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whoa! >> shocked -- >> see him? >> snagged -- >> get on the ground! >> and stunned. >> he just pulls a gun out and says, "you need to give me all your f'ing money." >> undercover cops ambushed. >> i was shot three times. >> sheriff's office, stop! >> shoppers with sticky fingers busted. >> i'm going to tase you. >> an armed bus rider tackled. >> drop the gun! >> you are busted, buddy. >> and a video vigilante cracks down on crime. >> how about you not be having sex with hookers back here, buddy? >> caught by surprise -- >> she just punched me like a dude in the face. >> with only seconds to react. >> i said, you need to get the "f" out of here before i blow your f'ing head off.
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>> there's no turning back, and it's all caught on camera. an undercover surveillance operation quickly erupts into a violent shoot-out with one police officer in the fight for his life. >> i cannot believe that i survived something like this. >> john savedra has been a narcotics detective in miami since 2007. to crack down on the drug trade in miami-dade county, detective savedra and the fbi target grow houses, otherwise ordinary looking homes used to illegally plant, grow, and sell marijuana. in 2012, they set their sights on a suspected operation in west miami-dade. >> the plan was to get to the house, see who was coming in and out of the house. once the surveillance takes
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place, the plan then changes to, okay, let's go ahead and knock on the door and find out who lives there and talk to them and see if we can get consent. >> july 31st. go time. it's all captured by security cameras installed outside the house. but right before the team makes its move, a man emerges from the house and briefly out of the officer's sight, enters a vehicle parked in the driveway. seconds later, unbeknownst to savedra, he walks past a potentially dangerous threat in the car and heads toward the front door. >> i'm the first one to approach the residence. before we can knock on the door, someone exits the residence. >> caught by surprise, the other armed officers approach the home. >> i say, police, in a friendly manner. i actually have a smile on my face as i'm approaching. >> but as the mood quickly
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shifts, savedra realizes this will not be a friendly call. >> i loudly say, miami-dade police. >> officers are not aware the second suspect is in the car. as tensions mount, officer savedra finds himself in great danger. >> he begins walking away from the house, actually making me give my back toward the house and anything that was behind me. putting me at a disadvantage of anything that's behind he. i don't know what he's trying to do, but i feel he's alerting someone. my partner comes from the other side and grabs the other side of him. we're facing him. he's facing us. our back is towards the vehicle that's parked there and toward the house. so we're at a disadvantage at this point. >> as the officers scramble to contain their suspect, another threat emerges, not from inside the house, but from the car parked behind them. >> to my surprise, a second subject exits the vehicle that's parked right behind me. and he exits the vehicle with a firearm.
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>> as savedra and another officer attempt to control the screaming man, fbi agents move toward the second suspect. the stakeout reaches a boiling point. >> at that point, i see the subject that emerged from the vehicle with a gun in his hand pointing it at the fbi agent, directly at him. i was in fear for his life immediately, in fear for my life. >> suddenly, the second suspect begins firing. within seconds, the narcotics investigation goes from a knock on the door to a no-holds-barred wild shoot-out. >> i draw my firearm and began firing. he points at me and begins to shoot. >> bullets are flying, and savedra is directly in the line of fire. >> as i'm firing, i get struck in my abdomen. the right side of my abdomen, right below my vest. >> as the scene plays out, the chaos is captured by the security cameras. an injured savedra attempts to hold his ground while the
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shooter, also wounded, takes cover behind a tree. >> as i'm shooting, i try to take a step toward my left to get a better angle as i'm shooting. but as i take -- as i'm taking a step, he shoots me in the leg. and that's the round that takes me down. >> in just a few moments, savedra has been shot three times and continues to battle the first suspect. >> now i'm engaged in a hand-to-hand combat with this guy after being shot. still while the shooter's standing behind me, directly behind me. i eventually am able to fight him off. i'm able to find cover. i see that i'm shot. and i take a deep breath and i say to myself, okay, i'm not -- i'm not going to allow this to take me away. i'm going to pull through this. i'm going to be here for my family. >> severely wounded, detective savedra drags himself across the street to call emergency responders. meanwhile, his fellow officers
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take aim and take down the second suspect. >> i was shot three times. i had to have an exploratory surgery, so i was cut wide open. one of the rounds that hit my abdomen went in and out. the other round went across, went through my stomach, it penetrated my bladder, penetrated my intestine. and it's still lodged in my left hip. it was too risky of a procedure to be able to take it out. >> at the suspected grow house, authorities find 80 pounds of marijuana valued at $280,000. the shooter, gerard delgado, dies as a result of injuries sustained during the shoot-out. the initial suspect, luis estevenel, is charged with second-degree murder because of the death of delgado, possession of cocaine and trafficking marijuana. he pleads not guilty to all charge. because of his injuries, savedra misses work for 14 months.
