"Harbor City"
Harbor City” covered a lot of various problems not necessarily exclusive to Los Angeles or to California: medical marijuana, gangs, surfing, and beach access.
When former surf champion Trevor Knight returns home to help his ailing mother, it ultimately results in his untimely death. The detectives are at the home of Trevor’s mother Liz Knight, who is ill from cancer. As Dena gets the records, TJ helps Liz prepare a joint and speaks with her about Trevor and says she knows his reputation, he quit fighting and drinking when he married Dena. Dena, meanwhile, gives Rex financial details and thinks there was a little over $100K in the safe. Trevor kept missing the armored car pickups and they installed the new safe last month.
Initially, Detectives Rex Winters and Tomas "TJ" Jaruszalski are lead to believe that it was not only a robbery gone wrong, but possibly an inside job. Roker (David Meunier) in for questioning and he asked for a lawyer. TJ outlines what they have on him and Roker does not want a murder pinned on him so he waives a lawyer. He said they were never in Harbor City, he admits they did the other ones but it was not them. He staked it out but they were chased off by a big Samoan with gang tats who told him Harbor City belongs to SOS – Sons of Samoa. The Samoan’s car is a light blue Impala low rider. In interrogation, the detectives question Joey and he denies killing Trevor. He said he would have made bigger money off surfing endorsements for Trevor; he was going to front all of Trevor’s tour expenses. Knight was going to surf at a tourney and Joey told the competition – Del Broadleaf – not to show up!
They speak with Del, who tells them Joey tried to scare him off and he tried to check it out with Trevor who said Joey was out of line. Trevor told him someone ruined his board by some dudes at the bay. The detectives head there and see gang graffiti. They speak with a surfer who has a large knife and a battered surfboard. A resident yells out of his house and tells them they are trespassing. Winters and the resident argue about how much of the beach is considered public. The surfer says that guy yells at them daily.
The sheriff talks about the Moon Bay Crew. The site belongs to Carlton Campbell, Logan Rudman, and Patrick Scott. All three have sealed juvie records. Morales wonders who has the deep pockets, and based on the fact that Patrick Scott drives the worst car, he thinks he doesn’t have money and will have the worst lawyer so he wants to target him. DDA Morales has a feeling that someone related to one of the suspects knows more than they are telling and goes to unusual lengths to flush them out.
Greg Campbell (James Morrison) asks them if they have warrants and they hand it to the Sarah Widmer (Catherine Dent), the attorney present, and they arrest Carlton and Logan and inform them they have the warrant to search the house. Campbell appears to be working on a petition to limit beach access and they discuss the topic. Widmer says their star witness is a sociopathic liar, giving her a sworn affidavit saying Scott raped a girl at Carlton Campbell’s house. He said Carlton’s father covered it up just like the kid they beat up. Rex sees a photo of Campbell’s study with a bottle of lighter fluid and they have a gas fireplace. He thinks they needed a boost to burn something if they needed lighter fluid. They confront Greg Campbell and Widmer with the lab tests on the chimney and fireplace which shows it is consistent with burning a neoprene wet suit. They also found rag paper used for money, which they think was stained with blood.
At the Superior Court Building, Morales says under the legal definition, Campbell is a member of the Moon Bay Crew. Detective Rivas explains that under California law, any on-going association or group of three or more persons, formal or informal, that commit crimes as one of its primary activities is considered a criminal street gang. A gang has a common name and identifying sign. Defending a territory and murder and rape as a group would also qualify and the Moon Bay Crew fits this description. Amy Reynolds (Caity Lotz) describes how she got invited to a party by Carlton to a big house on the hill, they started drinking and she was raped and people were chanting “go, go.” She did not call the police as Greg Campbell came into the room and said she should protect herself and how calling the police would destroy her life as nobody believes rape victims and they are humiliated. He offered her $5,000 and drove her to a bus stop to get a bus back to Long Beach. Under cross, Morales asks why Greg did not report the rape, and asks if he paid $10, 000 to Peter Markham because he was assaulted by the gang for surfing in the gang’s area. Greg said it was a misunderstanding and he was just paying for medical expenses. Morales insists that Greg was aware of the conduct and facilitated it and that his son is 100% depended on him, including defending his son’s turf. Morales also adds that Greg formed a group called the Palos Verdes Concerned Citizens which Morales says was to petition county government to limit beach access to keep non-resident off the public beach. Morales says Greg doesn’t want anyone who can’t buy into his neighborhood anywhere near that beach spoiling his view with their campers, their screaming babies, and $5 beach chairs. He says Greg is a thug defending his turf.
