law enforcement officers in Lakewood Ohio responded to a report of theft at a local drugstore the store's management reported that two employees had engaged in fraudulent activity at the checkout resulting in the theft of merchandise valued at over $2,000 oh there's the pleas I said I'm waiting for the Poli hi my name is John um so I'll give you the river's I version then answer any questions that okay we have two employees what they've been doing what just spill on here they will go through and I outline each of the in each of the incidents is outlined by other people customers who would friends of that would come in so got and it was $100 of merchandise not rung up I said you stole 100 and I stole 100 we participated in together right and I ring up I would say I stole 200 and you stole 100 and he stole 100 so that's how I came up with the total okay all these videos are on this jump dve there about a gigabyte of videos that for YouTu to keep oh they're both got a little concerned that I lost 95% of the time you'll see the word unknown right this is the list of all the items corresponding with the date be the date the time the incident number the date that it happened the time that it happened who the cashier was and who the customer was you know this unknown I don't know who I don't know who that customer is what the items were what the dollar retail value now sometimes you'll see you know times three there's a lot of information here I apologize for that no it's a lot more than lot I'll reprint this cuz I don't know what ketchup I got in there or something okay okay so where are they both right now she's in this room with these two these upstairs I put two chairs together we we don't have a lot of office space so okay I right now sh get I talk to each all right all right so he expain me what's going on I trying to get some information for you I'm just pretty much identify who you are you do you have an ID on you right now my chance I do well we have no idea yet appreciate it they're here right now I'm about to talk to my kid's dad wants to know if if I I speak to you guys can am I able to call and let know what's going on yeah you get a call yeah all right they said that I can call you so I mean you're I mean so we have like the written part what he says so you want to like explain to me like what in your own words what's been going on okay so um I've been employed here for about like 4 months um apparently um this is what happened so there're the way on the system where you can bring things like moderation style so um I guess you have a statement that's right now what's happening so me me doing [ __ ] not knowing that there could be consequences but getting comfortable trying to make sure my kids had something to eat um so basically make a long story short um it all started with someone ringing out my stuff wasn't supposed to with the with the right price like I guess they kind of moderated and stuff like that so make a long story short just basically kind of took advantage of that and um just been doing it so me and another coworker was kind of sort of like you know helping each other out for the for the most part the manager was kind of explaining things all right and uh basically when when a crime of reaches a certain threshold over $1,000 I didn't even know that it becomes something different he comes CL from misdemeanor to possibly a felony okay but it's also a matter of what the store being a victim do matter okay I wouldn't do it as frequently as some other people that might do it but that did happen um guy that was involved someone I was talking to um his name is cordel or at least that's where he goes by I'm going to go off his cuz we not his Instagram but his name was like I remember him calling him K so I'm going to say Kevin or something like that or Calvin or some [ __ ] okay but he go by though um he used to come me was day and I did do that like two or three times with himo so that's just the truth I'm not sure what they lost prevention but I didn't know you know what think his name was Dave he basically was like he told me he was like he just you know he was talking to me I didn't put up a fight I didn't argue I just told him everything that I knew everything on my end because it's I mean this is about me it's not about other people when he was bringing up other people I'm like I know who else was involved I told you but he was like thinking like other people are like no you know it was more of a on my end I can't speak for him I can't speak for Daryl I can't do that I can only speak for me on my end when I was given the opportunity of oh you know you're helping me out and everything you know I don't have anything you I'm just low you know I was like okay he was explaining to me that uh you might have some warrants out in Cleveland still out in Cleveland he said that you should told him that or maybe oh no I don't have any warrants in Cleveland I'm on probation for Cleveland okay so my warrants are cleared okay and then I got to the point where they got comfortable and I knew I was wrong you know and I was like yeah this can't keep you know when you give you estimate I don't I didn't know that they had went you know to a th000 or over th000 or whatever it was you know I'm not thinking of that you know I'm just trying to get my my kids what they need all right we'll figure out everything that's going on and hopefully we can move on and get get this figured out but we appreciate you being quiet it makes things easier for both of us so yeah sure and as I know that there are consequences for that I'm not saying that oh just because I have a story you know everybody have a story everybody got something going on but it's just like I didn't want him thinking it was somebody else involved you know cuz I never put anybody else in that position you know it was only me and darl it was only me and Daryl that had you know those Communications nobody else know not you know so what would be the next step well we probably I me there's no easy way but uh we'll probably end up taking you down in cuffs like and stuff um at least put you in the back of the car for now until we can figure out exactly what's going on what like a charge might be if there's charges if you have to talk to detectives and stuff we got other guys downstairs so once we talk to everybody involved we able to figure out more exactly what's going on how long how long has it been going on I I would say like maybe just a month I wouldn't even say I not e but I mean given the fact that getting comfortable and not thinking of time not thinking of what's going on not thinking of what was behind you or in front of you okay but all so I'll let you get situated and we go about that do you have anything else that's like on you that we I need to know about um no okay you have a question feel free okay take a second okay take a deep breath take a minute all right saying I'm not going with Y I just want to know um I don't want to prolong anything and you guys stuff got to do and get to is there help that I can get as far as like the you know you get what I'm saying as far as like helping with bones getting things in order so I'm not in this position I'm not going to do this again but I'm saying like where I'm not in the position where I feel like I'm that low you going to to that position we deal with many many people okay at all different crimes and all different whatever when are you guys' Court when's Court this week I think I want to say it's 2 24th maybe go ahead