for
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at least two, maybe
three different people.
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We got to go, we got to
play, we got to move it.
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We're on the hunt for a cop killer. I
mean, the clock was ticking on us.
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[Bercovici] So we had one dead
suspect, who was killed in the shooting.
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And then the Escalade that
the suspects had been in.
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But that's the only information or
intelligence we have at the time.
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Some of the arriving officers
were some of our gang detail.
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And they recognized
the dead suspect.
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[Stehr] He says, "I think
that's Ramon Aranda.
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Think he has a tattoo on him."
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Someone had moved his shirt, you could
see Aranda was tattooed all the way across.
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That's how we were able to confirm that
he was a Vineland Boyz gang member.
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That's when we need officers that
know everything about this gang.
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[Bercovici] And that is when I
remember Dan Fournier's name came up.
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[Fournier] So before 2003,
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I was working at first as uniformed
gang officer and then detective.
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So I knew this gang.
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Right here, you can see on the
telephone pole.
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There's going to be marks like
this all over this neighborhood.
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But this is how they kinda mark
their territory. You guys can see here.
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So you got Vineland Boyz, VBS
is Vineland Boyz, that sort of thing.
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Lets the community know
that this is their hood.
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So you can see here it's Sun
Valley, that's going to be SV.
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Sun Valley is pretty much ground
zero for Vineland Boyz gang territory.
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[Dan] It's on our
border of Burbank.
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It's in LA's jurisdiction.
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You know, but it's close, you
know, they're within a mile
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of where that shooting
took place.
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[Bercovici] So we knew the
name Vineland Boyz.
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But at that point what I remember,
is that it was kind of a low-level gang.
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[Applin] That gang wasn't on
our radar, in the same way
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Latin Kings or Bloods or
Crips sect would be.
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Vineland Boyz wouldn't have been a gang
that would jump in my mind as doing this.
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I would've thought it would've been
MS-13 or some other type of gang.
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[dog barking]
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Any gang can perform in a violent
manner and that includes the Vineland Boyz.
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Status. Gang members crave
the status,
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the recognition, the identification
and how do you attain your status?
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[Mundo] Anything ranging from
burglary to murder.
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But as a general rule,
you don't attack a cop.
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So, if somebody opens fire
on a law enforcement unit,
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either he's high on dope or
he's some young guy
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that wants to make
a name for his gang.
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[man 3] Within two hours
of the incident,
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we had gotten the registered
owner of the Escalade.
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Came back to an Ameer Khan.
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[Bercovici] When they put him through
the system, it came back that he was a
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Vineland Boy, in terms of
his gang associations.
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So one of the first missions that
I set our surveillance teams on,
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was to go locate that
residence and sit on it.
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[man 4] All right, 32, I no
longer have him, he's all yours.
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[woman] Got it.
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[Bercovici] One thing we know for
sure, Ameer Khan is a Vineland Boy,
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Aranda, who's dead,
is a Vineland Boy.
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It would lead us to believe that
our suspects were Vineland Boyz.
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[Stehr] It was about a quarter
mile north of the Ramada,
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we got the biggest break for us.
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One of the K-9 teams was
sweeping up the freeway,
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on the southbound lanes.
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And they're the ones that
discovered a jacket,
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hanging on the fence,
next to the freeway.
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Inside that jacket had
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a magazine, that matched the
assault rifle that was in the vehicle.
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So that could be an indicator that
it was obviously tied to this crime.
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[Stehr] And it also had a
room key for the Ramada.
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It was at this point that John Williams,
who was one of my senior supervisors,
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was able to go into the Ramada Inn and
find out who that keycard came back to.
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We went to the manager and she gives us the
name of the two people that were in the room.
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One is Ramon Aranda, which is
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known to be the suspect who was
shot and deceased at the scene.
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But the other name she
gives us is David Garcia.
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[Williams] That name is passed on to Diane
Kewin, so we can begin to start working him up.
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[Diane] So there was more
than one David Garcia.
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So we got information
on the David Garcias
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and worked up all the houses,
their associates, the family members,
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people that they'd been known to hang out
with, locations that they've been spotted.