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in 2012, for his courage under fire, the miami-dade police benevolent association names savedra police officer of the year. >> every day we leave our house. we kiss our family good-bye. it could be the last day. it could be the last time we kiss them good-bye. we kind of try to prepare ourselves for this, but when it actually happens, it's -- you're not prepared enough. coming up, prostitutes and johns, beware. >> you are busted, buddy. >> there's a video vigilante on the prowl. >> how about you not be having sex with hookers back here, buddy? and -- >> i pulled my weapon out and stuck it to his mouth. >> a gun-slinging customer messes with the wrong store clerk. >> i said, you need to get the "f" out of here." >> when "caught on camera: point of no return" continues. ♪
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>> street prostitution runs rampant. >> just girls walking around in jeans and cutoffs and t-shirts and waving at cars. >> and one man takes the law and a video camera into his own hands. >> you picked up a girl on the street for sex who's waiting to go get food stamps. instead of giving her $20 and going get yourself something extra, okay, that's great. we can pull over here and have sex and get you to the food stamp store in plenty of time. i almost lost it. >> brian bate, a self-proclaimed vigilante, run johntv.com it expose a widespread culture of prostitution on a main thoroughfare -- south robinson avenue. >> it started in 1996. i was working at a local hospital. i was in their marketing department. i lived downtown to be close to my work. i had never seen prostitution. i didn't know it existed. i thought we had an awful lot of friendly people in my neighborhood. a lot of ladies walking around. a lot of cars driving around.
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a lot of people waving at each other. i soon realized that was prostitution. >> as seen previously on "caught on camera," bates sets out to clean up the streets. in even more recent videos, exposes the exposed. [ bleep ] >> i cooperated with the police, i joined my neighborhood association. one day i decided to use my video camera. i walked up to a car. i walked up to a car. a prostitute was engaged in sex with her customer. what do you say? i uttered the words, you're busted, buddy. you're busted, buddy. >> he follows a couple to an alley at an apartment building. isn't long before he catches them in the act. >> how about you not be having second with customers here, buddy? >> the john attempt to flee but not before taking out the side view mirror of his car. >> that's expensive. >> after another gotcha moment, the alleged prostitute demands the driver take off immediately.
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>> he's not going anywhere. >> no, drive! go, drive! drive! drive! >> he's not going anywhere, it's a felony -- >> drive! >> when bates sets his sights on any suspected sexcapade, he's not exactly shy when approaching the vehicle. >> when i walk up to the vehicle, if the car door's unlocked, i'm going to open it, literally catching with your pants down. people want to know all the time, isn't that breaking and entry. years ago i had gone to the d.a.'s office. they had determined that while it was ill advised, it was not illegal. it's not breaking and entry because it's not your home. you're busted, buddy. you you are busted, buddy. you're busted, buddy. it also doesn't qualify as trespassing. >> for bates, it's not just about shaming johns. footage of the lewd acts is handed over to police to be used as evidence. >> when i turn these tapes in, they're investigated for about a week, charges are filed against anybody who can be identified.
