Palm Beach countyy Florida sheriff's deputies have been dispatched to an Old Navy store for a report of a theft after a thorough investigation was conducted deputies arrested two female employees for stealing clothing worth nearly $1,000 we have a we have a um a shoplifter over $11,000 she works with us in the company okay so they just asked for backup HR is Hi how are you can you feel me on real quick she was just telling me that you have an employee at sco $1,000 worth merchandise we don't know they just told us to call PD um to have them to arrest them cuz they want to prosecute so you're not involved in it either no there very in the back they just told me to call okay so you don't know anything about it I I other than what you just told me okay she's going to [Applause] yeah um just walking into the Old Navy now um I I don't even have any the information yet because HR is in the office with the person right now they're having me step outside cuz she's doing a statement and everything um all I got is that the person is an employee here and stole merchandise that that's all I got I just got this and I'm running her so she's in this is a Jan Brown did just wait no no these are employees she's in the office yeah she's in the office um stole $950 954 worth of merchandise raise your right hand everything saying is the TRU nothing but tell you got right all right so tell us what happened with this employee so the employee um was caught doing pass off or benefiting from pass off merch okay you explained again the pass off Yeah so basically she was acting like a she as a customer and somebody else was ringing her and those items although they were scanned they were immediately deleted off the transaction now you're saying that somebody else was scanning for her somebody else was scanning so somebody was helping her somebody else was helping her where is that person now that person is coming and I'm interviewing her right after this oh so you have two people today yes okay so this person coming in rank this person that I have in the office and this person in the office rank the person coming in so they did it towards each other what is the total of both I got I'm treating them separately we're not that's not that's not how it works they're in cahoots they both get charge with a felony for the full amount so person person a did $500 and person B did $15 of theft they both charge for $515 I can provide that information my case file is in the office there's a subsection for the using one person conspiracy conspiracy so that's that's definely the retail theft one conspiracy retail theft is is a stat yeah it's under the retail statute all your name j bro I'm you got to speak louder Jody bro Jody Jan Jan okay no I guess you have an idea why we're here yes sir okay all right now I'm recording to warn you before you make any statements that you have the following constitutional rights you have the right to remain silent and not answer any questions do you understand that I'm sorry you said I have the right to answer any so anytime I ask you say yes or no if you understand okay you have the right to remain silent and not answer any questions do you understand that yes any St you must be you understand that yeah the right of pres representation of law Choice any stat understand law presentation law stat question understand question understand I for promis you understand those rights which I have read to you yes all right with those rights in mind are you choosing to speak with me yes sir all right so m brown sir what happen merise you took merchandise that in paper okay how did you do that the cashier R and then she take it out what you say a cashier rang it and then they would take it out like you mean what taking out you mean canceling it from thetion the transactions okay and you said you were doing the scanning or somebody else was doing the scanning somebody is okay what is the other uh cashier's name I'm sorry L leet so when did this start happening of of ringing these these transactions to be honest I don't remember exactly like the date when it happened but I know it's more than one time it happen just happened more than one time yeah it's nothing planned for it just happened like I just bring the stuff and then she did that and it didn't happen now are you getting this merchandise for what your family or you trying to sell it I I'm not selling it the thing I don't need I don't know why why I really do that are you saying you don't know why you're stealing it so so what are you doing with the clothes when you once you got it it's like I it's stuff that I take to pay for but she just take it up like for me and my kids so you saying she's doing you a favor well I guess cuz it's nothing that we talk about we never talk about and sh she have you done that for her I I did that for her cuz she did it for me so so both of you guys are taking being nice to each other giving each other free stuff out of Old Navy's Dawn yes sir and she never said why she wanted to do that for you I would never talk about it to be honest so so how'd this come about then that's the thing I don't know I just go to the register and then she just took it off but it's nothing like is just crazy cuz it's nothing that that I planned or or she I don't know but it it just happened to be honest is not like something that I need just say is why why I do it that why okay so you saw her doing the scanning did any time you once you saw that she was canceling EV then you say hey you didn't ring me up for this no I this I wanted to thought what I just so you knew she was giving you free stuff you should well quote unquote free cuz it's not free she was giving you items that you did not paid for and then you took those items outside and onto your marway to your house yes sir and how many transactions do you think you've done to be honest I don't want to say cuz I'm not sure you think it's more than 10 no definitely not more than 10 or maybe no did she actually ever say anything to you hey hug me up or no we that that's the thing we never talk about it it just happened so you did it automatically because she did it for you for me 63 you can if you can 56 said uh old no reason I don't know why why happen cuz it's not like like I plan to do it I never go nowhere at I never this tell the question is now you're saying that you would pay for all the stuff