Late at night outside a hotel, a routine patrol takes a sharp turn into suspicion. An officer notices a man with a juvenile and decides something just doesn't feel right. What begins as a simple check for safety quickly unravels into a tense back and forth, where every question makes the situation feel more suspicious than the last. Was this just a misunderstanding, or was there something more hiding in plain sight? Let's take a look at how it all unfolds on body cam. How's it going? >> How you doing? >> I'm all right. >> We down. We downstairs. I'm about to come up to the hotel. >> I'm Corporal Kalek with the Plains Bro Township Police Department. Want you to know it's being audio video recorded. You have a driver's license, registration, insurance, please. >> No. Um, my license suspended. I just had got a ticket up here like two days ago cuz I had got a room in the hotel. >> Okay. Let me see your hand. I don't know what you're doing down there. >> I'm sorry. It's all right. >> I had I got a ticket. I can show you though my name and stuff. >> Okay. Yeah, I'll take that. >> I'll grab it for out of here. >> Sure. >> That's my food right there. I don't want to grab nothing. >> Okay. >> You turn on. [Laughter] >> And whose car is this? >> Uh this my it's my car. >> Your car is in your name? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> I give you the registration. >> All right. Oh, you got the regge. >> Yeah. >> And you got insurance. >> Oh, yeah. >> Okay. >> All around on our own. >> I'm sorry. Uh I was asking why why I be pulled over. >> Yep. So, you're being pulled over cuz you have a cover over the back license plate. That's not legal in state New Jersey. And you also have a uh a headlight out on the uh on the passenger side. >> No, it be going in and out. It's not It's not out. >> Well, it was just that when I was there a second ago. Maybe it's like shorted. I'm sorry. >> Okay, now it's on. But when I just walked up there a second ago on camera, that that light was definitely off. >> It's glitching. It happens, man. >> I'm sorry. >> It's all right. All right, let's have him step out. >> Me? >> No. Driver. Me? >> Let's go to the front of the car. All right. See, it's out again. >> Oh, yeah. I got to get a new screw on the light bulb or something cuz it when I flash it, it go like it it turned on. >> I see it just went out. >> It's out again. So, when you drove by, it was out. Yeah. >> That's all I want to show you. >> All right. >> Okay. So, are you staying in this hotel tonight? >> Yeah. >> Okay. cuz you realized you're not allowed to drive. >> No, my my my girl like she on her way up here though. I got a room in like in here. >> Okay. But what I'm saying is right now you're driving suspended and you're not allowed to drive. >> I'm sorry. >> How old are you? >> I'm 24. >> You're 24. >> And how old is he? What is his name? >> The front seat passenger. I'm I know who their names is. >> What's his name? >> That's his name. >> I'm asking you his name. You're with a juvenile. And it's almost midnight. What's his name? >> I know. I just want to make sure there's nothing in there. So a few times just for office. >> Ask him his name. >> I'm asking you his name cuz now I'm doing No, I don't know what I don't know where you're going. I don't know where you're going. What are you doing? Why are you walking away from me? >> I'm not walking away from you, bro. Turn around. Put your ass on the car. [Applause] >> Let's do a restart. >> What's his name? >> Ask him his name. >> I'm asking you his name. >> Ask him his name. >> I'm asking you his name. >> Hey. Hey. What's your name? Yo. >> No, no, no, no. I'm asking you what his name is. >> Ask him. >> Let's go. >> I don't got to ask no. I don't got to ask nobody else question. Like telling why would I come here? Turn around. Lean up against this car. >> I'm not answering no questions. Bro, >> here's the problem. You're with a juvenile. >> Not >> and you're saying that you don't know what his name is. >> I know his name, but that's that's like telling, right? >> No, it's not telling. You're with a juvenile after hours and he's not like your brother. >> It's my little cousin. >> Okay. So, if he's your little cousin, give me his name. >> Give you his name. I give you my name. >> What part of give me his name are you having a hard time with? >> I don't got no hard time with his name. That just like I don't I don't I don't feel right with that. >> It's like tell if you asking me my name, I'll tell you my name. My name's Ta Gaither. >> Yeah, I know your name cuz you gave me a ticket that says that you're driving while suspended. I'm asking for his name cuz