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We don't know who
the shooter is.
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In a case like this, we
need an eyewitness.
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[Bercovici] Our only eyewitness
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is in grave condition,
in the hospital
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and he may not make it -
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Greg Campbell.
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My name is Greg Campbell, I'm a retired
detective from the Burbank Police Department.
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I remember seeing the gun, I remember
drawing my weapon and I remember firing it.
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So, that evening I
shouldn't have been working.
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I was going to take my son to Oakland the
next day for a Oakland Raiders football game.
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And my command staff had
given me the night off.
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But I didn't want to leave the
crew short.
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We hit the street about 6:00.
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Uh, I wasn't assigned any particular beat
in the city, I was a city car all the time.
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My first and usual stop was
the Ramada Inn at Burbank.
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It was dark, it was cold,
it was just starting to rain.
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[Campbell] I was driving through the
parking lot on the north end of the hotel.
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And I saw a black
Cadillac Escalade.
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It was brand new,
no license plates.
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That could either be because it is brand
new or they've taken the plates off of it.
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[siren wailing]
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[police radio chatter]
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[Campbell] It was occupied by
two people, smoking marijuana.
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I asked for identification from Ramon
Aranda who was the driver and the passenger.
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But the whole scene, the location
we're at, the vehicle they were in,
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it just didn't look right.
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I called for backup.
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They assigned Officer Pavelka.
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[Burbank Dispatch] 1L12 back 1L32 Code
6 on a black Escalade at the Ramada Inn.
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2900 North San Fernando.
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Uh, when he approached, he
approached the passenger side.
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Then I called the driver
to step out of the car.
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When he opened the car,
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uh, I missed the red flag.
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[Campbell] Because typically when somebody
opens a car door and they step out of the car,
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they rotate out of the
car counter-clockwise.
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But as Aranda's stepping out
of the vehicle,
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he rotated to his right
in a clockwise manner.
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I see his right hand, but the
very last thing I see is his left hand.
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And I transmitted, you know,
"10-32 shots fired, Ramada Inn."
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Um, not necessarily his shots, but I
was about to fire my gun, I had no doubt.
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And then he fired. His first
round hit me in the stomach.
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When I doubled over, the
second shot went into my head.
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The bullet fragmented and as
soon as that spinal cord was hit,
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I went down, completely
paralyzed from the neck down.
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Pavelka came around
to engage Aranda.
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After Aranda was down, the
passenger got out of the car.
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And he engaged Pavelka
from the back.
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Um...
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and I learned this from a security
camera that caught part of that shooting.
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Standing over him, the
passenger emptied his magazine.
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And then he changed guns
and fired some more.
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You know, obviously unnecessary.
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He was going to put some
bullets into me to kill me,
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but he saw the pool of blood that I
was lying in and decided that I was dead.
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[sirens wailing in distance]
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Um...
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When the first
officer got there,
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he thought that I was dead but he
reached out and cradled my head.
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And apparently when he cradled
my head, his finger
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to the wound at the back of my head, it, uh...
it shook me back into full consciousness.
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He said, "We're gonna go out and get these
guys right now, you gotta go to the hospital."
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I said, "No, I'm gonna go with
you." I said, "Just get me on my feet."
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I said, "For some reason,
I can't stand up."
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And I didn't understand
the injuries that I had.
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So they loaded me in the ambulance
and the ambulance got me down to USC.
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Just by coincidence that night there
were navy surgeons in the hospital,
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helping out the other doctors,
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dealing with gunshot wounds.
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Which probably ultimately
saved my life.
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The prognosis at the time was that I was
going to be paralyzed from the neck down,
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for the rest of my life.
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Late that evening, Greg
Campbell had become conscious.
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We were able to
show him pictures.
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Detectives started showing up
with, uh, photographs, six packs.
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[Campbell] Finally they showed me one and
I said, "Yeah, that's the guy right there."
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I said, "He was the passenger."
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[Stehr] He positively
identified David Garcia
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and he also confirmed that
it was only two people.
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Said if one suspect is dead,
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then the only other suspect
is David Garcia.
