I didn't do anything okay no no you have to no I don't you do show me your hands autism don't matter I don't believe anything coming out of your mouth cuz you haven't told the truth once she's kind of messed up her dad touched her until she was 10 years old on March 20th 2024 an officer responded to a parking lot following a report of a stolen [Music] vehicle get out the back seat back seat come back here to me come back here to me come back here to me hands out of your pocket I didn't do anything okay I don't mind those other two kids with you too huh they are aren't they huh yeah yes or no huh I'm going to go hey detain the two at the corner Schmid the two that were there they're saying that they were man okay well Y in a stolen car so just lean up against the car turn around lean up against the car how old are you how old how much how old 18 it's your ID in your bag do you have an ID no okay where are you from2 has my Jacksonville when's your birthday what you going to speak up I can't hear 928 920 200 what year five five how old are you boss huh how old are you how old are you that's just a simple question how old are you huh hey get this one on some2 has pleas how old is she hey I asked you a question though and you're not answering I said how old are you you're not answer 16 okay if you want us to do something for you then you have to answer questions if we ask you okay like simple stuff to identifyy it looks like it's punched it's punched [Music] yeah Colin's punched let's get him in your car huh you call my brother in a minute we'll do that okay yeah he's in the driver's seat yeah she was in the back those other two are so out of place just walking walk over walk back walk back soon as they you're in a stolen car H you're in stol par we going we're going to walk over here I was like I was going through him again I was like he they are in here they are in here they're hey we're going to put you in here and then I got a female Deputy coming to check you you don't have any weapons on you right no handcuff Keys No knives nothing crazy right okay all right we'll get Sher over here check her in a second make sure do anything yep here okay you were sitting in a stolen car a problem9 did we just do a real you have anything on you we got cameras on listen I'm going to do it with the back of my hand just to make sure you have nothing on you okay okay have a seat come on up there and have aat how old are you 18 how much 18 18 oh you're an adult too what's your name hey what's your first name Alissa Melissa hey I'm Deputy fer so I understand you're inside the vehicle so who was all inside the vehicle with youon who and Peter peanut so Brendan and peanut was there anybody else in the car with you what is Brendan and peanut wearing Stripes black black stripes black jeans anything descriptive anything like that want to move your no what were they wearing a hat or anything like that they're both wearing black shirts with white stripes so both of them are matching today they decided just to wake up match each other what kind of shoes are they wearing te Sho what's that one's te te te teu what what are teu I I can't hear you what what color are they purple Ray and which ones w't the purple purple red [Music] ones peanuts were in the purple and red ones go ahead can you go ahead and spread your feet for me so I'm Deputy charger okay somebody going to I was out with other so what happened like how did we end up here so how did you end up in this car how do you know him you just met him today how do you guys meet you got speak up who's peanut [Applause] Green's out with somebody okay what was peanut wear huh all black3 where do you live you so do you have a hard time understanding things or communicating and stuff like that of it you want you need help with clarification on anything what can I assist huh where were you sitting in the car in the back seat okay and you don't know where it was peanut who was droing huh so there are four of you all together right all right so today you know him for a while oh you met him the day the other day what was he wearing want to no tuxedo je tuxedo no no tuxedo oh that's what he said he had a blue jeans and it's like a a dressing shirt that you go to school in it is blue s it's like a uniform shirt like a polo no it's most it's like a dress shirt dress shirt and what color was it blue a blue dress shirt any hats we got black glasses black glasses blue jeans and a blue dress shirt you don't know his name how old is this kid 30 30s and you don't know his name actually that's my boyfriend her boyfriend so he he you were in the passor seat he drove to Home Depot for what did he tell you to get into the driver's seat or did you just do it just in case you had to leave huh told he told you and he was the only one so there there three of you there was one more there's four total including you dude I'll close the door right now you're the one that CES in the backseat of the car I'm trying to help you why you saying that wrong yeah you're not saying anything I'm asking you questions in your trying to I'm trying to I don't need your help I'm trying to help you you're the juvenile in the backseat of a police car in handcuffs for for a felony I don't know if this is your first time or not but it doesn't really seem like you care too much so I mean I I don't really have the patience to sit here and try to pester you for information like I'm going to ask you a question and you can tell me and I'll help you out the best I can or I'm just going to close the door and I'm just going to keep moving so if you want to tell me something I'm all ears and I will do my best to try to help you out but then I asked you if there's another somebody