you're telling me that you're with a 16-year-old at almost midnight at a Holiday Inn. >> Yeah. How do you think that looks? >> How it's supposed to look? That's my little cousin. We going to >> Okay. So then do this room. >> Prove that it's your little cousin. >> You want me to prove it how it's my little cousin? >> Yeah. >> Ask him do what's my name? I don't get it. Like don't make no sense, bro. I'm about to call my my sister to tell her come see if she can come downstairs. >> No, I don't want her to come downstairs right now. >> Don't call anybody. Don't call. Hang up. Don't ask anybody to come down here. This isn't her. Stop. Okay. You're detained right now and you're required to speak with Officer Quick, not her. Okay? We'd actually like less people here, right? We just want to get you through this so you can get on your way. >> So, right now, if he's a juvenile, if he really is a juvenile, >> he really is a juvenile. >> I got to protect him. >> Why you looking at me like that? I'm a cop and it's my job to protect juveniles. >> You're 24 years old. >> Yeah. >> He's 16 and you're pulling into a Holiday Inn. Right. >> So, >> take a step back and tell me how that looks. >> And now you won't tell me his name. He's your cousin, but you won't tell me his name. >> You ask him his name. >> I don't need I You know what? I'll talk to him in a bit, but right now I'm talking to you >> cuz you are the 24year-old with a juvenile in a hotel parking lot. >> But I don't get it though. If you asking me somebody else name, why would I tell you his that's like tell I'm not doing that, bro. I feel like that's >> Bro, because I'm asking you his name to figure out if you're really related. >> We really related. >> Okay, prove it. >> Like, you think I'm about to rape him? It's like, what the [ __ ] >> Crazy place. We don't know. And you're you're not making it easy for us to find out. >> Here's the deal. If I was stopped and I was like, "Yeah, this is my cousin." And they said, "Well, what's his name?" I'd be like, "His name is John Smith." >> John Smith. >> All right. Here's the deal. I'm starting to think that you're not really cousins. >> So, what are we? >> You tell me. >> I'm just not giving That's my cousin. My blood little cousin. I'm not giving up his name, though. Like, that's some police. >> All right. >> You can't be half brothers. Same mom. Same different dad. >> Yeah, that's what we're saying. Make it make sense. >> Yeah, that's what it But I'm saying I don't They don't got He don't got the same last name as my dad, though. >> So, then what is it? >> I don't know, officer. I'm not going to lie to you. I don't know his last name. >> All right. >> You think I'm You can check the car. Nothing in the car. I'm not lying to you. It's my little cousin. I'm just coming here to go to sleep. Like I got kicked out of my my house. My uncle got me the hotel room and I'm staying in the hotel right now. >> Okay. What uncle got you the hotel room? >> My my my uncle. Not like it's like he he's not really my uncle, but I'm saying >> so then maybe he's not really your cousin. >> No, that's my cousin. I'm talking about like he not really my uncle. I just call him my uncle. Like >> And I'm saying maybe now you're just calling him your cousin. If you just calling relatives things that aren't that they are really aren't >> just because No, I this I knew I knew the guy for so long he got me a hotel. >> That actually is making this even worse. >> How? >> So you didn't even pay for this hotel and you're here with a juvenile. >> I didn't pay for the hotel. My uncle paid for the hotel. It's in his name. >> I just >> What's your uncle's name? I can tell you their moms and their dad's names because their moms and their dads are my aunts and my uncles. That's how cousins work, right? Or what am I missing? How do cousins work? >> Why would I get somebody like it don't make sense? You ask. All you got to do is ask him his name. Because I want to trust and verify. If you're telling me that he's your cousin and you tell me his name and I ask him his name and it matches up, I can now start to say, "Okay, maybe you guys actually know each other." >> So, you think I don't know? You think I don't know the guy? >> That's [ __ ] up, bro. So, now you think I'm trying to kidnap him? >> I didn't say anything about kidnapping. >> So, what I'm doing? >> Put the phone down on the trunk, please. >> [ __ ] >> Thank you. Put it in my pocket. [Music] What is his name? >> Ask him his name, bro. >> Do you know his date of birth? >> No. >> Do you know his address? >> No. >> So, where do you pick him up? >> At my aunt house. I don't know. I don't