This is a down beat on ninety seven to one the Freak. Open your gifts. It's time to play with your toys. Open your gifts. It's time to play with these games. Open your gifts. It's time to play with your toys. Open your gifts. It's time to play with your things. I forgot the batteries. Crap. Welcome back to the Downbeat, Kevin. A very festive, very festive edition is We're eleven days to Crimbo. It's closed. It countdown continues. Are you ready? I'm ready for santy
and you ready for santy clause? Yeah? You got your oh your Christmas Christmas present shopping done? No, I think I'm close to done. I got to come up with some stuff for you, y'all. I took care of that yesterday. I've got to come up with some stocking stuff. Oh don't know what to do. They're all sold out of steel bucket full of warm pigs blood. Yeah, yeah, that thing took off in the last break. Get some clam tarts from Trader Joe's. That'll be good, sold
out, damn it. Get some nuts, yeah, Grandma's bag of nututs. Telling you with the banana in there was so disappointing and avocado. That stocking always looks. I bet there's listeners out there that grew up in the country that back in the seventies and you'd wake up and think your stockings full. And it's got a bunch of fruit in it from the fruit bowl, Like you just took that and put that in my stocking to make it look like there's something in it. We're not dumb. It's nuts and fruit.
I am seven. I don't want this stuff. Give me cool toy, right, Cram that thing full of hot wheels. Now we're all right. In an hour, we have Dinga's Morning News with tons of stall rains. Have my iHeart Employee performance review at nine. Danny is conducting that, So buckle up, Kevin and I will Mike's Roy is gone this week. He's in New Orleans and we'll be back on Monday, so no one worried. I'm gonna try he's coming back today. Right at some point, I'm it's
gonna be a failed thing. But I was going to ask him to zoom in tomorrow for his performance review. But if he won't do it, we'll just do it without him, and you can really kick him in theto Gonads. Okay, so we'll see. Maybe we'll have a special guest in studio all day tomorrow, who knows, maybe, But for now, let's do ketch you up on some of the biggest stories of the day in the scuttle. But let's start out with this story about candy that I teased. Eight
middle school students in Granbury Middle School too, not like children. Yeah, you know, eight middle school students in Greenbury briefly hospitalized a day Yeah, after they ate candy that adults believed may have contained a narcotic boy, I say, you can't play it two these days in this world of fentanyl that we live in, man, and the packaging that they produce these drugs in that make them look like candy and real I don't know, kid friendly designs
on them and stuff. It's it's just wrong, and I don't I guess they're doing that to disguise it. I guess, yeah. I also don't think it happens as much as we think either, though you're probably right. So I think the fentanyl stuff happens way more than we think. But the whole lack idea that it's in candy, but it's now a world where it's
a fear based thing. You know it is. And look, man, I think the people that are manufacturing this stuff obviously illegally and distributing it selling it, they don't want they don't want children to get this stuff and children to die, because that's when, as we learned in the very popular HBO original series The Wire, the police start paying attention when bodies start dropping,
and especially if they're little kids. You know, if you can just do your operation, sell your dope, it only goes to the people that want it. You're not trying to lace it with anything or kill anybody. You don't want people to die, number one. You want to repeat customer base. And then you don't want any civilians getting a hold of this stuff and dying because that just draws more attention on your operation. And if they weren't
trying to shut you down, they definitely are. And if they were trying to shut you down, they will stop at nothing, especially if little kids are dying because they're getting a hold of your stuff. So the principal there at Granbury Middle School said the students ate candy provided by another student on Tuesday afternoon. The candy was believed to have in today narcotic, but he did
not say what led them to think that. He did say that they called the you know e m s. All eight of the students were taken to the hospital. Tested negative for th HC, so wasn't an edible. What were the symptoms that the kids were showing that made them That's where it gets a little weird, because they sent out this letter. They were all touting, yeah a lot. It didn't say in the article that I read that anything about like what they were feeling, stomach aches, toots, crazy,
headaches. Yeah. That So they're doing additional testing on the candy that's basically one student handed out to some others and hadn't Eight of them got sick and were sent to the hospital. Kind of crazy man did don't don't know what it was yet. Do they have any samples of the candy. They do, but they haven't reported what it looked like or anything. But they do have samples of the candy, so I guess they're running more tests on it,
which they're going to say running test what's that mean? Well, it takes a long time. They're sending it to labs kevioh. Boy, it would with all the fentanyl stuff and you do question anything though, that's unknown. Even I was thinking about it, I was like the idea. I remember ten years ago a guy in Fort Worth gave me a pill andsten, you know, I'll take it. Sure enough, I had the biggest and longest boner I've ever had, bone tray. Weird. Deal wouldn't go away.
