What happened? She pissed me off. She pissed you off? We caught her stealing. She's stealing inside of my store. Okay. We caught her stealing. We wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. I was like, "Just put the stuff back." And she just threatened me like, "I'm going to bring you my lawyer." blah blah because of whatever. So, now I told her like, you know, it's like oh like blah blah blah. When she saw me on the phone, she's like, "Okay, okay. I got you a deal." No, she really pissed me off. She's stealing inside of my store. Her boyfriend blah blah blah whatever. I heard her boyfriend left. But she's stealing inside of my store. She doesn't want to leave my store. So, is our is our like a spark up with her, right? I don't even know where the boyfriend is at. All right. So, if she has stuff if she still has stuff with her, we have to wait for her to pass points and we'll meet her outside here. Then whatever she has on her, if she didn't purchase it, then we could actually arrest her for that, right? If she didn't steal anything, then for sure 100% we'll trespass her from the business. We'll say she can't come back. No, she's going over there cornered by some coats. Just Just wait for her. I got it. Yeah. She saw us. She's probably going to drop everything because she saw us. No, she didn't. That was the thing though. I said I was stealing. It got me It got me upset because she wasn't only calling me like, you know, she had some, you know, the boyfriend the guy. What's the guy first? It was, you know, some buyers or whatever. So, when I looked at them, blah blah blah, I said, "Let me just look at the at the camera." They were They were wiping out my aisle like just grabbing grabbing grabbing grabbing. Where were they putting it at? In the back. She has a bag. And the shopping cart was empty. And I said and then I went take this to the We verified that she took it first with the camera. We saw her. I'm like, "Hold on. She didn't get more or whatever." She got like, you know, like you know like she got like with the attitude. It's like, "Oh, you don't have any proof. You cannot prove anything. I'm going to bring you my lawyer." That's when it pissed me off. And that's when I turned around and I'm like, "That's it. I'm not even going to play with this." I'm on my 12-hour shift right now. I can't even So, her with the brown jacket? That her right there? No. No, it's a guy. She's a young girl. She got on skates. She got on skates. Just wait. Let's just wait out here. Yeah. Where is the guy with I have a all black. He's the one I saw first. He did the suspicious walk. You coming out there? Hey, come here. Where's your boyfriend? Relax. Relax. Relax. Relax. I was being chased. Relax. Relax. Where's your boyfriend? I don't know. You know exactly what we're talking about. Where's your boyfriend? I don't know where he's at. Do you have any ID on you? No, I don't because I'm an immigrant and if I go to jail I'll have my I'll get deported and my child will get taken away. We're not even talking about that. Literally, I'm not Just look at the camera. Ma'am see anything. you to calm down. I want you to calm down. There's nothing in my purse. All right. Do you have any ID on you, ma'am? I don't. What's your name? Drea. Drea or Andrea? Drea or Andrea? Drea? Drea. Spell it for me. What's that? D R E A. What's your last name? Merchant. Spell it for me. Like merchant. With a T. M E R C H A N T. C H? A N T. All right. Do you have a middle name? I literally had to put my own my own product back Ma'am. for your superstition. Ma'am. You didn't catch me and I know if my lawyer pulls out the camera, there's nothing in there. ma'am. If you didn't do anything wrong, there's no need to try to plead the case. Right? Do you have a Do you have a middle name? No. I'm actually a weird What is your phone number? If you If someone What is your phone number? Where do you live? I live in many places. Which one What which which is your most current one? Um I don't really know cuz I'm more from Broward. What What is that? I'm more from Broward, so I don't really know like the You don't have a specific address? No. All right, so you're homeless? Not really, but not really. So where are you staying at? Well, my child's not homeless, but I what's your social? I don't want to say my social. I don't want to get in trouble. I don't want to get incriminated. is going to go, okay? Either give us your information, your real information, Yes. or lying to a police officer is a criminal offense and you will go to jail. Okay. And I will guarantee you that that I will put you in my car and put you behind in into jail. And wherever your kid is, DCF will take care of it. Wait. There's corrupt officers in DCF. I I used to be a journalist. There's There's human traffickers in DCF. We don't want to get to that. We're not even at that point yet. I don't want to talk about that point. I just know the last four. You just know the last four of your social. You don't know you you don't know the like the other five. I can guess them, but it's one One of the numbers is either a seven or a one, so that's why What is it? Does it start with a one? You can put both of them. What is it? Let me No, I can't give you my full name or full date of birth. This is my name. I have a full date of birth. Did you purchase them? They were given to Excuse me? They belong to you? You purchased them here or you came with them? I purchased them here many times yet. I came with them like I purchased them here and I came with them. did you purchase them? I don't know. Like I come here and buy food every day. open the first I buy food every single day. It's going to be the Open the Open the second one again. Can you buy these? Take them out. Take them out. Keep going. Just can you buy these from the store? Any more? Yeah. And