are you shoplifting too no sir no no sir you don't even know whose truck it is no sir um you do know that you've been trespassed from here before I not I I didn't know that so you're telling me that what's on the cameras and what the Lost prevention officer in the plane closed is telling me is alike on May 23rd 2023 officers rushed to Walmart in response to reports of a man shoplifting as they arrived they discovered 57-year-old Max Romero not inside the store but in the bed of a Patron's pickup truck trying to hide you tried man sure what's going on Max that much man I was just trying to get some groceries okay I was getting groceries man I just I don't know okay are you shoplifting too no sir no no sir okay cuz we were told that you started filling up a backpack full of merchandise no sir all right all right you got your idea with you I I don't okay that on me all right well go ahead and put your hands behind your back and be detained for the moment okay not under arrest just being detained whose truck is this I don't know sir hey you don't even know whose truck it is know sir um I wasn't I wasn't sh don't don't go anywhere I've got Mr Romero uh detained at the moment we're at the very end of the first row all right you're welcome to just I'm going to leave the door open you can just have a seat in the back oh you're not standing right here um a phone call I don't care um sure as long as you can manage it but I'm not going to take you out the Cuffs okay that's um maybe okay hold on he was hiding in the back of a gold pickup truck he says it's not even his truck I wasn't shoping sir okay I didn't even leave this like I didn't well either way you do know that you've been trespassed from here before no I I didn't know that you're not aware of that well I I don't supp like signs of papers or something like that nope as long as an officer in the past is told hey London can you come over here to to the first road please um the can you come to the first row over here the cops got me over here on the first row oh yeah yeah I'm coming I'm coming I'm I'm I'm on I'm on uh row number one all the way in the back like you'll see me okay okay I thought I thought I was supposed to have have some like some kind of like nope all all that all that's required for trespassing is an officer has to have told you you are no longer allowed on such and such property whatever the case may be and all we do is we tell our dispatchers that and they log in the computer system and that's all that counts dang and what does that happen like so that's so according to our system you were trespassed back in January and what is that like what what like what what happens with that all that means is that you're not allowed on this property I don't know like like now like now that I'm on this property what happens now you can either go to jail or you can get a citation so I'm waiting on the other officer to tell me if there's more to this than just trespassing cuz we're being told on the way over here that you were shoplifting not just trespassing yeah no I I wasn't shoplifting I I didn't leave the store with nothing all right well in order for me to talk to you more about it I'm going to have to read you your Miranda right so he's over there in front of the jewelry counter he's got a basket way it started as I was walking by clothing and I saw him in clothing with a backpack or something and he got some stuff but then I lost him now the backpack's really full but now it's trying to verify if he was trespassed or not and he is so we how are you hey good are you just been fing around he's been grocery shopping he's been going back and forth here but he stand over there by the the jewelry so yeah we want to prosecute him cuz he's a total for trespassing just start trespassing unless you know he says the bag's his and then we can you know he'll let you into it see what's in there it's merchandise in it it's got uh oh this must be his bag cuz that's used Steph smoke pipe yeah proba want me to look into this part tis no ID or anything no but it's all on camera so perfect okay Dam hello London what's going on trying to sh you Che London gorm okay I'm not London gorm yeah L you're not Loro no I'm lentes yeah seent yeah that is not I'm lentes not is there more to it than just trespassing uh yeah they want press charges for shoplifting so shoplifting press Char how that cuz they called you around the store and they have you on camera stealing stuff in bag oh not even all they have all I have is groceries 2 I didn't even no sir you cor London SE tell to I mean they said I shop or something I didn't leave the store were nothing or nothing like that is there thing as well as yes and went Forge how I I didn't leave you want sorry I didn't leave the store with nothing I I didn't steal nothing well you may not have left the store but you were placing items in a backpack no were you ever approached by the the guys inside no no okay so what' you do with the backpack there was a backpack there's a car full of groceries that that's right there okay the Black Backpack no just just just just food items so no Black Backpack