On June 25th, 2025, 28-year-old
Alexandria Brown was caught on
surveillance at Kohl's. Investigators
determined she bypassed all points of
sale with approximately $200 worth of
unpaid merchandise. Nearly a month
later, on July 18th, officers tracked
Brown to her residence in Shamberg.
However, the arrest was anything but
routine. As the officers arrived, what
was supposed to be a simple trip to the
pool for the kids quickly turned into
the most embarrassing arrest ever.
>> Hold down your window. Hold down your
window. You can have kids in your car.
Roll down your front window.
>> All right, roll down your window.
>> Roll down the window. You're the one
scaring your kids, not me. Hold down the
window, ma'am. Just roll down the window
and talk to me. I'm not even asking you
to do anything.
>> What's going on?
>> How's it going? Well, first off,
>> I just came for the pool with my kids. I
found a picture. I don't even know what
y'all here for.
>> Okay. First off, my name's Officer
Bujack. I went with the Homer Police
Department. Homework?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Okay. What? Okay. Well, this car is
lying in connection under retail theft.
>> Okay. Y'all want me?
>> What's your name?
>> Bro, this not even my bro.
>> This isn't your car?
>> Listen, listen, listen. Can I just Can I
take my kids in the house? I I DON'T
MIND GETTING OUT. I just want to make
sure I don't know what's on.
>> Okay.
>> Well, you kind of wreck me out here.
>> I can.
>> Okay. What do y'all want my car for?
>> You, Alexandria,
>> and this car?
>> Y'all throwing me off?
>> I'm not.
>> Y'all throwing me off Homewood. I never
been to Homewood, bro.
>> Okay. Well, I got you on video for the
retail stuff at Kohl's.
>> You don't got me on video.
>> I do. And this car.
>> You don't got me on video.
>> I do, ma'am. You got a nice uh mask on.
>> Okay. So, what's up? What you here for?
>> Okay. I
>> I'm not trying to BE A HARD TIME, but I
got my kids at the party. What's up?
>> Do you have anyone around here that can
take care of your kids?
>> Just call my line, my stepdad,
everybody. I need to call.
>> Okay. Well, we can figure that out.
We'll let you continue making calls, but
I need you to step out of the vehicle.
>> My phone on 1%, bro.
I'm trying to call somebody for my kids
until they're making calls.
>> Okay, ma'am. If you want to do nothing,
I'm not walking nowhere. Here, I can
take the keys.
>> No, put your hands. No.
>> No.
>> I'm not doing nothing. Then stop.
Take the phone. Take the
I'm sit down. Can I stop?
>> Either way, you're going to go in
handcuffs. She could keep making calls
and we will be fine. Okay.
>> Just put your hand Ma'am, don't make
don't make excuses in front of your
kids.
>> Ma'am, do not calm down. COME HERE. I'M
NOT DOING NOTHING. COME HERE, BABY.
>> Don't do this in front of your kids.
>> I'm not. I'm not. Come here.
>> Ma'am, JUST PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR
BACK.
>> Just let put your hands up AND WATCH.
>> OKAY, THEY CAN MAKE IT.
>> I DON'T CARE. WE WILL FIGURE THAT OUT.
>> OKAY. HEY, KID. Come here. COME HERE.
HELP ME.
HEY, can you get your brother away from
her?
>> Let me go,
>> please.
>> I'm going to charge you a child
endangerment.
>> LET GO OF your kids.
>> He will They will come with us. Stop it.
But you're going in handcuffs. Stop
putting your kids in danger.
>> Stop it.
>> I just came from the pool.
>> Okay. Well, stop it. You're putting your
kids in danger. We'll let your oldest
daughter make any phone call you want.
Okay. It's called the charger.
>> Charger. Okay.
>> It's called a charger.
Put your hands behind your back. Okay?
Stop doing this in front of your kids
>> and you're going to get resisted.
>> So stop now.
>> All right. Okay. You're getting
resisting right now.
>> I'm not trying to resist.
>> But drink it. Break it. R it.
>> Ma'am. Look at the way you're dragging
your kid. All right. You're going to get
child and NEGLECT NOW, TOO.
