Keep walking. Get down on your knees. Do not move. Do you understand? >> It was a dumb decision, but I had to. I had no choice. >> So, you know, you were all over the road. You were going into the oncoming traffic lane, and you know, I apologize. I was trying to get, you know, just let my sister know I love her. >> I'm going to end up charging with reckless endangerment as well, felony. Um, cuz he [music] was driving head on into traffic. We had to move off the roadway to keep on traffic. Thursday, February 15th, 2024. Willox, Arizona. In broad daylight, a car carrier loaded with 10 brand new Chevrolet Corvettes vanishes from a Love's truck stop in the middle of the Arizona desert. The theft was not carried out by a crew or even a sophisticated plan, but by a single man recently released from prison who had claimed he did it for one simple reason, just because he needed to get home. What first looked like an act of desperation would end up revealing something deeper. The thin line between freedom and relapse and how the lack of support can turn release from prison into the start of another kind of confinement. I'm Tyler and this is your daily dose of crime. We can see that you're watching, but only 11% of you are actually subscribe to the channel. So, take a moment right now and hit that subscribe button and ring that bell so that we can bring these videos to more people and so that you never miss your daily dose of crime. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel. >> Keep walking. Stop. Get down on your knees. >> All the way on your face. Hands out to the side. Do not move. Do you understand? 9:25 in the morning. You can find me 251. Lincoln 225. I love you. How you doing? >> I didn't know what to do. >> Is anyone else in the vehicle? >> No, sir. >> Just you? >> Yes, sir. >> Do you have any weapons on you? >> No, sir. I don't have no wood. I just got out of last year. >> When officers surround the stolen truck, the suspect has already been identified as Isaiah Smith Walker, age 23. recently released from an Oklahoma prison. What the cameras don't show is how a single impulsive action mobilized multiple agencies in a matter of minutes. Walker had forced the driver out of the cab and taken off along rural roads outside of Willox. For the responding units, the priority isn't only capturing him, it's protecting a load worth more than a million dollars. With the exits blocked and the perimeter secured, Walker realizes he has nowhere else to go. And what began as a desperate search for freedom is about to send him back into the same system that he had been trying to escape from. >> I I it was a dumb decision, but I had to. >> You had to. >> I had no choice. I did it for my little sister. I love my death. Please put me a handcuff. >> Yep. You'll be putting handcuffs here in just a minute. >> Negative. I was >> ched out at gunpoint right now security. My name is Isaiah Smith Walker. My DLC number >> I know I stole the vehicle. >> Don't move. >> Hands behind your back. Yes, sir. I love you, B. It was neither B or you. >> I love you. Look. >> I love you. >> Stand up. >> I love you, V. >> Put your hand in. >> He says there's nobody else in the vehicle, but >> driver said it was only him. >> Just me. All right, I got clear. [clears throat] Heat. Heat. This would be a good time. Yeah, he's making a bunch comments like I just had to for my baby sister. I know it was wrong. I knew I shouldn't have done it. >> Scar on my chest. You see? You see the scar on my face? >> See the scars on my arms? Oh, sorry. I lose a lot of nice ass. >> Negative. I think Willox is going to take this. I'm going to wind up clear just a minute. Just meet me at the office. [clears throat] >> I got out of prison May 11th of last year. >> 11th last year. >> May 11th. Okay. >> Last year. Oh11. >> What's your name, man? >> Isaiah Smith Walker. D >> social security birth certificate for >> what state are you out of? >> L Oklahoma. >> My birth certificate comes from Fort Worth Tan County. Where's the last place you held a license? >> I ain't never had an ID. >> Never had a license. I don't have no recommendation, nothing. Everything I have is on my phone. >> No. But did you ever have a license? >> Never had nothing. >> Never been issued one. >> I just got out of prison. I ain't never had nothing. >> Okay. >> I just turned 23. >> All right. >> I just, you know what I'm saying? I just doing things for family that I love. That's it. >> All right, man. >> Not in a bad way. >> [clears throat] >> The arrest looks calm, but behind it lies a precise protocol. Secure the cargo, preserve the evidence, and maintain physical