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Officer Miller first arrived on scene around 44:7 p.m. and walked upstairs to the loss prevention office. The alleged shoplifter was identified as 39-year-old Gina Gonzalez Diaz. She tried to justify her actions by claiming that she forgot to pay for some of the items. All right, how's it going? No, not yet. Not yet. Ah. All right, long story short, um she concealed $142 worth of items and she didn't pay for them at the register. And then she was apprehended at the vestibule. Okay, she passed the point of sale? Yes, yes, sir. Can you uh if you just have the footage up real quick, that'd be uh appreciated. Um When he first approached me So I I explained to him. He said I'll talk to you in 1 second, okay? I'm going to talk to him first and then I'll talk to you. All right, so 3:32, she was with this group of females which she's saying is her cousin. She paid for this stuff. All right. 100%. Mhm. Then they broke apart and then she came alone back in the store and selected more items which she didn't pay for which that's $142 and I'll gladly show you. I was in the pants. I was on the phone with my sister that has COVID and I probably forgot. I don't know. I'm human. How can I remember everything that I'm doing? And then you selected 3:32, correct? >> [singing] >> So 3:32, normal purchase, fine. Normal purchase, fine, with her cousin so whoever the females are, two of them. Um then she goes right here by herself. She orders, you know, happy, you know, Coke products by herself alone. And then she comes here and and grabs the sushi afterwards. I didn't know if you were getting sushi. Okay, and then And then after that she goes aisle two and three. >> [cough] >> Can I ask you a quick question? Are you going to arrest me because I don't have anybody to take my kids? I just have a quick question. Um yeah, we're uh going to discuss our options in a second. Okay, because if you don't understand, I'm a single mom of two and I have two children and I have nobody to take care of my kids cuz my mom has COVID and my sister, too. Maybe look, maybe I got distracted cuz I'm talking on the phone with my sister that has COVID. >> Who were um Those are my cousins. They work in Dunkin' Donuts. >> to assist you? Well, I'm calling them but you're going to take me to jail for I I uh Cuz I can call somebody that can send me money. I can pay for the items. I don't have a problem. I understand but do you understand me? I I I have to take my son to a neurologist appointment on Friday and I'm a single mom of two. I don't have nobody to help me. So you're going to take me to jail? Like really? We're we're going to discuss some options in a moment, okay? And then all those items from aisle two and three about 3:50. If she was on aisle two and three and then conceals all those items Put them in the same bag with the already purchased groceries. Uh there's multiple bags. Understood, okay. And then can you just show me her leaving the business? Um so after she concealed all those items, $142 worth of items, she goes to register two where she only pays two items on register two. I'll gladly show you that here. This? And then one candy that's right. All right, okay. I told you what I paid for. Two items. And then and obviously we apprehended her at the vestibule. Okay. You know, she just paid for two items that she just got from the work. No, so this item right here is um tomatoes and then one candy or bubble gum, whatever that is. And then the rest concealed that she just grabbed never came out. But that's the $142 she didn't not pay for. Okay, did you get it? That's what we stopped her in the vestibule. Is there a way that I can pay a fine or something because I have two small children I take to school. Do you have any history like in any other ShopRites or here? >> I've never stolen anything in my life. So listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. If you do come with us right now Mhm. we're just going to do some paperwork. You'll be in the police department for like 2 hours. You'll be home tonight. >> I have to can you escort me so I can get my son out of school? He's in school right now. >> Where is he? Okay. If I if I go 2 hours I still have >> Hold on 1 second for me. I have a son that has autism. Hold on 1 second. A receipt printout of all the items that Gina attempted to steal indicated that the total value of unpaid items was $142. Officer Leroy Sherrod then arrived on scene to assist. The loss prevention employee showed Officer Miller the surveillance footage. The cameras revealed that she initially entered the store with her cousin, S, as she claimed. She paid for all her items that time and left the store. Later that day she returned to the store with her daughter and allegedly concealed stolen items among the other items that she had already paid for. Call Duke McCourt. What's up, Sarge? Um there's going to be a 25 here. She has uh a daughter with her. She does not have anyone available anywhere in the world that can take care of her and she also needs to pick up her son from school from after after school program. Um she was due to pick him up already. She's already late. Um the kid looks maybe seven or eight and I