Mike Bauer

There's people cooking meth.

It was a little bit like the Old West in a way.

I mean, this is a very unusual, strange place.

One of the things ESD did was recover dead bodies from mines.

You know, if all the dead bodies that were up there from being deliberately disposed of stood up at once, they'd be shoulder to shoulder.

You have to look at the ground and look at bushes that have been pushed.

And we walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked.

And we generally don't give up until it's just ridiculous.

If it was me that needed cover, he'd be there.

I didn't even think about it.

Someone you could definitely depend on.

He was laconic.

Didn't have a lot to say unless you worked on him.

And he was always kind of severe serious.

He had this secret sense of humor, but it was really hard to tell which card he was playing, the funny card or the I'm John and I'm dead serious card.

And he added that, Dave, I need to talk to you.

What you just did was a violation of California state law.

And if you do something like that again, I'll have to write you up.

John, we were chasing a suspect and we are law enforcement officers.

And so we get exemptions during those things.