The moment this deputy walked up to the driver's window, something was already wrong. The man behind the wheel was shaking so badly he could barely speak. No ID, no insurance, and a secret he had been carrying for nearly two decades that was about to catch up with him on the side of this Illinois road. >> Afternoon, Deputy Arndt, Washington County Sheriff's Office. Your registration's suspended. Did you know that? It's what? It's your son's Who's your son? Okay. Are you okay? You You are shaking like Oh, why are you panicking? Okay. It'll be all right. Do you have your driver's license? It's at home? You have any kind of ID on you? Yeah, I can't can't work with social. Do you have a valid driver's license? You Is your license valid though? C E P E D A? What's your first name? J E S S? It's windy out here, it's hard to hear. What's your middle initial, Jesse? That's all you got? Have you got your ID on you? No, no, her. >> The deputy ran his name and what came back stopped the stop cold. This man's license hadn't just lapsed recently. It had been expired for nearly 20 years. He had been driving on nothing but luck, and that luck had just run out. >> Okay. All right, now you're going to be placed under arrest for no valid driver's license. Okay. Your valid Your license hasn't been been valid for like 20 years. It expired in April of '21. Okay. So. What's this right here? Nope, nope. Keep your hands right there. What is it? Lighter? Anything else in that pocket? What else you got on you? >> That's it. >> Just keep your hands right there. What's that? >> I didn't want my >> Okay. What's What's this right here? What's that? >> Huh? >> You can talk to her. What's up, Megan? Okay. We're We'll be all right. You're So, what we're going to do, it's going to be in and out of the jail real quick. There's no cash bond or whatever. This is a misdemeanor. Um we're going to have to do something with the car cuz Megan doesn't have a license, either. So, we'll worry about that. >> and get the car. >> It's all right. Just take a deep breath. >> No, I just stick them >> What's that? >> No, I have to stay out of trouble. >> What's all back here in my car? What What did you say, Megan? I can't hear you. You're going to have to No, just stay right there for a second. It feels like a charger. You got a phone charger or something in there? >> the cord. >> Is that okay? That's what it feels like, but I can't get to it. >> It's in the zipper side. >> It's in the zipper? Right here? There it is. Okay. Nothing else on you? Okay. >> Oh my god. Go to court? >> Pardon? >> Do I have to go to court? >> You will have to go to court eventually. I will issue you a traffic court date. So. >> So, there's no bond in this? >> No, this is Illinois' no cash bond. So, like I said, it'll be it'll be in and out real quick. All right? >> Jesse was already shaking before the cuffs went on, but sitting in the back of that patrol car, something else was about to surface, and the deputy was going to have to handle it carefully. >> That was the decent. >> You get nervous easy. >> Yeah. No, I got a I got bad anxiety. >> Do you? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I don't have my pills. >> You don't have your pills? What kind of pills do you take? >> It's for my anxiety. I don't I don't know what's the name of it. >> Okay. All right. We're going to have to sit in the backseat of my car. I'll put the window down a little bit for you. Will that help? >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right, let's walk over here. Don't Please don't fall in the ditch. Have a seat right there. In whatever way you need to sit to sit comfortable, go ahead. All right, be advised everything in my car is audio and video taped as well. Okay? All right, walk back here. Yep, that's why I stepped That's why I stepped back here. Okay. All right. Did you hear me talking to your dad? >> Yeah. >> Okay, he's got no valid license. That's a class A misdemeanor in the state of Illinois. You don't have a license either, so who's coming to get the car? >> My brother. >> Your brother? >> Mhm. >> What's your brother's name? >> Donovan. >> Okay. Is this car >> Uh Duwald Daniels, but it's his, yeah. >> Okay. All right. Do you have anything on your person? >> Um no. >> Nothing? >> No. >> Is there anything in the car that uh >> stuff? >> What's that? >> Like my belongings? >> Yeah. Anything in the car of yours? >> Yeah. >> What What's in the car? >> My wallet, my drink. >> Okay. Do you have any objection to me looking around the passenger seat where you sitting? >> Um well, I'd rather wait for my brother. It's not my car. Do you think I have drugs on me or >> His daughter had been sitting in that passenger seat the whole time. She didn't have a valid license either. Now, the family had one car, zero licensed drivers, and an officer trying to figure out how to get everyone home safely. Hey, you're It's your car? >> My father-in-law's. Mine though. He They can confirm it. It's mine. >> Well, I mean, Daniel >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. Is your license valid? >> Yes, it is. >> Okay. Did you get a ride here? >> Yes, I did. >> All right, let me have your license for now. >> I don't have it on me. >> You don't have >> He said his wallet might be on >> I'll issue you a couple citations cuz you're the owner of the vehicle, so you're the one required to maintain financial responsibility, so uh you want to >> Get it a law? >> It should be. It should be. So, you guys hang out just a second, we'll be we'll get out of here. I could almost stopped in a better better spot. >> Yeah, kind of have to. >> Okay. Jesse, all right, you're going to go with this officer real quick. >> to get you up there so we can get you in and out as quick as possible. >> Going to get it in and out? >> I'm going to give uh Don I already told him he's going to get a couple tickets and then they'll be on their way to come get you. All right? Two citations. The reason I stopped you, Don, is I don't know if they told you your license plates are suspended because of an insurance violation and then not having not being able to provide proof of financial responsibility, no insurance card. If you got it and it's valid, there'll be a mandatory court date, take that with you. That'll be between you and the court and the state attorney and let you guys decide decide to do with it from there. But that's what you're going to be getting from me. >> Okay. >> All right? Uh Don, he's going to Don's going to be leaving in a minute with his car. So, he's not going to he's not going to need you right now. All right, here's all your stuff. That's what you had had in your pocket. And Megan's ID. Okay. All right, two two citations, one for no valid insurance and the other for uh suspended registration card. Your court date is December 12th. So, right there. Okay, at the Justice Center at 9:00 in the morning. Uh >> And just before it was all over, the deputy answered the one question nobody had asked yet. How did this stop happen in the first place? >> I'm going to make his court date the same thing. You guys all go together, that way you can just explain what happened. >> Can I ask why? >> Our license plate reader automatically popped up. That's exactly what it was. All right. Okay, I'll see you guys. >> Jesse never stood a chance from the moment he pulled onto that road. The license plate reader had flagged his car automatically before the deputy even made his move. Here is what Jesse walked away facing that night. Arrested for driving with no valid driver's license, a class A misdemeanor in the state of Illinois. No cash bond. Booked and released the same night. Mandatory court date issued for December 12th.