Well, this this month alone, January 1st, $1,200. January 3rd, $1,600. Well, I know she was telling Sierra she was going to help her get a car and stuff. Okay. And I know she used to send her money for ask her to get cocaine. And how about $17,000 worth? $17,000. Officers were dispatched after a shocking report surfaced involving possible fraud on the account of an elderly woman. But this wasn't just any scam. The suspect was someone she trusted for years. Her own caretaker. Investigators soon uncovered that over $20,000 had mysteriously vanished in just one week. What unfolded next revealed a trail of stolen trust. Because of my condition. Sure. I hired a local My name is Sierra Smith. Okay. She somehow managed to get into my uh bank account. Okay. And stole over $10,000 from me. Oh [ __ ] I got a call from the bank. The bank's the one that called me. Okay. And said, "This is what's going on." How long has Miss Sierra been around for you? I just hired her at the beginning of uh beginning of this year. So you hired her early January, late December, whatever. Yes. as like a caretaker function, you know, clean the dishes, cook you food, something like that. She was supposed to clean twice a month, but she never got around. Did you ever have some kind of official contract with Miss Sierra or was it just kind of verbal thing? Hey, I'll pay you X amount, whatever. Yes. How much did you normally pay her? I I was supposed to pay her $600 per month. Per month. Do you do online banking at all? No. Okay. So, everything's you you still use a checkbook then? I don't trust the online Trying to figure out how Miss Sierra would have taken your money if she just took one of your checks for your signature and said, "Yep, I'm cashing this $5,000 check." I think she took a whole whole book of Okay. whole book of check. Are you able to get that that check number? The one that you paid Miss for her services. She just called. Okay. First month. I want my check. I want my $600. You got your phone with you by chance? Can you just open it up? I just want to I want to make sure that you don't have Cash App on your phone. Sure. Click that green one. So that's Cash App. You don't use it. You don't know how it Can I see your phone for two quick seconds, dear? I just want to see what what's going on here. No, she I'm just going to show you. She used it to um transfer money to her account. Why would she do that? Because she was stealing money. Well, that that's why would Why would um cuz you only write her checks, right? Right. So, I'm trying to figure out and I That's how she got caught. That's how she's going to get caught. Or you could do this is good. Sometimes it doesn't Sometimes it doesn't look how it looks to us. It doesn't translate. I'd like you to just take my phone, but my daughter's going to call you. I don't want to keep your phone, dear. I I appreciate you being helpful, though. Concerned about You want me to get my my PD phone? We can take a video of it. Uh, you have a PD phone? Yeah. Yeah. I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but you do not use cash app. You had no idea this was on your phone. No. And you wouldn't be sending these random payments to her because some of the amounts are so not small. They're like 50 bucks, 60 bucks. I probably wouldn't even my own bank account, I probably wouldn't notice that. But when she's sending $1,000, it's a lot different than $60. You know, I mean, if I had $1,000 missing, I'd notice that in our video, but $20 here, $60 there, I could totally see why you why you wouldn't have noticed that. Oh, I'm gonna go talk to my buddies out here. Um, please lock the door so in case for whatever reason she somehow gets around sneaks around me just bust through. [Music] Yeah, I could see that. So, all right, Miss Mary. Like I said, we'll be out here for a minute. You said that last time. It's a lift. Oh, it's a lift. Oh, it is. Hi. How are you, dear? How are you? How can I help you? I was just coming to check on Mary's mail. Check on Mary's mail. Why would you do that? She told me to. No. What? So, you don't you have no idea. I'm here. No. Okay. Well, she called. I guess you were threatening her because you wanted 600 bucks or what? Whatever you're supposed to owe you, whatever. And I said I quit. Okay. She told me to see if the checks were in her mailbox. Checks for what? So she could write me a check. Oh, okay. I work for her. Well, I'm here for a totally different reason, dear. What is it for? So, since I I would like to ask you some questions, I have to read your Miranda rights. You ever been read those before or No? Yes. Be arrested? Uh, not yet. Not yet. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against your court of law the right to talk to lawyer have present with with you while you're being questioned. Uh if you cannot afford to hire a lawyer one be appointed to represent you for any question if you wish be the rights and answer questions or make any statements. Hi um do you stand each right explain to you? Yes. Having rights in mind do you wish to talk to me? Yes. Okay. So dear I'm here because there's all sorts of weird nonsense going on with her bank account. What's going on with her bank account? Uh, she just got a new bank account. She got a new bank account because there was weird stuff happening before and now there's even more weird stuff happening. So, what is what is y'all's arrangement for what you get paid? I get $600 on the first of the month. Usually, she cash apps it to me. Um, she cash apps it to you? Yes. I didn't show you my cash app from her. I I agree. She didn't even know she even had cash app. She's such a liar. She's been paying me for like 2 or 3 years on cash. How much did she pay you this month? She paid me She hasn't paid me anything yet. We're really going to do this cuz I know this is mom. I remember you're You work at 7-Eleven for something, right? Or own a 7-Eleven. No, I used to. Oh, I knew you look familiar. So that's why we're here. She sends me money just to get her stuff. Okay. You know, I go out, I get it for her. I go grocery shopping. I do her online orders. Sure. Whatever she needs. Okay. So, she hasn't paid you this month or last month. January, right? January. I'm talking about January. I'm talking about for February. Okay. So, how much she pay you in uh January? I'm not sure. Well, it should be 600 bucks and then whatever her expenses are, right? I assume what groceries, whatever. She let me borrow like $300. Okay. Yeah. Is that what you're sticking it to? Yes. Can I go talk to her? Nope. Can I call her? Nope. She called the police on me. Well, she she was scared of you. How is she scared? She thought something was going to happen. I guess she thought that you were threatening her. Blah blah blah. I never threatened her. I said, "So, do you think you she paid you $900 for the month?" $600 plus three? No. Way more than that. Why? Why would she pay you that? What do you mean? You are her caregiver, right? Yes. So, I assume you have some kind of idea of her expenses. I have to check my phone. Ballpark me. 1,500. Okay. Of of her expenses, right? Okay. So, we're way north of that. was uh we are way north of that number higher. Couple thousand higher plus whatever she needs me to get for her. All right. Is this the story you're going to go with? What are you talking about? Okay. So, her bank called and there are porch checks and there are cash apps that she she couldn't even figure out how to open the thing. She's a liar. Okay. So, is that the story we're going with? She's a freaking liar. All right. Well, I'm kind of done. So, wait. This is crazy. That is kind of crazy. Can I please just go talk to her? Wait. Mom, go get her. Please. Don't. Mom, go get Mary. Please. They're arresting me. I will. Here. I'll talk to you in just a second. I I'll tell you what's happening. Got it. somewhere down here. Here, ma'am. I'll look at your keys. You want me to give them to your mom? Do you want your mom? Talk to her. I just came to check her mail to see if Do you have anything on you, dear? No. You don't have your purse, wallet, I cannot go to jail. I didn't do anything wrong. Please listen to me. I'll talk to your mom and I'll talk to her again. seek here in this earth. I'm just trying to get her freaking We've been dealing with her for years. Okay. She used to write my daughter a check. Yep. My daughter any call my daughter is here for her. Okay. If she's not, she starts cussing her out. You know how much she's allegedly paying her? Um last month. Yeah. How much you think this lady here? Let me move away. She I don't mean to bother. No, you're fine. You know, so they have an agreement. Even your daughter said it's about 600 bucks. That that makes sense. She she pays sometimes like Sierra will tell her like her electric or something's going off or like she's short on something and Mary will give it to her. Okay. How what's going on in the last couple of months? I don't know that like honestly I don't that's between her and Mary. But so what your daughter is doing is exploiting an elderly lady because she allegedly paid her $4,000 last night. $4,000 and let's say the cash app thing is real, which is But you know this lady also is uncooking. Whole different subject. Well, if she really is using cash app, which I don't think she is, but let's say she is. Okay. on her bank statement because she I have when she broke her hip, right? Yeah. And I do lift an Uber. Explain whatever about the maybe Ali's gold narcotics if if that's the road. I'm not She already told me about that. I don't know why she told me. I'm not talking about that. Okay. But um she broke her hip, right? Sure. So for two days, I drove Sierra around and her around for two days. So I said something to her. I said, "Mary," I said, "You know that driving you and Sierra around has cost me like $400." Okay. And she's like, "Oh, don't worry about it. I'll send it to you. I'll send it to Sierra and have her send it." How did she send it? Sierra cash out. So, she doesn't write a check. She does. Yes, she's She's wrote her checks, too. She And I told Sierra, "You need to stop letting her write checks because Mary will write a check to Sierra. I've brought Sierra over here. Picked it up. Sierra's deposited into her account and Mary turned around and stopped payment on it. Um, even the banks think there's there's weird things going on with the checks. Signatur honest honestly like I I don't know. Okay. So, is Sierra perfect? Probably not. Is it 100% on Sierra? I don't think so. Sure. Cuz I think part of it is her, too. cuz she does [ __ ] and then forgets that she does it or said she's going to do it and forgets that she said she's going to do it. Sure. Is Sierra guilty? Maybe. Well, I'll ask if I can look at her cash app and I guarantee she's in some If it shows exactly what that says, I'll let her out of hand. But there's there's cash app payments to a James Smith. I don't know who that is. She doesn't know who that is. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. And uh let me see if I can pull up when Sierra sent me the $400 the day because that's the day she sent it to Sierra and Sierra sent it to me. It's been a while, but it was when she got her and she sent it to Sierra. And like I said, is Sierra 100% innocent? Maybe not. He still can't do whatever she's doing. You know what I'm saying? But and I told Sierra already before, you need to stop dealing with her because I knew I knew something was going to happen because when she used to write the checks with Sierra and and stop paying. Okay, let me see. Do you happen to have Sierra's phone? No, you Why are you doing that? Probably have yours. Where's Where's your phone? All right, dear. This is the time that maybe this will all go away. No. So, I don't want to do anything to her. I will not even ever come back here again if she doesn't want to ever see me again. I was just coming to check her mail to see if her checks came so she could write me a check for $600 because that's how much she pays me on the first. I can Which phone is it? Um, either one. Either one. You have the black one's connected to my um hotspot on my red phone. Okay. We can open this. She wants to show you her. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. She's saying she never had cash up before. She She didn't know what cash up. Yeah. So, so here May 16th. Yeah. If you look maybe in Sierra's to me on May 16th, you'll see $400. Okay. So, that's what Sierra paid to you. That's what we allegedly sent to her. I was there to I was there cuz we brought Mary from I picked Mary up from the rehab facility and brought her to Sierra's house. Okay. Well, this this month alone, January 1st, $1,200. January 3rd, $1,600. Well, I know she was telling Sierra she was going to help her get a car and stuff and Sierra's been trying to get a car. I mean, I I'll ask her again. She is dead dead. I mean Oh, yeah. I know. That's how she That's how she was when she was stopping payment on the checks. Um she she told Sierra List, I'm telling you, she wanted Sierra to get a bigger house so that they could move in together. But, like I said, if my daughter's guilty, she's guilty. Sure. Okay. plain and simple. And my kids know if you're wrong, you're wrong. I'm 51. I've dealt with you before. I used to love coming down here. I'm 51 years old and y'all never put cuffs in me. No, I always take people out for stealing beers and [ __ ] Right when I saw it, I remember you and I was like, "Wow." So, this is your daughter. That's my birth daughter. I don't think that's what I'm saying. No. And she used to work for me at 7-Eleven to be honest with you. Road. Yeah. Maybe I have seen her. and she used to work the one on um by the Largo High School. So she worked there longer than Clear Water Largo Road. Would you know who Jane Smith is? So on on her bank um the bank side statements. This is what she wants to show you. And here this is the other phone. Okay. And I know she used to send her money for ask her to get cocaine. And how about $17,000 worth? 17,000. It's a lot of money to be sending for groceries or bills or whatever. $600 a month for 12 months. But no, but you have to keep in mind all that all that money is not just $600 that she pays. She cash out Sierra for I bought Sierra plenty of times to get cigarettes, to get beer. This lady drinks a case of beer a day. I saw it. A day? Yeah. But even over two years of $600, one of the amounts of $14,000, right? And Sierra's been doing it longer than 12 years. And that's not counting the groceries, the beer. Um, door dashing food, door dashing groceries, door dashing toiletries, Sierra going to get her toiletries, buying her groceries, it doesn't that doesn't include all that. Um, obviously she is not there. So, for the for this month, the the 4,000 that doesn't include the $900 check that was written. Also, there's a check from January 1st of this month. I mean, why is I can't I can't understand why this lady would be paying her for 5 $5,000 a month for services or bills or I I can't figure that out. Keep in mind, not keep throwing a dollar amount. And I get it. Okay. Like I said, if she's wrong, she's wrong, guys. I mean, it is what it is. But you guys don't understand how many times my daughter has to go get beer and cigarettes and door dash her food. I mean, and I'm not talking just little bit of food like she door dash her food from restaurants, not like just the grocery store, okay? You know, so is some of it if she did? Maybe. But I know a lot of that ser honest stuff. I mean, some of it could definitely be beer, but anything that's not legit is illegal. Like, she can't do this. Oh, I understand. Okay. Regardless of anything, she has