On January 17th, 2024, officers responded to a call from a local bank regarding a suspected fraud. Hi, how you doing, ma'am? I'm good. How are you? Good. You got an idea on you? Can I talk to you outside real quick? Here's your ID. You want to talk to her? Let me talk to Tell her. Okay. How you doing, man? She came from outside. Miranda card, huh? Miranda card on you. I don't understand what's going on. I was just depositing and leaving. We'll figure out what's going on. Thank you, sir. I read this to you ask questions and you're not afraid to leave at the moment. You have the right to hear anything you say can be against the court of law. You give the right to the president attorney prior to or any question. You cannot afford to hire a lawyer will be appointed a county expense represent you for any question you so wish you said anytime to exercise these rights to answer any questions or make any statements. Do you understand the rights that I explained to you? I'm I'm just confused on why is Well, do you understand that? Yes, I am. Okay. All right. Do you want any rest of mind? Do you want to answer questions? Talk to me. I have I mean, like I said, I just didn't believe it. Yes. Yes. I have it first. No. You want any questions? No. I want to know what's going on. Well, then I need Do you want to talk to me or you don't want to talk to me? I'll talk to you. Okay. So, yes. Yes. Okay. Your first name is Alma. Is that pronounced right? Alma. Alma. All right. Elmo. Oh, so you came here to deposit a check. The check you went under your name. Yeah. Well, it's a it was a money order. I was given some money from where? Um I sold I sold some stuff on eBay. I picked it up from uh Western Union. Maybe check out Western Union here locally or where? I don't remember exactly where it is. Do you was it in Coral Springs or? No, it was in um I'm not from around here so I don't really know the towns. Where are you from? I'm from Chicago. Okay. Aurora. Aurora. Exactly. How long you been down in Florida? Just for a couple last week. I got here last Wednesday. Okay. You moving here or are you visiting? visiting my um I went to a uh family wedding. Where at? At the um in Bonita Springs. Oh, okay. So, where are you staying close to here or? Yeah, I'm staying close to here. Are you your your family live in where your family live? They live in um they live in Miami. I mean, some live in West Palm Beach. They live all over. Okay. What brought you to this bank specifically that it's not anywhere near the place as you're staying? What do you mean to what brought me to this bank? Yeah. Well, well, I came here um last week. So, I just What day last week? Um Thursday or Friday? I can't remember what day. Do the same thing. You probably check her. Yeah. You deposit or cash it or I withdrew. You withdrew money? Yeah, because I went to the uh I went to the wedding so I needed cash. Oh, okay. Did she go to the ATM or No, I came in here and I saw Oh, okay. Do me a favor. Set up your phone, girl. Ma'am, do you have a good phone number I can reach you at? I lost my I lost my um this is my niece's phone I don't give her the number. What's your number? My number is 630 um I don't know cuz I haven't called myself can't remember. I checked one time through Illinois. [Music] Give him a car, man. Give him the vehicle. Um, I had it over. Bravo 25, Bravo 14, 653 in progress. driver getting into a white Toyota. Okay. So, do you guys have video of the parking lot? I don't If you do, we don't have access. I'm just trying to see what what vehicle she pulled up in. came from the north. Run some plates up there. She's from Illinois, but she she's out here for a wedding. So, but you definitely saw her walk from the north. Can we want to get her rapid ID if that's a fake ID? Might be. Just give me one second. [Music] What's that? Hey, you have no mine's not on. Can we get her? So, this is the story. She went in on the 12th and withdrew 9,500. Two separate withdrawals from this account that per she has an Illinois. The person whose account it actually is went to their local branch in Illinois. And so this is so she came back today trying to do some more transactions. She has an Illinois ID with her name on it. So case of uh fake ID. Can we rapid ID? Yeah, I have the rapid ID. Oh, was this your real name? Okay. Cuz we're going to fingerprint you and if it comes back to somebody else, you're going to be additionally charmed. Okay. Listen to me. If this is not really who you are, we're going to add charge you. Yeah. for obstruction because you're giving me a false name. So, I need to know if it's actually you deposit. Okay. Answer me. Is this your real name? But sir, answer me. Where is there something wrong with depositing? We'll get into that. How do you know? I know there. Okay. Well, you're not afraid to go. So, we're going to fingerprint you to find out who you really are. You can't fingerprint me unless I'm under arrest. And you're detained before what? Because because on this account and we're finding out trying to figure out what's going on with you're not. Do you want to give me your real name or not? I'm not I'm not uh condoning anything. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be because he works he that that gentleman works for the bank. I'm going to follow my lawyer. You're not going to follow your wait. