Today, we have a video from BodyCam Leak, and the title of the video is "Bank Teller Tricks Fraudulent Check Scammer into Waiting for Police." Why do scammers always believe they're smarter than the police? So, what are you doing here today with us? What are you trying to do? My landlord gave me the check back cuz he changed his mind about letting me move in. So, I was trying to cash my check. Who's your landlord? My phone in the car, that's why I was stepping out to get my phone. Where do you live at? I stay down on 601 West Romeo here. The You don't want to talk to me? So, you're saying he gave you this check back? >> Back. >> [clears throat] >> Excuse me. I'll grab something. Sir, I'm just trying to get my rent paid and my 14 days It's a pretty serious offense, buddy. >> Man, I know, man. I wouldn't do nothing like that, bro. Like So, tell us who you are. Yeah, Melakai [clears throat] Alexander. Give us his Give us his phone number. Can I get out of my car? Where's your car at? My phone is right there. My ride right outside, so I don't want to talk to the state for nothing. Well, it's you present This is our payroll check. Okay. Yeah, that's not ours. No. And a different commerce bank wouldn't have a blue line. No. And this is our routing number, okay? So, you're saying he gave me the wrong check back? A fake one. Not wrong, fake. Bro, don't play with my life, bro. Like, I don't And so, you're saying >> that would They would not make him the remitter. Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me. Yeah. This is Um So, Can you come to the back with me for a moment? So, my money gone? So, I'm trying to get Like, what's what's this saying going on? So, my money's Like Well, tell me what's going on with the check because I mean, clearly you've dealt with it. You've seen the original check, what it looks like. So, what's this check? I thought that was the original check. That's what Right now, no. Why? Who are you? That's my ride. Do me a favor, grab his phone. Can you grab my phone, please? What is the check? Where'd you get it from? I got it from here. And then, I turned it in to him and to my landlord. It was for first month and last month's rent. Do you have any proof that you gave him the check? And that he gave you this one back? I mean I mean, you see You see where we're coming from, right? I mean, you have a completely different looking check I didn't know >> you have. >> the difference, sir. I see what's going on. >> And then, now you have >> And he's playing with my life. And then, with our And then, wait. And then, around the same time frame, you both go and open up >> never knew >> a bank account here. >> anything about any of that. I never knew you were on any of it. >> goes and cashes his cashier's check. You get a cashier's check. And then, now that cashier's check is missing. And then, now you come back with a falsified cashier's check. So, why would I do that? I mean, you you get what I'm saying? I get what you're saying, but did you Why would I come in here with with and do that? Grab his number. I can't tell you right now. If you want, you can go sit down in the chair. Just wait. Just wait. I don't appreciate being lied to. >> [clears throat] >> Look at her catching an attitude. Look at this. Just Just go sit down somewhere. You can go sit down. We don't We don't need the attitude right now. Take care of business. If you want, you can go sit down in the chair. Just wait. Just wait. I don't appreciate being lied to. Oh my god. So, he's your landlord, so He lying, man. Let's cut to the chase, man. He's lying. He's lying, okay? And he When you going to come up with a lie, you got to come up with a better lie than that because what you just said was that you gave that check to your landlord and your landlord gave it back to you cuz he wasn't Whatever. He ain't want to Whatever the case may be. But the fact that you said that you gave him that check first is your check. You the original Like, you the guy that gave him the check. You know what I'm saying? So, he ain't He ain't received the check from you, switch it out, make a fake one, and go do Now, don't get me wrong. The whole story that he's saying is bogus, but I'm just saying, let's pray Let's play devil's advocate here. Let's pretend like his story is legit. You still put yourself in the situation by saying that that's the check that I gave to him. So, so how did you get that check? You You made up that check? Cuz you ain't get it from the bank. The bank lady just told you that that's not even our print. We don't even do that type of stuff. Yeah, this check look completely different. You suck at being a criminal, boy. Just give it up. Be like the rest of us. Be regular, man. So, he would have been But I guess he changed his mind. Okay. >> So, he gave me the check back. Okay. So, how did you find the place? Firewood Please. The place to rent out that you wanted Like, through a friend. It was on Peoria Street. Okay, so what's the address? Uh So, you're saying he's saying So, what's what's the address for the place? 