so you're trying to get treatment
yeah
and mary
um korean hospital told me that mary
even has to take me if i go there
because i'm pregnant that that's their
policy
but i have no way to get there
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for today's video
you're going to see an incident where a
police officer was dispatched to a call
from a woman
stating she needed a ride to a rehab
facility
when the officer arrived on scene he
found a woman who stated she was
homeless
she was pregnant
and she was addicted to drugs
she needed a ride to a drug treatment
facility
and the police were the only people
available
to give her that ride
while on route to the facility the
officer asked if on top of all her other
problems
might she be hungry to which she
answered yes
so the officer made a pit stop on the
way to the treatment facility
and had lunch with this woman
with all that being said
i hope you enjoy today's video
i hope you learned something
i'll talk to you soon
so you're trying to get treatment
yeah
and mary
um grant hospital told me that mary even
has to take me if i go there because i'm
pregnant that that's their policy
but i have no way to get there
because i have to go to the one on
jenkins
because the one downtown won't accept me
because i'm pregnant
which location you have to go to the one
on jenkins and high street
jenkins and high
their staff there at
night call them at one o'clock
okay
clear yourself in the back of my car
just put it right here
you have anything in your pockets or
anything not just a phone okay
come over this side
have you sit back here
let me see
i found her i'm gonna have a female 5-1
to the area of jenkins and high
i've never taken anyone to that location
before
yeah i guess you guys do usually take
them downtown but
they won't accept me being pregnant okay
where where have you been staying
recently
regular car wasn't even there sorry
where are you staying in the field
behind the healthy lifestyle right there
okay look at a 10 or something
no just on the grass
are there other people back there
my husband was
where's he at i have no idea where he
went
when's the last time you saw him
oh like 10 o'clock
okay
why didn't you go to mayor haven sooner
than tonight
because we didn't want to be separated
but i don't care anymore
well i mean you're very pregnant right
shouldn't that be more enough motivation
to get you in somewhere well i was going
to grant which is the suboxone doctor
and was trying to do it without actually
going to invasion but i can't do it
okay
how long have you been living on the
street
where were you guys staying before that
with
people we thought was running
thought they were paying the rent and
they did it and all ended up being
evicted
wasn't in our name so we was giving them
our rent one oh where was that at
sullivan avenue
where about on saw them yes it is no
we're about on song i
are you hungry
you want to go get a burger on the way
are you in a huge hurry to get in there
you want to take an extra 10 minutes
i'm fine taking an extra 10 minutes
all right
i think there's a mcdonald's down here
that's open
but i'm kind of hungry yeah
for the busy night
it has been
and i started off hungry so
that's not a good combination
no i've been on a diet and i've lost
like 26 pounds
yeah but the diet ends on sunday and i'm
i'm already ready for it to be done
and i usually pack
like extra protein bars and stuff in
case i don't get time to eat
but i ate that last night and i forgot
to pack another one
that's all right i've still got food but
i just
i don't feel like eating that right now
i don't even realize it's already 4 a.m
i get off at 7.
no still enough time for something dumb
to happen
i work on the hilltops um
there's
yeah there's been plenty of days where
somebody will get shot and killed at six
in the morning
yeah and then i'm stuck there until like
10 a.m
well just a lot of stupid people doing
dumb things
most of the murders are just over
trivial arguments
like it's not even like they have a huge
problem with each other they just
getting out of an argument and they
start shooting
right
that nobody knows how to fight anymore
yeah
man this is further down the road than i
thought it was
do you know the south end very well
i guess i didn't realize that it was
this far down from jenkins
yeah i didn't either
oh well
we're almost there now right
oh no is it not open at night
the lights are off
well
well
you want white castles or anything
yeah that's fine okay
i'm pregnant i'll eat anything yeah well
i was craving mcdonald's right
well
where i was at being homeless right
there you get mcdonald's a lot yeah i'm
i'm assuming
there's a driver
so what would you like a white castle
okay anything else
okay
you want to make it a meal
yeah that's fine okay
hey can i get
two number twos
um
a coke cook with one and then
i just make it two cokes
that is it
so i never get white castle
right so i don't even know what i
ordered but it looked like it looked
like cheeseburgers to me
how long have you been on suboxones
um
approximately three weeks
oh so you just got on them basically
yeah
it helping
they do but
i guess like the stress of being out on
the streets and
being around
it's because to stay away from it
have you been using wire on suboxone
yeah wow