no there was just food items in there if we're going to if we're going to ask him details on it we need to mirandize him so do you want to talk about it or not I'll mirandize you if you want what do you mean if you if you're willing to talk to us more about what you did or did not do in there I'll mirandize you and then we can discuss it but if not we're just basing everything off of what he talks about us here here I'll just I'll just I'll read your Miranda right it's up to you I want to talk here I'll mirandize you anyway and you can decide to answer questions or not before we ask any questions you must understand you have the right to remain silent you understand yes sir okay are you willing to answer questions right yeah okay then whatever you need to ask I'm going to yes sir hello sir this is your truck yes sir okay so you're not in any trouble just just beware of that okay um this gentleman was hiding in the back of your pickup truck whenever we were trying to find him so I just want to make sure is your truck damaged in any way is anything missing he was laying down right here yeah so saying that's not your backpack there was no there was no backpack in in the car there was just food items okay so you're telling me that what's on the cameras and what the Lost prevention officer in the plane cloth is telling me is aik he there's no there's nothing I he don't have me on camera to do nothing like that he's in a vehicle why would he have a back yeah well you were in the store you were seing in the store yeah no I was in the store yes obviously yes but now I didn't shoplift I wasn't shoplifting there was was there was a a part full of grocery items that I I I didn't take none of it stuffed a back blackpack full of clothing items no I didn't have there was just food items in there okay then how come you were seen with a backpack I wasn't I didn't have a backpack on I not even I have no backpack at all but what what ises this what goes on from here like he's arrested like is he getting charged what's what's the deal yes he's getting charged okay he's getting charged okay cop I was getting a citation you're get cation let's see what we can do we get back to the station okay just you're still coming to the station one way or another so does he have your phone number uh not by heart not by heart okay does he have a phone on him cuz he can take a phone with him okay this is so if you need to get a number out of it yeah that's not a problem so it's definitely going to be trespassing that's for sure so that's just a citation though okay I no you can still be arrested you obviously is arrested you can so and please get that correct I'm not the Gordon or I'm not the other London I'm sorry uh I'm not the other London please get that correct okay you'll have to yeah talk them about that running so so I can citation this is yeah we're we're going back to station no that's fine but like I'm getting ARR though yes you are yes okay from that point like can he get release how do I or does he have to wait to see a judge how does that work just so I know what's going on well yeah if he's going to arrest him then he's got to go see judge so today is going Tuesday so he'll probably get to Jud talk to a judge by video tomorrow morning and they'll decide whether or not he stays in jail y have we don't need it the proof is already here he's on the property he's been trespassed that's fine that's fine it's trespassing but I I was I didn't shop nothing yeah now the shoplift thing I mean he knows more about that than I do but the trespassing for sure you're yeah okay okay that's fine trespass whatever but I didn't shop there nothing okay so I'm going to go back and talk to loss prevention so I'm sure your tire standing out here in the Sun so if you want go ahead and put you in the back of a car with air conditioning and I'll go back and talk to loen okay so right now as of right now it's just going to be trespassing okay right now at this moment I'll let you know if I if I find more more evidence and they're able to press charges then I'll let you know if not that's just going to be trespassing okay okay go back here hold on hold on hold on we'll we'll go through your pockets can I put some glass on him at least it's pretty bright out he's going to go through your pockets okay that's fine he's going to search you that's fine so you're looking for don't got anything on you any know about he who is Tasha that's my cousin does she know that you have C yes yes sir yes yeah you got to haveck pin yes I have I have the pin and everything yeah I don't have I don't have okay we're we're right here close we're behind Margo is there a way we can get a hold of Tasha so I can prove that cuz it's not I'm taking this this is going to go with us to the station and be held for safekeeping until she can pick it up I don't have her number then I'm right here behind Maro okay I I can't I can't just give you somebody else's property without me knowing that you have permission to have it okay so anything else though we can keep or give to her it's up to you is that all he's got yeah okay what about all