the other Keep going. Can you Can you check see see if she took these from the store? You know what the guy That's what I saw him taking these blue ones. See what the stack of Of these? I didn't take nothing blue. I heard the guy that was with her. What's the guy you was with? And I stayed here and I cleaned up everything around you and you still the guy you was with? I I don't know. You don't know who the guy is? No. You want us to pull the camera back and actually we could start we could start investigation investigation like that. because he's transient and he has a worse life than anyone. He has a what? He's transient and he has a worse life than you. you guys come here to steal? I literally come here and buy every day. And when I had money, I literally donated every day. I need the first three of your social I'm missing. Like what I've ever stolen literally something Dre, I'm missing the first three of your social. Don't know what you're talking I think. All right, you ever been arrested for anything? Yeah. For what? Stealing. All right. So, you can either give me your information or I could take you to that I could take you to downtown. We could fingerprint you like that and I find out who you are. You want to start the process again? What is your real name? I mean, that is my alias I've gone by Andrea since I came to this country. That's your alias? legal name? What is your legal name? On the ID that I That's not actualized because I'm an immigrant. I mean, Andrea. I was born Andrea. I was born Andrea. going to start over. Look at me. Do I look like I'm playing? I'm not playing. Do I look like I'm playing? No. All right. So, I'm going to ask you one more time. I'm going to ask you one more time. I'm going to ask you one more time. What is your name? Andrea Merchant. You guys I literally brought some here. And she's just going to take my food? I literally brought some here. She's just going to take my food? You literally brought some here, right? Yeah, they're always in my pocket. I eat that 24/7. You What do you have under that like under your your Nothing. All right. Just Okay, no problem. There ain't nothing. I cannot I get in trouble with the law. You got in trouble already before. Can you open the pouch? What's in that pouch? Your pockets. Nothing. There's nothing in there? No, just gloves. Just gloves. What about that pocket? You can search me. What is that? Excuse. They're mine. Are they used? Yeah. It doesn't look used. It's It's It's dented. Oh, no problem. No problem. It's dented. It's used. How you doing? I'm all right. So, there's someone Someone's being assaulted over there. Hey, can can you write Don't waste your time on me when there's like She just hates me because I always come with my skates. What else is there? They're the same skates. Oh. Mine. Also mine. Girls ride around Look, my nails are painted. See? Mine. What is in your pocket? And that's tinted. It's mine. It's spell skating. And obviously it'll show up in the system cuz I buy my food here. Two more? No. So why you walking out with four ginger shots? I always drink them. I'm literally in the middle of buying what I'm trying to buy. And then she's over there trying to charge at me. Obviously I'm going to be like, "I'm out of here." But I didn't know you guys were there. I didn't know you were behind me. Do you have a middle name, Andrea? I really don't. I swear to god. Right hand to god. I'm sorry for whatever inconvenience. I This woman hates me. I come in I I I don't listen to her. I come in my skates every single day here. That's going to be different, though. This is completely unrelated. I'm going to I'm going to info. Do you have Netflix? Everything is on it. I can hear you, but I'm trying to 24 white female from 1 KCH128 and 2020. This can both are. Yes, I have You're a 24 white female from the street address You said if we give you all my information that I'm not going to You're a white female. Last name is going to be Mike Echo Romeo Charlie Hotel Alpha November Tango. First name is going to be Andrea. Alpha November Delta Romeo Echo Alpha DOB is going to be Anniebar, Anniebar, but I literally buy so much here. You could put the camera inside actually. I'm not You can see that I'm not putting anything in my pocket and every day I come and buy food. Every day I buy food. I have money in my hand. I will I don't know if you saw me when I heard her yelling at me I was in the counter buying food. And I literally had a hair product here that's from Whole Foods and because of the way she's obviously blowing smoke up my ass I had to put it in here. Now they're going to sell what something from Whole Foods that's not even theirs. She literally has no right. I swear to you look at the camera. She hates me cuz every time I come I come here I come here with skates and she tells me don't come with skates. She apparently told me that two or three times and I didn't hear her. And she that's what she said to me. She's like I'm calling the cops because you didn't respect me when I told you not to come with skates. I'm like I literally did not hear you but I'm sorry. And I did not run away. I didn't I stayed there. I organized the store. I tried to buy something. I proved to you that What's your boyfriend's name? He's not my boyfriend. He's not What's that transgender person? You don't know his name? You did not give his name. How long you known him? How long you known him for? He's from Molly. One three one what? I'm bad with time concept but um cuz I don't look at the calendar like that but feels like a couple weeks. Yeah. I didn't see him do anything either. I don't know if he did or not but I didn't see him do anything. For the record, I don't trust anything that come out of your mouth. So you can just stop talking. You can just stop talking. All right. What do you have in here in