does that make you sick or anything
like like when you're doubling down when
i don't do that like if i do the
suboxone then i don't do the drugs that
day but if i if i want to then i just
don't do this
okay
um no i got two cup holders in here
i don't think she's gonna let me pay
yeah about half the places will charge
and half don't
i i never expect it but it's always kind
of nice right
but the i just found out tonight
the one mcdonald's i used to always get
coffee at they're not open at night
anymore
yeah
so in the wintertime i don't know where
i'm gonna get my coffee
white castle
well the that white castle over by broad
and wilson yeah they they have their
employees change over so much
sometimes they'll have good coffee and
then sometimes the coffee will be cold
yeah so i kind of stopped going there
there used to be a girl that worked in
there that knew me like she just
recognized me
yeah and i even went i was working uh
playing clothes one night so i wasn't in
a cruiser and i wasn't in uniform
i ordered my coffee
and she recognized my voice so she gave
it to me for free when i came up to the
window
i'm certified has pretty good coffee
and there's actually a cop who's on duty
in there so they have their coffee's
usually always
yeah they're really cool we go in there
a lot i just never really drink their
coffee i just i like mcdonald's coffee a
lot so i always like going to mcdonald's
we'll see i got a couple more months
before it gets cold right
it was really nice when tim hortons was
open at night
they didn't stay open very long all
night long
i mean it was several years they were
open all night but then
they just stopped
do you want to catch up or anything
all right now are you going to let me
pay for it no all right well thank you
very much
you too
all right we'll go around the corner
would you like to sit down and have your
food or you want to come out
what do you mean yeah if you want to
come out and stand up and eat or if you
want to sit down i don't know if you've
been stealing how tired you are here i
will eat up on the hood of the car okay
there's that
there you
go
um eight years
i've been on did you always want to be a
cop
no no
i uh
you know it's funny when i was a kid
when i was getting ready to graduate
high school i thought that maybe i'd
want to be a cop
so i pulled up next to
an officer in my hometown
and i asked him
some questions about like how to become
a police officer and stuff
he told me he's
his name was officer super
okay he looked at me he goes you know
what he's like you seem like you're a
pretty smart kid
because don't do this it's like don't do
this with your wife it's like go do
something else yeah
he said uh
he didn't he's
he wouldn't wish it on anybody so
i went in the military
and when i got out of the military
i got a degree in economics
and i worked as a financial advisor
for like five years
and uh
what's on these burgers they don't have
mayonnaise or anything no it's just uh
okay cheese pickles and
good onions i can handle that
but uh
i kind of i had a bunch of clients who
were police officers
for columbus and they told me that i'd
like the job and
so i took the test and then
i got hired yeah so i left my job
working at a bank to come do this at
night
i've been doing it for eight years now
that is very crazy
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my uncle was a cpd oh really he's
retired now
richard griggs
um when he first started he was um
he'd go around and pick up prostitutes
and that's how he met his now wife oh my
god
she wasn't a prostitute or whatever but
he was doing that and didn't want to
tell her at first
that that's what he was doing on the job
but as he retired he was a undercover
narcotics officer
um
i'm pretty sure he was somewhere down
hilltop or bottom area
but i don't know for sure because
i guess we weren't allowed to know well
they cover a lot of ground too
yeah
so
but those guys tend to work for the
whole city probably everywhere between
the south bend and the hilltop well
he doesn't talk to me very often
he says he's not allowed to it's against
their policy because i have felonies on
my record
like at the end of the day i'm still
family like but whatever
um but i've
reported
some drug houses to him
hoping that if they get busted that i'm
forced to stop
um but my mom usually
calls and tells him because it's her
brother
oh so you let her know and then yeah and
then she lets him know and he lets
whoever in that area know
but he's retired now right
i guess it still goes in a couple days a
week sometimes
huh
say his name is griggs
i'll look him up
okay well
i was like we have a personnel list i
can just look them up my last name and
see
i have a buddy on the department his
last name has been pretty sure not
related to him
i don't think so that was my dad's last
name
oh okay
yeah we got hired together he works up
north
so you guys really just been living out
in that field
yeah
it's crazy isn't there people around
that area that have tents and stuff
they're like back in the woods at first
we would stay in
in the storage shed
and i know it's illegal too
but
some how the owner found out
and
came it was like 10 30 at night
and he came there
luckily we had just got there and didn't
have any blankets or anything out i told
him he was just in there changing our