Morales argues that street gangs are known by the territory they claim and defend and the Moon Bay Crew and their defense of the beach is the same way. Morales says in the state, the beach is the great leveler where everybody is the same. Morales says Campbell drilled his beliefs into his son and materially support him and cover up assaults and rapes and he is up to his elbows in their bloody activity. The judge rules that Morales has met the minimum standard and the case will go to trial. Morales says he will be going to jail with him, and suggests he could just as easy cut a deal with his son to get Greg sent to jail. Greg is stunned that this can happen, but then he tells him that he found Carlton trying to buy things, including bloody money in a fireplace. He said he knew he had to fix it and that is what fathers do. Back in court, Carlton and Logan are pleading guilty to second degree murder and get 15 to life in the state penitentiary. Patrick Scott pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter and gets 6 years in the state pen.
With Morales and Price sitting at a picnic table on the beach, Price says the beach is not her thing, and Morales says she doesn’t know what she is missing. As they look out to the water, we fade to black.
Harbor City” covered a lot of various problems not necessarily exclusive to Los Angeles or to California: medical marijuana, gangs, surfing, and beach access.
When former surf champion Trevor Knight returns home to help his ailing mother, it ultimately results in his untimely death. The detectives are at the home of Trevor’s mother Liz Knight, who is ill from cancer. As Dena gets the records, TJ helps Liz prepare a joint and speaks with her about Trevor and says she knows his reputation, he quit fighting and drinking when he married Dena. Dena, meanwhile, gives Rex financial details and thinks there was a little over $100K in the safe. Trevor kept missing the armored car pickups and they installed the new safe last month.
Initially, Detectives Rex Winters and Tomas "TJ" Jaruszalski are lead to believe that it was not only a robbery gone wrong, but possibly an inside job. Roker (David Meunier) in for questioning and he asked for a lawyer. TJ outlines what they have on him and Roker does not want a murder pinned on him so he waives a lawyer. He said they were never in Harbor City, he admits they did the other ones but it was not them. He staked it out but they were chased off by a big Samoan with gang tats who told him Harbor City belongs to SOS – Sons of Samoa. The Samoan’s car is a light blue Impala low rider. In interrogation, the detectives question Joey and he denies killing Trevor. He said he would have made bigger money off surfing endorsements for Trevor; he was going to front all of Trevor’s tour expenses. Knight was going to surf at a tourney and Joey told the competition – Del Broadleaf – not to show up!
They speak with Del, who tells them Joey tried to scare him off and he tried to check it out with Trevor who said Joey was out of line. Trevor told him someone ruined his board by some dudes at the bay. The detectives head there and see gang graffiti. They speak with a surfer who has a large knife and a battered surfboard. A resident yells out of his house and tells them they are trespassing. Winters and the resident argue about how much of the beach is considered public. The surfer says that guy yells at them daily.
The sheriff talks about the Moon Bay Crew. The site belongs to Carlton Campbell, Logan Rudman, and Patrick Scott. All three have sealed juvie records. Morales wonders who has the deep pockets, and based on the fact that Patrick Scott drives the worst car, he thinks he doesn’t have money and will have the worst lawyer so he wants to target him. DDA Morales has a feeling that someone related to one of the suspects knows more than they are telling and goes to unusual lengths to flush them out.
Greg Campbell (James Morrison) asks them if they have warrants and they hand it to the Sarah Widmer (Catherine Dent), the attorney present, and they arrest Carlton and Logan and inform them they have the warrant to search the house. Campbell appears to be working on a petition to limit beach access and they discuss the topic. Widmer says their star witness is a sociopathic liar, giving her a sworn affidavit saying Scott raped a girl at Carlton Campbell’s house. He said Carlton’s father covered it up just like the kid they beat up. Rex sees a photo of Campbell’s study with a bottle of lighter fluid and they have a gas fireplace. He thinks they needed a boost to burn something if they needed lighter fluid. They confront Greg Campbell and Widmer with the lab tests on the chimney and fireplace which shows it is consistent with burning a neoprene wet suit. They also found rag paper used for money, which they think was stained with blood.