else in the car so it was the three of you I'm sorry I said my no so it was just the three of you just the one the white male you and the girl that's it you're what my name is was so Whitney yeah this is what she gave me initially yeah you gave us Whitney mhm huh that's my middle name and then she told me her middle name was Marie so what's your real name let's start real name Melissa Whitney not wor not autism what autism okay what's your last name what Melissa Gomez Melissa Whitney Gomez what's your birthday what state your ID out of you have a Florida ID you never had ID me check David huh yeah I think go she's doing facial orness all right huh no no you have to no I don't you do wait for me then you go to you go to jails at Jane do okay give me your right hand give me your hand give me your hand no hey stop no stop listen to me stop okay give me your hand quit huh no you have to do it to identify yourself huh quit this is sh's office show me hands show me hands do not move you hear me do not move do not move so want you guys walk up he's not been searched down down yut it some lady lady came by she said hey there's a guy in the sh bring your car over here H there's the black GL there's shirt where's the other guy that was with you yo what was he wearing you might want to check this I couldn't tell you bro like how' you end up here though I got a l okay but you got out of the car right how many total were in the car two I'm I'm the only one got out the car so there's three in the car including you three total you and two two people what are the genders of the people yeah huh what's your girlfriend Savannah what uh Savannah wood Savannah what woodu Woodruff yeah spell it what's your name Bron you have the right to remain silent anything you say can OB is against you in the court of law you understand so listen how many people were in the car when you got out it was it was me and and the dud that was driving it was you and the dude that was driving yes okay and who else that was it that was it that's not true that's not true starting offline to us isn't a good ide yeah that's that's bad bad there it is there it is there it is there I gotes your drugs my hand yours there's something else right there too behind it something up there not really let me see maybe I can find a stool or something your drugs put my hand yeah it doesn't matter man threw yours yeah not only that your girlfriend's F told you you had you know what a shirt say huh theves thieves that's F what's your name it is what is it Savannah autism don't matter you didn't think we were going to find out if we caught your boyfriend sorry yeah your ID and his wallet told you don't lie big trouble now you're going to tell me I didn't do anything I didn't do anything remember I didn't do anything told you you want to listen whiskey 361 7925 683 oh you got War I know yeah we're find drugs yeah found that too I do you have anything on you they're going to swp sht you in the dril so it don't matter if you do you do if you don't you don't but when you get to the jail they're going to strip search you and make sure you don't so if you have something on you and I'll tell you well they will I'm not going to do it female at the jail will but if they find something on you while you're in the jail it becomes a felony it's okay just so you know SP shouldn't V I told you I was trying to be on you know you shouldn't lie he's gone he in the win but we got you Brandon and Malachi huh the steering thing is punched out and you told them and then you told the officer when we first got here that Brandon told you it was told yeah you did it's on camera than and to be honest with you savan I don't believe anything coming out of your mouth cuz you haven't told the truth once so nobody believes you anymore you you didn't tell the truth at all at all so now in the eyes of the law enforcement you're just a liar nobody believes anything you say and we find this stuff out on our own and everything you say gets debunked and you go to jail for that kind of stuff and I told you that and you didn't want to listen and then you try to say oh it's you I 100% agree with you that you probably have some mental issues but a simple question like what your name is you know your name Savannah I asked you 100 times other officers out here have asked you 100 times and you didn't want to tell us your name until we found out our own on our own and I knew you were lying to begin with because you didn't want us to give us your fingerprint and that's how we knew you trying to conceal your identity it wasn't it was a matter of time anyways cuz when we go to the jail they're going to fingerprint you in a you anyways so it was all for nothing this Slide the arade that you're putting up saying that you can't remember your name because of autism that that doesn't make sense how many times you've been arrested before mhm that was a lie too you see that you need to do some real soul searching girl you're 18 years old you need to do some real Soul search because the path you're on right now ain't a good one I'm on that signal huh yeah but you're look at where you're at regardless if you do drugs or not you've been arrested already once before 18 oh okay while you were 18 so now you're going to be arrested twice at 18 years old what kind of path is that you you're not trying very hard if you're getting in a vehicle that is stolen with with people that have drugs with people that have drugs you knew people had drugs in that car you hold people's drugs for them like what what are we doing what are we doing you need to figure out your life cuz this is an cuz it's going to land you in prison or you're going to be dead and that's where you want to