know exactly where you live at. >> So, you just said you picked him up from your aunt's house? >> Yes. >> Okay. What is your aunt's name? >> You asking all these questions, bro. >> Yes, I am asking all these questions, bro, because I want to know if he's your cousin. And if you answer questions that he can answer and they drive, it's going to seem like, yeah, you are cousins. If I'm asking you the aunt's name and the uncle's name, and you tell me you don't know him, but now you're telling me that you picked them up from your aunt's house, which leads me to believe that you know the aunt's name. I want to let you know this isn't my first night shift. >> Yeah. >> So, whatever this little act is is getting old. >> It's no act, bro. It's no act. 100%. I don't got nothing on. You can check me straight. I don't got [ __ ] on. I'm just trying to go to sleep, bro. And I'm not I'm not I'm not no snitch, bro. I'm not no police. I'm not none of that, bro. So, you can take >> right now. This is not about snitching. This is about proving that you're not about to do something with a juvenile cuz you're out. You're 24 years old and he's 16. Prove to me that you're family. >> Prove to me that we family. >> Yes. >> All right. I'm about to show you. >> Oh, no. No. >> I'm about to show you that we family. >> Tell me how you're family. >> I don't get what you mean. Tell you how you're family. >> Tell me how you're family. Let's go back to the car, please. >> What were you going to show me? >> I'm going to show you a picture. >> You have the picture on your phone? >> Nah. >> Where's the picture? >> Is it my other phone in the car? >> You have two phones? >> Yeah. >> What phone is that then? >> It's my iPhone. >> What phone is the other phone? >> My Android. >> So, the pictures of you and him are on the Android. You don't have any pictures of you and him on the iPhone? >> No. Why not? Go on my Facebook. >> On your Facebook? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Where's the android from? It >> don't even matter, bro. Like, y'all calling all these cops, bro. I'm just trying to go in the house, bro. It don't even matter, bro. >> Bro, this isn't a house. It's a hotel. And you're >> going to hotel. I got kicked out of my mom house. I'm going go in the hotel, bro. Like, >> you're not making this any easier. It's actually very simple. Give me information that I can confirm with him. >> I gave you my information. Give me information about him that I can confirm with him that will let me know that you're cousins. >> Ask him his name. Bro, >> first of all, please stop calling me bro. I'm not your bro. >> That's how I talk. I'm sorry. >> Okay. Thank you. Second of all, we'll get his name from him. I want to get the name from you. It's a very simple question. He's your cousin. What's his name? What's his aunt? What's his mom's name? >> All those questions, bro. I answer all them questions. Stop calling me bro. >> What you going to do? You going to lock me up? What? I'm being arrested for, bro? I can call my mom right now. She can come up here. I don't like it don't I don't make no sense, bro. It don't make no sense. I'm over here trying to go in here. My mom kicked me out and got like I got a hotel room. >> So, if your mom kicked you out, why are you going to call your mom right now? >> Because I'm being harassed by police >> because you're with a juvenile at a hotel >> and she know I'm with a juvenile. I'm with my little cousin. Like she going to be like, "Oh, you with like come on. You not I don't got to tell. I don't got I don't got to do nothing. I don't got to say nothing, bro." Like real [ __ ] bro. It's just making me mad, though. I don't even talk to cops, bro. >> All right, I'm going to give you the opportunity to show me something on your phone, >> and if not, then we're going to go a different route. >> What's the different route? >> I'm not telling you right now. >> You want me to go retrieve the Android phone? >> No. >> I don't got time for a different route. >> You can't tell me who he is. He can't tell me who you are. His story is the complete 100% opposite of yours. It couldn't It's actually humorous how bad it is. >> It's me. >> What he told me was the complete opposite of yours. I don't know how much more clear I can. >> So, point being, he's a juvenile. We got to contact mom and dad somehow. We can't let him go into with a stranger >> to a hotel room rented by a stranger who we don't know who it is, right? You get what I'm saying? Like, think about it. Like, you're you have kids. one day you might >> there's no way wait. >> So point being you already said like if we want to search the car, you