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Greg Campbell recovers enough
to identify Garcia as the shooter,
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now we're in business.
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[Diane] You have to do things
quickly because they'll be moved
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and shuffled and taken by different
people, that we don't know who they are.
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If the suspect I'm looking for I know is a
Vineland Boy, we can look at Vineland Boyz.
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[Stehr] Ramon Aranda and David
Garcia were Vineland Boyz gang members,
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Aranda had been around
a lot longer.
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David Garcia was 19 at
the time of the shooting.
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He didn't have the record of some of these
people, but he sure was in for the whole...
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the whole bang.
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I tried to give Matthew advice
in my experience
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in 30 years on the LAPD
and I said "If you get shot"
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00:28:12,445 --> 00:28:18,817
"on this job, my bet would be
that it's going to be
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"from a young kid,
because they have no..."
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"They have no fear."
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[Bercovici] We knew that we
had to get surveillance assets
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into the Vineland Boy
neighborhood.
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[female police officer]
32, Radio check.
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[male police officer]
Down Clear, 32.
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[Armando] Watching David
Garcia's house,
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following David Garcia's relatives,
following other gang members.
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00:28:52,384 --> 00:28:55,353
[Bercovici] We needed to start capturing
plates, capturing car information,
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we needed to get
that intelligence.
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'Cause he's going to get
put into hiding some place.
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In a surveillance team,
the collective mindset was
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to leave no stone unturned.
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[male police officer] Keep
an eye on sectors five and six.
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What surveillance does,
it gives you the one-up.
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You're able to see what's
happening in an area
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or see what a suspect or associates
are doing, without their knowledge.
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00:29:20,946 --> 00:29:24,048
[Armando] Family members,
girlfriends, associates.
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00:29:24,150 --> 00:29:27,118
That might be a place where
somebody might be hiding.
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00:29:27,219 --> 00:29:30,288
[Armando] Just had a
pedestrian walk up to our location.
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00:29:31,624 --> 00:29:33,424
Can't tell if he went
inside, stand by.
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00:29:34,293 --> 00:29:35,426
[policeman] Copy that.
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00:29:36,862 --> 00:29:38,596
And remember, too, that
neighborhood was hot.
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Hot, hot, hot.
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The Vineland Boyz produced
David Garcia
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and the violent mindsets, where they're
going to shoot and kill police officers.
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[Armando] 32, this might
be a problem.
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[policewoman] Roger.
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00:29:55,047 --> 00:29:56,214
Bad things could happen.
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00:29:57,383 --> 00:30:00,018
I think it might be one
of our players, stand by.
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00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:01,786
[police radio chatter]
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There's no room for error.
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00:30:03,589 --> 00:30:06,224
Anyone, uh, in the
area Bueno Vista
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00:30:06,325 --> 00:30:09,727
and San Fernando, who hears
anything suspicious in their yards,
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00:30:09,829 --> 00:30:12,330
under no circumstances,
should you go outside.
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00:30:12,431 --> 00:30:14,732
Make sure the doors and
windows are locked and secured.
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He's very armed and dangerous.
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00:30:30,916 --> 00:30:34,419
[Albanese] Suspect who was
identified was David Garcia.
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00:30:38,791 --> 00:30:42,961
What he did to Matthew, there
are no adjectives to describe it.
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[gunshots]
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Beyond deplorable, despicable.
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00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,203
To put it in technical terms, the
suspect was an evil son of a bitch.
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00:30:54,707 --> 00:30:58,209
So I was definitely focused on making sure
that we kept our head right in the game.
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00:31:03,949 --> 00:31:08,553
A lot of agencies immediately became involved
including the District Attorney's Office.
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We were focused on getting the
shooter, David Garcia, in custody.
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[Richman] I am a judge now but back
in 2003 when this shooting took place,
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I was a Deputy
District Attorney.
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00:31:24,470 --> 00:31:27,872
It's very unique for a DA, at
least in Los Angeles County,
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00:31:27,973 --> 00:31:30,108
to respond to a crime scene.