control of the suspect. Walker cooperates, yet his situation raises questions. No ID, no driver's license, and no address. He admits he's been released from prison only days earlier and had no way to return to Oklahoma. The statement reframes the case. It's no longer seen purely as a theft, but as a symptom of the recidivism cycle that officers know all too well. A search of the truck turns up no weapons or only a personal phone. Everything suggests that his motive was exactly what he had claimed, but the law doesn't judge intentions. It judges actions. And for investigators, the focus will shift from why he did it to what he was willing to do to make it happen. I love you, V. If they can still hear me, my sister number, >> we'll get all that from you here. Okay, I'm going to I'm going to read something for you real quick. Okay. >> Let me read it to you. >> You have the right to remain silent. >> Yeah. I go to light him up. He stops after he's been swerving all over the road and I've been going into the [ __ ] ditch. And I'm like, I have no idea that thing didn't flip. >> Well, I got the ATL. I'm like, I saw that truck this morning. I'm like, well, and then I heard you over the scanner. I'm like, here we go. And I was at 328. I was in. I'm like, I'm booking it. >> Yeah. I was trying to order him out of the vehicle. He just kept sticking his body out the window, waving around like crazy. >> I hit Taylor road thinking try to get back to I 10. >> Y. >> So, I was almost at I 10 for Taylor. I was just trying to get get back to >> you guys. [clears throat] >> I could have but it probably wouldn't like What do you What do you need to get so bad for? I get that. >> Got out a tree. >> Big gold. >> There's better ways of getting there than than taking a truck and ended up right back there. >> I catch it. >> Yeah. I'm going to turn him with reckless endangerment. You can see head on toward traffic. >> Oh, good. Do everything. >> They [clears throat] went on the like all the traffic move off the roadway so that we could pass. when I said, "Oh, he's going down for >> where's he going to go?" >> Right. >> One of my detectives from Safford. I don't know if he's still on his way, but >> he he's on his way this way. So, >> okay. >> Few more feet within >> Well, I would take it for you. I don't >> you still take it out. >> [ __ ] You could probably claim all those cars, right? >> So the cars >> those are all over $100,000 cars. >> Those cars >> just the truck and the ride. >> Those cars on the ship with like a gallon of gas. >> All right. said all that stuff it takes. >> I'm going to talk to him. >> You're going to have to put 30 minutes to take off. >> Hey, man. So, you said you never had a license, right? >> Never had a license, ID. >> Okay. How'd you learn to drive on a semi? >> I'm going to go look in the car or in in the truck. He said his phone's in there. >> I heard you start driving smoke. >> I'm watching I watch YouTube trucking and trucking and hustle. I used to watch that while I was in prison. I wanted to be a truck driver. so bad. >> But you know what? >> Yeah. Okay. >> I learned a couple things though from a couple people. Taught me a little something. >> Okay. >> I don't do a >> I didn't do this. This is the first time I ever been in a semi. >> Okay. >> Walker repeats his version with unsettling calm. He insists that he didn't steal for money or greed, but out of necessity. That explanation becomes its own evidence. He admits to using physical force to remove the driver and fleeing from police. actions that meet the elements of robbery and unlawful flight. Under Arizona law, desperation is not a defense when violence and public anger are involved. The case evolves from vehicle theft to a violent act combining force, flight, and public endangerment. Three aggravating factors that lead him back into the very system he had just left. As the truck is secured, the irony becomes clear. In trying to go home, Walker ends up right back where he began, behind bars. >> All right, man. Um, I don't >> you stopped for me a while back there. >> Why'd you take off? >> So I could pull off where it was more safer. >> You think that was safe? >> This right here. >> Safer. >> All right. So, you know, you were all over the road. You were going into the oncoming traffic lane. And >> I No, I apologize. I was trying to get, you know what I'm saying? I just let my sister know I love her. >> Where your sister at? >> She's in L, Oklahoma. >> So, you're going to drive all the way to Oklahoma like that? All over the road like that? >> Nope. >> I was going to get somewhere, pull off into a a little dirt road like this