>> OKAY.
>> IT'S ALL ON body camera. Everything
you're doing.
>> Everything you're doing is on body
camera.
>> Come on, baby. You just put your kid in
danger.
>> You like dragged them in to defeat him
and the rest.
>> Tell me, baby. I'm not resisting. I just
>> You are. You just resisted. You resisted
and then you use your kids to do it,
too. Either way, you're going to jail in
handcuffs.
>> Okay.
>> No, I'm not going nowhere. I'm not going
to go.
>> Okay. But you're not going in handcuffs
like we asked you to. So, you already
got resisted.
>> Okay.
>> Stand right here. Okay.
>> I've never tried to go nowhere.
>> Doesn't matter. You're not putting your
arms behind your back. That is
resisting. Okay. All we want to do is
put your handcuffs and we will stand
here calmly while your kids are here and
let them continue making phone calls for
you.
>> My phone is dead.
>> Okay. Again, it's called chargers. Okay,
we could work something out because we
want your kids taken care of too. But
you doing this is not helping anything
at all. It's actually making things a
lot worse.
>> When I sat in that car, I was calling my
mom. I just wanted somebody to get the
kids out.
>> We would love for that to happen too.
You understand what I'm saying? Okay. We
would love for that to happen too, but I
need you in handcuffs.
>> Okay. We will stand here leaning up
against your car.
>> You said my car is wanted. Then you just
said I'm like, "Do you want the car or
do you want me?" Like what? You said you
wanted the car, bro.
>> Like what did I do? I'm retail.
>> How long did she go to jail? How long is
she going for?
>> I'm coming back tomorrow, baby. Don't
>> Cook County. Man, if you're in
handcuffs, we don't have to keep holding
you.
>> I'm not going nowhere. I'm sitting on
the ground
>> again. But again, you are resisting
arrest right now.
>> I swear that's all I was trying to do.
Situation.
>> I understand. But here's the thing. More
officers are coming now because they're
not in handcuffs. Once they come here,
they're gonna separate your kids from
you to get you in handcuffs. I need you
to put your hands on your back and lean
up against this car. So, we have you in
handcuffs and I we were not moving you
anywhere because again, once you're in
handcuffs, we are responsible for your
kids and we want them in good care, too.
No one's going anywhere. But I need you
in cuffs cuz once more officers come
here that again that we don't even know
cuz we're not in town over here.
>> So much is so much nicer to y'all. I'm
not going to lie to y'all.
>> The way y'all just came at me was bogus.
I'm not mad. I'm not mad.
>> Shberg would never have done that.
>> Okay. Okay. said, "Man, can you please
put your hands on your back? Your kids
can keep hugging you. We're going to
stand right here."
>> I know yall just not going to put me in
the car, though.
>> What?
>> I know.
>> I promise we won't cuz again, I am
responsible for your kids. And again, I
want this to go as easily as possible.
>> Y don't understand how far everybody is
from me right now.
>> We will wait.
>> Okay.
>> Y'all didn't even come to arrest me.
Y'all came to take my car.
>> No, we came to arrest you. We saw you
and we saw the car. So, it just happened
perfect timing for us.
>> Matter of fact, Aria. Aria.
>> Ma'am,
>> I mind having my baby call 911. They're
going to come real quick.
>> Please do.
>> That's what y'all should have did.
>> No,
>> that's what Rio for.
>> Call 911,
>> ma'am.
>> Call 911.
>> Please do.
>> MATTER OF FACT, DON'T CALL.
>> Tell them to hurry up.
>> DON'T CALL THEM RIGHT NOW.
>> Tell them to hurry up.
>> Don't call.
>> Yeah, don't call. Matter of fact,
>> why? Cuz I want them to know.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> It's you.
>> I just say state of Illinois. Okay. We
have authority in the state of Illinois.
>> Okay.
>> Can't go over state lines to grab
someone, but we go anywhere throughout
the state.
>> Okay. So, again, if you could please So,
you could calmly do whatever you want
and have your kids hug you without us.
>> If I if I put the curse on, y'all still
going to try to resist.
