This is the police department. Come out now with your hands up or I will release my canine. Wednesday, December 25th, 2024, Homedale City, Texas. Shortly after sunrise, a 911 call alerts the city police to a kidnapping at some apartments. From the first report, officers understand that the victim had been taken by force by an armed man who acted with both speed and intent. That call not only confirmed the severity of the incident, but also revealed that the suspect had prior deportations and a pattern of recidivism that had already crossed borders before reaching Texas. I'm Tyler and this is your daily dose of crime. Get your daily dose of crime every single day at 3:00 p.m. Eastern. And we're turning it up, two videos per day. Don't miss a single moment and tune in. 2077, I'll be out on Robert X-ray Tom 7686 Texas tag. We think 44. I'm sorry. Can't even run. It's occupied. Can you start me another? It looks like he's passed out behind the wheel. [Applause] I got him at gunpoint. I'm just going to wait to call out. He said he's asleep behind the car is what it looks like behind the wheel. It's that gray car to the right. The gray car to the right. It's all I think you can't see in it, but when I walked up, he's sitting in the driver's seat. The gray car right there. You got a rifle? Uh, yeah. Let me get my rifle. When officers located the suspect's vehicle in Oklahoma City, they realized they weren't dealing with a simple stolen car recovery. That vehicle had been flagged as connected to an armed kidnapping, immediately activating interstate protocols. The fact that Godoy continued traveling in the victim's car meant that he was still mobile and had direct access to potential evidence and firearms. His decision to remain inside the vehicle, rather than abandoning it as most suspects do, matched the behavior of offenders who rely on constant movement to avoid capture. You want to pull your car up a little bit more so we get better cover so he can't drive out of here. It's a gray Dodge Journey to the right of the Armada. Can you see in there? No. Whenever I So, I was like, I think I see the car. I come around the backside, I see the tag. I'm like, maybe it's unoccupied. And I walk up, he's in the driver's seat. Yeah, he's in the driver's seat. Okay. Do you have a PA on the back of your car? No, not in the back. Okay. And that makes Yeah, it shows up. Can we get PA announcements? We need a rifle and a 40 as well. We got a rifle coming. Yeah, he's behind. Is he complying at all or not? He's asleep behind the wheel. Yeah. It's a uh It's like a jogging deal out of like Fort Worth, Texas. Yeah, it said that he they stole the car by force and they're supposed to have guns. Do you have your weapon? Yep. No, I can't see anything. I just said whenever I walked up it was like I I came around the backside, saw the tag. I'm like, this is it. Yeah. And then as I'm like looking in the car, I see him in the driver's seat. I It's supposed to be a multiple, but I only saw one in the driver's seat. Yes. And you haven't done announcements. I mean, on the 48 it says it's supposed to be a Spaniard, so we should probably send a Spanish speaker out here as well. I can do it. Oh, you can? Okay. Yeah. But probably won't get an announcement. Spanish speaker, we got one over here. Whoever is the next unit that gets out here, we need to start doing PA announcements. Can somebody do PA announcements? We need an SUV to do PA announcements. This one can't do it out the back. I don't have one in my back. Can you do it out of your back? No. Can somebody pull that SUV up so we can start doing announcements? Who's got I don't know. Who's Is that your SUV in the front? Uh, yeah. Hey, we Can somebody pull that SUV up so we can start doing announcements? Pull that SUV up, that first one. Is it We'll start doing announcements on that. Is he in it? Yeah, he's in there. He's in the driver's seat. Hispanic male. He's got like a a ski mask on, but he's got it lower over under his face. I got behind him. You want to take my Oh, you got a shotgun? He has a rifle. Can we do announcements in Spanish? No. Don't lock the canine, okay? I'm going to do freaking announcements in Spanish. Your call has been updated. [Music] You guys want to be contact on the left side? [Music] [Music] This is the police department. Come out now with your hands up or I will release my canine. [Music] No. Check man. All right, come over here to the right. Hey, call him out to the right side. Let me get Are we bringing him over to the right? Let me get a less lethal over here. Hey. Hey, have him walk back. We can't see in the car. I don't want to walk by the car. Come back in here. Uh, you want to try? Yeah, do you want us to push right? You guys want to push from the backside? Do you want to bring the shield over here and come around? [Applause] All right, so we got shield on you, bud? >> Yep. Got a taser? Yeah, that's right. All right, boys. [Applause] It's a no touch if we can. All right, clear. All right. Don't touch the car. We need his latent prints. All right. Good job, guys. After the suspect surrenders and officers secure him, the visible tension eased, but the investigation shifted into its most technical stage. In less than a day, he had traveled more than 300 km north, leaving Texas before the first responding units even finished processing the report. The speed and distance revealed his familiarity with police response times, and that's why, once in custody, the investigative focus moved from the suspect to the vehicle, Yeah. where officers expected to find key elements to reconstruct his route and verify his actions throughout the journey. [Applause] 77 7 Fairway, you start position record and advise what it's going to be on the record. Can you give me a case number and make me primary? [Music] This little white thing underneath my water. Can you open that? We're good now. I just give a hand you all these rounds. I thought they were change. Only money. It's money? Yeah. You speak English? A little bit. A little bit? [Music] Do you have any other weapons on you or anything? Okay. Come on. Gloves and ski mask and We need an evidence like a evidence bag. Okay. He's got so much rounds on him. Can you get an FI and all that stuff on him? And all that casings? Yeah. Those are all casings. Maybe a little bit of change mixed in there, but it was all casings. Hm? Hm? I don't know. I didn't even look. I was just grabbing handfuls of casings. I ordered a Sprite this morning. Yeah, we're probably going to be hungry. Yeah, it's all right. I don't know if the county's got anything worth eating. That is a bucket of a little bit more. How do you uh clear these? >> selling this one? Yeah. >> Try pulling that out down there too. Oh, wonderful. Is it fully loaded? Yeah, fully loaded. So, take pictures of that, too. Or at least get the from the body cam or anything. See if it'll be good. