The two other guys that came with her. I didn't come with that guy was asking me for my number actually and I was trying to move. I don't know. He's saying that I was doing fraud with another guy but I walked in. Right. I'm sorry. The sun is in my Anything in your purse I need to know about? No. What's going on? Yeah, bro. Get out of the car. Get out of the car now. He sent me his ID for $88023. We have video. This gentleman came in came in Sunday. He bought a bike, pulled the scam that one of my guys fell for, and they took the credit card over the phone number, which is Meet this bold fraudster who thought he had pulled off the perfect heist by stealing an Audi. For a moment, it felt like his dream ride had become reality. We called the lean holder after it hit his credit and validated that it's 100% a stolen identity and he did not purchase a vehicle from us. Uh, and this gentleman has a Audi S5 that we need to get back. On January 9th, 2023, Dorville police responded to a call from Mike Resi's Nissan in Atlanta regarding a man suspected of using a fraudulent identity to purchase a car. As the cops confronted the suspect and his friends, he feigned surprise, insisting he had no idea what was happening. But his anxious pacing and repeated phone calls told a different story. Hello. Turn around. Hands up. You got anything on you on your no? your wallet. Okay, turn around for me. Put your hands up for me. Okay. Do you have anything? Do you have stuff in your pockets? No. No. Turn around for me. Anything in your purse I need to know about? No. Why? Put your hands up. Is there anything in your pocket I need to know about? Stand down. What's going on? Yeah, bro. Get out of the car. Get out of the car now. the vehicle. This is a ve my company's vehicle. Your company's vehicle? No. Give them a call. Huh? I said, can I give them a call? My question for you is how do you know him? He's a client. He's a client. Yeah. So, were you giving him a limousine, right? Cuz the tag is L. So, he's kind of like a Uber situation. Basically, it's a situation. So, basically like a Uber, they pay us. We take them to where they need to go. Drop them off. We get paid. Huh? We just have We got a call. That's all. Can you step out for me? Go ahead. She going to step out on that end over there, sir. I just need you to stay right here. You got ID on you? No. Huh? Morning. Should be logging on shortly. 25. 203 1041. Wait, what? Why you got a call for? Huh? Who did you get a call for? Uh, the people in here. I'll uh give you more info when I get more info. Just sit tight. All right. Go step out of the car. Go step out of the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the car now. Stay right here for me. Stay right here. The officer remained firm, telling the suspect to stay still and not return to the car. Yet, he tried to re-enter the vehicle multiple times before they finally put cuffs on him. Stay right here. Stay right here, dude. You moving around too much for me. What did you do? You see what I'm saying? You moving around too much for me. You making me You going in and out of the car. You know what I'm saying? So, just Okay, just relax right here. I ain't Have I put you in cuffs yet? It's okay. We relaxing right now. I just need you to relax right here for me. All right. You told me I would sit you to go get it. I don't even know, buddy. returns back to the crazy. Yeah. Okay. I'm just leave my I'm put my items down. Okay. Look. Look. I told you to stay out of the car, man. Do me a favor. Put your hand. Hold on. Let me put my Yo, Nia, you told me my phone. Where Where did Rodrigo come? Yeah. Can you give it to her? Do you want this to go to her? Yeah, keep doing this. You got any ID on you? I just gave it to you, buddy. I got it. All my It's a no problem. It's a cold beam. It's a cold pink. I'm g I understand. But this will be going with you possibly. So, no. Can't you just give it to her? Give what? To her. All my stuff. Yeah. Is everything sit right there? Everything? Yeah. Hold on. Take my chain off my neck. You good? Let me get a chain. Yeah. Jad, you good? Yeah, I'm good. What are they even here for? 3192. Put your foot in for me. Officers spoke with the dealership employee who informed them that they had received a call from the bank indicating the vehicle had been purchased using a stolen identity. Yes, we have him. Yes. So, did you already do a report for the stolen vehicle on the 27th? No. So, what here's what happened. 40 minutes ago, we got a call from the lender that we established a loan with and told us that uh the actual identity holder called in to verify that it's identity theft. So this this gentleman is stolen somebody else's identity buying a car. Okay. Buying a car. Yes. And he bought the car through y'all. Correct. Okay. Here's the whole folder and the file and I can't give that to you. But we can get copies and stuff. But I'm not I'm not taking anything. So whose identity did he steal? This whole person's Kyle Ripburgger. Kyle Ripburger. Ripburger. Is that the ID? No. So tell me what's going on. So the gentleman in the gray sweatpants and sweatshirt representing himself as Kyle Riperger, which is an identity he stole to try to purchase a vehicle from our dealership. So did Kyle Rip did the Kyle guy call you guys and say that he called the lean holder after it hit his credit and validated that it's 100% a stolen identity and he did not purchase a vehicle from us. Uh, and this gentleman has a Audi S5 that we need to get back. Does um the individual that's saying his ID, his identity was stolen, did he have a uh does he have a police report out on it? Is he from Georgia or New Jersey? New Jersey. Uh, let me see. Is this the folder? Yes. You got the uh uh So, here's the he bought it straight out or is he making payments on it? Well, there were going to be payments on it under another person's identity. Okay. Did he give you a Georgia address? No. No. Did the whole thing out of New Jersey? So, what did he come back up here today for? He thought he was coming to collect a check. Okay. And a second key. So that's why he So had you done a report on this before? We just found out minutes ago and so he be we were getting ready to file this report. Mhm. But he said, "I'm already in the area. I'm going to stop by." Uhhuh. So this all happened. We didn't have a chance. We just found out. Uhhuh. Very short period of time. So that's the driver's license that he provided. Correct. this. No, he provided this driver's license. But this guy provided that driver's license. That's correct. I should give you guys back. While officers spoke with the employee inside, the suspect told his friends to hide the fake ID. When confronted with the evidence, he denied wrongdoing even though the ID matched. I stole a car from them. You used the fake ID to purchase a car from them in December. What? That's the same picture. They got me on there. Yeah. So, what are they saying? And they about to You got a Audi? No, I don't have no vehicle. My vehicle was stolen. What What vehicle was it? I had a um um 4 series. 4 series what? 4 series BMW. [Music] So what y'all about to hold me? You being detained right now until I do some further investigation. All right. He want the You want the black phone? Yeah. I want my face. I just want him to call my mom real quick. Black phone. You You want what, bro? He want he want he want the black phone? I wanted you to call my mom. You don't want the phone no more? I don't really want I don't Okay. Yeah, definitely not you, dude. Uh, it's you on the picture, dude. Come on now. It's you on the picture, bro. This is you. That's you, bro. I didn't get. That's you. I didn't get to New Jersey. That says New Jersey, bro. Come on. All right. You not going to talk your way out of this, bro? You got caught. You know what I'm saying? You got caught. That's the game, right? That's the game, right? You keep going until you get caught. You got caught. All right. Say one thing with my mom. Nah, you can do that when you get to the cab, man. The C County Jail. So, I'm about to be arrested. Yep. How long it be you stay here? It's going to be um I'll write it. There you write it. The charge is going to be um You write it down for me? Yeah. It's going to be um identity fraud and theft deception. That's it? Yeah. Okay. Both felonies. Yeah. Yeah. So, that's a 55,000. The dealership employee spoke to the suspect, giving him one last chance. Return the car and they might not press theft charges, but in the end, he found himself behind bars. Is he still claiming he doesn't have the car? Yeah. The other victim is going to be uh this gentleman from New Jersey. Uh it's a white gentleman, so it's obviously not him. Gotcha. And he's saying, "I never gave him a New Jersey ID." I'm like, "This is you on ID." And it says New Jersey, dude. I mean, I don't know what else you want me to say. Can uh so we're going to get him on identity theft and uh theft by identity and theft by deception. No, can I? You can say it in court. But I mean I just I want him to know that we've got 300 cameras and I'm going to put the car in that's stolen. But we can help him while we charges. Right. With theft by deception, like we can make a decision whether or not we're charging, right? I mean, um, he's going regardless with the identity theft, but if you think you can get your vehicle back, if you want to talk to him, yes, you can do that. Just go to that back window right be the um the victim case or anything. Uh, yeah. So, so they got video that flash drive. Yeah. Just put the video on that flash drive. Okay. Um, hold it for me. I'll come back up here tomorrow. Okay. and grab that from you. And then any of these steel shots, I'll grab it from you tomorrow. All right. And so we can put it in our evidence for our detectives. Okay. Yes, sir. Thank you. All right. Y'all have a good one. Thank you. Yeah, we in the cab right now. 35. The man was charged with identity fraud and theft by deception. Okay. Well, did you give him anything up there? The ID. You gave him the ID and it's not you. Who is it? It's not me. It's someone that looks like me. Okay. What we're going to do is we have to place you under arrest for possession of fant I so you back. On June 9th, 2023, police were called after a woman attempted to use another woman's ID to purchase a laptop