At the Superior Court Building, Morales says under the legal definition, Campbell is a member of the Moon Bay Crew. Detective Rivas explains that under California law, any on-going association or group of three or more persons, formal or informal, that commit crimes as one of its primary activities is considered a criminal street gang. A gang has a common name and identifying sign. Defending a territory and murder and rape as a group would also qualify and the Moon Bay Crew fits this description. Amy Reynolds (Caity Lotz) describes how she got invited to a party by Carlton to a big house on the hill, they started drinking and she was raped and people were chanting “go, go.” She did not call the police as Greg Campbell came into the room and said she should protect herself and how calling the police would destroy her life as nobody believes rape victims and they are humiliated. He offered her $5,000 and drove her to a bus stop to get a bus back to Long Beach. Under cross, Morales asks why Greg did not report the rape, and asks if he paid $10, 000 to Peter Markham because he was assaulted by the gang for surfing in the gang’s area. Greg said it was a misunderstanding and he was just paying for medical expenses. Morales insists that Greg was aware of the conduct and facilitated it and that his son is 100% depended on him, including defending his son’s turf. Morales also adds that Greg formed a group called the Palos Verdes Concerned Citizens which Morales says was to petition county government to limit beach access to keep non-resident off the public beach. Morales says Greg doesn’t want anyone who can’t buy into his neighborhood anywhere near that beach spoiling his view with their campers, their screaming babies, and $5 beach chairs. He says Greg is a thug defending his turf.
Morales argues that street gangs are known by the territory they claim and defend and the Moon Bay Crew and their defense of the beach is the same way. Morales says in the state, the beach is the great leveler where everybody is the same. Morales says Campbell drilled his beliefs into his son and materially support him and cover up assaults and rapes and he is up to his elbows in their bloody activity. The judge rules that Morales has met the minimum standard and the case will go to trial. Morales says he will be going to jail with him, and suggests he could just as easy cut a deal with his son to get Greg sent to jail. Greg is stunned that this can happen, but then he tells him that he found Carlton trying to buy things, including bloody money in a fireplace. He said he knew he had to fix it and that is what fathers do. Back in court, Carlton and Logan are pleading guilty to second degree murder and get 15 to life in the state penitentiary. Patrick Scott pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter and gets 6 years in the state pen.
With Morales and Price sitting at a picnic table on the beach, Price says the beach is not her thing, and Morales says she doesn’t know what she is missing. As they look out to the water, we fade to black.
"Harbor City"
Harbor City” covered a lot of various problems not necessarily exclusive to Los Angeles or to California: medical marijuana, gangs, surfing, and beach access.
When former surf champion Trevor Knight returns home to help his ailing mother, it ultimately results in his untimely death. The detectives are at the home of Trevor’s mother Liz Knight, who is ill from cancer. As Dena gets the records, TJ helps Liz prepare a joint and speaks with her about Trevor and says she knows his reputation, he quit fighting and drinking when he married Dena. Dena, meanwhile, gives Rex financial details and thinks there was a little over $100K in the safe. Trevor kept missing the armored car pickups and they installed the new safe last month.
Initially, Detectives Rex Winters and Tomas "TJ" Jaruszalski are lead to believe that it was not only a robbery gone wrong, but possibly an inside job. Roker (David Meunier) in for questioning and he asked for a lawyer. TJ outlines what they have on him and Roker does not want a murder pinned on him so he waives a lawyer. He said they were never in Harbor City, he admits they did the other ones but it was not them. He staked it out but they were chased off by a big Samoan with gang tats who told him Harbor City belongs to SOS – Sons of Samoa. The Samoan’s car is a light blue Impala low rider. In interrogation, the detectives question Joey and he denies killing Trevor. He said he would have made bigger money off surfing endorsements for Trevor; he was going to front all of Trevor’s tour expenses. Knight was going to surf at a tourney and Joey told the competition – Del Broadleaf – not to show up!
They speak with Del, who tells them Joey tried to scare him off and he tried to check it out with Trevor who said Joey was out of line. Trevor told him someone ruined his board by some dudes at the bay. The detectives head there and see gang graffiti. They speak with a surfer who has a large knife and a battered surfboard. A resident yells out of his house and tells them they are trespassing. Winters and the resident argue about how much of the beach is considered public. The surfer says that guy yells at them daily.
The sheriff talks about the Moon Bay Crew. The site belongs to Carlton Campbell, Logan Rudman, and Patrick Scott. All three have sealed juvie records. Morales wonders who has the deep pockets, and based on the fact that Patrick Scott drives the worst car, he thinks he doesn’t have money and will have the worst lawyer so he wants to target him. DDA Morales has a feeling that someone related to one of the suspects knows more than they are telling and goes to unusual lengths to flush them out.