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john gets charged. prostitute gets charged. i literally serve this up on a silver platter. >> while patrolling the area, bates has snagged men from almost all walks of life. >> i've caught pastors, i've caught firemen, i've caught blue-collared workers, professionals, single men, married men, elderly men, high school guys, you name it. >> as a video vigilant, baits makes no excuse for exposing the alleged johns. >> rarely do i feel sorry for anyone that i catch. there are those moments that you literally in the middle of it you want to shut your camera off, shake your head and walk away. >> please, this is -- >> you made it -- >> this is the first time. don't do this. >> bates does not view prostitution as a victimless crime. bate says that after he witnesses what he believes to be an altercation, he jumps to this woman's defense. >> go, right now. get the [ bleep ]. move it now. go! move your [ bleep ]. >> you know you're [ bleep ] --
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>> move, move! i will beat your ass down if you make a move on me. move! are you going at a woman because you're a [ bleep ] coward. move! >> over the years, bates has grown more concerned about what he says is the bigger problem -- underage sex and human trafficking. >> if you would have asked me seven or eight years ago does child prostitution, child trafficking happen in oklahoma, i would have been in lockstep with every other oklahoman and say it doesn't happen here. i can absolutely tell you that's a complete lie. the problem is when the girl is only 11, 12, 13, 15 years old, she's worth a lot of money to her pimps. you can sell her for more than you would sell somebody else. >> in 2013, this harsh realty becomes even more clear to bates when authorities ask him to be on the lookout for an underage girl missing and in trouble. >> the officer just said, you know, there's this girl, she's under age, she's run away. we're trying to locate her. i'm going to send you a picture of her on your phone. you probably won't see her on robinson because they're working her on the internet.
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but just in case you do, you might give us a call. >> later that day, bates does spot the young woman working the streets. >> 45 minutes later, i can't believe it, but i'm pretty certain she's standing right in front of me waving at cars as they go by. i zoomed in on her with my camera, froze one of those frames, took a picture of it with my cell phone off of the little screen on my camera, and texted that off to a vice officer and said, you know, you may think i'm crazy, but is this your girl? >> the girl's identity is quickly confirmed. as she enters a vehicle, police rush to the scene hoping to arrive before she's driven away by her customer. >> i'm on the phone with vice going, you guys have got to get here. he's got the cash. you've got to hurry. i may lose him in traffic. then they drive. they end up going to a very popular store parking lot. they look like they're engaging in a lewd act. i'm not going to let there 15-year-old get raped. despite whatever your thoughts are, she's 15. >> as bates waits for authorities, every minute counts.
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>> so i'm ready to get out and confront him, but i know he's going to take off. about that moment, here come all these unmarked cars from every direction, hopping curbs and you name it, and stopped the car, get the girl out. they detained the guy. and the vice officer says, that's her, we got the girl we were looking for. >> i appreciate your help on this. >> it's one of those moments where you stop and go, you know what, everything you've been through, it's worth it. as long as prostitution exists and as long as people are willing to sell and buy our children, i'm going to continue to do exactly what i'm doing. >> for more than 16 years, brian bates has scoured the community waging war on prostitution, armed only with a video camera, steadfast in his mission. >> if you engage in that activity, i guarantee you at some point you are going to run into me, and it's going to be the worst day of your life. >> if bates can't confront you face to face, he'll still track you down on his phone. >> yeah? >> yeah, i was wondering if i
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could ask you something real quick. i know you're married and got two kids, so what are you doing picking up a pregnant street prostitute on robinson and taking her to that hotel room? coming up, during an attempted liquor store robbery -- >> reached down and pulled his -- pulled his gun up. >> -- an armed store clerk stands his ground. >> i just decided, no, it's not going to happen. and a father seeking revenge takes aim. [ gunshot ] when "caught on camera: point of no return" continues. t instant x collection fills wrinkles, reduces the look of pores and smoothes texture for a skin makeover in minutes. instant fix perfecting collection. olay. your best beautiful. so, what'd you think of the house? did you see the school rating? oh, you're right. hey, babe, i got to go. bye, daddy. have a good day at school, okay? ♪ [ man ] but what about when my parents visit? okay. just love this one.
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a liquor store clerk suddenly finds himself in a frightening standoff during an attempted armed robbery. >> he just looks at me and then turns around and says, pulls the gun out and says, give me all your f'ing money. >> august 30th, 2013. john alexander's shift at the beer 30 liquor store in marionville, missouri, starts out like any other. that is until an unfamiliar and suspicious customer walks
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through the door. and it's all caught on camera. >> about 9 -- between 9:00 and 9:30 at night. and i had a gentleman that came in, smoking a cigarette. and he had tattoos all over him and stuff. i asked the gentleman, i said, sir, we don't allow smoking here in the store. i said, can you please take your cigarette back outside. he just stood there, you know, starry eyed at me and took off puff off the cigarette. >> alexander begins to think he might have a major problem on his hands. >> just the look on him, looking dead in my eyes, and i can tell he's not hearing what i'm saying. what he's doing is trying to do is trying to psych himself up to do what he's come in there to do. >> alexander tries to remain calm, allowing the customer, whose name he later learns is arvin brandon smith, to make the next move. >> as soon as he put his cigarette down, he reached down, pulled his gun up, and was telling me, you need to give me all your f'ing money.
