This is the identification that you presented. >> Okay, that's the wrong one. I didn't look at it. I just put it in my pocket. >> Everything by the law. That's why I get what I get. Nothing is fake. Nothing is The only thing I did not know was that this place I issued the last time, which was with the ID gave y'all, is not real. I never knew that. >> This traveler really thought she could waltz through a Florida airport with a homemade ID and a decade's worth of expired paperwork. It was a bold strategy that backfired [music] the second she reached the security gate. While she tried to blame a tag agency and her own grandmother for her legal mess, [music] deputies were uncovering a family secret that had been hidden for over 10 years. She wasn't just missing a flight. [music] She was looking at a permanent trip back to the Bahamas. >> Why is that ID wrong? >> I don't know. Maybe it's because it's the the one that was in my purse. I have I have all of my stuff in my purse. If you go on my purse, you'll see it. >> What is wrong with you? >> I have two of my ID. >> Okay, but this isn't a real ID. Why do you have this? >> I only I always have that in my purse. >> Okay. Why? >> I always like I just always >> That's not an excuse. It's a fake ID. >> You can't have a fake ID in your possession. >> That's not Well, I didn't know that. That's only >> You didn't know you had a fake ID? >> I didn't even know it was fake. >> How do you not know? too dangerous. >> I didn't even know what to think cuz I know they said once I I have well at least the person who told me once my ID have all my information ID. Someone told me that they um all I need to do is to to go is to this tie place and then the tie place gave me my ID. >> You don't go to some place to get your ID. You go to a DMV to get your driver. >> Okay. This place is like a DMV cuz I have two. The one the one I went to what I did was I gave them my passport and they gave me a ID. That's my ID. But then this one right here is where I came. I don't know who it was, but they said that you could always get transfer your stuff to your ID. Just give me my information. So I transfer my stuff. >> I did the same thing that I transfer my ID from the DMV place to with them with them. >> No, you don't. If you go my person, you'll see it. And if you go in the system and call them, you'll see they give you ID. >> Call who? Who's them? Um, it's called a a Thai agency place, but they give you ID. Okay. >> They give you an international ID. All you need to do is transfer your passport. >> That's me. I'm not I have >> What's your What's your real license? Where's your real license out of? >> My real license is in my purse, but that's the same. >> Okay. Is it from Florida? >> No, it's from here. >> This is Florida. >> Well, I don't know. It's from here. >> Okay. Because we ran your name, too, and your name doesn't exist either. >> My name is My name is CeR Smith. You see, I used two names. Why? Because my grandmother >> um from I was 22. >> This woman really tried to argue that her fake ID was real just because it had her picture on it. Getting on an airplane with a fake ID is a whole new level of stupid. [music] She kept pointing at her purse like it contained a legal miracle. But all she had were excuses that [music] didn't exist in the state system. >> How is it a fake ID? That's me. How is it a fake idea? That's me and that's my information. You could even go on my son does everything. That's me. >> Okay. >> Even my bank account, that's me. How is it a fake ID? >> It's a fake ID because it's not real. It was not issued by the state of Florida. The DL number does not exist. And when we run your name and information on it, you also don't. >> So that is how it is a fake ID. It is not real. You did not get it from the state of Florida. Thus, you can't possess it. It is illegal to possess a license. >> I didn't know that. I didn't know. Did you get it from the state of Florida? I get it from somebody who said all I need to do what they said they can go to the place and they can turn over my stuff. I didn't know that cuz that's what I did with my partner with my >> loical person that you cannot get a license >> but that's what No, not a friend. I didn't know the person. >> We can get customs to assist us. >> Huh? >> Yes. Well, they can fingerprint on their phone too. >> Have you seen the ID yet? >> I see the ID down there, but I >> Is it Florida ID? >> It's a Florida ID. >> Obviously fake. I don't run. She running. >> I mean, does it look fake? Does it look fake? >> Sir, >> hi. Let me go over here. Go over here. >> I call the phone. >> You're just going to have to wait for it. Is she a friend of yours? >> My wife? >> It's your wife? >> Yeah. >> What's going on? >> She's being detained right now. >> Why? >> Cuz of her identifications. What's wrong with high? >> Doesn't seem right. >> You know where she's traveling to today by chance? >> Yeah, she's going to New Jersey. >> To New Jersey? >> Yeah. She has a company and one her friend does a flight attendant for layover. >> You're supposed to be there for 4 hours and come right back. Her friend doesn't want to be alone. So, she asked me to come along with her. >> Oh, flight attendant asked her to come with her. >> She's been calling me now trying to figure out what's going on. She lands in about 47 minutes in Pittsburgh. Let me find out for you right now. Who's she a flight attendant by? Spirit, >> I can ask her. >> The husband arrived just in time to join the sinking ship. His visa had also been expired for more than a decade. He seemed genuinely confused why his wife was being detained. Even [music] though they both knew they were living on borrowed time, it was an exhausting story to listen to, going round and round in circles. These people lied through their teeth constantly. >> You got to let them know so they don't put your bag on the plane. She was probably already gone. >> How's she going to get the backpack? >> All I have to back probably, >> huh? >> Probably have to have it sent back. She's her flight's at 8:00. >> Yeah, flight's 8:00 bag. >> All of our passport, everything would be able to be removed off the flight. >> Are you here