at Best Buy. When officers approached the suspect to inquire about the situation, she insisted she was merely in the store to check laptop prices and denied any attempt to open a credit card. He's trying to walk out the doors. Hello, ma'am. Hi. How's it going? Good. Do you have an ID on you? They think you're using fractional identification. I don't have no ID on them. Thank you. Can we just move out of the way so we can over [Music] Where'd you get this ID from? It has me ID. Huh? That's not me. That's not you. No. Looks like you. That's not me. That looks like you. That is not That does not look like you. No, it looks like you. White SUV. All right. What was she trying to purchase? Computer. I'm not going away nowhere. I'm trying to move from Yeah, you could move over here. Okay. You're not even in the office. I'm not talking to you. Uh computer 1,300 bucks, man. Uh Windows this time. Windows. Yeah. The two other guys that came with her. I didn't come with that guy was asking me for my number actually and I was trying to move. I don't know. I'm not talking to you. You said two other guys. There was one guy there. [Music] Can we move them away from the entrance? Yeah. You're not talking to her over there. Yes. What's going on? No, he's saying that I was doing fraud with another guy, but I walked in, right? I'm sorry. The sun is in my car. Here, let me let's uh here let's go over this way just so we don't get the sun in your eyes. While I was waiting for him, some guy came behind me. He was asking me for my social media and my number and I'm like uh no, I have a boyfriend. Like, leave me alone. And he thinks I was with the guy doing fraud. Okay. All right. Uh so, you were just in here shopping, you're saying? Yeah, I was looking at um the laptops and I asked him for a laptop, but that was about it. I didn't purchase nothing. I don't have nothing. Okay. Did you try to open a credit card? No, I didn't. You did not. He gave I asked for the information. And he gave me all the information. Okay. Did you like provide an ID at that point like here's my credentials? No, you did not. No, I was going to try to purchase um a laptop depending on the price of it. And he just said okay. He got the laptop, went back there and never came back. Okay. And then when he came laptop um he had is a surface water. Yeah. Okay. Uh all right. Well, that's why we're here. So, we got to figure out what's going on. And then barring whatever, like I said, we just got here, so I'm just trying to figure out what's going on. So, um, what time did you get here? Do you know about No. 30, 40 minutes ago. 10, 20 minutes ago. It's 15. 6:45 now. Um, no. I don't even know. Maybe 10 minutes. 10 minutes. Yeah. What's your last name? Um, how do I spell that? What's your first name? Janette. J A N E T E J A N E T E. Yes. Do you have a middle? No. Um I don't I don't know cuz I'm here for vacation. Um Oh, where are you from? I'm from New York originally. Yeah. Um can I answer cuz I had um left the Uber and I didn't even I had like two addresses so he could take me back. You were the Uber? Yeah, but he left. So Okay. Yeah. Just let him know it's going to be a minute. All right. Give me one second. Okay. Just stay over here though. Okay. The woman provided an ID to the police that didn't match any records, raising doubts about her identity. Despite her claims of being from New York with no criminal record, the lack of verification led to further investigation. [Music] Hello. Uber driver. Can you name please? Because the Uber was calling me before. So you walked in trying to buy a laptop. I was asking for the price, right? And so they they came up to you. You're like, "You're interested in this laptop." The employee. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They went to the back. They never came back. Yeah. He went to the back and then you went to the line. What line? No, I was there the whole time. The register right over here. Yeah. Um I was asking where did he go? Um to the other employees and he said he was trying to get something from a printer to work or something like that. And then when he came back, I was about to walk out and then right before I was about to walk out, he ran behind me and the officer came in. Okay. What about these guys? You said there were some guys. No, they they could check the camera. There was a guy I'm standing in one of these aisles and a guy came behind me asking me for my Instagram and cell phone number. It was a darkkinned guy and I told him, "No, I don't have like so you don't have social media." I'm like, "No, I have a boyfriend." You said it was a darkkinned guy. Yeah, he had like braids. Dreads. Dreads or braids? I don't know. And a hat. Did he have anything else like tattoos? No, I didn't notice. What was he wearing? I swear I I wasn't even trying to look at him cuz I didn't want eye contact on him. But he was like literally right behind me. I was Oh, right where the TV is curved. That's where where I was standing and he came behind me asking me for my information. Okay. Do you have an ID on you? Uh, no I don't. You don't. We'll be right back. Okay, sounds good. Take your time. All right. We'll wait here and then my partner will come talk to you and then we'll get going from there. But you're saying you don't know this guy at all? At all. At all. Like if they check the camera, you could Well, I mean, I don't know if they could hear at least. Sure. They could hear him asking me for my number. But you're saying you kind of brushed him off, right? Yeah. I I tried not I turned around and I'm like I don't know. He said before you go back to the guy cuz he was helping me. Then he left and he like before you go to the other guy, can I have your phone number or your social media? And I said, "No, that I didn't have that. I didn't have social media and I couldn't give him my number." Okay. But I don't know him at all. Okay. How'd you get here today? In an Uber. You Uber? Okay. Are you staying low like in a hotel in the local area or Yeah. Well, I already checked out the hotel. Where were you staying? And um you see where you live? Tribe of New York, please. It was the um [Music] 29 to 30. We found one. [Music] Sorry, miss. Did you say no record in both? Yeah, no record. New York and Illinois. Okay. Are you out of New York? If I'm out of like Do you live in New York? That's where your driver's license is at? Yeah. Your government ID. Okay. Cuz we're not getting anything back on that, which means that you don't arrest. How? I don't exist. No, I'm talking about like your driver's license. Oh, so that means I've never been arrested or anything. No. Okay. When I was in middle school for fighting and stuff like that, but not Oh, that's that's nonsense. Yeah. How you live in New York? Out of New York. [Music] Not out of Illinois, but New York clear. Okay. Thank you. All right. Like I said, we'll wait for him to come over and then see what's going on here. All right. I don't know if I missed it. Where did you say you were staying? I just check out. So, I'm not going to lie. I come here and work like at the strip clubs and stuff like that. Yeah. You know where? I do that like sometimes in different states or you know. But were you staying in the city or were you staying on a suburb? What? Here? Yeah. Like were you staying in Chicago or were you staying in Chicago? And then I just go like every time I work at a club I go to to the next club the next day and stay at a near hotel from there or Airbnbs and stuff like that. Okay. All right. So, do you come for like extended like a couple weeks or just a couple days or? No, this is my first time here in Chicago. Okay. All right. I prayed and it has sound like sure seriously. Yeah. I I don't know if they have like audio. I don't know how the cameras work here to be honest. I hope they do. So ju at least just so he could feel stupid because I I would understand but we definitely didn't look like we was together. Sure. But maybe cuz he saw him with his phone in his hand trying to talk to him. Maybe I don't know what's up. Yeah. You know how it goes when you're watching something from kind of a distance. You can't really tell what's going on. Yeah. [Music] Eventually, the woman confessed that the ID she used wasn't hers, but someone who looked like her. The officers then arrested her for the deception. Why are you heading back to New York? I was just trying to make money to pay my freaking bills and then I didn't even have like flight or anything to leave. Yeah. No. just going through a hard time and I have kids and bills and how many kids? Two. Two. [Music] Huh? This is Janette. Hey Janette, what what brought you in today? So, I just came out here from like I was telling my dad at strip clubs and and from city to city and then I came in. I'm not going to lie. I was trying to get a laptop, but I didn't even purchase anything. I didn't I didn't get anything. Okay. Well, did you give them anything up there? The ID. You gave him the ID and it's not you really? It's not me. It's someone that looks like me. Okay. What we're going to do is we have to place you under arrest for possession of fraud and I so hands behind your back. Okay. And I left my bag in the Uber, so I I don't know. Okay. I'm sure one of our female nurses Can I text my mom and let her know? We'll let you We'll let you call at the police department. Okay. Okay. This is too tight on this. 61 female 91 female 95. Would I be able to take my [Music] I'll grab your bag. I got your bag. Let go your bag. Yeah. We're going to walk outside. I hope you okay. Does your mom live in Illinois? Do you currently live in Illinois? How long have you been in Illinois before? Do you have any pockets on you or anything or No, no pockets. Wait, was the thing there? Yeah, it's just a seat belt. Yeah, it's just an adult. Oh my. The woman was charged with identity theft on March 1st, 2024. Police responded to a report about a suspect named Daniel for arrest, then conducted a traffic stop to investigate the situation. As the cops approached Daniel, they took her into custody. The officer mentioned her past issues with resisting arrest and suggested she leave her cycle with someone to avoid complications. I'm going to need you to take this uh this thing off. You're going to be arrested today. Okay. I'm going to be arrested. Yes, you