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On September 22nd, 2024, officers with
the Tampa Police Department received a
call in reference to a woman concealing
Walmart merchandise in her purse and
backpack. Upon arrival, officers made
contact with the suspect, later
identified as a 31-year-old female named
Mercedes.
Okay.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Give me Please please.
I need your help. I need your help. I
need help. I need your help. I I'm
paying everything. I have money. I have
money. I'm Listen. Listen. I have to
provide you. Please. Please.
 Please. I
need I need I need
 Stay still and stop
resisting. Listen.
 I need your help. I
need your help. Please. Please, I'm
paying everything. I'm paying
everything.
 I'm paying everything. I'm
paying everything.
I'm paying everything. I have the money
back for paying everything. Please help
me. Help me.
Put your hand behind your back now.
 Man,
help me please. Help me please. Help me
please. Help me please. Help me please.
Help me please. Help me. Help me. Help
me.
Stop grabbing it. Put your hand behind
your back. Okay. Okay. I'm paying
everything
 behind your back.
 I'm paying
everything. Please, please, please. I
have my money. Please.
 Oh, I I have my
my mommy here. I'm paying everything.
Baby,
listen me.
 No. No. Listen to him.
 Okay.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
 Keep your hands behind
your back.
 Help me. Help me. Please.
Please. Listen me. Listen me. Listen me.
Listen me. Just stay still. Just stay
still. Let him let him do what he got to
do.
 Help me.
 You're making it worse.
Help me. Okay. Help me. I'm taking
sorry.
Okay. Sorry, baby. Please. I don't need
no Please.
 I need to walk.
 Okay. Wait.
Baby.
Stay still.
I'm taking everything right now.
I have a problem. Please, I need you in
your head.
Stop.
Stop me.
Stop.
I need your I need your help. I need
your help.
 Okay, calm down. Calm down.
And we're going to help you.
 We're going
to help you. But calm down and listen to
him.
Stop fighting.
Listen to me. Listen to me. I'm paying
everything. Everything. Everything. I'm
paying everything.
 Listen.
 Right now.
I'm paying everything right now. Please.
Please. Officer. Officer. Officer. I'm
sorry. Say officer. Officer. Listen me.
Officer. Please. Officer. Official.
Officer. Officer. Please. Please tell me
I'm paying everything right now. Please
official. Sorry, official. Sit down.
Official. Sorry. Official. Sorry.
Official. Sorry. I'm paying everything
right now. Please help me. Please help
me. Please for a sec.
 Help me. Please.
I'm paying. I have the money. I'm paying
everything.
 Stop yelling. Please.
Everything. Everything. Everything.
Everything. Please. Please.
 Sit down.
Please,
 please listen me. Listen me. I'm
paying everything. Please,
please.
Okay, listen me. I have the probation.
Please. I don't like my problem. I'm
paying everything. I'm promised. I have
the money right now with me. Listen,
official.
 Hey, he's not we're not going
to keep
 official. I'm sorry. I'm sorry
for
 listen. Listen. You just got to calm
down. Sit down for a sec. Okay.
 I'm
paying everything.
I'm paying everything. Okay.
 Yeah,
 I
have the money. Please.
 It's fine. Can
you sit down for a second?
I'm paying everything right now. I'm
paying more. No. Look.
 If you're not
going to listen to me, I'm not going to
listen to you. You You understand good
English?
 Okay. Yeah. I don't understand
English.
 You understand? You understand
English?
 Yeah.
 Okay. So, you don't need
a translator.
 Okay. No, no, no. English
is good.
 Yeah. Only I I know. I don't
need to go in the J. Please. I I have I
got the money. I got the money.
 Okay.
You got the money. Okay. Stop talking
and listen to him.
 Okay, you keep on
saying that. You don't want to go to
jail. So, first things first, you
shouldn't have came into Walmart and
spend 2 hours
stealing.
 I'm going I'll pay you
anything.
 No, no, no, no, no, no. Listen
to me. You don't want to go to jail cuz
you're on probation, right?
 But you come
to Walmart and you spend 2 hours walking
around stealing.
 I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Well, you want me to help you? I can't.
How can you?
 Yeah. Yeah. Help me. Help
me. Please help me. Listen.
Listen. I'm everything
for forward. Listen. I'm sorry to
official. Official.
 Listen. Let him do
his job.
 Officer. I'm sorry.
 Okay. I
listen.
Please. It's my husband. I told you
going to jail. No. No. I can't.
Sorry. Let me turn off the thing.
Sit down. Sit down.
Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. No.
No. No. No. No.
I had the one problem. I know. Wait.
You're not listening. Sit down. Sit
down.
Are you help me?
 I can't help you. Keep
talking.
 No one. Help me. Please. I tell
you. I'll take everything right now.
Help me.
Everything everything
please
[Music]
speak Spanish.
You giving me a headache. Listen to me.
Stop. Stop. Stop. Right. I'm not right
now. I'm going to ask you a serious
question.
 A great idea. What is that
white stuff that's in there?