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00:31:30,209 --> 00:31:34,545
But anytime that you have a
police officer killed, uh
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certain things just
get out of control.
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[arguing]
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00:31:40,252 --> 00:31:44,355
As a detective, you know, one of
your own was murdered, you wanna...
401
00:31:44,456 --> 00:31:46,624
just, you wanna get this guy.
402
00:31:49,895 --> 00:31:56,768
Burbank Police, which hadn't had an officer
killed in 50 years or something like that,
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00:31:56,869 --> 00:32:00,838
I mean, they were just completely
overwhelmed, emotionally.
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00:32:00,940 --> 00:32:04,742
And then we have to keep
emotion out of the situation.
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00:32:04,843 --> 00:32:07,779
When I... When I showed up
that night, there was grief.
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00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,382
You could feel the grief in
the air, people were very upset.
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00:32:13,385 --> 00:32:16,154
And that's a natural human
quality to be upset
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00:32:16,255 --> 00:32:19,290
and to mourn someone you care
about, especially a young guy like that.
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00:32:21,527 --> 00:32:25,029
But we're not gonna act on
revenge, nothing to do with revenge.
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00:32:25,130 --> 00:32:28,499
We were working a complex
investigation to to hunt his killer down.
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00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,569
If there is emotion, we need
to focus it into professionalism
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00:32:31,670 --> 00:32:33,538
and into staying on
top of things.
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00:32:37,710 --> 00:32:39,844
[Stehr] Deputy Chief Mike
Hillmann from LAPD
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00:32:39,945 --> 00:32:42,914
was in charge of Metropolitan
Division, was in charge of SWAT.
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00:32:43,015 --> 00:32:46,250
We had aviation units, we had
SWAT, we had K-9s,
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00:32:46,352 --> 00:32:49,354
I had well over 150 police
officers from Metro.
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00:32:49,455 --> 00:32:52,023
[Stehr] He's the one that
suggested that, "Why don't you let
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00:32:52,124 --> 00:32:53,758
our guys do the search warrants?
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00:32:53,859 --> 00:32:56,594
Because of this level of
emotion on your officers."
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00:32:56,695 --> 00:33:01,099
There were so many names that were thrown
out there, the focus was David Garcia.
421
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,635
But there were other minions
that we were looking at.
422
00:33:04,737 --> 00:33:08,606
[Hillmann] Was he sequestered
with other gang members,
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00:33:08,707 --> 00:33:13,144
with his girlfriend, with
his mother? Don't know.
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00:33:13,245 --> 00:33:15,580
[Applin] He could be any
one of these houses.
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00:33:15,681 --> 00:33:18,850
He's a member of this gang
and these are his people.
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00:33:18,951 --> 00:33:23,888
He clearly has absolutely zero, zero
trepidation about taking on the police.
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00:33:25,724 --> 00:33:28,760
He's got that "I will kill
to get away" mindset.
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00:33:28,861 --> 00:33:31,429
So this is going to be a tactical
problem that requires a SWAT team.
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00:33:39,838 --> 00:33:42,907
I heard a Burbank detective
off to my left,
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00:33:43,008 --> 00:33:46,911
in the corner talking to one of his
colleagues about doing some search warrants
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00:33:47,012 --> 00:33:50,081
on gang member houses and
there were several targets.
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00:33:50,182 --> 00:33:54,185
Maybe nine or ten or 11, I heard
these numbers getting thrown around.
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00:33:54,286 --> 00:33:56,754
And I thought, "This is probably a
place where the FBI SWAT team
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00:33:56,855 --> 00:33:58,790
might be able to lend a hand."
435
00:33:58,891 --> 00:34:01,626
So I asked Adam, he was,
like, "Great idea."
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00:34:01,727 --> 00:34:05,563
So that's how I ended up going
out to my car to get my gear ready.
437
00:34:05,664 --> 00:34:09,167
Checking weapons and flashlights
and making sure everything is good.