1210, I think, Peoria Street. Okay, so what was this original RB Garrett Street that you just gave us? That's where I was moving out of. Well, we asked you the place that you were trying to move into, and then you gave us that No. RB Garrett address. So, which address is it? Because you're giving us two different answers now. I stay in the uh RB Garrett. Mhm. That's where I'm right now. And where I was moving to was on Peoria Street. So, I don't know. Bro. Why they blur his face? So, ain't They've been had his face out the whole time. So, you're saying the address is 1210, Peoria Street, I believe. So, I'm not sure. Well, >> So, I don't know my paperwork at the house. Okay. Well, if this is the house you're supposed to be moving into, I mean, you got to have something paperwork. You got to you know, maybe you should know the address because you're trying to move into it. 1210, Peoria Street. Well, it can't be 1210, Peoria Street cuz that's right off Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania is right in front of the hospital, and there's nothing but work buildings around there. There is no apartments, there's no house. Can I talk to the manager, please? What manager? What for? You just wanted to talk to her. She called us. Cuz I just want to see what's going on. Like, what she's saying that You brought in a fraudulent check. >> she's saying? It's a fake check. Why would I do that, sir? Well, it can't be 1210, North Peoria cuz that The address doesn't even exist. So, what's the address of this place? Cuz you don't have the landlord's number. You don't have any of his information. You don't have the house that you're apparently trying to use this money for. Or apartment. So, basically, you're saying like I just got played. What I'm saying is is you made a fraudulent check and you brought it in trying to get money. You should have his information. If you're not If you're not the one that brought in this fraudulent check, you >> gave me the wrong information. I Okay, are what do you mean he gave you the wrong information? He gave me the wrong address, wrong wrong phone number. Like, I see what's going on now. I I definitely see what's going There's nothing about the wrong address, wrong phone number. It's about you brought in a fraudulent check. >> know. I see what's going on. That's what I'm saying. Where'd you get the check from? Yeah. Okay, so if he's the one that gave you a fraudulent check, what's his phone number? Where's his address? What's the address of the place you're trying You were trying to get into? >> That's That's the address I got. Have you went out and seen this place? No, sir. I see what's going on. It's sad that cops got to still play along with these foolish games just to you know, get as much information that they could for the investigation or whatever, but the cop knows he's full of He's full of crap. Trying to watch my language, you know? But yeah, it's just you still got to play along and just to pull more information out of him that he's lying about to continue to build the case. All right, so she just said he made an account here. Like, I just got played. That's basically what just happened. Like Well, I need you to find his information. I need it. No, right now, no. Right now, you're a suspect to this. So, I need you to to give me this guy's information if you didn't do anything. You have text messages with this person. Something with social media. And I don't even met him one time. Okay. Well, you said you knew you got the information on this place that's for rent through a friend. So, who's this friend? I it was they they said told me about Islam landlord. Islam landlord. Okay, so who's the friend that told you about it? I believe they have information. Just hang on. Who are you calling? I'm over at outside. Well, don't worry about calling them. I'm trying to get paperwork. >> I don't worry about that. We can get to that point. They just playing me, man. I know they just playing me. I'm trying to What the hell? He trying to get the dude number information about the landlord. If I could get all of that, then We probably need to call sergeant after this, right? I've never dealt with one. Yeah, that's I got a lot of info. I just don't know what to do with it. I'm like, okay, here. Lay it on me. What do you got? Clearly forged [clears throat] signature. Clearly fake check. Just sit tight. Clearly fake. Yeah. I talked to an investigative corporate investigation supervisor. Mhm. They deal with this all the time. Yeah. >> They make a fake check try to get cash. Yeah. So. I mean, I just don't know what to do with him. Well, I mean, as in I'm like Because if the amount is low enough, then they'll get the cash or whatever and then um see if it'll clear late days later. If it's a bigger amount, then you know, they won't give you the cash. They'll wait for the check to clear first and then give you the cash. That's why sometimes when you go to the bank if if you got a a larger account, they'll tell you or a large amount, they'll tell you, "Ah, you got to wait, you know, whatever, 5 days or whatever the case may be." But if it's something, you know, reasonable, you know, they'll they'll let the money go through. Now, we have a frauds uh unit, I want to say. So. Give me uh I'm going to call sergeant real quick. See, cuz this is the first Let's sit down. >> [laughter] >> You need to listen. You haven't been able to give me a person, phone number, the a correct address, proof of anything with any of this. So, you haven't been able to give me anything of what you're saying and you're beating around the bush, scrolling around your phone, not even looking at anything that's >> me a number, sir. related to it. Give me a number, please. You just started [clears throat] giving me a number. This whole time you scrolled at least three pages on your phone call log trying to give me a phone number and you haven't been able to this whole time. I don't know what to ask you now, all right? What's What's cooking here? One minute here. Yeah. Yeah, let's call sergeant after. Just hang on to that. Here, for right now, stand up. Okay? You got to stay on the side of your pockets. No, sir. Okay, here. Let me see your phone. Take the phone. What Take my phone. Just go and turn around. Okay, Officer Bailey. Way to take charge. Let's hook him up. >> We're detaining you for right now. We're going to do this out of the public, okay? We're going to handle this privately. So, we're not in a public