 What?
What is it?
Okay. What is it? Look, you got me, him,
him, him, and the other guy here.
 I need
to know how serious that is. What is
Okay. What is that white stuff?
Why? What?
For your headache?
 For your headache?
No.
[Music]
Okay. Crystal meth.
 It's not. Is it
fentanyl?
A little bit. Maybe a little bit of
fentanyl. Thank you.
Claiming it's crystal meth when I have a
little bit of fol.
I turned off the fan. So,
I guess the pipe
walk.
You walk a little bit. You suck on your
thumb a little bit.
I'm I'm sorry. Okay.
 Okay.
 I'm sorry for
for everything. I'm hide the money.
Please help me. Help me. Help me. I'm
paying everything right now. Help me.
Help me. Please help me. Help me.
Well, with everything you done, I can't
help you.
I'll pray for you. That's the best I
could do. Sunday. Yeah. It's my It's my
paper. It's my paper.
 Okay.
 It's my
paper. No. No. I don't have more. I
don't have more.
 Okay. I got to look
anyway.
 Okay. No problem. You look I
tell you it's true. Okay. I don't have
I I'm I with everything true. You know,
I know that I have the problem. I know.
I'm going the court. I got the
probation. I don't even want the
problem. Please. I need I need your
help. Please. I'm paying everything
right now. I had the money. Please. My
model, my father, you want to have a
more family here. My hoping I live in in
the street for 45 day last time. Please,
please, only for one time. Only for one
time. Please, only one time. Please,
please. I need help. Please, official.
Me, listen me, official, official.
Please, please, please, official,
please. I have the probation, please.
And my husband, my husband is alone in
the country. My My husband at the
morning, please.
 You were just talking
to on the phone. Who is that?
 What?
 Who
are you talking to on the phone?
 I need
I need I need to speak with my husband,
please.
 Where is he at?
 Where is he?
 My
husband.
And my host. My I living in the I living
in the for and I lost everything last
time. Everything. My host. My my my
everything everything I don't have the
nothing right now for they have the
problem I I I studed for three months in
the jail three months the jail please
official please me only only listen me
please
I I'm sorry okay
 okay
 I'm paying
everything
 sorry for resisting
 for
everything I'm sorry for everything okay
I'm paying everything right now see my
English is not perfect I mean, your
English is pretty good.
 No, no, it's not
here.
Okay. Okay.
 You're not I don't see where
it says you're
 I'm paying I'm paying. I
have the money.
 No probation. I want
your probation.
 I have the probation.
Yeah. Yeah.
 Your probation. I'm hearing
nothing.
Okay. Listen me. I for for your life.
Listen one moment. I My English is not
perfect. Okay. Listen me. Please.
Listening. I I lost everything last. I
lost everything.
I had the money. I had the money.
I have money.
 Is this your lunch box?
I I need to touch your stuff. Y'all
sweaty.
 What?
 Screw down.
 What?
 Screw
down.
 Only I need to speak with the
official.
 Listen. Listen. I'm going take
I didn't want her to try to fight me.
I'll be scared
 here. Lean back up. I'm
going to give you
quench your thirst.
 Lift your head back.
Yeah,
 it doesn't matter. Listen,
I know
 you're rambling cuz you're high,
but it doesn't matter. You're going to
thirst.
 I have the one problem. I know.
I know. I need help.
 Sorry.
 Okay. But I
I don't like to go to jail. Please. I'm
paying everything right now. I have the
money for pay.
 You should have paid for
it the first time. So
 what?
 Sorry. You
made a mistake. Don't make you a bad
person. Just now you got to deal with
the consequences. God deal with it.
 I
know. I know. But I'm paying now.
 It
doesn't work that way.
 Yeah.
 You got you
got me fairly mean.
Listen me. I know. I can speak with you
through you know. Help me. Please help
me.
 I am. We are going to help you.
Actually,
 my father my father in the My
father and my mother in the Cuba.
 The
whole thing.
 Yeah. But I think she's
going to slip this left one.
 The left
one. Oh yeah.
 Oh yeah.
 I think she
a little hand.
 Yeah.
 Hey, can you get
your hand out of there?
 No. My hair is
good here. No.
 Okay.
 It's
 I'm saying can
you pull it out?
 I'll give you a little
bit and we're compromised, but you're
you're acting all fidgety. You're high.
I don't want I mean
 Are you married?
Yeah.
 You're married legally?
 No. No.
No. Okay.
 My boyfriend. He's my
boyfriend. Does he speak English?
You speak English?
Yeah.
No, my husband. My husband speak
English.
Telephone to telephone. Okay. I got
No, it's all good.
 Mercedes attempted to
steal a total of $826.88
88 cents worth of beauty supplies,
clothing, and fishing tackle. She was
charged with resisting officer without
violence, possession of drug
paraphernalia, and thirdderee grand
theft. She pled no contest and was
sentenced to 18 months of probation. A
month and a half later, she violated her
probation when she was charged with
prostitution, a crime she was found
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