on June 27th 2024 officers in New Mexico got a call from the manager at a local te store reporting an unwanted vehicle in the parking lot the manager told dispatch that the two adults and two young children inside the vehicle had been bothering customers in the parking lot and asking for money here's what the officer did next yeah just so whole tight yeah I bet to talk iess she just rushing I got okay do you have ID on you buny chance how about you ma'am do you have ID what's that okay what's your name ashy Rodriguez I got what's your date of birth Miss Ashley 29 cros clear her name of date of birth and an O out in New Mexico [Music] gas have to walk back over [Applause] okay and that's why you guys were over here just asking for a couple bucks no all right give me just a second Mr Ray okay you want to go speak with RP see if she wants yeah see if she wants etw just uh she's right there hello how's it going oh busy day busy day so how how can we help you do you like them to be trespassed no I I can't iy to get but not answering but um I'm a team here and um they came in you're super busy I gave them e of free tea cuz I felt bad for the two little boys and then she was walking around and I'm pretty sure she might have grabbed something but I'm not like trying to then they were out here trying to solicit from their customers for money I'm like you can't do that it's private property and I was like do it again I'm going to have to she was trying to get all rude and disgusting with me and I'm like leave on the cops so I if you could just try to get them go that would be free I could do that yeah that's all I can ask at this point without permission okay I understand I appreciate you I got you I got you man yeah I don't think you are you know in the state of New Mexico if somebody wants to refuse service to anybody or refuse their the right to be on their property yeah I got you what's up buddy what's that oh I don't have any stickers left this officer might though okay if he does he he might have one I'm going to wait until he gets over here and we'll see if we have a sticker yeah it's too too hot man St here G yeah I got you man okay give me a sec Mr Romero okay they don't want these ctws right now just because they can't get a hold of the business owner so they're not allowed to unless the business owner gives him consense or I don't feel comfortable with being in the car right now go around and see the don't go to where I was standing and look at the 40 m off the mail what what do you see so she's noding off dude like that man he's she so she's not driving but it seems like he might be impaired too so you want to just take a look and he opion of what you think I mean if if you don't feel like they're staying there I mean I believe you just just look really quick see what I'm seeing cuz it's it's mostly the female is that is as just take a look hello I'm Corporal Ripley hey so I know you've already talked to Corporal or not Corporal officer kinin about what's going on right so I guess you guys were we hanging out here for a little bit and there may have been some kind of disagreement between gas gas okay okay so really what we what we have going right now you know they're not going to want to criminally trespass you but they don't want you coming back here just cuz I guess the disagreement so I just I just want to make sure that we understand that okay there's not going to be a criminal trespass issu but I strongly recommend you guys do not come back so let me let me finish talking to this officer right here and I'll get back with you okay all right thank you so he not not so much as her but I can see her like kind of knock off she kind ofs seems out of it looks like they're living out of their car honestly right now he seems really nervous so what I'm going to do is I'm going to have unit coming down here do their thing it's if they have drugs did they say they lived at this address um I I didn't I haven't asked ask that do you do you feel like it's an imminent need to take the kids now or do you think it's something that we should send cfd for a followup on Mr Romero is this still a good address for you 3305 old Cavern Highway okay and what's the kiddo's names in the back Romero Antonio Romero um same as yours AR assuming are you biological dad and your biological mom oh so sorosis oh wow sorry to hear that man but these they the two of the youngsters back here that's what their name is okay what's that no I'm I'm just standing right here you're all right what's that I'll go check here in a sec I might have some in the car want a sticker can I have a sticker if I can if I can find my stick I think it's shaped like this ni so we got called here for Sol solicitation there's uh two people in the car right here with two juveniles um when I'm talking to them Gathering their information it seems like the the female is under the influence of something she's like ring off as she's sitting there like playing with her hair in the mirror yeah um father looks like suspected drug use probably going to be doing a sky referral cuz the kids are in the back um you could run your dog around the vehicle or is that a possibility yeah Co that's your Reasonable Suspicion for follow yes hi Bubba ready to go to work Bubba let's go hey guys do he bite no he doesn't bite but we don't pet him okay check it check it good boy good boy yeah good boy hey so that was a alert positive alert there all right Mr Romero if you could exit the vehicle leave everything in the vehicle besides maybe your phone and your wallet and if you could do the same um and the kiddos okay so let's go ahead and exit the vehicle exit get yeah yeah we're going to have everybody exit um you you could uh go ahead and just take your wallet if if you need it okay my license in okay you mind if I look through your wallet talk to him first or you want to talk to him yeah go ahead no you go ahead what's your name Bubba Ray Ray talk to me Ray what's up kiddos how you doing man we're going to just step over here away from everybody okay what' you just put in there something I want in my mouth you like eyes that let it go let it go let it go let it go you want have my eyes turn around put your hands know why you want how to drink of eyes Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go open your mouth what was your first name hey ashy Ash this this officer right here is trying to talk to you what did you do Ashley nothing WR I don't know I was just going to eat some ice and wait for your dog to look in the car or did I do wrong it was a zipl baggy is it plug bagging hey uh you can tell me straight up or we can we can drop a third degree felony of tampering on you that's up to you to feel like in trouble you're going to be in trouble if you don't start coming out with whatever you did um I thought that I would be in a lot of trouble just stop talking right there I'll tell you what I did I'll tell you what I did first so you got to understand you have the right to remain silent anything you say can W be used against you in a court of law do you understand you these rights as I've exp and I was wondering like listen do you understand your go to jail hey do you understand your rights sir I understand my rights okay will