don't know how old the son is. Um uh let me find out for you. What Where is your son now? In Branch. In uh Branch school. If I can pick up my son from school and they can go with me, I will go with you. It's not a problem. I don't have a I don't have a babysitter. Yeah, the the thing that's upsetting me is she was here an hour ago, paid for normal batch of groceries with cousins and then she re-entered the school or I'm sorry, the store and concealed items in the purchased items already, and then now those apparently those cousins are nowhere to be found and unable to be contacted. In the back, okay. Okay. Okay. All right, I'll explain that right now. Thank you, sir. Give me It got me Okay, I'm distracted. Um can you just get his name real quick? You You know what? You know his pedigree? Hold on a So, can I get my son from school? >> Hold on one second, please. Okay. And then this is the receipt we need. Okay, so these are the items that were paid for, all right? This is 14220. >> All right, that's it. Okay, perfect. Thank you. I'm going to explain to you what's going to happen right now, okay? Um I'm going to give you two options. Either way, you're going to come to police headquarters and we're going to do some paperwork. Do you understand? Just hold on one second, let me finish. So, you're going to come to headquarters with us. Um she could ride in the back with you, or she We have two police cars here. If she could ride with the other one of us who has to drive >> can stay with me. >> And then one of us are going to pick up your son and also bring him to the police department, okay? Okay. We'll obviously nice, respectful, everything. Hold on one second. What's up, Serge? I was also informed uh highly autistic. Yes, I will uh get the pedigree. Correct. I will get the pedigree. Just do me one favor quickly. Um Do you want my name and my address and everything? Nope. All I need is actually your son's name and what whatever teacher he's usually with right now. >> Okay, well he's in after care. His name is So, I'm going to send his name to my boss so he could go pick your son up and um bring him up to the police headquarters with you. >> I don't know where he's going to meet me at. Okay, that's okay. So, your son will be meeting us at headquarters. We're going to do some paperwork together, and then uh you should be able to leave uh later tonight. Have you ever been arrested before? I've never been to jail in my whole entire life. >> then You can check my name up. It's not a problem. So, what we're going to do is No, I've never been to jail. I'm I'm being honest. >> You You even The the system will speak for itself if you're lying to us. I'm just saying hypothetically. Um Routinely, what happens now is you're going to come to the police department with us. We're going to do some paperwork, and you'll be home in a little while. Okay, it's not a problem. Um I'm going to ask you to stand up now. I'm going to have to place some handcuffs, okay? Okay. Uh just take your bag off first. This? Yes, ma'am. Let me put my keys in there. Do you want this blanket? What's up, Serge? Hi, how are you? What's your name? It's a very pretty name. Okay. Do you think they need me and anything else? >> Um Um we're going to go ride in the police car now, okay? Uh I thought she was a Well, no trouble. No trouble, okay? We're going to We're going to go for a ride in the police car. Give me a hug. Yeah, her birthday's tomorrow. Oh my god. Since ShopRite wanted to press charges, Officer Miller placed Gina under arrest for shoplifting. Gina was handcuffed and escorted to the patrol car. Okay. Um do you have anything on you that I need to know about in your pockets or anything like that? I'm going to I'm going to search you myself in a second. Uh >> That's okay. I'm going to search you myself in a second. I just need to know if there's anything that's going to hurt me or anything like that, okay? >> Maybe I have a quarter in here. >> No, I'm talking about any possible weapons or drugs or anything that's illegal that you might have, okay? I do have to cuff you behind your back. I'm sorry. >> [snorts] >> Um I'm just going to have to pat you down, okay? And this wrist, wrist? Okay, all right. All right, yeah. Unfortunately, they're not supposed to be comfortable, but I will uh make sure they're How's that? A little bit better? Okay. 150 We're going to have one female 10-25 here. I'm going to give a further update in a moment. Just Leroy, we're going to transport in the same vehicle, okay? Whatever it is It's okay if that's all you got. That's okay. I believe you. I am going to have a female officer at headquarters so she could cuff her the search her in a safer capacity. Um where are the groceries and her purse? They're downstairs, but I told him that I he since he said I only took the two items, I wanted the $38 that I paid for the um 530 whatever it is. Okay, so I guess my question is is there any property that she has My bag. I'm sorry, your groceries like this here? Uh whatever's uh that belongs to her, I would like her to have. Oh, the groceries as well? Yep, no problem. I will take those. >> It folds up, but you got to like Okay. I can close it if you want. You got to like hold it Can I get my keys out of my bag? Yeah, absolutely. I'm going to ask for a case Can you do all this in writing? 