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>> alexander, the only employee in the store at the time, takes action. >> as he pulled the gun up, i locked his hand to keep it from coming up any higher. >> alexander stares straight into his eyes in aa spine-chilling life or death standoff. >> if they have a weapon and are coming to rob you and don't have a mask, they don't care because you're not going to live past that. they're going to kill you. they're going to get what they want and kill you. i decided, no, that's not going to happen. >> alexander is determined to stop the robbery in progress. >> if you want money, you got to get a job. earn it like everybody else does. >> a mighty work ethic developed during his 30-year career in the united states military. alexander is always ready when necessary to protect and defend. >> i've been carrying a weapon ever since i was 18 years old, and i continue to carry one. and i have one with me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. i have one sitting on me right now.
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just a -- just part of me. you know, you're not going to come in there -- at least not while i'm working -- and think you're going to come in, get something that don't belong to you. >> when alexander sees an opportunity, he draws his weapon. >> i pulled my weapon and stuck it in his mouth and said, you need to get the "f" out of here before i blow your f'ing head off. >> roles officially reversed, smith finds himself tasting alexander's .9-millimeter handgun. >> as soon as i placed that weapon where i did, on his mouth, it seemed that time stopped completely for him. at that point, he kind of like looked at me and then kind of looked down real slowly with his eyes. >> his gun still drawn, alexander holds his ground and allows the perp slowly to back his way out of the store. >> he never turned away from me. he kept facing me until he got out the door, and then he high tailed it off to the right side of the building.
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so everybody was lucky that night. he was lucky he didn't get shot. i was lucky i didn't have to pull the trigger. >> alexander immediately calls for help. in hindsight, alexander worries what might have happened had someone else been working that night. >> i think if it had been somebody else that he would have got what he wanted and the other clerk may have been killed or may not have been hurt, but i would almost say that -- he would have been hurt. >> alexander remains thankful he exercised restraint. >> i prevented a person from losing his life. >> crisis averted by a store clerk standing his ground in marionville, missouri, without firing a single shot. three months later in seattle, what looks like another gun-toting robber meets his match when bus passengers throw him to the ground. and the melee is all caught on camera. november, 2013.
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a 19-year-old seattle man can be seen in security camera footage sitting toward the back of a king county metro bus. within minutes, he approaches a female passenger and appears on the videotape to swipe her cell phone. a few seconds later, another phone is allegedly plucked from an unsuspecting commuter. most riders on the bus are unaware. that is until he walk forward brandishing his weapon in plain sight. after a few more steps, he lifts and points the gun. but this time, a startled would-be victim leaps to his feet and grabs the weapon. other bus riders quickly band together to take justice into their own hands. >> drop the gun! >> some passengers scramble, but a small group jumps the armed suspect and throws him to the ground. a frantic female rider on crutches tries to flee, but the
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brawling pack has landed on all her belongings. >> i have to get my stuff, please -- i have to get my stuff! >> punches are flying. despite three men holding him down, the suspect refuses to let go of the gun. [ shouting ] >> you're hurting me! >> he's breaking it -- >> as tension mounts, one of the riders screams for help. >> call the police! >> after five more minutes of intense struggle, authorities arrive on the harrowing scene. the suspect is eventually charged with two counts of first-degree robbery, one count of attempted first-degree robbery, and one count of second-degree robbery. the suspect eventually pleads guilty to one count of first-degree robbery and one county of attempted first-degree robbery. >> drop the gun! coming up, a shocking close-range shooting. >> i understand exactly what my father did. and cops on the prowl -- >> i'm going to tase you! >> crack down on crime. >> i wasn't going anywhere. >> you were running from me!
