Real police reports. Reenacted by a crow.
Every episode starts with a real criminal complaint from the public court record. We take out the names and the faces, and give the lead role to a crow.
Latest episode · Crow Wing County, Minnesota
Out for Delivery
Police open a package of cocaine bound for a crow's workplace, take most of it out, tape it back up and deliver it themselves. Then they pull him over.
What the court record says
- In June 2023, the Lakes Area Drug Investigative Division and the U.S. Postal Inspector's office began investigating suspicious packages coming from the Laredo, Texas, area to a business in Brainerd, according to court documents.
- On September 28, investigators executed a federal search warrant on a package bound for a Brainerd address and found approximately 163 grams of cocaine, packaged in a clandestine manner.
- Law enforcement returned approximately 68 grams of cocaine, mixed with a cutting agent, to the box to conduct a controlled undercover delivery.
- An undercover agent completed the delivery at the business, where the man accepted the package and then drove away with it.
Read the rest, with the transcript
Pleaded guilty on February 10, 2025. No prison time: a 32-month sentence was stayed for four years of probation, with a $135 fine. He can ask to be discharged from probation halfway through if he complies.
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Episode 4 · Scott County, MN
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Episode 3 · Lyon County, MN
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Episode 2 · Becker County, MN
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Watch · 68 secondsHow it works
Step 1
We read the paperwork
Each episode comes from a criminal complaint filed in a public court. Nothing is invented about what is alleged.
Step 2
We lose the names
No names. No faces. No mugshots. A complaint is an accusation, and the person in it is presumed innocent.
Step 3
A crow plays the suspect
The crow only caws. Its one subtitled line is whatever the complaint says the person said. The deputies make up the rest.
The paperwork, explained
Complaints are written in their own language. These are the terms that come up, in plain words.
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