150, can I have a case number, please? Hold on one second. All right. Yeah, you can just go out the back door right here. You, Roy, can you just pop the trunk? You can just step inside, okay? 150 All right, it's going to be one female 10-25 with her juvenile daughter on board, transported to HQ. Starting mileage 59623.3. Um it's in town. It's just about a 5-minute drive. Okay, yeah, we'll we'll see if we could arrange a ride for you. We'll talk about it. Yeah, yeah, no problem. You know what? We'll be at the police department Yeah, we're just going to ride in the police car, okay? Can you make a U-turn right here? Yeah, yeah, I'll I'll let you know exactly all the info I need once we're at uh once we're sitting down together, okay? Is hot or cold or anything? No, I'm fine. I mean, I was paying for the groceries. I wasn't trying to steal anything. I believe you. And I really regret like forgetting, you know, to pay for those items. I really feel bad. I just don't appreciate the way he was talking like I get like I I've been there. I spent a lot of money in ShopRite. Maybe I just forgot cuz I was on the phone with my sister and she's talking to me. So, um Sit down. Sit. Sit. 20 5. 20 5. You're talking at ShopRite. I'm going to need you to come to the front of the property. 20. I'm 20 7 19. You're going to have the portal one. You're relieved his uh has an arrest. 14 0. I'm 4 5 0. It's going to be a temporary and uh video. We'll be heading out to Brent. 10 2 3 3. 1 15 ending mileage at HQ 59624.6. 10 4. Oh, thank you so much. 10 4. I'm going to go uh right in the front doors. Come on. 10 4. How are you? Good. Good. I'm uh I'm Officer Cam. Oh. Cam, nice to meet you. Can I see the name of this place please? Push them. Push it. Come on. Okay, forget it. Come on this side. I'm going to get that You're just going to stand against this uh wall. Okay. sign for 1 second for me. >> Can you push my glasses please? >> No problem. Thank you so much. 10 4. Sorry. Sagata, come here real quick. Sagata. You good? I'm going to take her out here. I have the kids sitting outside there. That's fine. Yeah, you're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. Come on. That's That's why I didn't take it in the first place. Um Here's Here's just going to happen now. I'm going to take off this They just said bingo. What? They just said bingo. Okay. Um I'm going to take off your handcuffs. Okay. Is she going to come in? Um when I do, just put your hand against touching the wall, okay? I already told you to turn around and Okay. So, I'll see you later. Just be Can you Can you take off your jacket for me? Okay. I'm just going to take Um just You're going to stay right there for 1 second. I'm just waiting for the female officer to come in, okay? Okay. Actually, if you want to have a seat, that's fine. Once she comes in, she'll stand back up. Let me take my hair tie off. You good? You good? Is it my Yeah, just give me 1 1 minute. I'll just give you gloves here. Yeah. All right, ma'am. Can you just stand up and face the wall please? Fine. I don't have anything on me. Okay, that's okay. My name is Officer Rivera. I'm just going to do a quick search of you, okay? >> That's okay. Can you just spread your legs a little bit more for me? Thank you. I'm going to take my hands off. Okay, I'm good. And you have the hijab on for religious purposes? Yeah. Okay. I can take it off if you need me Okay, no problem. But if you need to, I can have this officer step out. No, I don't have anything. I just put the cap on cuz it's raining. But >> Okay. there's nothing on my head at all. Okay, but I still need to search it. So, if you need him to leave or is it okay if he's here while I search? No problem. He can be on the other side. I have like three bobby pins. Okay. I just put my cell really tight. Sorry, there's a bobby cap on the bottom. Okay. Okay. That's it. Okay, perfect. All right, you can place it back. Do you have a mirror that I can see? You can. Um yeah, I can check the uh the cell. >> try and fix it on. I would just have to unlock the cell when I'm done, but I mean, I can get you a uh No. I can try to put it Yeah, we'll have to see a mirror. I'm so sorry. >> Just let me complete the search real quick. >> Okay. I can take it off. It's okay. It's okay. You're fine. You're fine. Okay. All right, you can take a Just take a quick seat. I'm going to have you take off your shoes. Yeah. And then I'll put you back in that cell so you can grab the uh Can you take a seat for me? Okay. Her daughter rode along with her as he transported them to the Hoboken Police Department. Another officer went to her son's school and brought him to the police station so he could be reunited with his mother. She was charged with shoplifting under 2C:20-1B(a)2, reunited with her children, and released pending her court appearance. My security here or not? Yeah. We can take her out here or not. Can I have my arms in the front? >> Um you're actually just going to be one hand right now so you can sit here I just need Okay. that to be on. Basically, just going to hold the processing and deactivate. All right, you can take it.