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here's what's happening. israel's declaring a humanitarian truce for the gaza strip on monday. meanwhile, the u.s. and u.n. condemning israel's shelling of a school in gaza where civilians were seeking shelter. ten people were killed. toledo, ohio, residents are advised not to use the tap water after high levels of toxins were found. and u.s. doctor that contacted the ebola volunteering in africa is said to be improving at an atlanta hospital. back to "caught on camera." a trusted martial arts instructor is accused of kidnapping and abusing one of young his students. the victim's father uses a gun to take matters into his own hands.
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and the horrifying scene is all caught on camera. 1983. jeff doucet teaches martial arts to children in louisiana. >> there's a lot of throws, takedowns, arm bars, wrist locks, and choke holds. >> doucet appears to take a special interest in one of his students, 11-year-old jody. 1984, jodie disappears, and the instructor is also gone. >> we went to, anaheim, california. i went to disneyland for the day. >> decades later, as an adult, jodie remembers vividly being taken across the country. >> this was kidnapping. he had no right to take me. i went willingly. people can't comprehend, why would you go willingly with him to california. i will say this, that was the closest i ever came to telling what was going on because i didn't want to go to california.
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>> afraid of upsetting his family, jodie cars to california a dark secret about jeff doucet. >> jeff had been sexually abusing me the year leading up to california. i mean, there's all kind of molesters throughout and most of them are someone that the kid knows and trusts. >> back home in louisiana, his parents, unaware of the alleged abuse, hope for any sign of their son. finally, their phone rings. >> he allowed me to call my mom, say that i was okay. we were running out of money. and so, you know, when you're kidnapping and you call collect, you're asking to be caught. >> the police monitoring the family's phone line trace the call. minutes later, officers in california stormed the motel room. >> that door came busting open. and, you know, they're covering, they got guns on him, gun on me. guns in my face. and i mean, i immediately was like panicking. they grabbed me, pulled me out. a cop walked over to jeff and said, i ought to punch you in the f'ing face. you know, they drug me out by the swimming pool and sat me down. i was out there shaking. you know? they were like, are you cold?
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i'm like, no, i'm not cold. they're like, well, why are you shaking? i'm like, because you all had 100 guns in my face. >> john pastorich, a local reporter, interviews jodie's father, gary, as he waits for his son to be returned safely the next day by the authorities. >> we did a long interview about what the family was going through. >> we were scared, and our reaction of just erratic at times. we just didn't know what to think. it's just the waiting that, i don't know, is a lot of waiting. we didn't know what to do. you just feel helpless. >> he was definitely a worried father. he wanted to celebrate because his son had been found and was on his way home, but he was just very anxious. >> a sense of relief for a worried father. but no one knows the true extent of gary plouchet's anger. the next day in front of local news cameras, jodie is reunited with his family. >> jodie. >> yeah. >> look at me, baby.
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>> did you learn anything from this? >> yes. how much i love my children. really how much. it's just -- it's a lonely feeling. it's -- it's very emotional. >> days later, authorities are set to bring jeff doucet back to louisiana. retired sheriff's deputy michael barnett. >> i was one of the two people who went to california to pick jeffrey doucet up and bring him to baton rouge as a prisoner. >> as authorities move the accused through the airport, the team is on high alert. aidan mcgoll films the arrival for a local television station. >> i was up in the -- just off the security area where the plane -- where the passengers would leave the security area. and i notice a gentleman standing by the bank of phones which was about eight feet from me. >> that gentleman is the victim's father, gary plauche. >> i didn't pay too close attention to him because he
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seemed like just a normal passenger waiting for someone. >> i didn't know that gary was standing there. i didn't recognize him. i was looking behind the tv lights to see who else was there. >> i had my reporter go close to the security side to let me know when the suspect, jeff ducett, was being brought in. as he was coming, i zoomed in and zoomed out. we're all lined up. the person on the phone, jeff doucet, and myself on the other side of him. >> gary is now in arm's reach of his son's suspected abuser. with his camera, aidan mcgoll videotapes what happens next. a shocking close-range shooting after gary takes aim. >> once i was past the pay phone, six feet or so, he turned and fired. [ gunshot ] >> i hear this pop, and it's almost like a firecracker.
