DECKER STREET POLICE STATION

The Decker Street Police Station in Los Angeles was the site selected by MacGyver, Thornton, and Joanne Remmings, a new Phoenix employee, as part of a sting operation. James Crowe, a career criminal, had used a land fraud scheme to steal $400,000 from several retirees, including Kelly Sutton, another Phoenix employee. Determining that it takes a con to beat a con, MacGyver, Thornton, and Joanne enticed Crowe with a deal that they promised would turn his $400,000 investment into two million dollars.

The plan was for MacGyver and Thornton to use Crowe's money to gain entry to the police property room where they would load a trunk with two million dollars and leave undetected. Crowe agreed to provide the money, but he took Joanne as a hostage until he had received his share of the money.

With Joanne's life at stake, MacGyver and Thornton had to shift their plan and convince Crowe to enter the police station with them, where he could then be apprehended. At the Decker Street Police Station, Carl and Tony, Crowe's henchmen, guarded Joanne in a nearby vehicle as MacGyver and Thornton forced Crowe at gunpoint into a van driven by Kelly, exchanged clothes between Crowe and MacGyver, bound and gagged Crowe, and stuffed him into the trunk.

MacGyver and Thornton delivered the trunk to the property room cage where they waited as Officer Tilley left to get the proper forms signed. Inside the cage, as MacGyver rewired the button to open the door, they cut the bottom out of the trunk and filled it with random electronics. Then they exited with the trunk, leaving Crowe locked in the cage.

When Officer Tilley returned and found Crowe inside his cage, he sounded the alarm, and the swarm of responding officers found not only Crowe in a compromising position but also Carl and Tony outside the building trying to recover the electronics that had fallen out of the bottomless trunk.

MacGyver released Joanne, and they joined Thornton and Kelly in the getaway van, this time in possession of the $400,000 that Crowe had stolen, and leaving behind enough evidence to finally arrest and convict Crowe and his partners.

Location: 6045 York Boulevard, Los Angeles

Cross Reference: Carl, James Crowe, Joanne Remmings, Kelly Sutton, Tilley, Tony

Episode Reference: Twice Stung