are. Seriously? No. That's actually what I'm asking myself. Seriously over traffic stop. What? And you have a habit of because you've done it before. Yeah. Yeah. Which I'm assuming was probably the same thing, right? The same thing, right? What exactly happened? You remember? Yeah, sure. We're going to get to that one. You want to leave your your bicycle with her, too? All right. I I think it's a it's a good choice because um she's uh otherwise you would have to wait today's Friday. You would have to wait until Monday to get it back from us. She's going to leave the bicycle with her. Yeah. Yeah. Can you get her info so I can list it on the uh Do you have anything on you that I need to know? Please. No. Make a good decision. Don't lie to me cuz out here if you have a little out here is a it's a misdemeanor. I I have discretion on that. You take it into the jail, it's a felony. I have no discretion there. You understand? Okay. So, you have no no drugs, no guns, no knives, none of that. May I ask you to come over here with me? The officer reassured Ila, who was upset about Daniel's situation. The cops informed her that Daniel would be transported and could be released later that day. What's your name? Ila. Leila. Leila. What I'm going to do is you got to get your your friend to to make better decisions. Man, she's a security officer. Is that what she does for for work? No. our phone call area you Yeah, I hear you, bro. Um, I got it. I'm going to hold on to the ID. Put it there. She has her phone with her, right? I'm going to put everything here. Huh? I Thank you very much. Later. Um, do you have someone that can come and help you with that? Huh? Listen, it's it's not a big deal. It's a matter of it gets to a certain point where we cannot turn around. You know, you if if she does this and there are no consequences, basically, come on. you know, you're all right. You don't need to cry. She'll be um she's going to be transported to to TGK today on today. She can bond out or she can wait for the court hearing, which she might be able to get to the uh to the court hearing in the afternoon at 1:00 today. Either way, it's going to be out in a couple hours. Right. In a few hours. Not a couple hours. whenever you want. You all right? All right. Very easy. It's not a big deal. All right. The officer reflected on how Daniel's actions led to the arrest. Despite a chance to avoid trouble, Daniel ignored the officer's request and even lied about her identity. The doubt. But come on, man. This is This one is on you. This This one is not on me. You can show me 09 area, too. I know. I know. It's easy to blame me, but every decision I'm just reacting to your decisions, man. Come on. All I wanted to do is give you a warning. You You just decided to to ignore me and then lie to me on the name. Why? What's the worst scenario? A citation. You not want it. They're not looking for you for a crime or anything like that. So, what's the point? Son, hey Bo. Um, sorry I missed your call, man. I I got Highway 39. No need no need to say sorry. Hey, uh, so we got the treatment bed. I'm sure you've seen by now. Uh, but that one is way in Homestead and we rarely get agape. That's an allwoman's treatment center. Very good. But like I said, it's all the way in Homestead, too. So, I went ahead and locked it in. Erica locked it in. So, we have that bed at least until next Wednesday. Okay. At least until next Wednesday. And that's pushing it. But we got it locked in. Okay. Good. Um, arrival. Are you going to put out a locate to notify for her? Yes. Yes. I'm also going to put in uh put another uh loc and notify. Yeah. Good. Daniel was charged with providing a false name to the police. Just like the previous fraudster who tried to game the system by buying a car with a stolen identity, this suspect followed a similar path, ending up caught after cashing a fraudulent check. On September 29th, 2023, officers responded to a report of check fraud involving a suspect attempting to cash a fraudulent check. Officers arrived and questioned the man who seemed unsure about the situation. He claimed the check looked legitimate since it was mailed to him. The officer then called Prodigy Brands to verify the information. I'm going to let you uh I'm going to take your information and I can have the officer speak to you. Okay. What's your name? What's your name? I'm not entirely sure yet, but I got calls, I guess, for you. I just told you. I don't know. Are you causing a scene that they want you trespassing? No, I [ __ ] It's on the police on me. Yes, sir. For what? Because the counterpart, sir. I called the company and they said they told me call the police because it ain't no good. They sent me. Okay. Tell them all about Okay. Sorry. So, fake check. It's It's Yeah, it's counterfeit. I just spoke with Natalie over at this company, Prodigy Brand Brands, and she said that she's getting calls from all over with these fake checks going to different check cashers. Okay. So, what did you get to check? They came to me in the mail. Did you ever work for them? I guess they must be I guess they send them like everybody product. Y'all went in for a couple days, but that's only a couple days. Okay. Like seven, seven, eight days. But then my thing is, you have ID. Well, then if you got the check, then you're not crazy, man. Oh, let me see my ID. I don't even need to see my ID. appreciate. You know, Tony going, you know, we bing that, man. They send they must be send, but you say she she get a lot of calls, huh? Yeah. I give that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, they get a lot of calls about these checks on, but you already know that, bro. Stay obvious, bro. Come on, man. Come on, man. Man, what you doing to me, bro? Coming to hustle me. Coming to scam me. This the definition of scam, sir. I remember I brought a check to you, bro. You gave me half real money. Have fake money from my income tax. I ain't do all that. You should have called Secret Service. All that, bro. Brought you the money back, bro. Can I get her information first? Yeah, I wrote it down. Oh, it's on the check. Yeah, I take a picture of her. Oh, okay. Yeah. Now he's just coming here some [ __ ] France. Good afternoon. Hey, Natalie. Yes, it is. Hi. Okay. I've got an officer here. Thank you. Hi. Hi. How you doing? It's officer. Good. How are you? Good. So, what's going on? You didn't send I don't know. I don't know if I spoke to you about 10 minutes ago, but there was another check cashing store that called me with a check from Kevin Jordan. He sent me his ID for $88023. He tried to cash in the check. I told the guy this is the fourth time in two days that I get calls from check cashing stores. So do yourself a favor. Call the police. Hold them off. Tell them yes, you'll cash it in. Call the police and have them get there immediately. They did and the guy ran. But they have his ID. Kevin Keith uh Jordan. Yeah. This is a different one who apparently worked for your company, I guess. So when he got the check in the mail, he just figured it was his last paycheck. No, no, no. Who? Kevin Jordan never worked for us. No, Derek Derby. Derek Derby. Oh, Derek Derby. Okay. We don't get One second. I can check right now on ADP. We don't write checks. Okay. Okay. It goes through ADP. Direct deposits. So, one second. I can tell you if Derek Darby ever worked for us. Until I came in from 68. I never show. And what check number was that that he uh tried to cash in for? how much for the officer investigated the fraudulent checks, suspecting they were being sent to random people. The man claimed he didn't intend to commit fraud, but despite his claims, the officers took legal action. Do you know Kevin Jordan? No, I don't. Turn my life around, man. Chilling. Just bought me a house, everything, man. I don't know why this [ __ ] happen. I'm thinking I just got I think I got some little extra money or something. You know what I'm saying? No idea. I ain't even run from here. I brought my ID. They ain't trying to run or none of that. What kind of company is this? They make different all different types of stuff. Ask me. I need to promote. Huh? I ain't [ __ ] You can't go outside yet. No, I'm talking about with you, man. If you were going outside, you're getting put in handcuffs. I don't think you're running from me. Okay. Can I put your handcuffs in? All right. Well, you're not under arrest. I just don't want you running from me. Damn. You really need a cigarette that bad that you want to be put in handcuffs. I ain't a long time, man. You are all smoking cigarett you got to stay in the handcuff and you ain't smoking. If he runs and he's got nothing, right? We ain't got [ __ ] to do with this. You ain't got nothing to do with this, man. I don't know nothing. I don't speak English. Why do you even speak then? I don't I don't speak English. Listen, if somebody wants a cigarette so bad, they're nervous. Nervous about what? Cigarettes. Nervous for what? Well, you had a cigarette, didn't you? Yeah. It's not your situation. Why are you even saying something about me? Stop talking about I don't know. I'm an alcoholic. Get your drug over your head, man. Man, I shoot too much every day, man. I don't know what That's right. You got to talk to another guy. Talk to who? a detective. Is that your girl or is that my wife? That's your wife? Yeah. All right. Do you have anything she wants to have? Where they taking him? I ain't got to do it. You have where they text without taking text over there. Do you want anything that's in there? She just got whatever. Wallet, phone, whatever. That's it. Nothing. Does my wife need to come to the police station? I mean, she can wait if she wants, but it'll just be whatever detective talks to you or something and then go from there. You guys want to go back over here? Hey arrest for what? For what? So he's arrested check from check. For what? And that came in the mail. That check came to my house in the mail. So how is he going to jail? So what you could do is you could go to first appearance and you could argue with the judge cuz I don't sit here and argue with people. He say you talk to He going to talk to a detective. So are you arresting him? Is he going to jail or he's arrested, going to jail, and if he would like to speak with the detective, he can't. Okay. So, is he going to have a