business right now. All right. Right now, you're just detained. We're going to figure everything else out. I just want to get us out of here, okay? Here, just take a seat. Sir, can I please Just just wait a second, all right? But watch your knee. I got a fraudulent check up here at Commerce Bank. We got the guy here. He's just throwing out a fake story about an apartment and this other guy that had also opened up a bank account here. They both took out They both took out checks right after they opened the accounts and now he brought back this fake one. Sergeant said to give you a call see if you guys wanted to come down and talk to him and handle him or if you just wanted me to just go ahead and go through with it. No, I would rather just go through with it. Collect the check. Get the video footage of him being there if you can without a search warrant. Okay. Um and is it down at on Main Street? >> On Main Street, yeah. Yeah. And you know, just obviously, if he's already giving you guys a story, just he's already mirandized him. No, we just he just started spilling everything about you know, why he's got the check and everything and we didn't even really ask him any questions. Yeah, I would just do that and keep moving forward. All right, sounds good. >> go ahead and mirandize him and talk to him. Collect the check and just cinch it up however you see fit. All right, sounds good. Thank you. Yep, bye. Yep, bye. Right now, Wait, what he says? Cinch it up however you see fit? That mean make it make sense for the paperwork. Make Make sure it make sense. >> questions. Yeah, I would just do that and keep moving forward. All right, sounds good. >> go ahead and mirandize him and talk to him. Collect the check and just cinch it up however you see fit. All right, sounds good. Thank you. Yeah. Yep, bye. Right now, >> Make it make sense. Bless you. Hey, this is This is what I'm going to do. Okay. I'm going to send you out for what I can't for what I have on it. Just listen, okay? I'm going to contact Tazewell County. And let me let me explain the reason on why this might actually It's not nothing of this is going to help, but it might {quote} {unquote} help, okay? Just bear with me. I'm going to send you for what I have for just this, okay? After that, Tazewell County, if they if they confirm this warrant, you'll go out to Tazewell for whatever that warrant is. That'll give myself and our detectives enough time to follow up with you I hopefully and figure out if it was him involved or you and him or get more information on top of it. That way, if you are clear-cut free, the charges and everything can be dropped. Right now, there's nothing on my side that I can do, okay? I've already talked to detectives. They want you to go out, okay? We have enough probable cause off of it to get to make an arrest, okay? Instead of giving you a notice to appear, they want you to go out to county today, okay? I I can't That's Listen, the second I called detectives because this is their portion of it because I have enough on my side. I've done the detective work before they can get here. They have enough on our side that they said they want the arrest to be made. The man was arrested and charged with deceptive practices and forgery. Drop your opinion in the You're done. Go to jail, man. Go to jail. Why people be trying to play with these banks, man? These banks are going to get it They going Man. And then you know you know it's something wrong cuz everyone's gone to the bank. If you legit cash in a check or whatever the case may be or depositing some or whatever, the transaction between you and the teller is like no more than 5 minutes, maybe. If that. What you here for? Here's your ID. Da da da. Dude, all right, you're on your way. They got to bring you back to the room, sit you down, stall you, you know, or hold you at the teller. Oh, let me call and make sure. You know they What? They hitting that button, man. They hitting that button and them and them boys is going to come, man. But people still stick around. Man, get a new profession, man, because you you suck at being a criminal, okay? You suck. Unbelievable. Then the story don't even make sense. I gave the check to the landlord. The landlord gave me a check back. Listen, what landlord Listen, man. I've lived I live I lived in apartment buildings. I live in apartment buildings. What let I'm you know, I'm a city boy at heart, man. You know what I'm saying? Maybe one day I get me a house or something, but for now, I like to be in the mix. No landlord ever gave me a check back. I need my check back, man. >> [laughter] >> Listen, rent coming up, man. You think he going to give me my check back? No. >> [laughter] >> No, he ain't giving me my check. He going He going to gladly take the Oh, thank you. Never been paid. Oh, thank you. Okay? Come on, man. It don't even make sense. Landlord gave you the check back. What? Yeah, okay. Right. Yeah, that happened. Okay. Oh, he ain't want me to stay there no more. What? Okay, they going to take that money. They taking our money. Period. Anyways, um yeah, so I give officers uh a five, you know, like I said, they got to do the they got to go through the motions. They already know they he full of it, you know. The one guy they do seem a little newer, you know, like he said, he never dealt with one of these before, you know, so they they kind of feeling it out or whatever, but once they get a little bit more seasoned, they'll it'll be better, but got to go through the motions, got to hear out they BS, but at the end of the day, you're going to jail. Okay? Um yeah, so let me know in the comment section below how well you think the officers did. I'm glad you made it till the end of the video. 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