were you were you were you going to pay for all this stuff or you just saying that because you got caught no no no no I'm willing I was willing to pay for it after you got caught no so let me ask you this this has been happening for a while cuz we know it's been happening for several months when were you going to pay for the Stu I was like say I was going to tell her like we need to stop this that was question the question was when were you going to be paying for all this stuff if you said that you we going to stop that's the thing I said we talk pray come to anybody just any so you just going to stop the behavior but not pay back on Navy yes okay I'm sorry at this time you are under arrest you are going to our County Jail you are going also as a felon it's a felony cuz the amount total goes over the felony threshold and what we're going to do is I want all your cash I'm going to count that in front of you now this is all going to go into evidence but what you have take it out place it on this table and we're going to count it together okay these are Jamaican money you want those as well uh right now we just need Jamaican currency currency um it's not going to go into as currency it goes into just regular property okay just American US currency you want the coins as well yeah just put everything right there 188 I'll I'll do it I'll do it this is jamaan take take that out $1 $2 this one to jamaic okay 14 15 16 $316 so stand up for me please do me a favor turn around for us please are we going out the back door or anything or yeah I have her driver's license too okay and I still have yours yeah I got off that sorry you want her to take you you want her to take you she live in West Coast no she lives down in South okay we're going to do the next we got to interview the other uh young lady um do me a favor grab her 14 I mean her license is here and uh you can start the rough four her license I just put it in the her Pur wherever rainy put the first I'm ready yeah the thing my hand the whole time you got two yeah you got double well I got a double cage oh well if you want attack it [ __ ] Sho that's that's that's going to work well that's that's that's that that that that new like they they they dri it I got this I going to take this I I got that not comfortable all right you all right [Music] can I can I still get about 15 to 20 minutes there's still a process that need still follow by the company you can do that after us I still need bu I still have to buy by my company so I still need about 10 minutes so I'll give you the heads up next time when you guys do have something like this do your prior investigation prior of us getting here just so we can actually start doing our process because they have du process as well by the law we can't just we can't delay her I'm delaying her her due process correct yeah no no I get it I get it and and just as a clarification my investigation is done but by my company process I still have to follow certain things before I get to the point that you guys got here with the first one so but I can speed it up so what we're saying is the next time it does happen do that prior of us getting here because of that because they still State and and and United States constition toce your company okay she has new process and we can't keep her in the car for too long we have to continue doing her paperwork and I'm the one inves I'm real quick write down your phone number I have a send you that via text message so I can send you you have something stuck to you ma'am you have something stuck to you and I pull it off it doesn't say kick me thank you no problem so can I get my 10 minutes to you could do that if you could just have her come out real quick and give me that information so do you have your D I need to come okay you want me to get it she that's c yeah make sure you give that back to her okay yeah you could just write down you have all the information to send right the PDF receipts and the videos right correct okay so I'm going to send you a link to your email address if you can get me your driver's license I've taking report before us you have yeah you know what she has my pen get my P back and I just get my pen [Applause] thank you thank you so much so you know that this is something that should have never happened right between her and you and there's some consequences after the actions right so we have to copy this part of our process and um they want to be able to speak to you okay at this time thank you did you get your license back did you get the back it's right there though okay I don't you need you got mine yeah she got she has your license okay not responsible I'm not no more hi this said how are you I'm good obviously you know what we're here for okay you already spoke to her about it that's their investigation now we have to do our investigation the criminal investigation part okay have you ever been arrested before no never you're 18 years old right now this is a sworn recorded interview reference pbsl case number 24-32 043 I am deputy sheriff Jose Martinez m a r t NZ ID number 7501 with the pal M Sheriff's Office additional investigator is corporal Udell ID number 6559 6559 present with me is uh what is your name again then I'm requir a warning before you make any statements you have the following constitutional rights you have the right to remain silent and not answer any questions do you understand [Laughter] that all right do you understand those rights which I have read to you yes with those rights in mind are you choosing to speak with me yes raise your right hand do you sir and affirm that the statement you were about to give is the truth yes all right so this let set so you obviously know why we're here so tell us what happened um well I guess I did um give items to someone who didn't pay okay um it was a coworker right and what is the what is the coworker's name Jody Jody do you know her last name no how long have you known Jody uh for the same time that I've been here a year about a year yeah okay so walk me through it what what you said you gave items what did how did that happen how what did you do you just walked out with the items gave it to her outside or so I guess one day it started with her asking me to check her out in the register so I did as I was scanning items she like whispered to me to take some off but to still put them in the bag and