Detective Charlie Disponzio, left, talks to a family about a break-in at their trailer home. They are, Gina Grant, right, and Mike Beckner, with his son, Jace Michael Beckner, 3. On a cold day in February, a group of sheriff's detectives teams up to search for suspects in several break-in cases. Each place they stop is a dingy, sad place. Detective Cary Young arrests a young man in a trailer overflowing with garbage and laundry.
Marijuana pipes decorate the living room table.
At the next stop, an angry woman berates Lt. Jimmy Black and Young for arresting her son. She stands in the cold in her house coat, a dog barking on the porch of her trailer, as her son pulls on a dirty, ripped jacket to ride with the detectives. In the afternoon, detectives Paul Hinson and Charlie Disponzio survey stacks of speakers, dismantled cassette decks and video tapes in a dark, dank trailer. They have come to arrest the husband and wife who live there, but only the woman is at home.