for us? >> I believe so. >> You want to film in >> something about a bikini passport? >> No, not necessarily. Let's go around cat. here. >> Yeah. Yeah. Just over right through here. Yeah. Let me just lift that up. >> What's your name, sir? >> James. >> Can you take a driver test? >> Yeah, I took a driver's test. I I even have a a driver's thing in the Bahamas. >> No, over here in the state. >> No, I all I did was give them my information from that and then I I turn change it over from my driver's license and I changed it over. You give them your information and you change it over. bunch of you know driving test. >> You should pose the driver. >> I thought you just give them your all the your your driver license and they turn it over. >> That's not >> I never knew that. >> Oh, did you? >> They're saying it's not real. >> So, we got we got CI coming out. Got the fingerprint scanner. It's good. >> I think unless we got them up and running. >> I was hoping they could fingerprint, but because it's not an international flight type issue, they technically can't. And then the other only other thing we could do is ICE is contact ICE. >> The no driver's test admission was the nail in the coffin for her credibility. She actually thought you could just turn over a foreign license like you're trading in a used car. In Florida, you [music] actually have to prove you can drive, but she skipped that minor detail. She paid for a fake ID and she knew it, but she kept playing dumb like it was a valid life hack. >> Place where you go for um help. They say I could use a TIN number. There's ways to get around things and that's issued to me and my name. >> So, that's why it's me. I issued myself as a business and that's how I obtained it. So, I can use it as a social because that's the law. >> Okay. That's why it's not I I did everything by the law. That's why I get what I get. Nothing is fake. Nothing is the only thing I did not know was that the place I issued the last time which was with the ID I gave y'all is not real. I never knew that. And the other issue place that doesn't want to answer. I didn't know that either because they say they issue IDs. >> Okay. So >> before I even ask you questions, I have to read you yours. >> Okay. Right. Since you know how it works, right? Since you've been here. So, I'm going to read you and you when you hear the question, you either say yes, I understand, or no. Okay. >> All right. So, you have the right to remain silent and to refuse to answer questions. What's your birth name? >> I don't know. I don't know which one was it. I'm I'm just finding out when I was 30 when I went to go and um get my passport renewed because someone broke into the car and take the passport. >> So, they could just take the passport. They they took my whole purse. >> What kind of passport do you have? >> It was a behemoth passport. >> Why don't you have an American citizen passport? >> I'm not an American citizen. I wasn't born over here. Okay. So, you have to bond over here to get that passport. >> So, usually when you don't have a citizenship, it'll say it on your driver's license. >> Yeah. I didn't know that. >> Well, that that you want to know what that tells me? This is this is fake. Okay. Cuz I didn't know that. >> Listening to her explain business laws to a deputy was peak [music] comedy. She claims she issued herself as a business to get a tax ID, thinking that somehow made her fake driver's license legal. She really thought everyone was stupid enough to believe her legitimate loophole story. [music] She was basically gift wrapping herself for the IC. >> So, where did you get this? >> I got that from the same type of place that there was a guy standing out there out of the side the place and asked me, >> "Did you go into a legitimate business?" >> I went into a business for the other one. Then the same business, the other I told y'all to go and look for it's in my in my It's in my phone and it's in my purse. So, when y'all see y'all get it, but they say it's not real. But it is. It is issued. I the same thing. This I did the same thing to get that right. >> I know, but I'm asking a question about this. This is not real. >> No, I >> How do you know this is not real? >> Because y'all told me it wasn't real. That's how I know it wasn't real. It's an ID. They say any form of ID. >> This is not ID. This is a driver's license. >> So, the guy that I met outside of the place told me that this the one I have would work, but then I still going to need a ID, a Florida state ID. They said they can give me the all I need to do is do the same thing I did to them. give me my passport information and then pay them money and then they're going to bring me one. I got a question. The same thing. >> Is this a real driver's license? >> Yes, it's a real driver's license. >> How do you know the same? >> Looks the same. Then if that's then why are you telling me that this is not real? >> Because if I told you it wasn't real, >> but if it's if you know that it's real, you'd be defending that. You'd be like, "Oh, no. That's that's a real driver's license." I will defend to the end of time. >> Anything the police say, >> I will defend to the end of time that this is a real driver's license. But I'm I'm >> So if I tell you right now that the the necklace right now is fake. >> The necklace you have on right now is fake. >> Well, if you're not a jeweler, then I wouldn't believe you. But if you're a jeweler, I'm going to believe you. >> How do you know what I know? >> Because you're a jeweler. >> Exactly. >> You went to school for it. >> But how do you know if I'm not sign? So anyone anyone tells you, you're going to believe because they clean. >> Doesn't matter. >> It does matter. >> It doesn't matter. >> Because it does. >> No. Because if you if you knew lift it up >> if you knew that you went the proper way to receive a driver's license >> and you paid the money for it, you should stand with your with your gun doing this. This is real. >> I don't know anything about America like that. So if you tell me that I've been here from I was 22. >> How many years is that? I don't I don't know who you are. >> Um I think 14. >> 14 years. How did