even though I knew was wrong I like I felt you know what did she say to you yeah what did she say to you again she as I was um I guess bringing up her items she was like in both voice telling me to take some off take items off yeah okay still give it to her okay and what did you what did you say to her well I didn't say anything and you just did it yeah explain what you mean taking items off so I deleted them from the transaction so that she wouldn't be charged is that what that means yes okay so you ran you r them up you scanned them but then you took them off the list so it doesn't show up as a as an item yeah that she has to pay for yeah right how often do you do this um I don't know okay one time two times more than three more than four more than five more than three okay just three or more than more than three multiple three multiple times so we're talking about what 5 10 15 estimate 8 how often per week not often not often no whenever she decided to buy an item so every time she bought an item did she always ask you or did you just automatically started doing it for her she always asked me she always asked you yeah okay as far as you buying items did she do the same thing for you yeah but without me asking okay but and and you knew that you were taking stuff home that you didn't pay for it yes okay and no time whatsoever that you thought maybe I should pay for these you just walked out with the items yes yes okay and when she was purchasing items she came directly to you yes were there other employees working um most of the well no it was most of the times when I was in the only cashier yeah so she will only go to you she wouldn't go to any other cashier yeah sometimes sometimes and she other times she did she had to to another like when the manager was Cas sharing okay and at that point she never got that no quote unquote hookup no okay it was only with you so you guys did it for each other did you do it for anybody else no did anybody else do it for you so it's just the two of you no friends came in no friends and family benefits anything like that you decided to do it for them no and the clothing that you purchased was it for your personal wearing or did I never purchased clothes no no the clothing that she that you went to to register for her who okay so when you what did you buy from her that she would give you that you know that she didn't scan stuff chips so actual food items things like that nothing it had nothing to do with water and Tak which is yeah I know yeah great stuff so so so you never the clothing then she rung up that she voided out wasn't clothing for you it was clothing for her so there was one trans with her oh according to that so okay so it was clothing and food items that she got the total $75 yes okay so you did get clothing okay I guess yeah you don't remember getting you don't remember no sorry you just remember food yeah leggings yeah there's there's boyfriend pants there um the flannel oh okay do you remember that now sorry okay so who was that for you me okay so what made you do this um I guess like the fact that if I didn't like maybe it would be a hell for me here how would that help you by stealing stuff I'm not I don't I'm not following I gu on my good side I'm sorry being on her good side on her good side why would you have to be on her good side is she threatening you or something oh okay CU you should be on the good side just by working with each other I mean you don't have to be stealing from you know trying to steal together I don't know some people you know just say no she's not your boss though right 18 or 19 Yeah man cuz I'm kind of I think she's on 19 because because I don't think the conspiracy is there no for that cuz she was just benefiting herself for food items but not asking her to do anything she wasn't asking she wasn't it was just one yeah so M bla so you agree with that the 19 I agree that what we're talking about is misdemeanor felony level okay $75 is the misdemeanor is a misdemeanor you you're Prosecuting on the missing Meer we just got to make sure on that yeah okay that's just going to take cuz I didn't understand this I need you to understand this is what we're talking about right now okay your friend is going to jail right now for Fon me cuz she stole over $950 something dollars that you helped her with as far as ringing the stuff up you have approximately $75 worth of stuff that's consider misor you are going to jail today I'm going to make that clear to you you will be under arrest today now we will make a decision whether or not you have a notice to appear or actually take the take the ride to to the county jail but we're talking about is the fact technically if two people are helping each other out and trying to steal stuff it is considered a felony so that's what we were debating on whether or not let's just review the statute yeah we'll review the statute because they're me right because if it if we're we're going to review it and read it and just make sure we're right um because if it is the misdemeanor level we'll let you know but you regardless you okay no we're good with that so that's fine all right okay so here's what we're going to do I'm going to have you sign up you can go ahead and give that tag to her not going to need that all right she's terminated um yeah okay yeah thank you all right so you're going to go ahead and turn around for me so as he does that said um the company obious based on the find decision to terminate your employment if immediately um so you will not be able to work at any of the stores within Gap Inc that is or Gap Gap Outlet Aletta Banana Republic and Banana Republic Factory and we open that thank you thank you you want her passenger yeah all right we got to figure out something so we're going to put her in your car can I Spit on my gum yeah I'm not going to get you for like littering think for you're fine that'd be real cruel of me to to hit you up with that ticket all right so Deputy Alba here is going to go ahead and check you where you from um from here you're going here yeah where's your where where's your background again all right so at this point everything that depy ala says goes all right I just got to go do some paperwork just watch your head okay thank you okay all right I'm going cut this video for the are you okay it's just embarrassing whatever no wonder they wanted me to come in