bar? Probably. All right. The man was charged with passing a forged or counterfeit instrument. Think a fake license plate could hide your crimes? This woman thought so until the cops caught on and made sure she paid the price for her credit card fraud. On September 1st, 2023, police responded to a report of credit card fraud involving a woman in Watkinsville. Upon stopping the car, police discovered the woman was using a fake license plate. When questioned about the car's ownership, she claimed to have rented it, but her response raised doubts. We can start heading this way if you want to. 620. I got 28. This vehicle, I will be direct to him. If the person you're saying you grant this vehicle from own this vehicle, the car will be registered to him. This is true. So, why is there a fake tag on the back? This is my vehicle, right? But you're driving it. You said you rented it. Yeah. Can I ask you what you were doing at Sonovus? Um, I was going to go make withdrawal. You got you bank with novice. Uh, I [Applause] actually like Do you have like a debit card or something you can show me? Yeah. Like, are you I am I'm going to be honest with you. Yeah. I like I said explained to you, we've had these kind of situations before and I'm trying to be honest with you. I'm trying to trick you, but um similar situations even tags out of OK and stuff like that. All right. Donald what a pull up is is like So, did you make a withdrawal? I did. Watch later. You see where I'm going with this? It don't make sense. You going to pull in there, you say you're going to do withdraw. Yeah, because I mean I pull up in an unmarked car and then you start backing out. I'm not I'm not getting on to you for leaving me up there. Like I said, I'm in plain clothes. I did not display my bag. You pulled over when I was catching up to you. So, I'm not I'm not trying to jam you up for that. So, I don't understand. Pretty sure you're not scene, right? So, so it's funny. There's somebody in there making a fraudulent purchase with you. If we go back and pull that video, is that person be seen getting out of your car? You have this guy. I'm going hold on to the officer noticed the woman had no formal paperwork, only an app that didn't match her statements. They then took her into custody. Stand back here for me just so we're out of traffic. All right. You can place face his bumper. He's got a camera right there. All right. Put your hands back for me. So, the piece of paper you have on your license plate, it's illegal to have. You cannot conceal your license, your tag for the purpose of misrepresenting what it is. And it's completely covered up. So, And uh are we going to go check the vehicle? Yeah. I mean, we can't leave it here. It's on side road. Uh my phone my phone and my purse. Yeah, we're going to get We're going to get all your stuff for you. Okay. We just can't leave it right here. 620 start next for this uh Nissan. Yeah, I didn't lie about that. Yeah, I'm not. So, and like I said, um I've been doing this a long time. Your story your story don't make a lot of sense. You said you ran in front of Wilson. I told you. You showed me You showed me a an app that you were talking to a guy named. Yeah. That doesn't show me that the There's no kind of contract that says that you were supposed to be in recession. The app you were asking for physical driving. I believe that's you're asking for physical paperwork. When I tell you is that awesome. You'll see it is a ride sharing app. Kind of like with Uber, but you go through private movies. I can't control what he says his name either way. Unless you got something. That's still illegal. That's not my tag. It's on your car that you're in control of. I understand. But if you have 16 kilos of cocaine back there, you're going to be arrested for distribution and possession. And it don't matter if you know if it's back there or not. Dress a lot better than this. It It don't matter. I'm just saying that that you're in charge of what's in your car. Like usually if I'm going to rent this car, I'm going to have some kind of paperwork so I acknowledge. None of y'all are familiar with Star. Never heard of it. But in the app, there should be that information. But you actually as the investigation continued, the officer searched the vehicle and found more Walmart bags and other suspicious items, far more than expected. Aluminum bunch of pipes. Bunch of pipes. Male pants. Yeah. What size? Yes. Female on. Yeah, those are males. 34 34. So be about my my width. A little bit taller. That pipes slider stick. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm going to finish inventory for you. That's wire. Hey, bag is empty. Whose uh Whose box is that? This stuff's new. Bunch of stuff from Walmart. There's a bunch of bags in here from Walmart, too. So, all right. You should be good, right? Yeah. Yeah. You good for a minute? You good? All right. [Music] I honestly think in the tip ain't straight up aluminum pool. I'm saying in the tip. That's the brill. Yeah. I thought you said re like cigarella. No. Yeah. Check these pockets. So, where's Logan at right now? Where he just got another one? He was on the uh 622 other units just for your 1043. We found some male clothing in the back of the car. It's going to be a white button-down polo with some blue jeans. It's going to be a short sleeve white shirt. Pants are going to be 3434s. Pull those socks off. DNA test. She's got a in her purse. She's got a thing full of cash. She's got a lot of cash in her wallet, too. Like a lot. She got a lot of $100 bills in her wallet, too. Nice. So, they probably hit another bank earlier. Yeah. And he did a clothes change. Mhm. That's That's the old stuff he pulled out the pipes. So, I'm just going to take the pipes and do everything else. Yeah, pipes and uh the brillow just cuz it shows and uh uh see if we got say to close to. The cops questioned the woman about a box found in the car, which she claimed belonged to a friend. The officer was skeptical as her story didn't quite match the evidence. He's got I think he's got a school crossing or something. I I do too. I do too. It's so cuz y'all kind of interested in that box. Whose box is it? I thought it was like a friend. Huh? A friend is not like a friends. Do you What's your friend's name? Do you know your friend's name? Oh, wow. That wasn't that bad. Yeah. What's your friend's name? Disney. What's your nick? What's the friend's nickname? Disney. Call him Disney. Call Call him Disney. So, he was in your car earlier. So, how the box get in there? Five days. So, you said his name is Disney. His nickname Disney works for me. Hey, watch. Go ahead. Hey, put her in your car. I can I can get it. That's fine. I got it. You don't have anything in your pocket, do you? Has someone already searched you? No, I don't have anything in my pocket. I'm just going to use the back of my hand. I I thought like a I prefer a woman. I don't Okay. Well, I just going to do make sure you don't have any weapons. Okay. I don't have a sir. I have on an airtight pants. I don't have any weapons. Okay. I have I'm I understand what you're saying. I have autism. I I literally have a touch sensory. Okay. This is giving me anxiety. I've never been arrested a day in my life. I have much like I don't have I don't have anything. Okay. Do you mind lifting your shirt up for me as much as you can? You can. I'm giving permission to lift it up. Okay. All right. I don't have anything. Spin around for me. 180. Okay. What's What's in this back right pocket? Hey, your hotel key. I don't know any reason I see a hotel. Can I see the Is that what it is? Can I see it? Why? Because I like to know what's in my car before I put anything in it. That way if something were to happen. Okay. Where you staying at? I guess over here in the reward. Yes. All right. I'll put this in your purse. Okay. You can put it back in. Okay. There you go. Is it okay if I put it back? Yeah, you can put it back in there. But I'm supposed to be on. The woman was charged with credit card fraud, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of stolen property, concealing a license plate, and providing false information. While the previous suspect tried to escape detection using a fake license plate, our next suspect made a foolish mistake, ordering food with a stolen card and falling into the same trap. On January 6th, 2022, Sandy Springs police responded to a call about a food order placed with a stolen credit card. The card holder from Florida reported the fraud and provided details about the suspects, including a white sedan in the parking lot. The cops approached the suspects and detained them for their involvement with the stolen credit card. The woman denied any involvement and claimed confusion about the situation for the credit card use and all that. Um, you know how much information they gave you. He's print out receipts for her right now. He's going to bring it right out here for y'all. The girl who's credit card using is in Florida, so she can't come up here. Um, but we can give you her information as well. How' you guys get order? Um, she called us after she saw the credit card was used here. Cool. Awesome. So, we can give you her information as well. Whatever Whatever y'all need. I don't know what. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Well, both of y'all. But hey, excuse me. Can you step out, please? What am I stepping out of the car? Okay. So, you're going to step out because we have an investigation right now. I have an investigation. Yeah. Step out of the car, please. Okay. So, he's going to be detained right now. For what? What? For what? Turn around. I'm get they're detaining me right now. Mom, I don't know. What am I being detained for? We're It's an active investigation right now. An active investigation. Fraud? Yes, we're being detained right now. I'm But I don't understand. The credit card you guys used to order the food is a stolen credit card. So, you didn't order any food? No. Then why are you here? I was just driving over here. to pick up something like to possibly get food. I never ordered any food. You want my ID? See if my name's on any food. I don't even think I have my ID on me. It might be in my glove compartment, but I literally just ran out the house. They're taking me, Mom. [Applause] I'm 18. So, so you don't have your ID on you? No, I literally just ran out the house. I don't know what's going on right now. I'm very confused. Okay, sir. Right now, you guys are trying to order place an order. I didn't place an order for any food. I I swear to God, I'm very confused right now, sir. I'm literally just sitting on the car. I'm very confused. Place an order for food. I'm confused. We were about to go in debating what we were going to do. I don't know what's going on right now. Like I just told you, I'm 18 years old, so I knew I wasn't going to be able to go in there anyways. It's a restaurant. Okay. But I think it's a bar, too. So, where did that like I'm confused as to where this is coming from. It's coming from the credit card that you guys are trying to buy food from. I never I've never bought any food with a credit card. I don't have a credit card. Actually, I do have my own credit card, but I've never bought any food with no credit card. I wasn't trying to place an order anything. That's why I'm very confused. I'm just trying to stay calm because I'm assuming this is a misunderstanding, sir. I've never been put in cuffs before. I'm very confused as to what's going on. Do you have anything in your pocket? I don't have anything on. Nothing? No. Okay. Both suspects were subsequently placed in the back of the police car, but the woman continued to show signs of anxiety, asking for the window to be rolled down. Both of them. So, I'm not going to be able to put my car in park or anything or turn my car off. I'm going to leave my car open. We'll hand we'll handle your How are you going to handle if my car is push start and nobody It's no key or anything. How are you going to handle my car? Well, so for right now, what do you mean the front key? I have I have a key and my car is push start. So, how are you going to turn my car off or lock my car or anything? Uh, we push the button to turn the car off. Okay. Take the key outside of the car and then we lock it. Where's the uh Where's your key to your car? It's I think in my pocket or It's in my pocket right here. [Applause] Brandon, this please. Brandon, I'm trying to stay calm and I have a panic attack. I have claustrophobia. Brandon, I can't understand. I seen it happening the whole time cuz I seen the way he looked and I seen the whole thing happening, babe. By the end, I said, "Oh my god, my Give me a kiss. Brandon, please. Brandon, can you please stay calm? Cuz I need you to stay calm. I need you to stay calm. [Applause] Brandon, please understand, babe. Babe, this is really tough right now. We here already, babe. Babe, listen to me. Excuse me, sir. Babe, stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Babe, babe, we can't we can't. Sir, please. Babe, stop. Sir, I can't. Can you Can I please stand out the car? I have anxiety and I have claustrophobia. I feel like I'm about to I can't. Okay. Well, we'll roll the window down for you. Can you please do that then? I can't breathe. Yep. Watch your knee. Watch your knee, babe. Oh my god. Babe, listen to me. Bren, I need you to just stay calm so I can stay calm for myself. All right. Just speak to me. Speak to me, boy. Like, like, sir, can I please stand out the car? I really can't breathe. Speak to me, Brandon. I'm trying not to have a panic attack right now. I need you to just be quiet. Should I go? Huh? Should I speak to that? No, I don't. Brenda, I I don't I don't You can't I can't do that. I can't. I can't. I'm so sorry. Oh my god, this is so I seen it happen. [Applause] You should have just We should have just left. We should have We should have And then as soon as you said that, I should have said that. [Applause] Babe, babe, my wrists are hurting so freaking bad. Oh my god. Oh my god. Babe, relax. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [ __ ] Oh [ __ ] Baby, this could be so deep. This could be so deep. The cops thoroughly searched the car and found some surprising items. Meanwhile, the woman tried to calm herself, fearing her actions might make the situation worse. Uh lives in Florida. Mhm. All they did was get online, type in the numbers. It may or may not even have the card. They may just have like the numbers and figure it out. Drive. She saw what? She saw the car getting used. Yeah. And and and like this guy comes the door was for Eric. He comes up and asks for it. So cool. So, it was all online. Probably don't even have the card. Yeah. Okay. You're in the handicap spot. Yeah. So, uh 80 for one. That guy right there has a number if you want to call the victim if you Yeah. Get out of the way. I'm All right. So, at for one, I have anxiety. I take medicine for my anxiety. I have claustrophobia as well. I do not have to be in a small place like this. So, if you're not going to drive at this moment, can I please just step off? I don't have air, please, sir. I can't breathe. We have the window down. You have the air. Okay. But, sir, I need space. I can't I can please stop talking to me, please. I like I'm about to have a panic attack. I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying to stay calm right now. I have no space. I can't breathe. It's not going to I should have just stayed inside for food, bro. Brandon, I can't I need to breathe, Brandon. I like I don't It's Brandon, please just relax. I need you to relax so I can relax. Okay, so please just stay calm or I'm going to flip the out and they might tase me or something. I need you to stay calm so I can stay calm. I'm uncomfortable right now. I can't breathe. 35 west pass Riverside to California place 8 Henry Victor Edward 888 I love you too please relax oh my god I cannot believe this right now then you're going to take us from you too cuz I'm going to drop a car me [Music] This is crazy. Like 241 is here. Can you As soon as I seen them, babe, we seen this happen. We did. We did. Just relax. Just relax cuz we at where we at right now. I know. That's what I'm trying to tell you. I'm trying to stay calm. I'm trying I need you I need you to relax so I can relax. I need my sleep. I can't be all that's going to make me feel more like I got to pass out cuz I'm not trying to I know you going to miss me. They're going to separate us. Brandon, please. They're going to separate us for what? Do they going to take us to prison or something? 21. I love you. Please just stay strong. I know. I already know how you're going to get when you get there. Please. I'm okay. Shh. She can't [Applause] whisper. Like they have to sit there and do all this [ __ ] now. Like they can't just take us to the precinct right now though. Like they got to investigate the car. Like like this is crazy. Like it's fraudulent car or something. Like this is crazy right now. It's not a car. It's not in [Applause] there. I just don't know because I don't work. That's all. That's that's that's [Applause] that's so I don't know. [Applause] ready. [Applause] That's what I'm seeing. [Applause] In the cruiser, the suspects whispered and discussed the charges while the woman struggled with the situation, facing mounting anxiety. Under arrest already, they can't take that back. And you know, the reason I'm under arrest, the reason I'm under arrest is cuz stupid white hat. He said he he said, "No, her too." That's exactly what he said. Cuz he was he he just it was as she was talking to me. The other [ __ ] to me, he just said I'm detained. He said, "No, put her in the back, too." That's exactly what he said. Okay. The surgeon. Yeah, I know. They want something to charge us with actually. We might be good. You might be good. Relax. I'm relaxed. I can't sit in the car. You can't be to do a lot of charm. I don't give a I just want to get out of here. I'm calm. I'm not even I'm not even tripping about being arrested right now. I'm just I just can't be. That's That's what I'm trying to focus on. Staying calm and and calming my breathing. I need to calm down. That's what I'm focused on now. Like I'm getting angry and I don't want to start kicking this thing and then they tase me and then he's like, "Oh, you being you acting crazy. We're going to tase me." That's what I'm saying. That's what I don't want to do. But this is what I'm saying. But it's really like I really have claustrophobia. Like I really cannot sit in this. This is crazy, bro. This crazy. [Music] I sh be quiet. Don't say anything else. You stop talking about that. Officers spoke with the restaurant manager who explained that the man used the stolen credit card online to place the order and the woman was not directly involved in the fraud. All right. So, it's just Diana. [Applause] So, you got D I A N A. And then last name Yes. Okay. So, can I get your info, too, please? So, my name is Alec. A L E C. So, if you return on the plate, this is a stolen credit card. It's just she called, right? So, she called. Sometimes you run credit cards, you'll come back, right? She doesn't live in Georgia, which is the main thing. She doesn't even live here. Um, what's the [Applause] transaction. Eric Eric. Eric D. Yes, that's his name. That's the one that they did under the order with her card, right? And it was online um for him. So, he paid online, meaning he did it from his house or phone with her card number. They didn't come in or over the phone. They didn't call it in. They just typed it in, but he did come in pick it up. So, he came in tried to pick it up under Eric because that's what the order was under, which we already knew about it. We're just going to call you guys when he gets here, right? So, we just told him to go and um but anyways, the three payments that are on there, which I could I'm sure I could print off the three different ones. Here's one of them. One's for a 3140, one was for $1, one was for $10. Mhm. And I told her to just cancel her card because if he's doing little amounts all around doing whatever he wants. Yeah. Who knows? How many other people have? Right. Right. You have every every fraudulent transaction there, right? I was so I didn't want to refund them yet. I'm going to refund her cuz obviously she wasn't the one who made the charges, but she said she's never heard of him, never met him, doesn't know. Eric for the case. You got more than those. Was that all? Is that all the No, this is just one. There's one for this. There's one for $110. But the thing is it's for e gift cards. So the $110 $10 