this pocket? I don't have anything in here. The 23-year-old male pat me down. I Literally just my style. Is that North Miami 221? Okay. This guy. Merchant secure unit, ma'am. Okay, so the last You said you've been arrested before. Yes, I said I was arrested. Okay. But not like jail handcuff, just it it was a written arrest. So a written arrest. What was it for? You said it was for for shoplifting? Yeah. Stealing where? Macy's and then the mall. Where? Where? Where? Was it Miami or Broward? Miami. Miami. I Please don't use that to try to Try to what? I can't find you. I can't find you in the system. Why? I can't find you in the system. They say you don't have any past. Maybe I didn't do anything wrong. All right. Okay. Don't worry, we have time. No, I mean I We have nothing but time, Andrea. The only time Some way, some how The only times that I thought I had a written arrest and then and Some way, some how we'll find out who you are. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. I don't have a problem. I didn't run from you. I didn't see you. You didn't see me? When I saw you I braked. I stopped. You didn't see us inside of the store when you was inside of the store? I didn't even know. You looked at us and made eye contact and I made eye contact with her because I don't like her. All right. Okay. All she does is follow people and the other day she was literally walking past a lady and going through her purse just like passing and like opening her purse and literally saying, "Excuse me." And they almost got into a fight. She's not a good person. She's just picking stuff. You never had a driver li- Have you ever had a driver license? Yeah, when I did I used to be a journalist and do I used to do great things, but now I don't. Please don't get me arrested. I don't want to lose my child. Let me see. want I did the right thing. I stayed. She told me to stay. I stayed. What's your name? It's going to be Andrea first name. You can ask police department like She told me to stay, I stayed. I didn't do anything. I literally followed orders. I started organizing the store around to see if I can get in her good graces. I don't care if you believe me or not. You can look at the camera. But she doesn't have a warrant. The thing in Macy's is I could have been in Macy's bathroom. There's nothing that implies that anything happened. That was just An accident happened with my mom and the cash register, the clothes were past the cash register and I walked past cash the cash register and with clothes hanging on the stroller. And I told the lady I'm not leaving anywhere. I just need to make sure that I can get a clear phone call. So I don't know if that's documented or not. I don't know if I got charged. I just need a It's not a coincidence. You always bring this up coincidence into it. No, I know it's not. I know I'm not innocent, but in this case I think that now I'm just having bad You're having bad luck? Yeah. And if I were to steal something, wouldn't you ever steal something to someone if you needed to? Like if it wouldn't hurt anybody. You wouldn't feed somebody? You know, one time I did steal something and I went straight outside and I gave it to a homeless guy and the rest of my stuff I bought. Maybe I'm not a law-abiding citizen, but I do have a good moral compass. And I want to do great things and I really don't want my record to get tainted because I really do want to do great things. How How are you a law-abiding citizen and have a morals? No, no, no. I said I'm not a law-abiding citizen, but I do have good a good morals. And sometimes these two things can intercept and I understand if you were a man of law. And the ones are also So, even the dented thing that I fell with on the way here is Well, they can look at the cameras. How about they do that? I'm not talking to you. All right. They should look at the cameras. Well, I don't know if they have it. All right, ma'am. So, you have footage of her taking the goods? All right, I'm going to ask you Two things. Do you have a drop any receipt? What's the total? Approximately? Charges are That's fine. What's the boss? Me, you know, I will go all the way cuz I gave her the the the fight and she started getting all worried and thankful or whatever, and me, you know, I'll just go for all the way. Just because you said I have a picture of you naked or some weird [ __ ] like that. Oh my god. What's that [ __ ] She got to add something okay in the mall. Like putting it in your purse I'm going to take it. I guess she walked out of the store. I don't know, man. I first Just wanted to ask you what do that one just putting this on the ground with the situation. You guys want to prosecute? Charges or you guys actually just want to trespass her? You guys just want to trespass her? You guys want to arrest her? Arrest or something. Me, I will go all the Tell her don't come back. She got all her [ __ ] back and she got the ownership. She said so if you want to go see cuz I was just showing her the way out of the store. Cuz I had to leave and help another customer. So in here, like I said, first we just got the boyfriend, of course. Of course it's the boyfriend, but then you're going to see him grabbing made out of these dolls. You see, he had full stuff. There you go. She had that I feel like this is him. So you're going to see him coming out here still have still have her. The shopping cart. You see the shopping cart here is full of stuff on it. Help. Help. I know. She cool. And then she start putting the stuff Cuz her mouth had it open. These are yours? You want to trespass the premises and come back here anymore? You want to take your stuff? Okay. An hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, how long? No, I don't. When do you plan to pick up the stuff? Okay, thanks. I think I'm too nice to you. As in I don't