you get here? >> I got here on the plane. >> So you flew from where? >> The Bahamas. Okay. So, you've been here 14 years. And the person you're traveling with is who? >> My daughter. I'm Mimi. Now, >> where is your daughter? >> The person who I'm travel who I travel with over here. >> Who's your daughter? >> I'm asking you which question are you asking the person? >> You're not running this interview. You're not running this interview. I am. >> Who is your daughter? >> You asked me a question. >> And you brought up something that wasn't talked about. >> Yeah, cuz you asked me who did I travel with when I came. So, I said my daughter. >> Okay. So, you traveled with her when you came. >> Yes, she was a child. >> Is that Can I ask you a question? Why are you being um repulsive? >> I'm not I'm questioning. I'm asking. >> I know. I'm being respectful and I >> I haven't been disrespectful. Haven't been rude. >> It was rude a bit. I I'm not being mean, but I only thought you asked me who I traveled with. I wanted I I don't really um understand um when you say things just like that. It has to be specific. That's why I asked you. >> So, the man that's here is who? >> It's her father. >> That's her dad. >> Yeah. Yeah. Where did you meet him? >> In the Bahamas. >> Okay. I was 17. Gotcha. >> 14 years in the States. And she still pretended not to understand how a passport or a visa worked. She started getting repulsive and defensive [music] when the questioning turned toward her family and her arrival. It was a classic tactic to shift the blame and act like the victim. When her decade of dodging the system finally caught up, >> having this is a big problem. >> I didn't know that. >> I know. >> I did not. The only reason I know that is because they looked it up and say he's not coming up. But I said that's impossible. And then when this is the other one, right? >> And with all the things going on, this is a big problem. >> I didn't know it was fake. >> Very big problem. And then you don't have citizenship here, right? >> No, the other one is the same thing. That means that one is fake, too. So I don't understand how y'all allow people to be open with tag agency doing all this and then it's fake. >> Allowing I didn't allow anybody. >> No, not you. But the government is fake. >> That's scary. It's government issued, >> but it's it's government issue. They have it on their information on their online saying that they give everything. >> Okay. So, what's the other thing that you said that's fake? >> They said the other one is fake. >> What is it? >> It's a um >> I mean it's a that's a that's a um >> it's the same thing. It's No, it's from here. >> She actually had the audacity to blame the government for allowing fake ID places to exist. [music] According to her, if a shop is open, whatever they sell must be legal. It's a wild world she lives in where the government is responsible for her buying a counterfeit [music] license from a shady guy on the street. She kept insisting she was legitimate while admitting she looked up ways to get around things. If >> it's fake or not. >> Okay. >> No, it's issue from here. It's a It's a American ID, not a Bahamas. It's just international. >> Oh, it's in your bag, right? >> Yeah, it's in my bag and my phone. And they said it's fake, too. So, I'm like, hold on. If this is fake, that is also fake because I do the same thing. >> Okay. >> I I literally went and looked up things that I can get around things. They said there's laws around everything and I just have to do it legitimately and that's what I did. But I never knew that. >> In the Bahamas, they don't have like an American embassy. >> They do have American embassy. That's the proper way to go from one country to the other. You have to apply in the American embassy. >> I know. when I came over here and I and I was in the um but I went to the embassy. I have a embassy thing. I came over the right way. I came over through airplane. I didn't came on a boat. I didn't get smuggled in. >> Even if you're not if you don't go to the American embassy, you could still fly. You could still come. >> Yeah. I know in in my passport you will see in when in the system that I have an American um visa. I came over with my visa. >> How long was it for? >> I don't know. The only thing guys when I came >> that's very important because when you're given the visa they tell you how long they'll say 2 months 6 months one year [music] two years >> they don't tell you that they tell you in your um on your passport they stamp it or something >> passportian one yeah they tell you it's coming [music] >> yes that's the one over here at the Hollywood >> I have my ICE. >> Sorry, I've done ice before. I can't >> I can't. >> That's not our decision, though. >> I assume that that's going to cause me to be unaware. >> I I already explained that to them. That's not the reason why I came in the first place. >> In the end, her homemade legal theories couldn't save her from the federal government. [music] She spent years thinking she was smarter than the system, only to get caught at the most secure place on Earth. Her husband might have avoided the cuffs at the scene, but his clock is ticking, too. It's a harsh reminder that you can't [music] life hack your way through international borders. This family reunion is likely moving back to the Bahamas very soon. The suspect was arrested and handed over to ICE. She was [music] charged with possession of a forged or counterfeit driver's license and providing false identification to a law enforcement officer. [music] Beyond the state level, she faced immediate detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, [music] ICE, for overstaying her visa by more than 10 years. While she attempted to file multiple motions for her release in court, every single one was dismissed [music] by the judge. The couple now faces potential deportation proceedings to return them to the Bahamas, ending her and her family's 14-year stay in the United States. Have you ever heard [music] an excuse as wild as, "My grandmother gave me two names?" Let us know in the comments. Don't forget to subscribe for more wild airport drama and body cam breakdowns.