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>> i turned around, i recognized gary at that point because he was facing me. >> barnett's disbelief can be heard in the footage. >> gary! why, gary? why? >> the film shows i said "why?" he's got a house full of children, and now he's going to spend the rest of his life in a penitentiary. i mean, who's going to take care of your kids? why did you do this? i've known gary since high school. laid-back. last person in the world you'd think would be aggressive. >> photographer aidan mcgoll, now an assistant district attorney, the cameraman -- >> i follow jeff who is all of a sudden falling, his body is completely limp. and he turns his head. i could see coming out of his right ear blood. and as i pan up with my camera, i can see gary plauche standing there. and almost immediately the two officers who was escorting jeff doucet pounce upon him. >> i turned and got the gun away from gary. gary just gave up after he shot.
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we took the handcuffs off jeffrey and put them on him. gary was almost catatonic. not aggressive. not trying to get away. just, i did it. >> i've covered war zones. i've been to political conventions, interviewed presidents and i'd never seen anything like that. >> doucet dies from a single gunshot wound to the head. gary plauche is take spend custody. >> he has been actually arrested and booked with second-degree murder. >> jodie plauche finds out his father has killed jeff doucet, and that it was all caught on camera. >> they told me they have video coverage. do not watch. do not watch the news. i watched it. i've seen, it and now i know what happened. >> after the shooting, the story dominates local news, and a wave of support grows for jodie's father. >> the next day, the phone was just swamped with people calling, and i would guess 19
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out of 20 were very upset about us even booking him for murder. the vast majority of people said, what would you do> he deserved what he got. that sort of thing. >> in the end, gary plauche pleads no contest to manslaughter and is sentenced to five years probation and community service. >> as a prosecutor, you have to make decisions on every case. here the evidence was clearly a murder had taken place by gary ploucet against jeff doucet. you have to take into consideration the impact on the victim, jodie, who would have to relive some of the horrors that happened to him as a witness in a case in which his father is being charged with murder. >> i understand exactly what my father did. he got lucky because he didn't go to jail. but i understand. >> jodie plauche remains vocal about his abuse as a child and hopes speaking out will continue to raise awareness and provide
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hope to other victims of abuse. >> if are you a victim of this type of abuse or sexual abuse or even just physical abuse, with the proper support and counseling, my family was my support, you can be okay. you don't have to be scarred for life. coming up -- >> sheriff's office! >> thieves on the loose. >> stop! get on the ground! and an angry mom comes out swinging. >> see him? >> what the -- >> that's when [ bleep ] got real. >> when "caught on camera: point of no return" continues. mon and. but the energy bp produces up here mon and. creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work.
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shoppers caught on camera with sticky fingers. busted -- >> sheriff's office! stop!
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get on the ground! get on the ground! >> lieutenant john jurnigan has been with the sarasota county sheriff's office for 20 years. he heads a task force to crack down on wide spread retail theft from his community. >> the money that is lost from the store, the sales tax money the state is losing, it impacts everybody. >> through the year 2013, the routine operation dubbed "booster buster" has snagged a bunch of boosters. 131 arrests with 222 charges. >> how was it? >> the term "booster," is a term used for shoplifters. and that is the act of taking merchandise within the retail establishment and concealing it on their person or simply walking out the door without paying for it. everything from a pack of gum to 60-inch television sets still in the cardboard box, from inside the store right out of the store, without stopping at the register. >> the busters are police officers looking for any suspicious behavior.
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some in plainclothes posing as shoppers. others in uniform circle retail parking lots, scoping out the area's more well-known offenders. and in sarasota county, it's caught on camera. sheriff tom knight and his force see them coming a mile away. >> we know the boosters. they will get off the interstates and hit the lowe's, the home depots, the targets, sports authoritys, strip plazas, strip malls off the interstate systems. >> walking through the door now. >> the crime hunters work closely with store employees. >> these stores will have a couple people on duty at the particular time. some will be in a storeroom monitoring cameras, and there could be a secondary person out on the floor watching these individuals in person. meanwhile, a law enforcement officer in the parking lot texting or by cell phone, they'll communicate with the deputies. >> authorities and retail chains cracking down on criminals who come up with new ways to cheat the stores.
