N.O.P.D. – Case of the Missing Cigars -1957
N.O.P.D. (New Orleans Police Department) was a Police drama that ran for 39 episodes during 1956 and 1957. The series was shot on location and followed the cases of New Orleans Police Detectives, Stacy Harris and Louis Sirgo. The series comes across as an attempt to make a southern fried version of the popular DRAGNET and LINEUP series. To say that the series was low rent would be an understatement. But the look of the show though is quite good, and features plenty of shadows and excellent low level camera work. This particular episode is the 39th of the run. (some sources give only 18 episodes produced)
While on a night foot patrol, an N.O.P.D. cop comes up on a store break in. The cop is shot and badly wounded when he tries to prevent the break and enter. Another beat cop discovers the wounded officer and calls it in. The man is then rushed to the emergency room while the Detectives are called. Detectives Stacy Harris and Louis Sirgo draw the assignment.
They have the lab boys go over the store for fingerprint etc. The only clues are a handful of cigars found scattered behind the cash register. The owner of the store is called in to see if anything is missing. The owner states that a cigar box with 400 bucks is all that is missing. Detective Harris does not buy the owner's story and thinks there is more going on. The man seems to be frightened of something.
The next day the fingerprint boys come up with a lead. Some prints on the cigars came back as belonging to a low-life druggie with a long record. The Detectives hit the man's rooms for a chat. That idea though is upset when they find the man dead of a knife wound to the chest.
Harris and Sirgo decide to bring in the store owner for a "formal" round of third degree. The man caves after a bit of face to face conversation and admits he sells dope for the mob. The mob has threatened to kill his sister back in Italy if he did not play along. He admits that he had tipped the mob about the break in. The mob then hunted down the break and enter guy and silenced him. The Police use the Customs records to trace a warehouse the mob is using to store the heroin. It is stashed inside the cigars themselves.
Harris and Sirgo raid the warehouse and soon corner a couple of mob rats. Guns are pulled and lead exchanged. One of the mob guys collects some unneeded lead while the other is captured.
N.O.P.D. (New Orleans Police Department) was a Police drama that ran for 39 episodes during 1956 and 1957. The series was shot on location and followed the cases of New Orleans Police Detectives, Stacy Harris and Louis Sirgo. The series comes across as an attempt to make a southern fried version of the popular DRAGNET and LINEUP series. To say that the series was low rent would be an understatement. But the look of the show though is quite good, and features plenty of shadows and excellent low level camera work. This particular episode is the 39th of the run. (some sources give only 18 episodes produced)
While on a night foot patrol, an N.O.P.D. cop comes up on a store break in. The cop is shot and badly wounded when he tries to prevent the break and enter. Another beat cop discovers the wounded officer and calls it in. The man is then rushed to the emergency room while the Detectives are called. Detectives Stacy Harris and Louis Sirgo draw the assignment.
They have the lab boys go over the store for fingerprint etc. The only clues are a handful of cigars found scattered behind the cash register. The owner of the store is called in to see if anything is missing. The owner states that a cigar box with 400 bucks is all that is missing. Detective Harris does not buy the owner's story and thinks there is more going on. The man seems to be frightened of something.
The next day the fingerprint boys come up with a lead. Some prints on the cigars came back as belonging to a low-life druggie with a long record. The Detectives hit the man's rooms for a chat. That idea though is upset when they find the man dead of a knife wound to the chest.
Harris and Sirgo decide to bring in the store owner for a "formal" round of third degree. The man caves after a bit of face to face conversation and admits he sells dope for the mob. The mob has threatened to kill his sister back in Italy if he did not play along. He admits that he had tipped the mob about the break in. The mob then hunted down the break and enter guy and silenced him. The Police use the Customs records to trace a warehouse the mob is using to store the heroin. It is stashed inside the cigars themselves.
Harris and Sirgo raid the warehouse and soon corner a couple of mob rats. Guns are pulled and lead exchanged. One of the mob guys collects some unneeded lead while the other is captured.