your jewelry do you want to give any of that to her with you I'll keep it take my I'm going to he needs to keep his phone though okay I die thirsty when I was hungry though can I give him a drink please I got a drink it's a hot day I can't I can't get and stuff we're going to we're going to barbecue aren't you the same one we last time right sorry were the same one was last time same officer first time I met you brother really yes sir I just um I can't can't watch one more drink but give me a good drink can you just get a drink please you let him finish it that's get um I'm sorry this is weird like you want to get anything out the house you I can I can send him down in the car private you can do that okay oh over here man we have water too at the station it depends on what the sh portion comes out of it I mean um no I can't believe they can't anything like under y discretion like for like like there's no way you give me a citation I'll go to court and everything like with like it's I can't swing it uh huh I can't swing it what do you mean to swing it I can't make that happen well no how come he said it was it was it was citation then I said it's citation or jail but like the officers exactly yeah well right now he decided you're going to go to jail oh my God okay just do you want to give you the bra we still have to finish our shop investigation I didn't shop with nothing stand for a second like you see me with nothing right that doesn't mean anything I I want you to know do you know the definition of shoplifting literally means all you have to do is take something and put it into another piece of merchandise that's already shoplifting right there I didn't do none of that well according to the people that were watching you the entire time in store inside the store you were stuffing stuff into a backpack yeah which he says is in the shopping cart that you had so I don't know how really really no really nothing to argue here so but like I said as of right now what you're being arrested on is the trespassing we still have to finish our shoping investigation okay okay so if it was just for No Charge passing will he be released that's up to the judge that's up to the judge yes now nothing has Bond until pending yeah there is there's no more Bonds in New Mexico unless a judge puts it on a warrant everything's up to the judges now y but this it's only Municipal right now MP okay yeah you can stand back over there for a second stand up F the door for me please I'm going move your cff around want keep your phone yeah you stand up right here let me get some phone numbers whenever I get to the to the thing I was going to have him write my phone number down number can yeah can can you just write down your number the number okay once I release this one go ahead and put it on top of your head okay I'm not tripping on that it's just I I just can't believe like they can like they can never do never have to do the most like the did you did you I get the number yes I wrot down I love you take this one off I need you put on head okay I love you guys too I got you I got your [ __ ] okay hope they get out hope I get out tomorrow dude you will you will don't stay posi negative no you're going to get out love you Crystal I got to PE B okay get Qui was can K it in yeah what's up oh so I see Mr Romero and this was in his basket that was it and he shoing in clothes and then he ducked down disappeared okay so ran around found him this was full then okay and he had grocery so I followed him around and I was like you know I wonder if he's trespassed had him enough times and they said he was so okay he waited he parked it over there in front of jewelry who' been sitting there on camera so okay uh when the officer came in everything and is this his backpack no this that's something else okay is cuz there's all kinds of weird little things like smoking pipes okay yeah I going say and they said that uh he may have some keys to a vehicle that he drove here in on the automotive side they're not in there okay now did he what was the story with him leaving the store I think you saw the officer come in the GM Door CU and he just you just left it and bounce okay all right all right cool and what are they charging with um trespassing and then shot booking okay um and I'm trying to decide if I can even push public nuisance cuz when I saw him I caught him out of the corner of my eye and I looked and as soon as as soon as I saw him he looked over his shoulder saw that I had my head turned then he ducked behind cars so I flipped around and I could not see him anywhere while somebody was driving through the parking lot was waving me down they were like hey in there so I look in the back of the truck and he pops up and he goes damn he laying in the bed of someone's lay in the bed of somebody else's truck so I have one like that in Roswell guy yeah so I'm trying to decide if we can push public nuisance for him hiding in somebody else's vehicle yeah okay so public Nuance yep looking a piss yeah all right man we go make that happen right now Max Romero was charged with trespassing and shoplifting from Walmart