No, [ __ ] you. [ __ ] you. Let them take me to jail. EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW EVERYTHING. >> YEAH, everything's been distorted. >> I DON'T CARE. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. You don't know what happened. I don't KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. I'M IN HERE FOR SOME [ __ ] >> IN August [music] 2021, officers in New Mexico responded to a crash after a woman allegedly slammed into several parked [music] vehicles. But while witnesses pointed to her as the driver, she insisted someone else had been behind the wheel, leaving officers to figure out which version of the story was true. >> He jumped out and saw her. >> So, sir, you actually saw her um as soon as the crash happened? >> Yeah, I saw it happen from my window. >> Okay. >> It was right there. >> Okay, so you heard the bang or you actually saw her driving? >> I saw her I saw the car hit our car. >> Okay. And then >> I heard a screech coming down the road. I looked out my window and >> Okay. And you saw that that person that's still in the vehicle is the same girl? >> Yeah. >> Okay. What's your name? Ma'am, I'm sorry to ask but do you have a police report? Everything's been recorded, okay? >> Just leave. >> So, you are being detained. You're not free to leave, okay? >> I'm not I'm not going to leave. Can you guys just leave? >> Okay. Thank you, okay? >> Can you guys just leave? Can you guys just wait? My just my mom is on the way. Just leave. >> Ma'am, did you hear what I just said? >> I heard. >> Okay, I'm sorry to ask but do you have a police report? Ma'am, everything's been recorded. >> I was never driving. I was >> You are detained. You're not free to leave, okay? >> Okay. I I will not be >> comply, force will be used against you, okay? >> Okay. But I'm bleeding. Look at my Look at my whole teeth. All broken. >> I'm sorry to ask but do you have a police report? You're not free to leave, okay? >> I'm not going to leave. I'm not going to go nowhere. >> So, ma'am, would you like to go to the hospital or or would you like to do field sobriety tests? >> No, my family to come. So, they could tell you guys that she was driving. I wasn't. I had to stop and she jumped out. >> So, so, ma'am, there's a witness that said you were driving, okay? >> I wasn't, sir. >> Okay. So, so, so, ma'am >> I'm waiting for my whole family to come. Just leave. >> just listen to me, okay? >> Just wait till my family comes. >> Okay. So, would you like to rescue to check out or not? >> It's my other It's my mom. Hello? >> Where are you at? You should check your location. >> I sent it to you guys twice. This [ __ ] was driving and this [ __ ] hopped the [ __ ] >> Okay, so so ma'am, would you like to have rescue check you out or not? No? >> Mom, Mom, can you please get here? This [ __ ] left me. This [ __ ] left Let me and my Let me and my mom come to you. >> Okay, so ma'am, do you want rescue or you do not want rescue? >> LOOK AT MY TEETH. >> OKAY, YES, MA'AM. OKAY? SO, MA'AM, you can't smoke that either, okay? >> I CAN. IT'S MY IT'S my car. >> So, ma'am, so you are detained right now. You're not free to leave, okay? >> Why won't you let me smoke, sir? >> Can I talk to her, okay? >> That's my sister right >> Okay, ma'am, right now right now we're talking to her. Ma'am, right now we're talking to her, okay? We're doing an investigation. You guys can watch from a distance and I can fill you in on what's going on, okay? Would you like me to fill you in? Okay? >> No. >> Yes or no? >> I was never driving. I stopped the car. >> Ma'am. >> Yeah. Okay, I'm watching her right here. >> So, that's your sister, right? >> Yep. That's my little sister. >> So, basically what happened was uh we have a video tape of the neighbors there. >> So, I was never driving. >> She was driving. >> I hopped out. >> She came She came down this way. She took Vehicles are parked and she was backing into the back of it. >> As the investigation continued, officers relied on statements from witnesses who claimed they watched the crash unfold. Despite that, the woman never changed her story, insisting she had only jumped into the driver seat to stop the vehicle after the collision had already begun. >> I was never driving. I just stopped the car. I was never driving. >> So so >> My friend left me. >> Okay, so what I need to do now is stand up and put your hands behind your back, okay? You're under arrest, ma'am, okay? >> You can tell You can