they were buying a gift card for themselves or whoever. They're buying a gift card with with her credit card and then they just use the they use the gift card which is theirs. So then it's not tied. It's then theirs. So the female didn't come in here and she doesn't talking about the female outside. No, she No, no, she stay in the car. Yeah, that I have no idea who that is. Yeah, she stayed in the car the whole time. He came in and he asked it be 15 minutes. The only other went back into the only other thing I could think of is if that girl is, you know, Diana, she's saying, "Oh, I don't know who's using my card." Then they're getting their stuff for free. Maybe she has Yeah, I got to talk to her. Maybe she maybe she has connections with the female, right? But she does she doesn't know. And Eric, the main female whose card this actually is. No idea who like you said. Unless that female is the one calling this trying to get free, right? Which seems like a weird way to get a free just this girl says she doesn't live in Georgia. Um, your info again. Alec last name. Why would stolen before they got Exactly. And like I said, she verified the amounts without me saying, "Is it this amount, this amount, this amount?" Right. She just got an alert on her phone for these payments being used and then she called me before they even showed up. Right. Uh agent. Um and do we have her date of birth? I don't have her date of birth. No. Okay. And then that's the uh the transaction. So this is just one of them cuz there's also one for a dollar, one for 10. All on the same card within the last hour. So there's three transactions. Yes. While the cops gathered details about the woman, a second officer searched the vehicle once more, uncovering a small stash of cash and drugs. April. Yes. April like the most. Yep. What? Your license? No, I'm from New York. Okay. What's up? I have a couple questions. Yeah. Yeah. So, I got all her info. Yeah. I can't tie I can't tie I think I'm going to have to let the girl go cuz I can't tie her to Well, yeah. I mean, he's he's getting all this final transaction. Yeah. Um, so he had a little bit pocket and then there was some THC gummies found in the center console. Okay. Um, he has $168 of cash. Uh, why is that sec? Oh, you put that in there. Yeah. Okay. This was on him, right? The little California. Yes. And then that was in the center console. Okay. Cuz this is how they came. They cut up. came one car each. Yeah. Have they been pulled up like this? Like cut off this entrance? Yes. They cut off this entrance? Yes. I watched them that I didn't see. If I seen the entrance was cut off, babe. But you But you didn't pay attention. I didn't see all that. I didn't want to keep looking. I only seen You only seen one car when you said so much. You said so much police. I didn't want to keep looking hot. But if I would have I should have just looked one time. You should You would have peeped the thing. You would have peaked that was cut off and we would have left. You would have peaked. kept on saying you tried to follow us by but either way either way either way we would have been guilty like I said that but I'm not pay I I would have never realized that I said it though multiple times I said why did I call this police I felt like it was going to be something but I never assumed with me I just never assumed with me they coming here to get a drink they come here they get so and [Applause] so for you your made you feel more. I'm like, I'm not worried about you. That's literally what it was. Cuz if I was really being paranoid like that, I would have kept on going and then I'm let it go. I just I like No, no, no. Don't roll up the windows. Listen, babe. [Applause] Oh my god. Please, please. No, no, no. Like rolling up the windows though. I can't relax. [Applause] Okay. So, listen. You have the You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions. You have you have the right to a lawyer with you during questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before any before any questioning. If you wish, if you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present, you have the right to stop answering at any time. So, we search your vehicle because we found right on who? On it was on his person, right? We searched the vehicle and we found um edibles TAC edibles in the center council. Okay. Now I need to know is it yours or is it his? I need to know whose it is. Who have THC edibles? Yes. Who it belongs to? I don't have I don't have to. I don't have anything to Okay. So who does it belong to? It does not belong to me. Is that enough that it does not belong to me? You need to just You don't need to, but I mean, so it doesn't belong to you. No, sir. It doesn't belong to me. Okay. It does not belong to me. I'm very uncomfortable. I sit in the car. I told him I The woman continued to assert her innocence to the cops while they turned their attention to the man, reading him his rights and explaining the possible charges he could face. Clothes. I can't keep sitting like this. I'm very uncomfortable. I'm trying to do my job. I understand. I'm not blaming you. I'm not. Hey, Mountain. Can you stick with her while I take the other dude out? Please. I I I promise I'm not going to run or do anything. I'll stay here quiet. Huh? Go on the other side. No. No. What? Can you stick with her while I take the other dude out? I don't I don't want to put her back in the car. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you can't say anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions. You have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning. If you can if you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before answering any questions if you wish. If you if you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present, you have the right to stop answering at any time. So my question is to you man. So we did find anonymous person, right? We searched the car because we have consent to search the car because we found Now, when we search the car, we found the dummies in the center console. I need to know if those are yours or hers. Huh? It's yours. Okay. All right. Okay. I want take the hands off your card. So, he's being charged with both possession and with financial transaction card. The order he made was with a stolen credit card. Um, he owned up owning all the drugs in the car. So, you're not getting in charge of them either. So, if they are yours before you go, I need to run your information. Yeah, he needs all your information. I don't need your real name and Yeah. Due to a lack of evidence linking the woman to the fraud, she was released. However, the man wasn't so lucky. He was taken to the station to face the consequences. Laura, I'm just going to take your cuffs for now. He's He's got mine on him. I'll just your [Music] boyfriend. I don't understand it. He had plenty of cash on him. He was going bought whatever he wanted to buy. He used a he used a stolen credit card out of Florida to purchase his meal today. He used stolen card out of Florida. Yes. I'm confused. So, are we are So, are we getting charged with this? And are we getting arrested? You're not getting charged. He's getting charged with it. Okay. So, but I don't So, just now that arrest just now like is that arrested already? Like you I'm just asking. No, you were detained. You were detained. Yeah. No, you were detained until our investigation was complete. And so impossible. Now that's complete. And then after that, as soon as you come back and everything's good, then you're good to go. Okay. And now him, you have to do all his stuff, too. No, he's going to go to Fulton County jail tonight. Okay. So, he's going to jail. Yes. He's being charged with possession of a schedule one and he's getting charged with the financial transaction card fraud. You have a tag for the car, huh? Did you tag for the car as well? What's going on? Huh? What's going on? All right. So, you're going to be you're going to be charged with fraud with fraud transaction um and possession. Am I going home? Huh? Am I going home? What? Am I going home? Are you going home? Yeah. Why would you be going home? Huh? Why would you be going home? Why would you be going home? Huh? Why would you be going home? 129. How old are you? How old are you? Huh? How old are you? You didn't find an ID and stuff. I got an 699. Yeah, but how old are you? that how old are you? Huh? How old are you? Repeat that. How old are you? My ID is in the car. I know. I know. But how old are you? Just tell me. What do you mean? Like, why are you saying why are you asking if you're going to go home? Huh? God. You're not going to be going home. Where's your phone? Huh? Where's your phone? Huh? Where's your phone? Where's my phone? Yeah. I didn't bring my phone out. She has her phone. Okay. You don't have nothing on you? No. We're searching 21. So, the way this works, Mike, can you hear me? Yeah. The way this works is that there's going to be warrants taken out for you. Huh? I said that there's going to be warrants taken out from you. It's you're already going to be serving them. It's not like there's going to be warrants out for you. That that's the process. Like your charges are going to be taken out from the judge and then you're going to be headed toward to uh Fulton County. Fton County jail. Someone trapping me. The man was charged with possession of drugs and financial transaction card fraud. Trust is the foundation of any business, but fraud can destroy it quickly. In this case, a trusted employee used stolen credit cards to collect stolen ebikes, exposing a scheme that deceived everyone. On September 16th, 2022, officers were dispatched to a surf shop in response to a scheme to defraud the business. Police spoke with the suspect, who gave conflicting accounts about the card and its ownership. His inconsistent story raised suspicions, so they moved on to speak with the store employee. Y'all, I don't I don't have I don't have a credit card. Talk to me. Yeah, sure. How you doing? I need to go talk to people that were here before. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Do you have your ID on you? Yes, I do. And what credit card do they allow you? I don't listen. I have my own credit card, sir. I'm only here. My nephew bought some bikes. He said, "Listen, I'm at He said, "Come on over. Um, the bikes are ready for your nephew." I said, "Sure." Here's my money. This my credit card with my name, but what about this by my temporary? That's for my my company. I'll show you. Let me put this in my pocket. Right. But there's no name on here. That's my temporary card. That's my account. Hold on. Wisely account. I don't know what this gentleman talking about cuz I never I never sp I didn't I didn't come here with no. Okay. Log into my Wisely. Wisely. That's my daughter's name. But I don't know what he's talking about. I didn't I didn't They told me to come to pick up the bikes. I came to pick it up. That's all I You said it's your daughter's name. No, this is my my daughter. I use as my my uh my password. So, okay. So, he got me a little nervous cuz I'm like, "What?" I came outside. My Google was here. Huh? One second. Bought a bike, pulled the scam that one of my guys fell for, and they took the credit card over the phone number, which is they know not to do. We got a bike for Yeah. 55 cents. Okay. Where are my savings? Yeah. That's my savings. That's my name. It says, "Good afternoon." Yeah. So, what is Well, let me go my history. It's all my history. My my my my job. My job. Do you have a previous transaction with him and other bikes? No. No. No. So, how is it that you would be purchasing two other bicycles? Well, I I bought bikes before with my with my my my thing, but each time I I I I I didn't I paid for the bikes. Did you come and pick them up? Yes. Online. How did you pay for them? Online. Online. On with our credit card. Which one? My girlfriend used a credit card. I didn't use it. Which one? She's out of Texas. Uh I don't know exactly. This is 2 months ago. I bought something and said, "Oh, I was going to get a different bike at the other store, but I I like when you guys have he did the same thing a second day with somebody who fell for it again." So, it was over $3,000. So, he left. Today, he called I I told these guys just if you ever hear from this guy, encourage him to come back in today. He called and he wanted to buy four more bikes and and he's under the impression he bought $10,000 worth of bikes with I have the master card number. Yeah, we have the card number he gave us. The ceiling address is Santa Monica. Hey, I can get it for you. Yes. The the car that's waiting for him is about a block away. Yes. Do how do we know all his information? Hold on. Okay, Dan, keep an eye on him. Thanks. Because it's a black Kia Soul that when he showed up, they pulled into our back parking lot and were like scoping everything out, hung out back there, pulled around, never got out of the car, pulled around, came up to the front parking lot, scoping out the front to see if he came out. He didn't. Okay. They're about a block away. They're sitting in a park. Um, can you show me what you got to show us? Yeah. Okay, cool. I was say he was calling was going back to surveillance footage showed the suspect had taken bikes purchased with disputed credit cards, but he pretended to be confused, claiming he wasn't aware of buying multiple bikes. I bought the bikes. I'm sorry. No, you said that I bought the bikes. I showed the gentleman. I showed the officer my my my account. Am I right, sir? Show me your account. my account. You're the person that came and got the bike. Yes, sir. That were on stolen credit cards. Oh, I didn't know that. See, I don't know. I don't know what you know or don't know. Yes, sir. I'm beyond that. Let me ask you like is it coincidence that you're picking up co the same exact bikes that were purchased? Like, yeah, but that was 2 months ago. So, I'm not thinking that you know, you know, there's the problem. I I stayed the right here. You're staying there? Yeah, I stayed there with my girlfriend. She was 8 months pregnant. Do you have a car? A car? No. Nobody drives a car. My car? No. How about her? She got a car. She doesn't have a car. I use Uber. That's an Uber right there. What? Where? Well, he was here. I don't know. Well, what kind of Uber? Uh, black uh Cell. He's gone now. But yeah, I didn't I didn't If I knew this, I'll be stupid to do that. I'm 53 years old. I got a child on the way next month. My daughter's Sorry, I'm going grab my phone. My daughter's birthday today. This is crazy. My My kids mother passed away yesterday. At least my daughters. Let me Happy birthday to my daughter. What kind of business will you come back in here? What are we trying? Yeah. Seriously, DJ told me 50 bucks. He was going to help me out with my rent. So, this is my rent. I I'm in prison before. But I'm not I don't listen to that. He bought one. I didn't even see the bike. That's the whole thing. He said I bought the bike. I didn't buy it. Only came to pick it up. If if there was a problem, I would have knew something was wrong. I'm not that I go to work. I'm a working man. What's that? Did you buy bike before here? That was months ago. What about What about over the weekend? No sir. What about Sunday? No sir. Where's Sunday? I wasn't even here Sunday. Car that is waiting to pick him up is right around the corner. No, I have an Uber. I have an Uber. Your friends are sitting around the corner. Sir, I have a Uber. I have an Uber. It's a black Kio. I do have the surveillance of him taking the other two bikes that the credit card charges have been disputed on. I have him sitting at the front taking them and Wrong. Officer, I think wrong. What did I do wrong? Did I buy them? Long story short, took them out of stole the credit cards. Okay. I didn't know. I didn't I didn't Yes, you removed them from the Did I use the credit cards? You're on camera. Did I use the credit cards, though? Hey, there's a couple of things that you're trying to get around. Yes, sir. Just stop talking and relax. Okay. Yes, sir. This is my um house the bike supposed to be glitch. Um I don't know, man. [Music] They're finding out now. This is my nephew. So I'm here for my daughter's birthday. This is crazy. On the 16th. Wow. Wow. Where do you stay normally? Um I'm with my my mom. Cuz if you're in hotel Well, but I'm homeless. Not homeless, but I'm going through jobs and stuff. So if you're in a hotel Mhm. I know that hotel will. Okay. Yeah, we're there all the time. Yes, sir. So, I've been there about 2 weeks now. My My girlfriend's 8 months pregnant. 8 months. Okay. That doesn't mean anything to me. I understand that your girlfriend's 8 months pregnant, but that's irrelevant right now. No, I'm saying she's at the room right now. Irrelevant. That's fine. She can be at the room. Okay. Thank you. When the cops asked for proof, the man couldn't provide valid credit card information. Officers then found that the same scam had been tried multiple times. Oh, sorry. Yeah. You want to see my text? Yeah. Interesting. Okay. You I have grown I'm a grown man. Yes, you are. I'm 53 years old. I'm not a kid. I'm with you. Okay, sir. What text? I don't see any text. Hello. What do you want done, sir? What do you want done? I I want I want to get my two bikes back. Okay. This man wants his two bikes back. You You don't know nothing about that? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what bikes, huh? You picked him up two months. Those two bikes. He said he paid for four bikes, not two bikes. Was last week and he paid for last week. I didn't buy like bikes last week. There's a little confusion. So, last week he came in on Hold on. I'll put you on speaker so I can hear these people. He came back Monday and got a second bike and people fell for it and let him give him a Yeah. Hold on. Today he called and wanted four more bikes. So it would be six in total. So So when that buy the bike today, if I can just talk to the officer for a moment. Yes, sir. Today they were trying to get four additional bikes. They didn't get it today. Okay. But they got same same cards or different credit card. That's a good question. I'll have If you could find out. Sure. Those now. Let me know. Absolutely. I'll find that out cuz I want to know where I where did I come in at you come in pick up and I'll see you picking it up. Okay. It's on my phone. Yeah. This Okay. What's going on, man? Look, they they trying to lock me up, man. I've been in prison five times down here. For what? For uh uh burglary, robbery, and uh cocaine. 153. coming here the 29th of this month. August? No. You didn't come here the 29th? August. No, it was this month. Last week. No, it wasn't August. When I bought the two bike Okay. So, you were here. Yes. What do you use to pay for those those? I didn't pay anything. I just came and picked the bike. Okay. So, who paid for the bikes? Hello. Got on the phone. Pay for the bikes. Hello, my nephew. Yes. Got on the phone. Yeah. He said he said, "What day do we buy the bikes?" Cuz they trying to say, "I don't know. I don't What's going on?" Huh? What? What day did you buy the buy by the bike show? Today. Not not They're not talking about today. I don't know what's going on. They They're trying to lock me up. Be something I do. The one for August 29th. The one for August 29th. That was on Caitlyn. Okay. On what? On Caitlyn. Okay. What does that mean? On Caitlyn. Who's I can't hear you all. What do you say? on Caitlyn. Okay. Do you send a receipt or whatever the invoice? Whatever. Yes, you should see it soon. When you say on Caitlyn, what do you mean? Our aunt Caitlyn. Her aunt Caitlyn. Yes. Our Where does her aunt Caitlyn live? My daughter. Look at my daughter. It's my daughter's birthday. Somebody charged back all the bikes that they bought. Police gave the suspect plenty of chances to come clean, but his vague answers only pointed to his connections to the scam. You've been to jail. This is uh the You've been to jail a thousand. Are you violating probation right now? No, I want nothing. Okay. I've been I got four years ago. I release status, aren't you? No, I'm not. I've been Yeah, you are. No, I'm not. You are. Check it. We just did. You have a warrant in Georgia that we can't actually for driving in 03. Okay. Okay. You're lucky not. Yes, sir. I'm Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. So, so, okay. The question that I want answered or at least some kind of explanation is where is the credit card to explain these two purchases and why are you picking it up? Because that's stupid. And then why are