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on, ma'am. Wait. Wait. Wait. Okay. Come on. Wait. I don't want to be anywhere. Listen. I'm not resisting. I'm not resisting. I'm not resisting. Please. When you pull up, wait. Yes. Well, hold on. Let me Let me loosen this up cuz you just When you twist your wrist, you tighten it up on you tighten it up on yourself. So, listen. I don't want to go this route. Well, you you decided to go that route when I asked you what your real name is and you're like, "Well, I don't consent to any of this." Well, you don't have to say so and what you consent to anything because loosening this up so you get your wrist. No, I'm not a lawyer though. But you're I'm confused. That's not happening right now, ma'am. That's why you went to court attorney. No attorney on on there. You go like that. Ow. Okay. You haven't seen here. You You haven't You haven't provided us with with your real name yet. No, she has. What's up? I need to know what's going on. You come back. No. I'm going to serve you right now. Okay. So, doesn't want to tell her real name. We're trying to find out. They can't find all she's put up like a different name. So, I'm going to head. Yeah. They said that she came from the north side. Yeah. And she said she came with something. All right. Sorry. Good job, S. He comes every day. Just what's your real name? That we're going to fingerprint you and we're find out. What is your name? We want to do it the hard way. I I told you suspicious activity. There's suspicious activity on the account. So need to figure out who you really are. Make sure you really aren't this. Can you turn around for me? Can you turn around for me, please? I'm going to take your fingerprints. I need you to turn around. I'm not condoning. I need to You don't have You don't have to condone. I do have to condone. I have rights. Yes, you're right. You're bringing your name. No, I'm not. Okay, that's fine. We'll just charge you with it as well. Continue to charge and charge and charge and then when we get down to the uh I don't know what's going on. Well, we're trying to figure out who you are, ma'am. Okay. and then and then we can talk more from there. I can't address somebody I don't know who want to speak to. I need to speak with the lawyer. Okay, no problem. You can speak to a lawyer. Okay. So, we're not asking you any questions. My lawyer would tell me how you have to identify yourself no matter what. It doesn't matter what's going on. Okay. I just need your I just need you to open up your right hand. Okay. You understand? Every time I ask you to open your right hand, we're going to charge you with obstruction. Okay? That's more and more charges that keep going. And then when you get down to BSO, they are going to fingerprint you by force. And when they figure out who you are, we're going to charge you with that as well. Okay? I need to know what what what happened. I think I think you understand what's going on. I I just need to know what happens. Okay. And once I figure out who you are, I can speak to you and actually tell you what the charges are. Okay? So, just give me your right hand. Just pull your finger out for me. Thank you very much. Oh, yeah. Why don't I just tell you why? Well, that works, too. But I got to I got to verify it. Okay. Just give me your right finger. That's all. See? Real simple. You said you just need a Well, I need I need two. It's not going to work with just one finger. Good. And what's your name? Just so I know. The one that comes back and actually gives me the right name. Your name is Jessica. All right. You look ugly. Okay. How many warrants do you have for now? I might have one here in Florida, but it's old. Very old. I'm seeing one. That's why I'm asking. Yeah, it's very old. Very old. Yeah. That's why I was flyers. Were you here? You were depositing into who's into whose account? I'm just doing what I was told. That's all. Okay. You're doing what you're told. Who is telling you to do it? I don't know. You don't know the robots. So, you're just doing it for a phantom? Well, they promised me something help obviously, you know. So, what they promise? Are they in the area? How are you supposed to get out of here? Um, like I said, I pul I pulled up with an Uber. the ND. Okay. And you're supposed to leave that over. Did we? I read it already. You did? Okay. So, you you understand your rights, right? You don't have to speak to us or anything like that. But now that we know who you are, the truth of who you are, obviously those rights still, you know, are still in effect, right? Now, now they actually mean something because we can say to Jessica, you know what I mean? So, again, you're you're you don't have to answer any questions or make any statements. You still got you still understand that, right? You just forcing them to We didn't force you to do anything. Don't say that. That's We're not forcing you to do anything. We're We're just sitting here having a conversation with you. I didn't say anything about What's that? Deposit. Yeah. Yeah. No, you you said you're depositing whatever you said you're depositing. That's fine. Well, earlier you told me you were with the Western Union and got a check, right? You came here to deposit it. Okay. Well, we you were here earlier. You said you're also here last week. earlier. He told me that. What did you do last week? Okay. I reviewed my camera. Just want to reiterate what you told me last week. Last week. Okay. Do you want to ask any more questions? Answer any more questions for me? Just do you want to answer any more questions? No. Now I have no Okay, fair enough. All right, I'm going to take this purse and stuff off. Yeah, I'm going to handcuff this one arm so I can take this purse off you. Nope, you cannot. Hang on. You actually look nice on me, right? You have to be so rough, though. I'm being as gentle as I can be. Put that in there. Okay. I think you know at this point you're being placed under arrest. Hang on a second. Don't move. Don't lock this. There's some st Okay. What's your question? My and a hair in my opinion. Okay. All right. Let's get this over. So, this is actually going to go with us cuz there's all the Alma's stuff on her. We're going to see if um Yeah. But also a uh what's it called? Economic prime. Yeah. Come out here. Come on here. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to ask? You want me to ask? Okay. There you go. Yeah. Sit down first and then slide in. There you go. Good. Jan, so I see a judge in the morning. Um, probably. I'm not sure how it works down there how long it'll take, but I would say probably. So, um, Goose got all the tickets because they want to make a copy of it for their thing. And then that's the ID. And then everything else that you put in, I put in the pearl thing. I appreciate it. Turn this off. Bam. I'm going to power your phone off so you can um save the battery life. I got I just got to get it right. Okay. No, you don't need to see my advance. Good. Power off.