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] As officers continue inspecting the vehicle, the investigative team's focus is not solely on the firearm or the ammunition recovered, but on how each finding supports the victim's account. What's not visible on camera is that hours before this operation, the woman had been found in Grapevine with marks still on her wrists and clearly in shock after freeing herself from the bindings made with her own shoe laces. Her prompt statement to Grapevine officers became the foundation for the entire response that followed. According to her account, the suspect had forced her to drive to an ATM, stolen money from her under death threats, and then transported her to a residential area where he tied her to a tree before fleeing in her vehicle. The precision of her details, the weapon, the threats, the method of control, even the exact location where she was abandoned, allowed investigators to reconstruct the suspect's route with uncommon clarity for the early stages of a kidnapping case. And that's why when officers in Oklahoma located the ammunition, firearm, and personal items that the suspect carried, each of those elements carried particular weight. They were not only pieces of evidence, they were verification points for a testimony given under extreme trauma, yet consistent from the beginning. For detectives, that alignment between what the victim described in Texas and what was now found inside the vehicle would confirm that the kidnapping had not been improvised, but reflected a pattern of behavior already familiar to the suspect. I have his seal. [Applause] Does he have any tattoos? I mean, look at the little thing He says I told him the face All right. When you get to the jail, will you do a full >> off his hoodie and Yeah, take When they tell him to take off all his clothes so we can get good body photos cuz um I think there's a good chance he's probably doing armed robberies here, too. Okay. I I'll switch to my car. Thank you, buddy. [Applause] Hey Gier does Woah. We got the guy out of your backseat and he's going to take him and then I had him When he gets to the jail, we're going to He's got tattoos all over. We're going to take good photos of him. I just didn't want you to be like, "Hey, where you at, man?" and then you look back and there's no one there. You got my cuffs on him, too. Okay. 1938. Here's the victim. Take a picture of this side. I don't think so. Um I will take all the property and book it in. Will you just follow the I need someone to go from the barn cuz you still want latent prints. Um I got to grab from the barn and then also do the PC. [Applause] All right, one second. Let me call somebody. Somebody can go. [Applause] Hey, do you still have gloves on? I put his phone and the gun in the front seat. I'm going to uh in your front seat cuz there's his closest car. I'll take all that from you. If uh you can get the serial number off the gun. Okay. [Applause] [Applause] Okay. Well, then I'll just I'll just leave all the property in your car then since we're going to have to count the money together. Yeah, I was like, I'm going to have to go to the property room anyway. Okay. Um I'll just go to the bar or headquarters real quick. >> to go get the key and meet me at the barn. >> Yeah, I emailed you the impound. Okay. That'll work, too. Um so what needs to be done is the PC. He's getting him booked in. Um Yeah, perfect. I'll go to the barn. 77 being at the headquarters. [Applause] [Applause] Hey Gier, does Will you verify your email that you have it? Uh yeah. Sorry. And then I put those the gun and the bullet and his phone right here. [Applause] As the scene progressed, the operation became a coordinated effort between states. Officers needed to determine which evidence would go to Texas, what would remain in Oklahoma, and how to preserve the chain of custody before transporting the suspect to the station. There, the measurements, photographs, and property inventory were far from routine. They formed the formal link between the suspect, the weapon recovered, and the full trajectory of the kidnapping. This stage consolidated the criminal reconstruction that would support the case in court. [Music] [Music] [Music] With the evidence secured in Oklahoma and the victim's testimony fully supported by what was found in the vehicle, the case formally shifted to Texas authorities. Godoy was held on a federal detainer while the extradition process moved forward. An essential step for him to face the most serious of charges, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery, both first-degree felonies in the state. For investigators, the 300-km route that he traveled after abandoning the victim revealed not only his intent to evade capture, but also the experience of someone familiar with crossing borders and navigating legal systems. Today, Godoy faces charges in two states, a history of prior deportations, and a record that, according to prosecutors, demonstrates a sustained pattern of violent behavior. The victim, found hours later in Grapevine, provided a statement that not only initiated the search, but also supported the entire case from day one. As the case moves towards trial, Godoy anticipates a possible decades-long sentence, and after serving it, another immigration process in an incident that exposed how an ordinary routine can become a point of vulnerability when an offender with mobility and a history of recidivism acts without detection.