Greg Campbell (James Morrison) asks them if they have warrants and they hand it to the Sarah Widmer (Catherine Dent), the attorney present, and they arrest Carlton and Logan and inform them they have the warrant to search the house. Campbell appears to be working on a petition to limit beach access and they discuss the topic. Widmer says their star witness is a sociopathic liar, giving her a sworn affidavit saying Scott raped a girl at Carlton Campbell’s house. He said Carlton’s father covered it up just like the kid they beat up. Rex sees a photo of Campbell’s study with a bottle of lighter fluid and they have a gas fireplace. He thinks they needed a boost to burn something if they needed lighter fluid. They confront Greg Campbell and Widmer with the lab tests on the chimney and fireplace which shows it is consistent with burning a neoprene wet suit. They also found rag paper used for money, which they think was stained with blood.
At the Superior Court Building, Morales says under the legal definition, Campbell is a member of the Moon Bay Crew. Detective Rivas explains that under California law, any on-going association or group of three or more persons, formal or informal, that commit crimes as one of its primary activities is considered a criminal street gang. A gang has a common name and identifying sign. Defending a territory and murder and rape as a group would also qualify and the Moon Bay Crew fits this description. Amy Reynolds (Caity Lotz) describes how she got invited to a party by Carlton to a big house on the hill, they started drinking and she was raped and people were chanting “go, go.” She did not call the police as Greg Campbell came into the room and said she should protect herself and how calling the police would destroy her life as nobody believes rape victims and they are humiliated. He offered her $5,000 and drove her to a bus stop to get a bus back to Long Beach. Under cross, Morales asks why Greg did not report the rape, and asks if he paid $10, 000 to Peter Markham because he was assaulted by the gang for surfing in the gang’s area. Greg said it was a misunderstanding and he was just paying for medical expenses. Morales insists that Greg was aware of the conduct and facilitated it and that his son is 100% depended on him, including defending his son’s turf. Morales also adds that Greg formed a group called the Palos Verdes Concerned Citizens which Morales says was to petition county government to limit beach access to keep non-resident off the public beach. Morales says Greg doesn’t want anyone who can’t buy into his neighborhood anywhere near that beach spoiling his view with their campers, their screaming babies, and $5 beach chairs. He says Greg is a thug defending his turf.
Morales argues that street gangs are known by the territory they claim and defend and the Moon Bay Crew and their defense of the beach is the same way. Morales says in the state, the beach is the great leveler where everybody is the same. Morales says Campbell drilled his beliefs into his son and materially support him and cover up assaults and rapes and he is up to his elbows in their bloody activity. The judge rules that Morales has met the minimum standard and the case will go to trial. Morales says he will be going to jail with him, and suggests he could just as easy cut a deal with his son to get Greg sent to jail. Greg is stunned that this can happen, but then he tells him that he found Carlton trying to buy things, including bloody money in a fireplace. He said he knew he had to fix it and that is what fathers do. Back in court, Carlton and Logan are pleading guilty to second degree murder and get 15 to life in the state penitentiary. Patrick Scott pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter and gets 6 years in the state pen.
With Morales and Price sitting at a picnic table on the beach, Price says the beach is not her thing, and Morales says she doesn’t know what she is missing. As they look out to the water, we fade to black.
Harbor City” covered a lot of various problems not necessarily exclusive to Los Angeles or to California: medical marijuana, gangs, surfing, and beach access.
When former surf champion Trevor Knight returns home to help his ailing mother, it ultimately results in his untimely death. The detectives are at the home of Trevor’s mother Liz Knight, who is ill from cancer. As Dena gets the records, TJ helps Liz prepare a joint and speaks with her about Trevor and says she knows his reputation, he quit fighting and drinking when he married Dena. Dena, meanwhile, gives Rex financial details and thinks there was a little over $100K in the safe. Trevor kept missing the armored car pickups and they installed the new safe last month.
Initially, Detectives Rex Winters and Tomas "TJ" Jaruszalski are lead to believe that it was not only a robbery gone wrong, but possibly an inside job. Roker (David Meunier) in for questioning and he asked for a lawyer. TJ outlines what they have on him and Roker does not want a murder pinned on him so he waives a lawyer. He said they were never in Harbor City, he admits they did the other ones but it was not them. He staked it out but they were chased off by a big Samoan with gang tats who told him Harbor City belongs to SOS – Sons of Samoa. The Samoan’s car is a light blue Impala low rider. In interrogation, the detectives question Joey and he denies killing Trevor. He said he would have made bigger money off surfing endorsements for Trevor; he was going to front all of Trevor’s tour expenses. Knight was going to surf at a tourney and Joey told the competition – Del Broadleaf – not to show up!