ask my whole family. I was never driving, sir. The car She left me. The car wouldn't stop. I put in I tried to stop it. Sir, I was never driving. >> So, ma'am, you need to step out of the vehicle, okay? >> No. Can I smoke, please? >> No, ma'am, you cannot. Okay? >> Please, just let me smoke, please. >> So, ma'am, this is part of the DWI process, okay? Unfortunately >> I don't know what DWI is. >> Okay. >> I was THE CAR WAS PARKED. >> Everything's been recorded, okay? You are no longer free to leave. You are under arrest for DWI, okay? >> I'm going to jail for DWI. I was never driving. I was somebody >> Are you the Where's the mother? >> My mom is mom. MOM, PLEASE. MOM, please [screaming] come over here. Mom, I WAS NEVER DRIVING. SHE LIKES to strap me. Mom. >> Did you say you hurt YOUR MOUTH? >> MY WHOLE mouth because of the airbag. >> Well, I What What What What What did >> She jumped out. >> What did you >> I stopped the car. >> What did you What did you hit your mouth on? >> On the steering wheel because she jumped out. >> So, how >> It burned my whole mouth. >> the airbag hit you if you didn't >> It burned my whole mouth. Cuz she jumped out and I stopped the car. I stopped the car. I was never driving, sir. >> But that doesn't MAKE ANY SENSE. >> MOM, PLEASE. [screaming] MOM. >> PLEASE STEP OUT OF THE VEHICLE or force will be used against you, okay? >> Mom, I was never >> I'm the mother. I'm not doing anything. I'm just trying to make sure everything's okay. >> Okay, so she's obviously She's obviously very emotional right now, right? >> Yeah, she's already emotional, yeah. >> Hey, that's not We're not trying to, you know, disrespect you. Hey, we're just doing our jobs, right? You're not You're under arrest for DWI, ma'am, okay? So, please step out of the vehicle, okay? >> She was not driving. >> So, ma'am, ma'am, do you want to go with me or do you want to go in the ambulance? >> I'm going in the ambulance. Please, just let me breathe. Please, I'm asking you, please. Please, breathe. I will. Bernie, please, just give me a Just give me a lighter, please. Bernie. I'm going to be up, Gillette's, Bernie. Just give it to me. Please, don't touch me. I will go. I just want to smoke. I just want to smoke, please. Please, I'll tell them I'll ask it I will go. I put this on my diary, my daddy. >> Ma'am, we can't allow you to smoke, but we can let you run and get it, okay? I'll go with you, okay? >> Okay, I will go. I have a lighter. >> Instead of focusing on the crash itself, the conversation shifted toward her injuries and repeated requests for a cigarette. For officers trying to determine what had happened, every new distraction made the investigation even more challenging. >> Do you want to go to jail or not? >> I don't want to >> All right, you just sit there, okay? >> But you keep >> Yeah, go go and get your handcuffs on, okay? Hold on. Okay. >> Take me in. I don't give a And when I get out, I'm going to beat that I'm going to do [ __ ] I'm going to do [ __ ] I'm going everything. >> You want to sit or not? Sit down. >> I'm going to get >> You want to be okay? All right, ma'am, hold on. >> No. >> All right. >> Take me to jail. EVERYBODY SEE ME EVERYTHING. >> YEAH, everything's been distorted now. >> Okay, let me get my 20 out. Shut up, you shut up, [ __ ] Shut up. Shut up. >> Ma'am, can you open your >> And you want to hang with her and I'm going to go get her the water. She didn't complete the battery. She kicked them pulling away. Some of your handcuffs are I checked them like three, four times. >> I didn't do [ __ ] tonight. I did nothing to that man. >> As far as why you're detained, I have zero idea as far as that, okay? >> They know I didn't do [ __ ] They know. Sergeant watched everything. >> Okay. >> He watched [laughter] her jump out of the [ __ ] garbage can AND I WENT DOWN FOR EVERYTHING. AND I WENT DOWN FOR EVERYTHING. >> Can I help with your water? Do you want me to >> No, I just want all my hair out of my mouth. If someone could just hold it back. Can you just, please, thank it? >> Even after being taken into custody, she continued denying she had been driving. By now, the disagreement wasn't about the damage to the parked cars. It was about two completely different versions of the same incident. >> Oh, [ __ ] you. She broke into the whole airbag when I took a breath of the [ __ ] brake. You show my hand. The whole [ __ ] airbag hit my whole arm. Um >> I'm sorry that that happened. >> I am. You [ __ ] I didn't do nothing. You assaulted with the [ __ ] light hand. They watched everything. They blamed me for everything. It's okay cuz my mom and sister have a recording. They're going to get a I'm going to get a big ass lawsuit when I get out of jail. Watch. They watched everything. IT'S ALL RECORDED. I DIDN'T do [ __ ] I was never driving. They blamed me for driving. They watched her up out the car on the driver's seat everything and I went down for everything. >> Okay, I'm sorry that that happened to you. I don't know the entire situation. I know that >> Okay, my mom and sister have a full story and when I go to court when I when I go because I'm on probation >> Mhm. >> when I get in trouble for this, watch. They're going to go down. Watch. They're going to get in a lot of trouble. I'm begging them, just please let me go. I didn't say [ __ ] They didn't electric my mom and sisters. Everybody has recorded of the whole thing. How they treated me. And I didn't get anything. >> He got >> They know I wasn't the driver. They know everything. >> Yeah. >> My whole grandfather is a [ __ ] attorney. And I'm going to have a big ass when my grandfather gets back from Vegas. I have a big ass lawsuit, watch. And all you do is tell me to let me go. I didn't do nothing. You guys watched everything. I was thrown for no reason. I didn't do nothing. Could never do [ __ ] They washed her, wrecked the car, and washed her, did everything and I came to jail for it. I didn't do nothing. If you guys see my arms, you guys would be like and I only been detained for a hour, maybe two. There's no way my I've been I've been to jail This is either 16 times. There's no way my arms should look like this and know that I didn't do [ __ ] There's no way. >> Well, again, your your handcuffs are properly spaced, so I can't do much on that. >> They're not. >> Okay, we can adjust >> He just told me when I got up in here >> He said he adjusted them three to four times to make sure. >> He said when I got up in here I was going to be able to take the handcuffs off. Oh my god, that's fine. And he's he's been lying. He told me I'll be getting someone to hold my handcuffs and let me get me the water. >> You want to just continue arguing with me? All right, you can continue arguing with me. >> That's why he gets [ __ ] up. He promised me when we got up in here he was going to take my handcuffs off. He said >> that, but the way you're acting right NOW >> I DON'T CARE CUZ YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. YOU DON'T KNOW what happened. >> All I'm getting is from the >> You don't know WHAT HAPPENED, I I'VE BEEN HERE FOR SOME [ __ ] I WAS THERE WITH THE [ __ ] >> AGAIN, you're going to have your day in court, okay? But right now I'm only judging you based on how you're acting right now. >> I'm getting so [ __ ] pissed. And you were you were the [ __ ] pastor. You had your friend driving you. Didn't she wreck the car? You get charged with that too. You would be [ __ ] mad. YES, YOU WOULD. AND THE [ __ ] >> OKAY, SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE just hanging tight. >> Please just let it go to jail. I don't have to be here. I am here as undercover. Please. Please. I'm asking you guys nicely to just please take me to jail. >> We will take you to jail as soon as we can. >> Okay, I want TO GO TO JAIL right now. They don't have to get the paperwork. >> We have to. >> No, they don't. >> Because you were in a traffic accident and that you're being charged with DWI is what I'm gathering. I don't know. But if that's what your charges, we have to make sure you're medically cleared before we take you out to the Metropolitan Detention Center. >> Where's the water? Where's the water? >> Water's over there. >> Because when my mom and them came there, I was in the bathroom. When everybody came in, I was in Can you give me a cup of water? Okay, but how can you not I'm asking you for water. How can you not >> See? >> At at the jail, they have a water fountain. Okay. >> but I don't want that water. But how can I not I'm asking him when we're up in the hospital if I can get a cup of water. How can I not >> Officers ultimately arrested the woman as part of their DWI investigation after witnesses identified her as the driver involved in the crash. In the end, the body camera documented not just a crash scene, but an investigation built around two conflicting stories that would ultimately have to be resolved through the legal process.