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NBC brings you dragnet. You're a detective sergeant, you're assigned to narcotics detail. For more than two months,

doctors' offices have been burglarized, hospital pharmacies pillaged,

drugstores robbed, medical supply firms ransacked with one purpose in mind. The theft of narcotics. The criminals are

expert coming vicious. Your job, get them.

Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated themselves by the men who unrelentingly stand watch in the security of your home, your family, and your life.

For the next 30 minutes transcribed in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,

you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police files.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of U-Polic Force in action. It was Thursday, March 23rd.

It was Thursday, March 23rd.

It was windy in Los Angeles.

We were working the night watch out of narcotics. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed

backstrand, chief of detectives. My name's Friday. I was on my way back from the record bureau

and it was 10.35 PM when I got to room 24. Narcotics detail.

Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, we'll be right over. Thank you.

You get anything, Jill? Nothing we don't know already. How about you? That was a county hospital on the phone. Doc Welch. Pretty fairly, I told him we'd be right over. What's he got? One of our informants, Benny Trowns. Ready? What's he got one of our informants Benny Trownzel ready? Let's go

What's with Benny?

Bad shape somebody worked him over they find him in an alley off of South Maine.

Yeah.

Doc says clowns will talk before he passed down.

Anything good?

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