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some swindling scanners swipe fraudulent coupons at the self-checkout counter. >> that's a pretty good scam. good catch. very good catch. >> while others ring up only a few of their bagged items. >> i'm going to see absolutely everything in these bags that's going to be this receipt, correct? >> should. >> okay. because i'll tell you right now it isn't. >> bring up one item and put two or three in the bag. >> i rang them the best i could. i had to bring -- >> searching another suspected shoplifter, officers find more than just a few stolen shirts. >> put this in a bag for you. >> surveillance cameras capture this woman stuffing brand new items into her own clothing. >> my contact, seen the stuff bulging out of the clothing. i could feel bulges here and here, and she has clothes concealed all in her front. she's got all this brand new clothing back here. this stuff all has tags on it.
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>> another bandit steals big from a local walmart. >> there's your guy running out right now. >> get him. he's running through the parking lot. towards 41. >> when he would first enter the store, he would select a shopping cart, go right to the flowers, and pick up a nice bouquet of flowers and set them on top of the cart. he would immediately go to whatever section he wanted to steal from that particular day, select an item, throw it on top of the cart, and he would wheel these items right out the front door. >> the suspect is on the move and has only seconds to get away. in hot pursuit, authorities rush the scene. >> i'm going to tase you! get on the ground! get on the ground! get on the ground! >> when he was chased from out of the store and eventually arrested in the parking lot by my deputy, he was stealing a generator. a quite large generator that would power a standard size home. >> i wasn't going anywhere. >> you were running from me.
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>> a repeat offender in the business. poaching and profiting. >> when we went back and did some research on him, we found out that he was selling these items at a pawn shop within our area. we saw based on the date of occurrences the retail establishment went back and checked their camera system and were able to see him coming in almost every day, almost the same time, walking straight into the store. >> according to sheriff knight, to warn some the lesser known thieves in waiting, modern criminals make great use of social media. >> they have in this day and age a facebook and instant messaging. they communicate on a regular basis. when we arrest them, we hear them in the jail talking about other people about not coming to sarasota county. >> do not go to burlington coat factory. do not go to burlington coat factory. don't go to bealls or sports authority. they're doing stings. >> despite the warning, during the raid in july of 2013, the task force makes 59 arrests in
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just 6 days. >> these operations are making an impact. we're getting feedback from retailers that since these operations have been taking place with the media attention they've received, video footage being out there, put out to the media, and the word of mouth the stores are seeing a dramatic decrease in retail thefts. >> so if you're thinking about lifting and leaving, looters learn your lesson. >> cops like to be hunters. they like to be the predators of the people committing crimes against our citizens. sends a strong message to those individuals who are reading the paper, watching the media, who are committing these type of crimes know that we understand what they do and that what we'll do to arrest them if they come into sarasota county. >> get on the ground! get on the ground! coming up, a punch in the park leaves a skater stunned. >> i cannot believe she just punched me like a dude. >> when "caught on camera: point >> when "caught on camera: point of no return" continues.
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a skateboarder wipes out and suffers the wrath of an angry mother. >> see him? >> july, 2010. hayward, california. daniel miranda and his friend leland goldberg are skateboarding. a hobby and lifestyle they don't plan to give up any time soon. ♪ >> i can't really stop, in too deep. i feel like it's too fun to stop. >> miranda is filming goldberg in a local park for an upcoming video showcasing the talents of bay area skaters. >> cannery park is a skate park. it's kind of conjoining to the elementary school. >> for skaters, the main draw to cannery park is the multiple rows of low granite benches. >> the reason why the ledges at
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cannery park are so good for skating is because there's numerous ones in a row where you can do your trick, do your next trick and do your next trick. it's pretty bad. >> for his segment of the video, goldberg plans to attempt a series of difficult tricks all accomplished in a row called a line. >> a line would be a sequence of however many trick you could do consecutively, and that's what i was doing. skating, trying to do a consecutive amount of tricks back to back in one stream of film. just so it all flows nicely. >> what appeals to the skating lines is to show you can do certain tricks in a row without messing up. >> but cannery park isn't just for skaters. families with small children also enjoy the recreation area. >> there's always like some amount of children that are around there, and you can never really tell where kids go because they're always darting one way or the other.