know if that's what should I do. I can't force you to I know you can't. Well, when will you be picking up I I can't I can't I can't do that. Justice is justice. Yeah, like I said, me, you know, I would go Mainly, like I said, because she was trying to play smart. And then she lied on the keys. She said she lied on the keys. Before you leave, I want to have you have to basically tell her that you're the one that had to come to the store. You have to physically say before I actually No. Listen, Andrea, she has something she wants to tell you. I'm really sorry. Okay. Those are dented. You really have no discussion on 2017. I'm really sorry. If I buy here I buy here every day. I don't want to be banned from my own store. I buy here every day. You just cannot write this one off. I'm not going to cross. Please don't. You going to have to I'm going to press charges. I'm double checking. Can I use the bathroom? Can I just pay for this soda? Come back here. You already had the option when you walked in. Your mind your your mindset Huh? Call the car. So, we had a discussion about it. She was like, "Give to everyone." You don't want I don't want you to get jammed up, but I was thinking about the same thing, but we can't force a decision. I don't know if people have power in this world. Stop. I'm about to call. You can call the police. I'm just saying. I don't have anything that you have. You got it, but your mindset came in here to steal. You do it every day. You got caught today. Don't come back, please. And now, whatever that was that was with you, get rid of it. Which side of the fish is it? I know. I just wanted to help. Well, that's not helping. And I think the more you talk, the deeper you make your hole. So, you need to just relax, embrace this moment, really embrace this moment. I don't want to stand in the back with you guys because I see you guys are You already there. You already there. You already there cuz I gave you What did I say? If you put it back, If you say no, The situation is right. Mhm? It's up to me on whatever you want to do. I know that. That's why force a decision. I know that. You had a lot of I know too. So, I'm telling I think it's getting on like with all this over here so difficult like even though you know like she want that was so you know like I said me, I would tell her to [ __ ] arrest her. That's That's what I did. Like that was the only way that they're going to learn. You forgot what you did tonight. Don't come back. You're not welcome. Oh, he left his phone in his car. Hold on. This is her phone. Hey, just wanted to verify something, just to run it by you. So, I met Publix that they this female here actually stole some stuff. But Publix is basically saying that they just want to trespass, they do not want to press charges. Oh, so there's no even there's no I thought it was like no non-pros. So, if the victim doesn't want to prosecute still take them? Sounds good. So, that's Here. She said she said negative I'll take it. She said I had a feeling that All right, Angela, do me a favor. Can you turn around for me? Yeah. Turn around for me. Just turn around. Just turn around. Relax and turn around. Like this? Yeah. Take this off. It's not up there. Can you give me a receipt for these pieces? Please don't do this. Please don't do this. Please. Please. Please. Let me take this off. No, don't don't lose them. Don't lose what? Well, we're going to take them off so you them off so you don't fall while while you while you're going inside of the car. Please. Please don't do this. Please. What the [ __ ] Please. I didn't realize they're in the store. Please. We didn't do it to you. You did this to yourself. No, I know, but she You said you want to based on her decision. She didn't want to do this to me. Well, she's not the owner of Publix, unfortunately. They didn't want to do it. Please. She's not the owner of Publix. I literally have you will be taking this ride. Please let me And you'll have time to think about your decisions. Come on. I can't I can't You can understand I can't do this. If I do this, I get deported. I lose my kids. Please don't do this. Please don't do this. She should have thought about this earlier. I know, but it's just food. It's just food. You should have asked the store the manager. I have before. He said you can take it. I sort of got Well, you think you go to the manager today? No, because it's not because she's not the main manager. It doesn't matter. Any manager will be more than happy to assist you. was another guy that he said I can come and just take small food, just small food. Okay, well I swear to [ __ ] god. There's a difference if you ask or you just take. I did ask. Did you ask today? Not today. No, I didn't. Okay, therefore you didn't ask. Every day's a new day. And your boyfriend who should have been here to help you He was working. I don't want to hear about it. I just wanted to I just wanted to give him food. I just wanted to give someone else food. That's unfortunate. Please don't do this to me. Look I wore a candy bar. A whole child is going to miss a mother. Please. Please. Should have asked someone. I would have said this. I would have said this. Yeah, well you didn't ask. A crime was committed, correct? You committed a crime. Okay, that's that. I got to pay for my bills. I'm not going to lose my job because you decided to do a wrong thing. We have 266. Fixing will be a reference of my department. You have the black shirt, too. I guarantee you that's him. After we clear and go circle around. I'm going to stop. Why would you lie to me? Why would you I cooperate. Why would you lie to me? Why would you lie to me? Why would you let me cooperate? Just don't lie to me. I'm so sorry. I was [ __ ] kidding. I'm so [ __ ] sorry. I cannot lose my kid over that. Please. Please. Please. Turn my recorder off.