there s probable cause to think that you are an accomplice and that s why you re under arrest. within hours, detectives had adriana s boyfriend in custody as well. through an interpreter, luis gomez-monges too initially told a story about adriana contacting vern to sell a mobile home. that s bull you re you re telling me lies. and adriana started off tellin me the same lies. she said that you hit the guy from behind when he wasn t even looking. no. i don t think that your story is gonna hold up. you are under arrest for the attempted murder of vernon holbrook. reporter: detectives were convinced they had the two people who d attacked vern that saturday in may. but they also knew, or thought they knew, there was a lot more to the story. these suspects certainly weren t trained hired assassins. they were so clumsy they d even used their own phone.