I think you're making that up. You wouldn't take a pill that some dude just handed you and said here. I would take asking questions. I would take the pill with a big story to tell if with all that thing does is make you dance weird? You know what pills, But I would really take Just give me the fred Flintstone and oh yeah, flintstone chewables. Oh my god? How many of those do you have to eat for it to work as an adult? How many of those do you have to eat
for them to make you sick as a kid? Because the answers I can tell you is between seven and nine done it? Are you serious? You ate like nine flintstone chewbles and got sick? Yeah? What happened? You throw up? Nah? Just been telling me hert my acid reflux? Yeah, you know, teeth are feeling weird that the iron Uh huh, that's like it's delicious. They are good, and I never did it again. I don't think I wanted them anymore after that. Why are they so good?
I don't know. Well, they're not good, really, I think they good. I mean, yeah, as a kid, you hat that weird, a very tart. But then I remember feeling really sick and be like and then never wanting that. I just not taking them anymore. And I grew up to big boy vitamins. Do you take vitamins? I don't try to eat stuff that has it in them. My doctors recently said, you don't have enough vitamin D, so she got me hooked on the vitamin D. Is that the one where you're not getting enough sun? I don't
know if it's sun, I don't know, I wrote. I asked all questions about it. I think I was like, I don't take anything, so I don't take this time. You gotta take vitamin C most days. I hate to get one of those. They make vitamins that are like they have all of it. You're a man. Take this. Yeah, the multible does it all. And I feel good when I take it. I think you don't know that. I don't know. I don't, but I've talked to some medical personnel that say, scammy, scam, scam. Yeah,
you don't even need them. If you're if you eat okay, you're probably gonna get everything you need. They'll throw away this paycheck money on delicious sugary chewy gummy multi vitamin. But I have had a dark lettuce tell me one time that I needed to He just said, yeah, you're a little When they got the labs back, said you're a little deficient and whatever. It is the one that if you don't get out in the sun a bunch.
I think it's d because I don't need a lot of dairy yea to cut that out of a number of years back, and he said, yeah, you know you don't need a supplement. Just go outside. Sun started going outside. Your legs are all white. Um, got a story in play. Not I'm Kevin, that's Danny. We have JJ here with you as well. We'll have picture with glenns in twenty minutes. Mike, he'll be back next week. Yeah, Mike, you'll be back on Monday.
Three people have been arrested in charge with sex trafficking crimes in Mesquite. Yeah, is that what you're saying. Sorry, Kevin didn't take his vitamins this morning, got a frog in my throat. Rabbat got hold on a little die frog died bat. I'm back So Plano, not Mesquite. Plano. Three people arrest in charge with sex trafficking crimes after an early morning FBI stand up in Plano. This included. Now, this is confusing, So hang
in there with me. Forty year old William Garland from Plano and then twenty four year old Jalen Bobo from Dallas. Also twenty seven year old ROBERTA. Khan from Ulyss charged with coercion and enticement in another cof Hold on, yep, there it is. Tell me more about Jalen Bobo. He's the youngest of the three. So police conducted a year's long investigation. Okay, on these three. William Garland, who's forty, allegedly running ring with other people.
Basically what he was doing. They recruit women to work his escorts and then use violence. They do pimp stuff. Basically, yeah, use violence to force them to perform commercial sex. They could receive life in prison. I loved that the punishment for these crimes seems to be hefty, very hefty. Yeah, like getting close to the punishment that you would receive if you raped or murdered someone, and it should be. So this is on because
you're ruining, really destroying multiple lives. I wonder if these women were promised jobs. It's kind of a hostage. And then once they get them here, they take their visas, they are their passports, I guess, and after they're not from here yet, yeah, you know, and then they're screwed. Man. They can't go anywhere, they don't know anybody. They're kind of beholden. Sometimes they're they're captors. Sometimes they're groomed for that at
an early age. So imagine if you're living off Sourby Drive there in Plano and you wake up Monday morning to FBI banging on the door of the house. And then it turned into a standoff because William Garland would not surrender. So neighbors did comment and they said it looked like it was a little fishy. What do you mean, why is that one? They said that that the home often appeared fishy. Okay. I was like, because they're having a having a filet here and there, I like sketchy not fishy. It's
a fishy fish he needs to come back. I like it. Or what about Harry, Well, that's a hairy situation. Situations are hairy, sketchy, sketchy, sketchyes for people though, yeah it got sketchy. Yeah he's sketchy. But what about this house? This house, it was fishy, It was fishy. No, no, no, they smell bad. There was fishy. Is usually preceded by the words something like you would say, there's something fishy going well, yeah, there's something, but there's something fishy
going on in that sketchy house. Neighbors said the occupants of the home often appeared fishy, so not the home that occupants of the home appeared fishy. Yeah, I don't like the way they use tackle box fishy in that sentence. They often see them walking out to their car with their rod and reel in hand. You would say they appeared suspicious, Yeah, like sketchy there
then, or sketchy, yeah, but fishy fishy. While rinting that property, the house was often surrounded by a carousel of lavish cars that stood out. So Garland was arrested in twenty twenty one. U did he ever come out of firearm. Yeah, he came out and they got him. So but man, and there's just there's another rental situation too, which they put a poke a hole in the whole short term rental situation that was a rental Yeah, okay, So were they running the operation out of the house,
I think so. So the carousel of expensive cars were clients. Maybe they're just running it out and out brothel in the middle of the planet. In last September, it's Plano is going on in Plano. God, that's a new segment. Seriously, Plano is the new Florida because you had all of the all of the heroin remember the big heroin epidemic that was going on there about what fifteen years ago. We're just high school skit kids. We're getting
addicted to heroin. I was dying and as a guy who was in high school in that story or I think it was just into college and moving on flex, I was terrified of Plano and for a couple for a couple of months, little suicide problem in Plano. And then you've had a number of either sex trafficking or prostitution or HUAH houses that have been busted in Planos in the last few years. Something's going on in Plano. We're gonna find out what's going on in Plano, and that is our goal for twenty twenty four.
