They said to me, we want 4. 2 million in cash. Families taken hostage, told to commit a crime, or else. Striking again here is a guy with an Assault Rifle. And again. Every minute, his wife would lose a finger. A highspeed car chase. How did the gun men knew everything know everything . This Secret Weapon could turn anyone into a potential target. They would find people on social media. Be careful what you put out for the world to see. Detective its a beautiful september day in the western mountains of North Carolina, a beautiful stretch of interstate. Is a beautiful september day, and the western mountains of North Carolina paid a beautiful stretch of interstate. North carolina state highway patrols are running the radar. You see them below right by. It started off as a routine traffic stop but was anything but routine. All of a sudden, you see the suv pull over, the passenger side door open, briefly. You hear the sirens, you hear the unmistakable engine. You see them swerve into the
of that author, ron bradford. did the name check out? no. no, the name did not check out. for blanton, the clincher came when he talked to the property manager about the renters car. i asked her if she had ever seen ron in a black lexus suv. because i know that one of one of the robberies in knoxville, there was a black suv that was burned after the robbery. she said, yes, they had a black suv, a lexus, earlier in the summer but that she hadn t seen em in it in several months. did you think, i gotcha. i m on you now? at this point, i was convinced, this was our bank robbery crew, yes. it was time for a good old-fashioned stake-out. agent blanton assembled a team to keep tabs on the two men. do you see em coming and going? we did. we saw em coming and going. we were not able to identify who they are. but we were able to see them. and investigators learned the men were not alone. the surveillance team was able to ascertain that there was a female at th
manageer about the car. i asked if she had ever seen ron in a black lexuss suv. i know there was one that was burned. a black suv, a lexus earlier in the summer but she hadn t seen them with it in several months. at this point i was convinceded this was our bank robbery crew, yes. it was time for a good old-fashioned staelkout. did you see them coming? we saw it them coming and going. we were not able to identify who they were but were able to see them. and they were not alone. the surveillance was able taasser tain there was a female at the cabin. remember the ziegler home invasion there was that woman that caasked for milk for her baby. could this be here? ait thorts waited patiently for
or in each of the states so that a call goes to a group of people in a center which are analyzing this type of issue. and this is what happens here. you don t have if you don t have an allegiance to a terrorist organization that is widely known, if you don t have someone s part of a bank robbery crew, if you don t have those kind of indicators, it may not be that it just goes to the fbi. maybe it should be run by department of homeland security, set up a system where a number of professionals, whether law enforcement, mental health officials, school officials, state and local officials work together to try to identify this kind of person so we can try to put a stop to this perpetual group of school shootings among other things. but it is not just to protect the schools. we have mall shootings, theater shootings. you know, outside a rock concert shootings. so we have to establish a system where troubled or individuals
this type of issue. this is what happens here is you don t have if you don t have an allegiance to a terrorist organization that s widely known, if you don t have someone as part of a bank robbery crew, it may not be that it just goes to the fbi. maybe it should be run by a department of homeland security. set up a system where a number of professionals, whether it s law enforcement, mental health officials, school officials, state and local officials work together to try to identify this kind of person so we could try to put a stop to this perpetual group of school shootings among other things. but it s not just to protect the schools. we have mall shootings. theater shootings. you know, outside of rock concert shootings so we have to establish the system where troubled or individuals like this with mental health issues or other behavioral problems, we know if they have a gun.