thank you very much off ask report and I'm mening you a criminal trespass warning also your employment technically is suspended go ahead see Howard J cleveland6 120 black and brown sup ID card us height based on what I'm saying I don't want to just go in and get charg and then just have that on me where I'm not I'm lost still with no answer to get of course I think again you know us Russ was saying that thinking about what do I need to get done how do I need to get you know there's no you know just like people go to jail and then they get out you know they've been in there for years where no no no just no just you know just being you know logical like you know they go in there they come out like what all right man you want to stand up you want to put your phone in your pocket put your hands right your back for now all right so you understand what he told you right oh can do I need to get my Cod your Cod yeah where that at it's in my break yeah we'll go about that when get you out of here all right we'll go down the stairs this way is it going to be like impact well I mean there's a back door we went out the back door so oh okay we think it's under under $1,000 okay so either way I still need to have my consequence I'm not I'm not backing down from that I'm a home mother so if I sit here and I get you know oh dismissed I mean I got dismissed my whole damn life you know well again weal not like with yall but with life you know so many times I could have been in a in a bad situation so many times I could have been gone and not here anymore you know so well again listen you're no no that's that's okay okay and and what I'm trying to tell you is that we deal with many people okay some people steal because they're criminals okay some people steal and make you know legally yeah but you get what I'm saying like you are not you don't fall under that category okay was there anything what that yeah one with Rocky River and one with Newberg Heights that was uh River was for fa on a d us and new was for a fair to appear on a DUI where's your code at which one's yours right here this brown one yeah all right well we'll grab it is that is that your tattoo or okay so those two is there anything else in here that's yours no okay so we'll come grab that after if I'm understanding this correctly if a dollar amount is less than ,000 and it's a my year okay we are going to site you we're going to finger we're going to process you basically take a photograph of you fingerprint you okay and then we're going to release you and you're going to be free to go all right with a court date okay you come to court you explain yourself if I'm in your shoes I would explain myself to judgment because you're not the standard person that comes in the store to steal the steal okay so I would explain myself was taking stuff and selling it and you know making a profit out of it were benefit me well again something to something to explain to a judge right or a magist like it's right you know so um want you get more guys over here we'll go we just got to search you obviously because you're currently um currently for the thefts and for the warrant obviously um so do you have nothing else 994 but there's always a why right right and people do things for different purposes right all right easy enough okay take take a second right gather yourself um do you have you have any Pockets or anything like do you have anything in your pockets just like phone okay we're just going to have you like a and lighter so what we'll probably end up having to do is put your things in a bag okay clear bag and we'll take that with you you'll get everything back okay go to station we'll do thats citation all right and then are you here in a vehicle or did you take the bus drive I took the bus okay like a b or something probably but you probably have to talk to the detectives first oh okay so where I can get out today I'm not sure it depends if there's detectives available it depends if you go with us or or one of the other warrants wants to take you instead there's a there's a lot of questions right now but we're trying to we're trying to figure out and let you know as we go I'm going to talk to the other officer upstairs is talking to that gentleman and we'll go from there know that makes sense um yeah just for a minute no I'm saying this door I don't know door the lp from the outside yeah Lo it does does it not yeah I don't think that it's open you cannot be locked in you're not we're locked out you're not locked in I was going to say y'all could have pretended it I was locked in no I was like hers is $1,822 okay his is 21104 because he was okay all right now I'm not saying that there's $4,000 for merchandise if he ran out you added $100 for him And1 for her correct so it can be ,000 cannot be, but there's probably there there's $414 between the two of them hers is only $1,888 of I hope I'm explaining it was it was complicated W it all up they were both involved in 18 $ and he was involved with additional but not all of the yes trying to make it clear because so okay so the total would be just 1,800 between her and is where I'm getting lost at give or take $38 yes it's ,800 well so the combined number is 1,800 of merchandise missing between the two of them is merchandise missing yes okay and because he rang up other customers so that's why his go up to 21 you have you have a good but we just trying to figure out because you said if he rang her out or she rang him out you still add 100 to each of them instead of if he was the one purchas purchas purchasing the items it would just be $100 that he stole just because he was ringing him out it would be $100 for her if you and me go in the store and I hold a bag and you put the merchandise in the bag we're both responsible we wouldn't take the merise in the bag and divide it didn't happen say you sto have I we both stole everything that was in the bag we broke in this overnight he stole $1,000 worth of cigarettes we both stole $1,000 wor of cigarettes just because he's the one sh mean she wasn't involved in it she was pretending scanning it bags and he pick up the bags and walk out and it was $100 mer nice up the person who get the thing up put it in bags and the person who pick up the bags and walked out the door both be responsible they were both would be charged with $100 even though it's only $ missing products sto it right okay okay I'm sorry it's so confused I it's um all right so you had your phone and you have anything else on you said I can grab it or you want to just turn your face away from me real quick want to kick your feet out spread them out a little bit you can kick that one out way perfect thank you all right let me head out this way I to make a phone call yeah once we get there you'll be able to make a phone call all right right here I watch your head getting in handcuffs good everything's everything nothing's killing you yeah all right put can some right now we got I got to get off the phone so I can go CU they they let me get a phone call okay I got to go Ain nothing new if we thought that we would let you drink okay can you um is just you you have a shirt on underneath that no okay you don't have I TR I just have a wir and BR okay yeah yeah we'll have a female do that do you have um a purse or or Cod or oh we we'll care with this p in car and you know we get all they else hat and I was just point out all the pockets can I put it over me we're just going to walk right out here okay the all information sir right over here [Music]