That's what we're running on. Uh. We picked with Glenn's coming up in fifteen guest story here about this is an odd one or she gonna stay I'll stay local. I'm gonna do this one too. I'm gonna get to the story of Mesquite, not the one that was still details because there's an officer involved shooting that happened in Mesquite. Channel five and now Channel four has jumped on too. They've been covering. We don't know the full details on
it yet, but something fishies going on in Mesquite. Yeah, something very sketchy. And Mesquite police are searching for two people following the shooting. I can tell you that much. So this was at three am, so about when I was falling asleep and then waking up. A stolen vehicle located near the seven eleven off Cartwright Road. Officer made contact with the stolen vehicle.
He checked on the vehicle and then they learned that there was a second one involved, and then two people then fled the vehicle and there was shooting an officer pursued two people who fled fired at the second vehicle. One person was shot and has died, not the officer, but one person was shutting his dyed one of the suspects. Yeah, three people are in custody. Two
people remain at large. So stories developing though, because I saw Channel five throw up there that Oh mean no, it's just one okay, just one person dead. So five people involved though, more details as they come out throughout the day if you care. Hopefully everything's everyone's okay with people dying, but get the bad guys right. My other Mosquite story that was more happy one. I'm a squite resident want a million dollars playing the Texas Lottery on
a scratch off? Yeah? I saw that yesterday. A scratchy the millionaire maker they call it. That's the that's the one it was about it mister Joe's food mark. We should call mister Joe, I doubt Yeah, let's see mister Joe's food mark? Is that is that Motley and uh like six thirty five? Uh? Yes, Motley and six thirty five. Okay, I draw by. You know I'm gonna call him right now. How about that? You're calling mister Joe's are you going to ask for mister Joe?
Yeah, I must just see if he works there. Let's see what happens. I'm putting this on speaker JJ. Hello, you can hear that, right? Yeah, well you hate to see it. No answer. A million bucks on a scratch off, though, that seems like a hefty prize. Your odds of winning any prize are one in three point five tickets. So you just buy four one dollar tickets and you'll win one of them,
and usually you get the money back that you spent on the ticket. I think that's probably ninety percent of the prizes are break evens or break evens. Yeah, yeah. And all that does is just go, well, maybe maybe i'll win again. I'll tell you what, and you buy some more, and you buy some more. I'm a pretty simple guy. I would rather just scratch it off than pick the five numbers and wait on the drawing and hope that you want eight hundred million dollars. What are the odds for
the one million dollar prize? Oh I didn't say that. It's gotta be so tiny? Yeah, so slam. I mean, I remember you're telling me I won't scratch it showed me the results. Now, yeah, and toss that thing out the window. Well, can you select your lottery numbers? I don't do that often, but if you do select, select your five lottery numbers, power ball, whatever you're doing, then you like select them and then you wait for twelve hours and find out that you lost.
The most I've ever known anybody to win off those is ten grand. Well that's a lot and I would take that. Well that one. It was also like the year that the lottery came out. Yeah, it was. They televised it at PM. Yeah, and you see the ball. I love that as a kid. Here comes the balls. Yep. My buddy more pizza guy. I worked with it at Picasso's, believe it or not. My buddy Jeff walked down to the Stop and Go because we're in the same little strip shop, and he came back and he asked me to look
at his ticket. He goes, I think I just won ten grand, and we looked at it. He looked at it. I looked at it. I was like, dude, you won ten grand. That night he drove to Austin. God incredible. He would be their first thing in the morning to get his money, get that money. Yeah, Pick three too is a good one. You always felt like you could win Pick three. Uh huh nine oh seven, Yes, Oh, there's that. Some local stories today in the scuttle that brought you by Parker University. That's Kevin Turner
keeping everybody abreast on things happening around the Metroplex. It's what I do, Daniel, and you'll do the same at eight thirty five and Dingo's Morning News. But coming up next, who is our mystery guest celebrity? And who will Malcolm pick this week? And Picks with Glenn's on ninety seven to one The Freak