They speak with Del, who tells them Joey tried to scare him off and he tried to check it out with Trevor who said Joey was out of line. Trevor told him someone ruined his board by some dudes at the bay. The detectives head there and see gang graffiti. They speak with a surfer who has a large knife and a battered surfboard. A resident yells out of his house and tells them they are trespassing. Winters and the resident argue about how much of the beach is considered public. The surfer says that guy yells at them daily.
The sheriff talks about the Moon Bay Crew. The site belongs to Carlton Campbell, Logan Rudman, and Patrick Scott. All three have sealed juvie records. Morales wonders who has the deep pockets, and based on the fact that Patrick Scott drives the worst car, he thinks he doesn’t have money and will have the worst lawyer so he wants to target him. DDA Morales has a feeling that someone related to one of the suspects knows more than they are telling and goes to unusual lengths to flush them out.
Greg Campbell (James Morrison) asks them if they have warrants and they hand it to the Sarah Widmer (Catherine Dent), the attorney present, and they arrest Carlton and Logan and inform them they have the warrant to search the house. Campbell appears to be working on a petition to limit beach access and they discuss the topic. Widmer says their star witness is a sociopathic liar, giving her a sworn affidavit saying Scott raped a girl at Carlton Campbell’s house. He said Carlton’s father covered it up just like the kid they beat up. Rex sees a photo of Campbell’s study with a bottle of lighter fluid and they have a gas fireplace. He thinks they needed a boost to burn something if they needed lighter fluid. They confront Greg Campbell and Widmer with the lab tests on the chimney and fireplace which shows it is consistent with burning a neoprene wet suit. They also found rag paper used for money, which they think was stained with blood.
At the Superior Court Building, Morales says under the legal definition, Campbell is a member of the Moon Bay Crew. Detective Rivas explains that under California law, any on-going association or group of three or more persons, formal or informal, that commit crimes as one of its primary activities is considered a criminal street gang. A gang has a common name and identifying sign. Defending a territory and murder and rape as a group would also qualify and the Moon Bay Crew fits this description. Amy Reynolds (Caity Lotz) describes how she got invited to a party by Carlton to a big house on the hill, they started drinking and she was raped and people were chanting “go, go.” She did not call the police as Greg Campbell came into the room and said she should protect herself and how calling the police would destroy her life as nobody believes rape victims and they are humiliated. He offered her $5,000 and drove her to a bus stop to get a bus back to Long Beach. Under cross, Morales asks why Greg did not report the rape, and asks if he paid $10, 000 to Peter Markham because he was assaulted by the gang for surfing in the gang’s area. Greg said it was a misunderstanding and he was just paying for medical expenses. Morales insists that Greg was aware of the conduct and facilitated it and that his son is 100% depended on him, including defending his son’s turf. Morales also adds that Greg formed a group called the Palos Verdes Concerned Citizens which Morales says was to petition county government to limit beach access to keep non-resident off the public beach. Morales says Greg doesn’t want anyone who can’t buy into his neighborhood anywhere near that beach spoiling his view with their campers, their screaming babies, and $5 beach chairs. He says Greg is a thug defending his turf.
Morales argues that street gangs are known by the territory they claim and defend and the Moon Bay Crew and their defense of the beach is the same way. Morales says in the state, the beach is the great leveler where everybody is the same. Morales says Campbell drilled his beliefs into his son and materially support him and cover up assaults and rapes and he is up to his elbows in their bloody activity. The judge rules that Morales has met the minimum standard and the case will go to trial. Morales says he will be going to jail with him, and suggests he could just as easy cut a deal with his son to get Greg sent to jail. Greg is stunned that this can happen, but then he tells him that he found Carlton trying to buy things, including bloody money in a fireplace. He said he knew he had to fix it and that is what fathers do. Back in court, Carlton and Logan are pleading guilty to second degree murder and get 15 to life in the state penitentiary. Patrick Scott pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter and gets 6 years in the state pen.
With Morales and Price sitting at a picnic table on the beach, Price says the beach is not her thing, and Morales says she doesn’t know what she is missing. As they look out to the water, we fade to black.