you answer my questions I will try to answer your questions sir what did you do when youle out of the car I tried to conceal the evidence the tempering part the I wanted to do I put in my mouth I could be hot it's in my mouth you want it I do want it yeah it's probably not even there anymore because I like disol and [ __ ] you know spit whatever you got in there put it in there stop sucking on it put it in there how much meth do you think was in there not a lot just little tiny crumbs you think it was like a gram half a gr no not a lot just tiny Tey tiny crumbs like nothing really like dusk okay so ma'am you take some of those so ma'am really quick really quick listen to me okay calm down listen to me okay we have an ambulance we have an ambulance coming okay we don't know how much you swallowed do you know how much you swallowed yeah a little bit a little bit how much is a little bit I'm not I SM him like a dash of salt like a dash of salt okay so this officer is nice too much then listen listen to me way too high or something you think you you going to listen all right can try okay so this officer is very nice very gracious and he said he didn't want to do tampering I'm going to be charging you with tampering I'm going to be charging you with resisting evading obstructing and I'm also going mean listen to me because these are the charges a day in ja me you're going to jail going so like 40 days in jail or like 30 days in jail or like 90 days in jail because that's really mean of you why would you want to do that to me Mr kenin so also you're going to be charged with child AB as well you're going to be charged with child AB time myid it doesn't matter you're in a vehicle with two children in the back and so now I have a child at be because of you absolutely so then what do I have to do for that one go to jail too or have a fine yes they're all felonies so how long do I have to go to jail for abusing my friend's kids okay let's go ahead and just put her in you go and put her in the back of my unit all right Ray let's get back to it Bubba can we come over here so like I say man I'm Corporal Jones with the Carl down Police Department okay my dog ran around your car give me a positive alert to the known uh odor of a controlled substance that he's trained in okay uh before I ask you any questions pertaining to that I do want to read you your rights okay so you have the right to remain silent anything you say can will be used against you in a court of law so do you understand these rights yes sir having these rights in mind will you answer my questions yes sir okay Bubba Man my dog ran around your car gave me a positive uh he gave me a positive alert to the order of a controlled substance so he's trained in heroin math MMA and cocaine okay was there anything in the car Bubba honestly honestly I don't know what she had she don't tell me like let me tell you something else okay even if there is something in the car that you know about I'm not going to take you to jail today yeah but you're cool with me searching the car all right I'm going search all the bags and everything in there too okay sir you go my B like I'm I'm homeless and my dad kick me out like like I say she my like she did it sucks now you get some and I could Fu this de breaths man de breaths you're good about to die [Music] you love your kids right yeah I we we care for your kids so much I'm not going to sugar coat this situation okay I'm not because I care about your kids that much okay having somebody in the front seat of your car with with drugs I'm gonna have you stand in front over here by the sergeant if at anytime you feel uncomfortable with me searching your car you tell me to stop I'll stop okay so I'm going to grab some gloves I'm going to have you go over here with Sergeant to stealing officer K [Applause] okay it no he gave he gave consent she said specifically I saw that dog snooping around being nosy so I put that bag in my mouth cuz I want you to find it she did it while we she had that bag in her hand so I'm wondering if she swallowed more cuz when we were getting her out I've seen her digging around like in the floorboard glove box area yeah and she steps out and I see her hand come up and she starts move it towards her mouth she was in the glove box she was in this area oh I got you I didn't I was standing at theer there you go kids juice bottle SpongeBob yeah it's a meth pipe there's nothing in the truck we need to know about Ray s my clothes saw your clothes all my stuff and it's Jam pack my clothes in TV I don't want to tear all your stuff out in front of everybody I don't mind I'm not liing nothing you're good you're good don't wor about it I'm sh I think that whatever was in the car was what she had yeah that's what she had I I do that like that I don't if my dog would have hit on your side of the car we'd be doing like a different thing seen I know go on me at alling do your thing okay take care of yourself yep [Music] what's your name Ashley vriz ashleyg yes are you are you wanting medical attention absolutely not no I just want to like not go to jail you know okay and you can help me out and take the Cuffs off and let me go like anywhere besides here we can't do any of that we're we're not police officers we're just with the fire department so I'm healthy I'm fine I don't need your help so you don't want us to check you out or anything check your vitals I I don't know why anybody would think that I would want that I never said that not once in my life just no no they just do it on precautionary just because are they making me do it because they're cops and they're mean and they make you do stuff that you don't want to do no no no no you don't that's why I'm asking you I don't want to do nothing with you guys leave me alone all righty how how often do you use man why do you hear her just just because if you never had it when you swallowed it we don't want to you know we want to be prepared since I was 19 and I'm 31 okay so leave me alone all right is R going to jail too is R going to jail too r ray I love you I'll miss you I think 219 Carls guess hello so you are telling me that I'll be like in prison after I go to jail for the first two charges that I have I have to go to prison for the charge that you gave me and then and I can finally be doing with all this [ __ ] yeah I get it I deserve that because I'm a real piece of [ __ ] h a real piece of [ __ ] do something again H that's why the [ __ ] that you wanted to say that I did so that everybody knows I that piece of [ __ ] huh so TBH I'm going to be like like um residing in like uh a facility or whatever for like 3 years or some [ __ ] because of you let's go take a walk over there all bad horrible to to keep it you know without sugar coating you you both look like you guys are deing with the addiction that you guys need help for that's what we said to other earlier and I mean that with all like you need help he needs help at least for those kids that were in the car the suspect was charged with resisting arrest tempering with evidence and possession of a controlled substance the court issued a bench warrant after the suspect failed to appear in court a month after her arrest at this time the suspect's case is still ongoing