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00:34:16,975 --> 00:34:18,976
[dog barking]
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00:34:28,654 --> 00:34:34,225
[multiple SWAT officers
shouting]
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00:34:36,428 --> 00:34:39,030
[police radio chatter]
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00:34:39,131 --> 00:34:42,700
It's in the wee hours of morning,
SWAT served the warrant
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00:34:42,801 --> 00:34:45,470
and then we follow in as
the investigators after.
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00:34:49,341 --> 00:34:50,675
Did not find Garcia.
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00:34:53,178 --> 00:34:55,880
[Williams] But what we did
find has all indications that
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00:34:55,981 --> 00:34:58,983
he had been there and a lot of
items were moved out quickly.
446
00:35:01,019 --> 00:35:07,725
We learned that Garcia's brother had taken
a number of items that were in his room
447
00:35:07,826 --> 00:35:12,196
and placed them into a green,
like, sailor's bag or duffel bag.
448
00:35:12,297 --> 00:35:15,133
And took them across the
street to a friend's house and
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00:35:15,234 --> 00:35:18,069
told him to hide them for him.
450
00:35:18,170 --> 00:35:20,905
We got wind of that and I
wrote a warrant to that house.
451
00:35:25,511 --> 00:35:28,546
So we hit that house and
we got the duffel bag and
452
00:35:28,647 --> 00:35:31,282
the whole bottom part
was filled with ammo.
453
00:35:31,383 --> 00:35:33,518
There was, like, four
or five hand guns.
454
00:35:36,488 --> 00:35:40,324
And a fully automatic
MAC-10 machine gun pistol.
455
00:35:44,029 --> 00:35:48,666
To us, it's significant,
especially being fully automatic.
456
00:35:50,235 --> 00:35:54,071
It means, you pull the trigger and it
continues to fire until the gun's empty.
457
00:35:55,707 --> 00:35:59,777
Typically, your average everyday hood
is not going to have a weapon like that.
458
00:35:59,878 --> 00:36:02,413
Especially not going to have
full automatic capability.
459
00:36:07,819 --> 00:36:09,520
We also found methamphetamine.
460
00:36:12,191 --> 00:36:16,394
Quality of the methamphetamine more of
what you'd call ice, it's a more pure form.
461
00:36:17,262 --> 00:36:20,798
And in large amounts.
462
00:36:20,899 --> 00:36:25,303
This is something we typically wouldn't
see on the streets, this is indication of
463
00:36:25,404 --> 00:36:27,238
a larger lab, somewhere
like in Mexico.
464
00:36:29,274 --> 00:36:33,945
Back in 2003, that normally
doesn't happen [laughs].
465
00:36:36,114 --> 00:36:39,183
So all that information
came back to us.
466
00:36:39,284 --> 00:36:42,253
That's when we started to
realize that we had more than just
467
00:36:42,354 --> 00:36:44,021
some gangsters gone rogue.
468
00:36:45,958 --> 00:36:49,460
We got more than just a simple cop
killing. We got something else going down.
469
00:37:02,574 --> 00:37:04,308
[Bruce] All SWAT officers
are high risk.
470
00:37:07,012 --> 00:37:09,947
I can remember one of the team leaders
once, we had a bunch of gear laid out.
471
00:37:10,048 --> 00:37:12,750
And he asked, "What's the most
important gear on the table?"
472
00:37:12,851 --> 00:37:15,653
And a couple of us were, like, "It's this
helmet, because if you get shot in the head..."
473
00:37:15,754 --> 00:37:20,758
"No, it's this." And he's,
like, "None of that, it's this."
474
00:37:20,859 --> 00:37:24,629
This is life and death, a mistake
has serious consequences.
475
00:37:27,132 --> 00:37:30,601
I spent most of my career
at Metro and in SWAT.
476
00:37:30,702 --> 00:37:33,237
We were hiring people for what
they had between their ears.
477
00:37:44,850 --> 00:37:49,253
First house we hit, it was dark, it
was about three or four in the morning.
478
00:37:49,321 --> 00:37:52,990
Got off the running boards and
made a nice, quiet stealthy approach.
479
00:37:57,729 --> 00:37:58,729
[Applin] We breached the door.
480
00:37:59,865 --> 00:38:02,466
[SWAT officers shouting]
481
00:38:03,702 --> 00:38:05,136
We had flashbanged
the front door.