where I can still see the road. >> Okay. >> Sit here and wait. >> Could you hear my sirens? >> I didn't hear them. I can't hear that. Well, >> all right. >> You know what I'm saying? Could you see my lights? >> My first I seen the lights. That's why I stopped, roll the window down, and just like, hey. >> Okay. And I was telling you to get out of the vehicle. And why didn't you get out of the vehicle? I mean, you did over here, but not when I stopped you back there. [clears throat] >> Mother, sister said, >> "What's wrong with her?" >> With your friend, >> what's wrong with her? >> She had broke leg. She >> We all three just had a seizure at the same time two days ago. >> Okay. Any mental health issues? I'm a diabetic. >> Diabetic >> two. >> Okay. >> I remember holding the back of my leg and with my ankle, my foot, and I just push back. >> I'm 23, man. I ain't had no medicine, man. I had nothing. >> Okay. All right. Well, you understand that you could have killed somebody the way you were driving, man. You're going like people going off the road so that they could not get hit by you. >> I seen some I seen the uh trucks pull around me. I seen them down that way where I I just seen the lights after I looked past [clears throat] them. I was like, man, should I stop? The road is not the best way to stop. >> Okay. >> You pull off into like a gravel road. >> Okay. Well, we passed a lot of areas where you could have stopped where you pulled could have turned in. >> I didn't want the truck flipping. >> It could have. >> Yeah. I thought it was going to a couple times. I didn't want that to happen. I'm glad we I didn't lose that one car. I hope the people who fix this truck and make cars back safe for sale. Okay. All right, man. >> I don't know. You got anything you want to tell me? Is there anything in the vehicle? >> I don't know what's in it, dude. >> Okay. You just took it. All right. Where were you before? How'd you get to Willox? >> How long you been in Wilox? Do you know that? >> I don't know. You take any or anything, man? We need to get you checked out. Are you on anything right now? >> Just Okay. When was the last time you smoked? >> Before I left that truck stop. >> Okay. >> Um, probably about some hours. Like a few hours. >> Few hours ago. >> Went to sleep and just like dozed off >> at the truck stop. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> And I called my little sister. I said, "Man, I got to get home. I don't know how to get home." Okay. >> I can't I couldn't call the police. I didn't >> Well, you know, there probably better ways than that, right? >> See, my mom be too. >> I get it, man. Maybe you could have killed yourself. You could have killed somebody. I told my sister I was I told her if I can't stay free and be with her. I really just thought I going to sit and wait until the judge tell me what I need to know. Okay. >> All right, man. Well, I'm going to let you relax for a little bit. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> So Benson picked those things up when they came over here. The phones were actually in his hand. He threw them on the ground when I fell and he stopped him. >> So the driver cuz I was actually getting ready to go back and get the phone number. Driver said, "Hey, my phone's in the truck." He's like, "So you guys can ping it." >> Okay. >> And he told me the blue AT&T phone was his, >> which I have in the front seat of my car. >> The other one's still here. >> I'm going to find out from Chief what he wants to do. If he wants pick up the driver and bring him back over to drive the truck back or >> I'm going to wind up charging him with reckless endangerment as well. Felony. Okay. >> Um cuz he was driving head on into traffic. Everybody had to move off the roadway to keep from getting run over. >> Perfect. >> So, y >> Isaiah Smith Walker was booked into the Coochis County Jail and formerly charged with robbery, a class 4 felony, an unlawful flight, a class 5 felony. On April 3rd of 2024, he appeared before the Superior Court of Arizona, accepting a plea agreement. The court sentenced him to a total of four years in prison, two and a half years for robbery, and one and a half years for unlawful flight. To be served consecutively, he received 48 days of credit for time served and has to complete at least 85% of his sentence before becoming eligible for supervised release, placing his projected release date in mid 2027. All 10 Chevy Corvettes were recovered with no damage, and the truck was returned to its driver, closing a case with no material loss. Only a lasting reminder of how the line between need and crime can be dangerously thin.