>> This is
really
>> Yes. Cuz now we're doing all this and
we've been on body camera for this long.
There's no way we couldn't start doing
this.
>> Oh, I'm sorry,
>> bro. YOU WASN'T JUST DOING THAT. CALM
DOWN. OKAY.
Why you do, bro? WHY YOU WHY [screaming]
YOU WHY YOU
CALM DOWN? Calm down, buddy.
>> We don't want you to get murdered. Okay.
>> Can you move?
>> Well, that's what happens when you
reveal this once away from all of your
kid.
>> I don't like you.
>> I've been doing this with you for 15
minutes. Let go of your kid. We'll let
him continue to hug you.
>> Stand up again. You're using your kid,
>> bro. I'm telling HIM TO GET UP. SHUT
YOUR UP.
>> I'M TRYING TO BE NICE NOW. All right.
Now,
>> your up you talking about YOU. I'VE BEEN
NICE THIS WHOLE TIME.
>> It's good, baby. I'm right here.
>> Just got to go get anywhere until
grandpa gets here. Okay.
>> What you need the keys for?
>> I need your car taking your car.
>> You don't need the keys.
>> I do.
>> No, you don't.
>> You're a liar, bro.
>> I'm not, bro.
>> You don't need my keys. You a goofy. You
got tough as hell when the police got
here. You're a funny exactly.
>> You got tough as hell when the police
got here.
>> I told you
here. I told you. about to push it on my
shoulder when the police pulled up.
>> You look goofy, gang. You look a goofy.
>> Didn't I tell you that was you tough as
hell with that badge on?
>> As hell
>> wrong with you. It was a goofy
about you.
>> Talking about it.
>> They didn't even help you. You just got
tough when they got here.
>> That's what I said was going to happen.
>> Told you that was going to happen.
>> They didn't even help you. You just got
tough when I got here. I don't like you,
bro. You said a retail theft.
>> Yes, exactly. You're under arrest for a
retail theft.
>> Why do you think it was me, though? Cuz
I told you I got a surveillance video.
>> Mom, I'm not going to jail, bro. I'm
just going to the station. That's not
jail. Okay. That's not jail. I'm not
going to jail.
>> Is it my address on it? So if it was put
in my box, it's going to be with my
mail.
>> I don't get to take nobody's mail.
>> If it's in my box,
>> if it's in my mailbox, if it don't got
my name on it,
>> I don't get to take it. I didn't open
it.
>> It's going to be in your
>> It got to come out my mailbox, bro. I'm
not going to leave it in my mailbox.
>> Driving with it in your car. I obviously
never opened the mail. It's clearly all
together. I took it out the mailbox and
put it in my car. I never looked at it.
That's why I just said, "Can I get it?"
Cuz I don't know what it is.
>> I'm not tripping about not having nobody
else's mail. Sir,
>> stop talking like a baby. Okay.
>> Yeah, they wet anyway, bro. Put your
clothes in the car. You don't need
>> I'm use
it. If you want to go get it, get it.
The password 5683. All right. Inhaling.
>> You remember that? It's love.
>> Love. The code to my car. The fan to my
heart is love.
>> Okay.
>> I appreciate it, guys.
>> I want to check your uh
>> Alexandria Brown.
>> She's wanted out of like everywhere. We
have the small amount like another
town's contacting me for $40,000. I put
out a critical reach and I deed right
away. And other towns like, "Oh, did you
get her yet?" lower down for
>> all right. Thanks.
>> Yep. Appreciate it.
>> She she had a habit of uh I don't know.
Yeah. Like taking off the plate, right?
>> Yeah. She would take off the plate and
then she would re like in a parking lot
down the street and then she would put
it on after
here. Is that a pepper tag before? I
don't know if you guys
during the arrest. Brown refused to
cooperate, physically pulling away from
officers and sitting on the ground to
obstruct her being taken into custody.
As a result of the initial theft and her
aggressive defiance during the
encounter, Alexandria Brown was
officially booked on charges of retail
theft and two counts of resisting a
peace officer. In addition to the
criminal charges, her vehicle was
impounded as part of the ongoing
investigation. What's your take on this
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