482
00:38:06,938 --> 00:38:08,139
But there was a second room.
483
00:38:10,475 --> 00:38:12,843
And we were going to
flashbang that room,
484
00:38:12,944 --> 00:38:16,113
and as I looked in, I saw
what looked like a bassinet.
485
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,154
Even though I'm getting told
behind, "Bang it, bang it, bang it,"
486
00:38:24,222 --> 00:38:27,124
I knew the right thing
to do was not throw it.
487
00:38:29,761 --> 00:38:31,762
So I stepped out of line
like you're trained to do,
488
00:38:31,863 --> 00:38:34,932
and I said, "No bang," and
they went in and made entry.
489
00:38:35,033 --> 00:38:37,134
And there was a kid,
there was a baby in there.
490
00:38:37,969 --> 00:38:40,338
[police radio chatter]
491
00:38:40,439 --> 00:38:41,872
[dispatcher] 10-4.
492
00:38:41,973 --> 00:38:43,441
First thing I thought was,
493
00:38:43,542 --> 00:38:46,644
"Why isn't somebody in this
house screaming for their baby?"
494
00:38:46,745 --> 00:38:49,347
I've been on a lot of search
warrants and if there is a kid there,
495
00:38:49,448 --> 00:38:52,216
there's a mama who's
coming to get that kid.
496
00:38:52,317 --> 00:38:56,954
Whether they are a hardcore criminal
or not, that motherly instinct trumps all.
497
00:38:59,057 --> 00:39:02,927
In this particular case when we
asked, "Hey, where's the mom?"
498
00:39:04,996 --> 00:39:11,602
Crickets. "Meh, I don't know."
"Where's Mom?"
499
00:39:11,703 --> 00:39:17,408
How did this baby get left in this drug
house, with a bunch of gangbangers?
500
00:39:17,509 --> 00:39:23,080
At this point, I realized that not
only was this gang pretty violent, right,
501
00:39:23,181 --> 00:39:27,351
but they don't value life the
same way that you or I do.
502
00:39:31,690 --> 00:39:34,358
[Fournier] This is what the
gang does to people.
503
00:39:34,459 --> 00:39:37,595
A couple of years prior to this,
you know, when David Garcia was
504
00:39:37,696 --> 00:39:39,663
you know, a kid, he was
on the swim team.
505
00:39:42,601 --> 00:39:49,206
For a 19-year-old to turn into such
a ruthless killer... just, unbelievable.
506
00:39:50,776 --> 00:39:54,078
Lot of poverty, a lot
of broken homes
507
00:39:54,179 --> 00:39:55,880
and this was just a void.
508
00:39:57,482 --> 00:39:58,649
There's a void in their lives.
509
00:40:02,454 --> 00:40:06,090
This is a brainwashing
process that is taking place.
510
00:40:07,259 --> 00:40:10,928
In my case, I felt
like I was a nobody.
511
00:40:11,029 --> 00:40:13,197
'Cause my dad treated me
like a nobody.
512
00:40:13,298 --> 00:40:15,232
The gang made me somebody.
513
00:40:15,333 --> 00:40:19,904
Somebody special,
somebody to be reckoned with.
514
00:40:20,005 --> 00:40:21,071
It's a big lie.
515
00:40:22,541 --> 00:40:24,508
When I committed my
first homicide,
516
00:40:24,609 --> 00:40:27,678
I killed a fellow street gang
member with a machete.
517
00:40:27,779 --> 00:40:29,413
His head got chopped off.
518
00:40:29,514 --> 00:40:33,484
My state of mind was to unleash
519
00:40:33,585 --> 00:40:37,855
the anger and the fury that
I had built inside of me.
520
00:40:37,956 --> 00:40:41,725
Uh, David Garcia, he got
sucked in by the Vineland Boyz.
