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There are two narcotics warrants
in the same apartment complex.
We're going to hit them both at the same time.
We're going after suspected drug dealers.
This location has an incidence of high gang
activity and drug activity.
I think Misty and Tim are going to get in an unmarked van
and go by and look at the location
and see what kind of information we can gather.
MISTY VANCUREN: We're getting inside this covert van,
which is an unmarked van.
It looks like just your regular old good times van.
The van has covered windows.
You can't see inside, but we can see out.
And we're going to actually drive by the warrant location
and take a look.
We say stop short of that building right there?
Hug up on the building?
Yeah.
It's important that we're in a covert mode.
We don't want to alert any of the suspects
there's any unusual activity out in their area.
That way, we don't risk losing our greatest
asset, and that is surprise.
It look like a good drug house.
He was actually selling when we drove by.
I'm looking at upstairs and a downstairs.
And it didn't look like the doors were barricaded.
It's really busy.
Approaching it may be difficult.
CHRIS D'ALESANDRO: Also, one of the guys
is going to go up in the helicopter
and grab some digital photos of our location
and make sure that the way we go in is the best way
and we look at possible exit points for the suspects.
We can start right here.
And you're going to be here for a while
if you want to start there.
I was going to say, if you take that APC
and pulled it off here.
Yeah.
CHRIS D'ALESANDRO: Right now, we're
going to have a briefing for a drug
warrant, a simultaneous hit.
There are two warrants in the one apartment complex.
One is a stash house, or the house they sell from.
And the other is a smoke house where they go and smoke it.
We're going to hit them at the same time.
Be advised, you might confront a whole bunch of people.
That's Big Boy.
That's the guy I've been buying dope from.
Floor's supposed to be a stash house too.
That's supposed to be a stash house.
Gang members.
And homicide's looking for a suspect inside the location.
The ADs are going to lead up in an APC.
Chris D'Alesandro's going to drive that.
You're at the bottom of that stairs.
You're going to be in this lead vehicle.
Make sure we get there, all right?
All right.
My assignment on this is to drive the armored personnel
carrier and provide perimeter protection for the entry teams
as they make their entry.
If I understand you, you're asking
whether we want to pop those windows
with something other than gas?
No, no.
CHRIS D'ALESANDRO: The reasoning for hitting these places
simultaneous is we can control the evidence,
we control all the suspects.
If we were to hit one and go to the next one,
the potential for losing the evidence
and losing the suspects is greater.
It's going to be a little bit more
difficult because things will be happening in multiple places.
That separates your forces right there.
Everybody good?
All right, let's make it happen.
Today's warrant, we will probably deploy anywhere
from two to four of these.
This is a flashbang, a diversionary device.
We use this as a form of distraction
entering hazardous locations.
The pin's toward you.
You pull the pin out, and you toss it in an underhand motion
through the window.
The flash itself and the noise are what make this work.
People of Dallas, get off the road.
I'm driving this big ol' piece of metal.
We typically don't take the armored personnel
carrier on warrants.
However, this is a simultaneous warrant.
We'll pull the APC in the courtyard.
This might be the last point of cover we have when we
go on this hazardous warrant.
They're running.
They're all running.
Stay out.
Oh, right in there.
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[flashbang exploding]
Down, now!
Come on, get up, get up, get up!
[inaudible] you're doing!
I got three!
[inaudible], stay back!
Stay over there, stay over there!
The flashbang landed on a couch and it starts a fire.
It's an incendiary device.
That happens.
Everybody all right?
Hey.
Got another one walking.
All these people in an apartment that's probably
only maybe 200 square feet.
12 people in a one-bedroom apartment.
They were all over the place inside.
I understand that they found a weapon or two.
They found some rock cocaine, crack.
Found some marijuana.
Got plenty of suspects that were listed
on the warrant out of there.
It's a Remington 870 shotgun.
It's a [inaudible] police officers use.
Be glad that they weren't able to use that
on us going through the door.
It's a devastating weapon.
And until we figure out who's who, nobody's leaving.
If you talk again, you will end up face down on the ground.
CHRIS D'ALESANDRO: We'll keep an eye on them.
Once narcotics gets a hold of them, talks to them,
then we'll decide who gets to go and who gets to stay.
These guys knocked it quick, hit it fast, broke the window.
Surprise was in our favor, and took it down very quickly.
It was a good warrant.