CHIP HUTH: We're going into a briefing for a narcotic search
warrant we're about to run.
We're going to hit two apartments simultaneously.
Paul's squad will be hitting one apartment,
while my squad hits the other.
The inherent danger in this situation
is that the apartment doors are situated right
next to each other, which isn't the ideal circumstance
for this type of execution.
[boom]
Our door is-- it kind of looks like a wooden door,
with the letter C on it, and then we go up a set of stairs,
and we go into the apartment.
CHIP HUTH: If Paul's squad leads,
we can come up this little second set of steps
to a little staging area, to hit our door.
And our door is facing west.
[music playing]
[beeping]
PAUL HAMILTON: Now, when you go upstairs to the apartment,
we're going to be in a fatal funnel.
And that's something we're going to have to deal with.
CHIP HUTH: In our line of work, when the stack is forced
into a single file going down a narrow passageway,
we refer to that as a fatal funnel.
What that basically means we're in an area in which we
are real vulnerable to attack.
[music playing]
[beeping]
No questions, so we can get tacked out.
So just you see, where another subject
just entered our apartment.
Another vehicle pulling up.
People come into these-- both these apartments.
We'll get rolling here, and see what we can get.
[engine running]
- Let's get mic here, a mic. - Come on guys.
Hey.
Hey, everybody, hold on.
I'm having a hard time hearing these guys.
Say again?
Copy that.
I don't want to hear anything but steady concentration.
Positive thinking.
Paul's squad is probably wishing
they can trade apartments with us about right now.
Going up a set of stairs like that, having
no idea what kind of weapons you're facing
isn't a good feeling.
OK, we're just a couple of blocks away, guys.
Here we go, gentlemen.
It will be a left turn, and we're going
to be facing this building.
Here we go.
[shouts]
See what you can see.
Police search warrant!
See what you can see, Ryan.
[shouts]
Police search warrant!
[shouts]
Hands up!
[shouts]
Give me the ram!
Go, go, go!
[shouts]
Police search warrant!
Off straight ahead, all right.
All right.
Let me see your hands!
Hands on your heads.
I understand there's babies.
Put the phone down. - Let's--
Hold on these.
We're going to have to hold on these.
Come back out here.
[baby crying] - Sh-sh-sh.
It's OK.
Put these on.
- I got your left here. - All right.
Are we all clear?
We're good.
All right.
Put all the kids behind me in this corner.
CHIP HUTH: Well, we hit our apartment.
As we made entry, we encountered,
we believed to be our suspect, along with another male,
an adult female, and five children,
and that was probably the most hazardous portion
of that entry, was getting those children out of line of fire.
The alleged suspect, he has drugs on him.
So right now, he's being detained
for investigation of possession of a controlled substance.
You can talk to the detective more about that.
I'm not here to debate it.
Ma'am, I'm-- I'm not talking about his charge.
You got to be kidding me.
Thought he heard some sort of look out for him.
CHIP HUTH: All in all, the operation was a success.
We recovered drugs.
We got both of the suspects we were looking for.
We recovered a firearm, a rifle out of the one
that my squad hit.
So we got a gun off the street.
We got some drugs, which sounds like a good end to a great day.
[music playing]
[beeping]
What cell phone?
Do you have the owner of the building?
Yeah, put a screw in here, Matt, to hold this.
That way, it will turn because, it's--
We're trying to repair this door so she can secure it.
We normally don't do this.
[drilling]
--some board to grab onto.
[drilling]
We fixed it, boys.
Hey, that door locks.
Yeah, that will lock.
Terry the tool guy or--
[grunts]