521
00:40:41,827 --> 00:40:45,930
I can't speak for him but I can say that
when he opened fire on that police officer,
522
00:40:46,031 --> 00:40:48,065
with intent to kill him,
523
00:40:48,166 --> 00:40:51,068
I don't think, in his mind,
524
00:40:51,169 --> 00:40:54,104
he's really thinking about
what he's doing,
525
00:40:54,206 --> 00:40:57,208
and that's what I'm trying to
convey - that these guys don't think.
526
00:40:57,309 --> 00:41:02,580
I'm not suggesting that we should
feel sympathy for David Garcia.
527
00:41:10,822 --> 00:41:12,089
He committed an
irreversible act.
528
00:41:16,661 --> 00:41:21,065
And at the end of the day,
if you kill a human being,
529
00:41:21,166 --> 00:41:24,635
you're responsible for that act.
530
00:41:24,736 --> 00:41:27,838
We hit, I think, two
houses that first night.
531
00:41:27,939 --> 00:41:32,076
And it was a dry hole, we didn't
find David Garcia, he wasn't there.
532
00:41:32,177 --> 00:41:35,012
[Williams] And when we did, I
wanted to stay right on top of this thing.
533
00:41:35,113 --> 00:41:37,014
I've been involved in other
cases like this,
534
00:41:37,115 --> 00:41:39,783
where as soon
as you take the pressure off,
535
00:41:39,885 --> 00:41:43,354
they're gone.
536
00:41:51,162 --> 00:41:53,297
[phone ringing]
537
00:41:53,398 --> 00:41:55,332
- [woman] Hello?
- [man speaks in Spanish]
538
00:42:00,171 --> 00:42:03,307
[Stehr] If you're trying to find somebody,
you wanna hear what people are saying.
539
00:42:03,408 --> 00:42:06,977
[woman speaking]
540
00:42:07,078 --> 00:42:11,148
[Stehr] So we had wiretapped
search warrants.
541
00:42:12,784 --> 00:42:18,289
So we're listening into the family and
friends talk, with the judge's permission.
542
00:42:18,390 --> 00:42:19,857
And in those private
conversations,
543
00:42:19,958 --> 00:42:22,493
they don't know themselves
where David Garcia is.
544
00:42:24,663 --> 00:42:28,332
That is highly... in my
experience, highly unusual.
545
00:42:28,433 --> 00:42:30,034
They need some kind of support.
546
00:42:30,135 --> 00:42:31,969
[Applin] Typically was, like,
the baby mama house,
547
00:42:32,070 --> 00:42:33,737
somebody that they
were connected to,
548
00:42:33,838 --> 00:42:35,573
like a girlfriend or
something like that.
549
00:42:36,474 --> 00:42:39,743
And when those people don't know
550
00:42:39,844 --> 00:42:42,580
where this fugitive is -
and in this particular case,
551
00:42:42,681 --> 00:42:44,949
David Garcia's own
family doesn't know -
552
00:42:45,917 --> 00:42:47,818
that's a real big tell to me,
553
00:42:47,919 --> 00:42:50,287
that he's got a whole other
network that he's tapping into.
554
00:42:52,724 --> 00:42:55,159
We begin to think that there's
a sophistication involved,
555
00:42:55,260 --> 00:42:56,527
that there's something
else going on,
556
00:42:56,628 --> 00:42:58,829
because they're staying
off the radar.
557
00:43:00,231 --> 00:43:02,967
I don't know the first time
I had the word "cartel"
558
00:43:03,068 --> 00:43:07,438
or that the Vineland Boyz were
connected to a cartel.
559
00:43:07,539 --> 00:43:10,441
At the time, we didn't know
that, but in retrospect,
560
00:43:10,542 --> 00:43:15,245
a lot of the stuff that we had seen
kinda started making sense a little bit.
561
00:43:15,347 --> 00:43:18,782
At that particular time, I had no
idea where this was going to go.
562
00:43:18,883 --> 00:43:22,753
My focus was on
finding David Garcia.
563
00:43:22,854 --> 00:43:25,289
He could be anywhere in the
United States, he could be in Mexico,
564
00:43:25,390 --> 00:43:27,458
he could've gone
to Canada, we don't know.
565
00:43:28,793 --> 00:43:30,127
[Stehr] He could be anywhere.
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