clothes
so there wasn't too much he could do
about it but obviously we didn't stay in
there no more so then we were staying on
the lot across
from it which is lee's a lot
and somehow the city got called on us
for that
so we got kicked off of there so the
last week
week and a half we've stayed in that lot
that's crazy
yeah at least the weather's been okay
right it does get kind of chilly at
night and first thing in the morning
but
when we had blankets and stuff
i know so many people that have tents
have a pretty nice setup in their tents
oh yeah they do i used to they're just
like cool with it like
i'm not cool with it like yeah i don't
want to do that for years and years like
do you have other kids yes this is my
fifth kid where are the other ones at
in kentucky with my mother oh crap
are you gonna try to get clean and go
down there
i'm probably not gonna go to kentucky no
but that is my goal was to get clean and
get kaylie and rayden back i want damian
and mason back but they're 15 and 14 now
and they were
a year and a half and
eight months old or so when my mom
first started getting them all the time
so she's had on this whole time
and they go to school down there they're
doing really good in school and
everything so i don't want to take them
from her
and they'll be adults in a couple years
anyways like obviously they say mom we
want to come with you i would get them
as well
but um kaylee and rayden's only four
and two how often do you see them
usually once a month
and when i when we had a ride i'd see
them a couple times a month because i
have to drive down to kentucky but my
mom always tries to come at least once a
month to bring them to me
that's been a long time
yeah
my baby girl turns five on friday
tomorrow
i've got a five-year-old
yeah you know
five and seven
and i turned 40 this weekend
oh wow a happy birthday
i'm only 33. my husband i mean between
the two of us we have seven kids
six boys and one girl kayla's the only
girl
because this is a boy too
what do you do
january i love it
you think mayor haven't can help you get
a place
grant said they would
because on my disciples and
paperwork to come back next tuesday they
gave me the number
but they called it masks or something
and um
she said because you are pregnant they
have a walk indoor policy you can go
anytime during the day
anytime during the night because you are
pregnant they have to accept you
it was either that or they was going to
kick me out of the suboxone clinic and
then i'd be screwed on a baby and
children's services would get involved
and i'd just lose a baby automatically
because yeah it would be born addicted
to drugs and i would have drugs in my
system
and i don't want that
i'm sure there's
there's definitely some stuff going on
right now with the stuff that you're
using in the baby too so
it's best that you get
in some place
right rather than off the street because
i didn't want to leave my husband like
we didn't want to be separated
well but this is a little bit more
important more
important to take care of me and my
baby
and he ripped up our marriage license
tonight pulled the blankets from me and
took them all from me
and left
i said all right bet you'll never see me
again
he don't know that i left you don't know
where i went
and i'll have no way to contact me
because he calls me haven't they won't
let him know that i'm there and they
don't allow any visits or anything there
why you're there soon
nobody knows that i called you guys but
my mom mm-hmm
and my mom's not gonna tell them and you
don't plan on seeing them anymore nope
well i mean if that's the right thing to
do then i hope that you stick to it
but most of the time
people don't stick with that
story and they they go back on it
this is the third time
i'm i'm done
i want my baby girl back and he
obviously isn't going to do nothing to
improve our situation
because it just keeps getting worse
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um
i got to quit
being selfish and thinking about me
yeah because i brought kids into this
world and it should be about them
because they don't have a choice
and it's not fair
no i mean kids
born in that situation have a hard life
yes they do and it's not fair to them
and that's what i told them before like
because i've been on and off drugs
pretty much my whole life i've always
been able to stop when i was pregnant
because i feel that that's not a
decision as a mother that i can make for
them
to do drugs
and
i don't want to harm my kids
but with this one i
can't stop
and i think it's just the extra stress
and being homeless which you would think
it'd be
easier to stop because you wouldn't have
the money but
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there's all kinds of ways to make money
just standing there holding the sign
even though it's illegal
i can make 100 120 a day
but i wouldn't make sitting in a house
you know
where do you guys usually stand at right
in front of kroger oh really
yeah they don't run you off or anything
yeah oh they do
yep a few times they haven't
it's crazy though how much you spent on
drugs today you think
30 bucks 40 bucks oh really that's all
right
it's
too much but
it could be worse
i do try to not to do a lot of it
but if i don't have the suboxone
