[upbeat music playing]
-[Pierre] Hey, guys! -[Jerry] Go!
-Time to go home! -Let's go, let's go!
[Pierre] The street's closed!
Working in District 3, we also covered
what we call like, the club district, Ybor.
[Pierre] Hey, guys, go home!
-The street's closed! -All right, let's go!
[Pierre]
little mini Mardi Gras.
We have a historical street
where different buildings and clubs
and you just have super intoxicated people
where they do stupid things.
You just gotta clean up the mess, I guess.
Take care, bro.
-[thunder rumbles] -[foreboding music playing]
[911 operator]
[male victim]
[911 operator]
[male victim]
[911 operator]
[male victim]
There's a 23 at Palm and Angel Oliva.
-They just send it in? -[Bethany] Yeah.
Black male with dreads,
no shirt, took his book bag.
[Robb]
[dispatch]
[Robb]
Jerry!
[Pierre] Let's go, man!
Someone just... made a robbery.
-Right down the street. -[Jerry] Yow.
[dispatch]
[Bethany] Yeah, this guy's in the park.
[male victim]
[Robb] Which man?
[male victim]
Which way did he go?
All right, we're going that way. All right.
Three-nine-one, we got flagged down,
saying he went eastbound on 12.
[dispatch]
Oh, my gosh.
[Robb] ...three robberies right now.
Three-nine-one, did they show a gun?
During these robberies?
He was able to take that much stuff from people?
I think he's pointing it in their face.
[female dispatch]
[Robb] So he is armed.
[Bethany]
within maybe, five minutes.
If we come up on him, be careful, though.
He sounds crazy.
[Bethany]
dangerous criminals,
because they're reckless,
and without regard for anybody else.
[male officer]
-[car engine revving] -Oh, boy.
[Robb] This is gonna be a good time.
[male officer]
Hey, do me a favor and cut the lights, please.
[officer]
[foreboding music playing]
He's gotta be right here.
[Nikki]
No, we came from this way. We didn't see him.
[male dispatch]
Oh, where'd you go?
[Jerry]
I went left, Jergens went right.
And then we had Officer Nikki searching as well.
It's a bad spot to be, 'cause we can't see anything.
And he's armed, so he can shoot you from anywhere.
You don't know where it came from.
So you're scared, but you gotta kinda fight through it.
[Jerry]
and I see the Burger King, it's closed,
empty parking lot, I see the dumpster.
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[Jerry]
and it's like, one's partially open,
which piqued my interest.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Jerry] Clear.
[tense music playing]
[Nikki]
[Jerry] Let me see your hands!
Don't move!
[Nikki]
[Jerry] Get on the ground. Get on the ground!
Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back.
Oh, he was hiding in there.
[indistinct radio chatter]
-[Jerry] Good. -[Nikki] Move it.
[Jerry] Don't reach for anything, bro.
[suspect]
[Jerry] I understand. Spread your feet, man.
Oh, we're getting frustrated,
'cause I'm like, he couldn't have made it that far.
[Nikki] We're missing the gun.
[Jerry] Could've dropped it somewhere.
[Nikki]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Pierre] Hey, I got it back here!
I got it back here.
[Jerry]
which was loaded.
And he had a magazine in his back pocket
that was fully loaded also.
[indistinct chatter]
[suspect]
[Jerry] Just, uh, just a little advice.
When you say you'll shoot a cop in the face,
that's an extra charge.
So you might wanna keep your mouth shut.
[suspect]
[Jerry] Yeah, all right, man. Have a seat, bro.
Sit back.
[Jerry]
he saw us searching that U-Haul parking lot,
so he could've killed us.
If he wanted to, but thank God he didn't.
What a nice gentleman.
It sucks, it's scary, but...
luckily, I made it home, and, you know,
God willing, so...
on to the next day.
I mean, to do three armed robberies in one night,
and within 15 minutes of each other.
Mm-hm.
That's pretty gutsy, though. Really.
What he's done...
he's looking at 10 to 20 to life, on all three.
And he just turned 18.
[Robb] He just took his life...
put it in John C. Crapper and flushed it.
-[laughs] John C. Crapper? -Yup.
You know it's probably not the first time he's robbed someone.
It's the last. [chuckles]
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