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>> and the relationship between skaters and others enjoying the park is not always rad. >> especially with like older people. they still kind of feel like skateboarders are just rambunctious little rascals. >> sometimes you end up in front of someone's house, and they're totally pro skateboarding like, yeah, you know, it's really cool. they're stoked on it rather than the other, you know, 50% of people who are just like hating you for what you're doing. you know, calling the cops on you. >> only person we're hurting is ourself, really, when we fall. >> after a number of failed attempts -- >> oh! >> -- goldberg tries once again to land his line in cannery park. >> first trick he's doing is called front side blunt slide. he lands it pretty easily. then he goes to do a half cab flip. >> i landed the front blunt,
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took one push, and then set up for my trick. >> just after goldberg launches, he notices a pint-sized obstacle in his way. >> as i put my head down to pop the front size side flip, noticed that he was actually dead in front of me. i kind of hesitate -- use see i hesitate a little bit in my pop. i didn't really pop and flick because i was more jumping off my board. and i should have just caught him, but i couldn't. it was too late. >> goldberg loses his bearings and accidentally crash into the boy, knocking him to the ground. [ crying ] >> that's a deadly cry. it's -- it's so piercing. [ crying ] >> i immediately tried to help him up. i was apologizing, asking if he was okay. i was worried about him hitting his head, but i saw he didn't hit his head. that was like an instant relief. >> the boy is not hurt, but the accidental collision is just the beginning. >> the lady comes up, picks the kid up.
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and not sure if it's the mom. >> as goldberg would later learn, the woman is the boy's aunt. >> initially i thought the aunt was the mom. and then i realized when the aunt just picked the child up and the real mother actually came. >> you know, it could have been the end of it. >> and then [ bleep ] got real. >> seeing her child crying, the boy's mother approaches the skaters. what begins as an accident quickly hits a downward slope into a full-on physical confrontation. >> you run into my son? >> it was an accident -- >> on his birthday? >> i thought it was going to go from her pushing me initially to pushing me again. but it was the initial push and then swing. >> you see him? >> what the [ bleep ] -- >> the skaters are stunned by the punch heard around the halfpipe. >> she just decks him with a right hook super good. >> see him? >> she sucker punched me. i guess it's not a sucker punch because she straight-up hit me face to face.
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it's not a sucker punch. i cannot believe she just punched me like a dude in the face. and i like turned around and i was like, i don't even know what to do. i look at daniel, and daniel's like, i don't know what to do. >> you need to call the authorities. >> call the cops, dude. i got the video right here. >> call the cops. call the cops. >> she's still pacing towards me. she was almost antagonizing me to punch her back. >> in the end, cooler heads prevail. no more punches are thrown, and the police are never called. after the playground punch, daniel miranda posts the video online. within days, the clip goes viral. >> so i put it up youtube. the first day it had like 13,000 views, and i was like, wow, that's ridiculous. so i got it -- from there it kept escalating until it hit like a million. >> i swear i would have been
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happy as is if daniel just left that clip buried. just embarrassing accident. >> embarrassing maybe, but goldberg takes all the teasing in stride. >> i get ridiculed for sure. my friends all make fun of me to this day. it's pretty bad. lee can't dodge a punch. can't go to the skate park without little kids going like, "on his birthday?" it's funny when my friends do, it but when kids i don't know are yelling that at me, like they're being the funny ones, i'm like, you're not funny, you're as old as the kid was, and you're making fun of me. >> miranda hits the ramp with a new, perhaps less polite approach. >> you run into a kid, you could say sorry, but it might get you a punch. if you run into a kid, just leave. [ laughter ]
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a dangerous chase. >> i hit him and he came back and started firing at me. >> i saw the wheel coming at my face. >> a crash not to be believed. >> he was bent in half. >> a dog leads a trooper to a burning building and the dog whisperer tells us why. >> he was charged with the message. go find help. >> this dog takes a bite out of the cop's bumper. >> as you see, he's playing. he's not being aggressive. >> this suspect seems to take a bite out of the evidence. >> he swallowed it. swallowed it fast, too. >> tense situations. >> he fired seven shots very quickly. >> heartbreaking stories. >> what happenas

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