The Big Safe

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Aug 3, 2026 · 31m

Originally Aired: May 1, 1952 Dragnet #151, "The Big Safe," finds Sergeant Joe Friday working the safe detail in Burglary Division, where a professional crew has been hitting drug stores, liquor stores, and markets across Los Angeles for over two months. With his regular partner Bill Lockwood sidelined by an ankle injury, Friday interrogates Charles W. Boyd, a nervous suspect picked up by officers Jones and McCready during a drugstore stakeout. Boyd was caught at quarter to five in the morning trying to jimmy his way into a closed pharmacy, armed with a crowbar he claims is just a tire tool…