harris offers a word of advice. men, out there if you think you want to call the cops because your spouse beats you up, you might want to think about that again. i appreciate you talking to me. keep up the good work. i like that show. i appreciate that. you take care. harris pled guilty to pandering. while the pimp squad takes harris away, the undercover storefront is still attracting suspects who seem to think they have a license to steal. this one in particular thinks he has a license to print money. i made so much money off this [ bleep ] it s unbelievable. that s next. coming up later is that you right there? they re back. it s a round-up of suspects and they re caught by surprise when they learn they re caught on tape. did you try to sell some counter fit money? no, i didn t. i have videotape that you may want to see. still ahead on vegas
remember cheryl miller nicknamed cheffie, she came into the storefront for selling stolen cars and like rusty, doesn t know she was caught in a police sting. hey, cheryl? hi. chris hansen. i m with dateline nbc. have a seat. not really, but if i have to. you don t have to do anything. trust me, you don t have to do anything. i want to ask you questions about an investigation that we re doing a story on. can i show you a videotape you might want to see? it doesn t take long for cheryl to realize she s in trouble. did you think it might have been an undercover investigation? i did. i did. did you help sell five vehicles? yes. so you are part of the deals. yes. well, i just brought people there to do that. you were the middleman. yes. so to speak. so you had people that had
get him into jail. they re not going to tell kyle he was caught in a sting and they pull him over and tell him his victim picked him out of a photo lineup. so he still has no idea how he was really caught. what s going on? kyle, who is serving a prison term on other charges, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one to four years in prison for his storefront crimes. police ultimately caught this guy. yes. how did that feel? it was incredible. before this i thought that cops, they don t do anything. they just drive around. turns out, in vegas, police do a lot. this is about negotiation. undercover detectives are everywhere and it isn t only car thee thieves. her target audience will be a pimp. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables?
unit run by lieutenant dave loge has rented this little shop. it s an operation where you can bring, stolen, high-end electronics, guns, vehicles and no doubt you ll get paid under the table. undercover detectives will pose as crooks who buy high items. the shop is tucked away in an drill area off the vegas strip and masquerades as a place that installs car audio systems. everything in the storefront is a prop with a purpose. even things like this. the eight ball the rubik s cube. why do you have these out here on the counter? everything in this office is pretty much wiped down after every deal in order to gather information from fingerprints if need be. police have rigged the shop with hidden cameras and we ve been allowed to install some of our own. there s a camera right here. there s another camera right here. there s another camera hidden right here. how dangerous is it for you to do an investigation?
we have six different people who will walk in and they take $500 a piece and so they go to the [ bleep ] cashier s carriage and they give him the money and he takes it and the way he inserts it and turns it in and he mixes it up. rusty says the counterfeiters have been trying to refine the process in an effort to improve the product. in fact, he says they re holding back some recently printed bills to make sure they re just perfect. i mean, we re waiting now, just to see, hold the bill for a couple of days and see if anything, anything funny happens or anything weird. the cops want to know more about how the bills are made, a lot more. a few weeks later rusty is back and now rusty tells him he s on his own and there aren t any partners and this time in a garage behind the storefront, for $1500 he will give them a demonstration in the fine art of