know, there's nothing in it. That's going to be the route we're going to ask to go. All right. We're gonna ask one of the quicker one of the quicker ways we can get through this is is to search it and and discover that there's nothing in it. Right. So the other route would potentially be like, you know, canine warrant, something something along those lines. But right now with you already mentioning, hey, search it. Let's go. Let's get out of here. Well, we we agree. Okay. Thank you for that. We couldn't we we appreciate the cooperation. We we couldn't agree more. >> So, uh Corporal Coch is going to go over a form that you could sign if you understand it and are willing to do so. >> We're and we would then like to search the vehicle, make sure there's nothing in it like you said, just because your stories are just not driving at all. Do you understand? >> Was it my story? I never made you a story though. >> You like I just said, you told me the or excuse me, Officer Clawche, the complete opposite. I nobody know >> of what that kid just told me like your relationship to each other is. All right. >> Do you understand? >> So, you know, and then that and then you know the people you got calling you raises our suspicions. You know, the amount of cell phones like there's these there's different things that officers look at um that like you know we check off on our list of suspicious activity and observations that we make. >> All right. So, if there's nothing in there, you got nothing to worry about. We'll search it. We'll get him back to mom and dad. They might be mad we're calling them late, but if that's the worst thing that happens tonight, okay? You know what I mean? All right, man. Thanks for your cooperation. We we we do appreciate that. All right. So, we'll get you on your way. Yeah. You know what? I don't want to like spook him. I would like to have you guys do like majority of the search. Then I'll go ask the keys. Cuz if I go back and say, "Hey, I need your keys." He might be like, "Yeah, I'm not doing that." And I want to stop the search. >> Also, like this panel is already loose. >> It's already loose. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> So, feel free to, you know, get in there. I'll help you with the light. >> There's another phone underneath the seat. >> We're up to >> three on this side. >> Three, four, five, six, seven total, I think. >> Well, no. I mean, look at it. So, it's 100% counterfeit. It's got like Chinese writing on it, too. >> Yeah. Isn't this >> blue line in the middle holographic usually? >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that enough is that that that right there is enough. And then ask about the other issues he's got. And his car is getting towed. He's he's suspended. >> Yeah. >> Oh, well, I'm sorry. I'm not timely enough for him. >> All right. You step on out. All right. Put your hands behind your back. Spread your legs. You're being arrested. >> Yes, you are. >> Who are? >> Let go of your phone. >> Don't get too early, man. Stay still. >> Stay right there. >> What? I'm being arrested for. >> We'll explain everything to you, man. >> Well, we'll explain everything to you. >> All right. So, right now, you're being placed under arrest for receiving stolen property. >> Stolen? >> And possession of counterfeit money. >> Huh? I just told you we're stolen. >> What's counterfeit money though? >> Are you asking the definition of counterfeit money? >> Yes. >> Counterfeit money is money that is not >> Ah, my [ __ ] wrist, bro. >> You have a finger. I didn't tighten it. >> Stop. Let go of the handcuff. Dude, >> all right. Loosen it up. >> What am I getting arrested for, though? What counterfeit money though? Am I armrest? >> Yeah. >> Like what? How am I getting arrested for that though? >> Cuz it's illegal to possess it. >> And it's also I'm I'm charging >> [ __ ] ripped up in half, bro. >> Oh, no. No. Not the one. I have one that's not ripped up. >> Have a seat. >> You going to charge me with [Music] drop anything back there while you're there? He just trying to charge me with a [ __ ] a old $100 bill. Like it don't make no sense, bro. What's on the property? >> It means being in possession of something that doesn't belong to you. That don't play. I don't rolling papers. >> Weed is legal. >> What started as a suspicious late night encounter ended with counterfeit bills and an arrest. Did the officer truly have enough to justify that search? Or was this a case of suspicion snowballing into authority overreach? Was it sharp policing or a stretch of the badge? The answer isn't so clear. Drop your thoughts in the comments. I want to hear what you