or i want to get high i also don't want
to be sick because that can harm the
baby as well
the stress of me withdrawing and me
being sick can kill the kid
so
when you're sick and don't have anything
it's easier to come up with that 10 that
it is for the twenty dollars for a
suboxone because they're more than the
actual drugs are because they want to
keep you hooked they don't want you to
get off of them because then they don't
have their business somewhere yeah
you know i'm gonna know that
well i know that like
for the girls down on sullivan they give
them free dope all the time just to keep
them working a lot of people come up
and tell me that like i've had people
walk up to me and ask me
and i tell them no because
i know it sounds crazy but if i don't
know you and i can't
like don't trust you i'm not just going
to sniff something
because i don't want it to kill me
like if i feel as if i'm not
a friend
i can't really say a frame because the
frame wouldn't cellophane drugs
that could potentially kill them
but if you're not somebody that i feel i
can trust i'm not just gonna
get drugs off of anybody that's crazy to
me yeah
i make sure my walkie's still working i
got a little bit of common sense
to me
but
when
you're sick or high
that one you don't think about it
wait
okay
i don't know i've never degraded myself
i've never went out and sold myself
like
and there's been days where it'd be so
much easier to do that and i was amazed
by standing on the corner
how many men actually ask women that
stuff like
i probably get asked it four or five six
times a day like dude i'm holding a sign
i'm not walking the [ __ ] streets why
do you keep yeah asking me
and they'll be like are you sure or
they'll come back and [ __ ] like
no never once in my life have i ever
done it i'm not going to start now
once you start doing that you really
lose sight of things that's what i
figure like because i know it'd be easy
money you know what i mean but
i'm cool yeah myself a little bit of
self pride
it's funny
everyone so i'll be driving down
sullivan and there will be like a
an attractive girl walking down the road
who's not working and you can see all
the cars pull off to her pull off to
work yeah one night i mean she must have
just been leaving a friend's house or
something she was all night she looked
real nice she was wearing nice clothes
young girl
and i saw like three guys pull up to her
and she told them all to go away
and i pulled up and after offered a ride
i was like do you want to ride so that
guy stopped doing this and she's like
she was literally she's like i live
right down the street so i'm good now
like um all right
but it's funny just
watching dudes do that stuff
it's crazy that dudes actually do it
because okay
i would say
every single one of them have something
because they're doing that with multiple
people
and i'm sure ninety percent of them are
iv drug users
i i know i said i'd do the hair one but
i sniff it doesn't make it no better
than the next but
they're potentially getting everything
and it's dirty like
yeah
that's gross yeah
go along and watch a movie
yeah
something
no i can't imagine well and i think a
lot of it
is guys that want to have control over
women you know
they like the fact that they have this
woman who's like weak and desperate and
that turns them on yeah
to me it's just not my thing
well plus i mean
obviously i rest a lot of people when i
arrest a lot of people on sultan avenue
a lot of those girls are kind of gross
mm-hmm you know
i see some of them in the bust of
magazines like somebody was buying that
yeah really well it's even worse when
they're in your car and you smell them
and
no it's nasty
that's the other thing they got all
those all their mrsa wounds that are
seeping and how many men do you pick up
on that that we pick up like
with hookers or that
are hookers
well like i'm not vice so i don't get
into that um like i don't
and you have to be undercover basically
to arrest the prostitutes
i just arrest people who i know
are prostitutes you know
but there's
i've
i've talked to a lot of dudes who are
drug addicts that will suck a guy's dick
for money
i mean i've i've seen that multiple
times really yeah there's there's a lot
of guys that are like that
they're
they're on the street and
they're addicts and it is what it is and
there's a lot of guys there for this day
they're just yeah
there's a lot of guys that
like gay guys that'll come down to
sullivan avenue looking for dudes like i
i didn't talk to the
the guy in the car last night but i
talked to a guy who came and flagged me
down he's like hey there's a guy in a
white car
that pulled up and offered to suck my
dick and
all this other stuff so
right
it's dress that is
i always wondered how many people
actually
no it's out there
uh well and there's a bunch of cross
dressers here i'll take the trash over
there you can hang onto your coke unless
you're done with it
i'm gonna get rid of this one
all right
let's get you down there so i don't get
in trouble for taking too long
thank you very much you're welcome
all right
thank you very very much you're welcome
good luck with everything
thank you you're welcome fantastic great
work
thank you all right hopefully i don't
see you anymore yep
all right
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