be well then you got to start making better decisions you got to make better choices because getting in vehicles that are stolen holding people's drugs hanging out with people that have warrants lying to the police when they come in contact with you all these things how are you telling me you're trying to do better and you do all these other things huh she scared scared doesn't fear doesn't give you the the ability to commit crimes it doesn't and you shouldn't be putting yourself in this position for you to be coming in contact with police to in order to be scared so you can lie to them why are you hanging out with these guys you know they're not good dudes do you want to be 25 known to be a good person or a bad person a good person well the decisions you're making are aren't making that happen we have a thing called Free Will free will it lets us make our own decisions you had a decision to get into a stolen car today you made that decision you said I'm going to get into the stolen car you have a decision to whether you're going to hold people's drugs for them yeah because we tame up on you real fast I mean we were and it was like boom I don't think you had an opportunity run and to be honest with you I would have caught you I'm I'm fast I'm very fast I would have caught you your legs have to run twice as fast as mine legs to catch you because you're very short maybe it doesn't you don't get that choice this is all public record anybody that that anybody can find out if you arrested or not I hope this is what I hope for you is I hope that this situation right now you're realizing that my life is on the wrong path and I need to change something I need to change the people I'm hanging out with I need to change the decisions that I'm making I need to change a lot okay well is it really love if they're bringing you down like this is that really love sounds like manipulation you need to find somebody to build you up not bring you down we'll be with you in a second we're about to get out of here we would have already been gone but we had to catch your boyfriend in the shed with a bunch of drugs so that's taking a second so what's he what's his warm for so now he have a drug charge and a burglary charge because he broke into one of these sheds so he might be going to prison mhm she knows what she knows what Savannah she's got warrant she got warrant oh yeah she got warrants out ofum Brandon had one too right Brandon had one too I called for what all right well you're literally going to ja Grand Theft yeah that's a grand theft same as their boyfriend oh pre-trial or something orp VP huh huh it's what listen listen I I now she want no she didn't your excuse is you got a warrant so now you got a a warrant charge now you got a uh resisting uh without violence in charge Grand Theft for her no no him Grand Theft getting Grand Theft oh Grand they're all getting Grand Theft oh and Grand Theft and resisting yes false name yeah wild T same that's resist yeah yeah and you're 18 years old so how this goes next time you tell us the truth right off the bat and we don't play this whole charade and you just tell us who you are and you just go to jail for the warrant that's instead of an additional felony and additional Mis now you go to jail for three different charges instead of just a warrant that's how we operate okay for how long that's up to a judge what's your War what's the warrant for for so for that you don't get a B so I don't know yeah you're not getting out tonight tell you that you have to stay in there all [Music] night I said I'm more worried about her than anything I didn't know that car was stolen well I mean she's she's going to be facing a worse time than you she lied to us a lot what do you mean she lied about her name man the freaking warrant she's got her mom was supposed to pick her up for court and she get didn't give us enough notice and so she wasn't able to make it to court for her her boyfriend cheated on her yeah I know she she was scared and she's never she's not used to this kind of stuff I know I have a background she's a good girl she really is she's got she's kind of messed up her dad touched her until she was 10 years old that's still not and know it's not an excuse but she's been through a lot she's been through a lot but she's a sweetheart and everybody that meets her loves her she was probably trying to protect me and herself which sometimes it's not possible I did not know that was that was the case I never want to even got in the car I want to stay away from it I have I have one on my record for for renting a car from somebody and it end up being but everything was against me so I had to take it don't want to go anywhere near one it's crazy do you know what time that car was stolen yeah when because I know me and my girlfriend checked out of a hotel at 11:00 and that's on record under her name we were in the hot room the whole time so I don't know if that helps anything about this situation I don't know how long I didn't know that was car huh ma' yeah understand that for the whole for the warrant situation though that's why we're that's why we're I was hiding you I had a warrant as far as the vehle goes that CAU me by surprise my friend came and picked me up and he said ride ride another car instead of this one because we were taking a car for the B coast and I had no idea CU cuz I mean his is a renal so there's somebody driving the other one I another dude that was driving the car I just rode until we got the Palm Coast and then we get back in the truck but Savannah Lyn Woodruff was charged with out-of-county warrant resisting officer without violence false Name ID given to law enforcement officer and Grand Theft motor vehicle