they charging it back? So, like that's that's where it's at. So, do you have answers? Yes, sir. Where are the bikes? Bring them back. Where are the bikes? Now we have Where are the bikes? They're here. Then they'll get No. Where are you taking the bikes? I was going to take it to my hotel. Really? No, my bike. My hotel room. I thought it was one bike. What hotel room? Hey. Do you have any of the bikes over there from previously? No, sir. No, I don't even I'm being honest with you. So So listen. So who's picking them up from you? I'm taking them to my house. Stop. Don't lie to me. I'm not lying to you about Spencer. That's just Just remember that everything you tell me I can check on. Listen, sir. I know sergeants, lieutenants, all that when I was in prison. So, I don't have to lie to you. You don't know? Yes, I do. I don't have to lie to you guys. I know what happens when you lie. Listen, when you lie, that's who you're lying to me right now. Okay. I don't know who's picking Zo is picking the bike. So, who's Zo? I don't know. Zo, do you understand how this sounds? I know it makes sense. It's a whole bunch of people. You No, it makes perfect sense. It's a whole bunch of people that you don't know. Exactly. And I'm looking like doing sketchy stuff and you're right here in the middle of it. I know that. And I look like But I'm not I don't have to lie to you because says you look like I'm telling you what it looks like. I know that. But I don't have to lie to you no more cuz I don't have one, dude. So what I want you to explain to me what that part of and don't me because I know you know what you're doing. Okay. That's all you're doing. And you're not doing it for anybody who's in your family. No nephews, no aunt, no my nephew, but he's not my real I told you also high school. He's not my real nephew. He's been in the family for what? Four, five years now, but he's not my cousin. Okay. He's like, you call somebody your name. I mean, we're getting closer to the truth. Yes, sir. I can feel it. But I'm not going to lie to you. I don't need to lie to you. You But not telling me things is the same. You ever been married? Like really married? Not like Omar Street. So listen, okay? There is there is telling me the truth. There is not speaking the truth and there is lying. Okay? Only one of them is the truth and the other one's ass. And it's hiding from me. Okay? You know what's bad? Just as bad as lying hiding. Yes, sir. Okay. Yes, sir. So, think about this. I already know what's going on. Yes, sir. I don't want you to anymore. I want you to explain to me who's involved with it and what your part in this. Only thing is my my my nephew Andrew supposed to be Uhhuh. he he he he buys the bikes. I bought two bikes here. Yeah. Okay. I don't know what they did, but I came to They came to the room and picked them up and that was it. I mean, they help me out with my rent, whatever, cuz I work. I have Okay. So, they paid you to do this? No, they helped me with my rent. Lately, that was like So, they're paying for your rent over there? No, no, no, no. I said they did that last time. Today, I don't know what's going on. No, I work. Don't get Don't get lost. What What you're telling me is you're getting closer to it. So, now you're Listen, I'm I'm I'm putting it together. Put on together. I don't know who the We're going to slow it down. Okay. We're going to go back. Let's go to the first time you came here to pick up bikes and you did it successfully. Okay. Where are those bikes? I don't know. Okay. I know. I I bought them. What did you do with them? I gave it to himself. The police confronted the man about the fraud, but he denied any knowledge of it and attempted to defend himself. Despite his excuses, the officers proceeded with legal action. And why I'm being so serious? Yes, sir. Okay. You need just so we're clear. Okay. You're involved in fraud. Look at me. Look at me. You are involved in Christ fraud. Okay. So, don't get upset. Don't get upset, man. It's my daughter's birthday. My dude, that's fine. Try to hold it in. You can cry a little bit if you want to, but keep it together. All right. This is you're this is something this is serious. I'm just trusting. I've been like I said I've been arrested. So So listen, I can't do it right now. I haven't been on the way. So right now that's where you're at. Okay. You're involved. You're part of it. Okay. Okay. But I'm trying to figure out, you know, who these other people are. Yes. And they wouldn't even let me know that his name this one his name. So bike two weeks I guess August whatever day it was and I came the bike you know and it was it that was it. They called me this day I was at work. He said bought a bike. I'm thinking he bought one bike in my you know he said go pick up the bike. I leave work and I come here. I drop my girlfriend off and I come here and he said I he said I see my bike ready. He said oh your four bike. I said I didn't honestly mess my baby mother grave. Okay. I didn't know it was for I thought it was going to bite cuz that's why I said, "Okay, cool." Okay. He said, "Well, I got your Uber so you can take it back to work." That's when the black SUV pulled up cuz that was the Uber waiting for me to come. Okay, that was it. Okay. But he didn't give me any money or anything, but I guess after work, they was going to come get the bike. I guess the Uber was going to drop me off and then take the bike to wherever he was. It was only going to be one bike. I didn't know nothing about no four or five bike. Who the freak might have? That's too obvious. Okay. You know, Jesus Christ. All right. All right. Let me come on to this for you. Well, right now you're going to be entertained. Okay. So, put the hands behind your back. Nice and easy. The palms together. It's more comfortable. Okay. So I can't I don't believe it's on my daughter's birthday. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Get my clothes and stuff. All right, man. Come on. We're going to get you out of the store. Thank you. [Music] Put him in the car. Talk to the detective about No. You don't want to talk to detective? No. For what? I don't know nothing. Okay. Okay. So, please be my girl. Please [Music] [Music] officially take my baby on the key, sir. Okay. You're not even That's No, you don't care. I do care. I'm not I told you I'm putting you in my car right now. The police continue trying to explain the charges and what's happening, but the suspect remains defensive. Walking in your pockets of sugar in there. It looks like it's from here. Ah, that's mine. You have a receipt for it? No, I don't. You want to stolen? I'm checking the jail, man. Get over it. No, no, no. Listen, man. Hey, listen. Good. I ain't talking to nobody. So far, you've been good. I know. Just lock me up. Why do you want me to just lock you up? Because you want to lock me up anyway. All right, man. I'm going to read you your Miranda rightites after every question. I just get a verbal yes or no. Okay. You have the right to remain silent and to refuse any questions. Do you understand? You need a verbal yes or no. What am I going to jail for? When I read these rights, then I can tell you. I want to know what I'm going to jail for. Well, right now you're being detained for a grand theft and fraudulent use of credit card investigation. Okay. Grand theft. So, once I read these and I talk to you and we'll figure out what's going on. I told my me call my girl cuz all my things in that room. You say you don't give a good I can help you out. No, you can't. No, you can't. That's man. Bro, I've been locked up 50 times, man. You think I'm stupid? Come on, man. Can I just read to you? I'm good, bro. You don't want me to read, right? You don't want to talk to me, dude. This can help you out. Come on, man. I got a D letter. B, if you're I got a D letter. Leave me alone. What does that mean? That means I've been in prison five times. Leave me alone, bro. I'm done. I'm trying to talk. No, man. That be I'm thinking he on my side. He He That was good, though. Peace, man. Be kick rocks. He's not. I know. Whatever be I'm 54, man. Man, come on, man. Leave me alone. How about being 54? I don't want to hear it. B you to call my girl. Give you some. Whatever. Whatever, bro. Freaking call. I got a 8-month old man. Whatever. I got enough money to buy myself out, man. Peace. Kick rocks. I'm just trying to talk to you legal matter. Good. You're a good dude. You're a good dude. You You something else, man. Look, I'm Look, you're still all right with me. I love you, man. We're just doing your job. Doing pause. I ain't do nothing. Okay. I can't I'm going to jail. Come on. All I want to do is read these questions so I can ask you the right questions. No, I'm good. Please go ahead. Read them. All right. I just get a verbal yes or no after everyone. You understand? No. That you have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions? No. You don't understand? No. What don't you understand about all that? Okay. Do you understand that you don't have to talk to me? No. Dude, I'm trying to help you. I know. I know. I said no. You said yes or no. No. Do you understand? No. What? Don't you understand? Everything. How come you were so cooperative inside? Because now I'm going to jail. Why am I being caught? Nobody said you're going to jail yet. Just cuz you're in the back of a car doesn't mean you're going to jail. We're not going. You say I got grand theft and and and fraud. You You asked I never said I'm charging you with anything. I said you're being detained for grand theft and fraudulent ID investigation. I can't tell my bag. I know. It's raining my no. It's raining. I'm trying to protect your n I got a th000 on my bomb man. That 10,000 I am trying. Dude, all I'm trying to do is talk to him. All right, go ahead. Speak, man. Okay. You must think I'm dumb. You understand? You have the remind right to remain silent and refuse to answer. I'm not answering no questions. I'm trying to help you out here. I know. You think I'm going to talk to you? Are you serious? Okay. The man was charged with grand theft in the third degree, organized fraud, and obtaining property by false person. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed the video, go ahead and hit that like button and subscribe for more exciting videos. See you in the next one. [Music]