to go down to the to the station or the jail. Okay. Is she going to I I haven't read her history. Um, anything silly, anything really bad. I think she's got a battery on a old roommate. Okay. Other than that, so more than likely she doesn't have anything besides driving without a license. So more than likely she'll get b or she'll be able to get bonded out. Okay. Whatever that amount is, she'll probably be back in tomorrow. However, this is done. Whatever whatever this is after today. Sound sound pretty good. I mean, even you said like, hey, she should have been staying away from I told her a long time ago cuz I knew this lady. Yeah, it's coming with you, huh? So, but anyway, so she's going down to station night or the the jail station going down to jail night and then I'm going to talk to her again and I'm going to I'm going to beat it like a dead horse like is what is this? Is this real? Because that's for like the last um four years. I know. I've told them CR I told you stop dealing with her ass cuz she crazy and you may be wrong too. So I I'm just saying that's what I got. She's saying she never had I showed him where she cashed app you and then cashed at me. Yes. Did you look up that one? May 16th. I don't know. Oh 2024. Yeah. Uh $400. 400 bucks. Yeah. Cuz the weird thing is on her phone there's lots of char. So, it goes January 1st and September. Uhhuh. There's a bunch of months that are not on here on Sierra's side. That's not on her phone. That is on her phone. So, she's Well, I know Sierra got a new phone. So, yeah. I don't know if you can like delete Oh, I don't think so. Cash. I don't think so. All right. But I'm not that familiar. I don't use it a whole lot. So, all right. I mean, I use I mean, the only time I use cash app really is if I do a cash and they cash at me cuz I don't do lift. I don't do 7-Eleven anymore. So, all right. Well, that's what I got for you, dear. I'm sorry. You're going to take her phone? I'll take her. She wants both. Both of them. Yeah. She literally pulled up, boys. Five of them. All right. I just got off the phone with her. She said she threatened me to check. Why would she call? She said she was scared. She thought you were going to come beat her up. I said I was going to quit. I don't know why she was saying that. I never threatened her. I can show you the text messages. I got you. So, what is this for? We're just doing January. I know. I know. There's years on here. Why is she paying you $1,200 on January? She wanted a new couch and I was going to go get her a new couch. She said a whole bunch of [ __ ] There ain't a new couch on there. I didn't get it yet. How about this $1,500? She said she wanted a new TV, a new phone. She hates her [ __ ] phone. Okay. Well, this got sent to you 30 days ago. Okay. And I'm going to get it. And then I had to put it back on her cash app cuz she said she didn't want it anymore. It didn't go back. Where? This is your history with her. No, not on her cash app. I'm sorry. I just How did you get it back from cash? kidding. You You pulled out $2,700 in cold hard cash and gave it to her. No. Okay. Some of half of that. No, only half of it. Like 1,200. Who is uh Jane Smith? That's the other I'm running into. James Smith. James Smith. James Smith. That that that's the other person that she's cashing apparently. You don't know who Jane Smith is? No. Okay. All right. short of anything. Um, we got all our stuff with her like a purse. Okay. So, today you got to go. You got to go down to jail. You can't explain any of this to me. What do you mean? I'm explaining it to you right now. She said she wanted a whole bunch of stuff and she said she wanted So, you're telling me this lady paid you $17,000 through Cash App? That is insane to me. Over years of time, and that's not just that's for everything she wants. So, you're going to have to explain each and every sing one of these charges. Every single one. 400, 200, 400, 250. Okay. Well, you're going you're going to jail today regardless of anything. But I think that on your phone, maybe the other one, right? That it's not just cuz she only has three transactions from Cash App sending money out on her phone that she may or may not have known. Maybe she's the best bullshitter and she just lied to me. There's 10 10 transactions for Cash App on her uh bank statement this month. So, makes me to believe that somebody has her banking information on their Cash App and they're send it to themselves. No, check my cash app. Check both cash apps. Basically, what happens is both these phones are being subpoenaed and seized and Cash App is being subpoenaed to get all this information. Regardless of who's on the phone, if if a message was deleted or not, Cash will give it to me. Okay? She sends me money all the time. And if I ask her what's this $1,200 for, she's not going to tell you what it was for cuz it's illegal. Why? Cuz she shouldn't be doing it. Why? What? What? Why can't I not give him $1,200 to buy me some furniture? No, I'm talking about what she wanted. Why? I Well, if she wanted something illegal, that's a [ __ ] ton of illegal stuff. What is it that she wants? More trouble if they tell you. [ __ ] you might give yourself a little saving gra if it's about like cocaine or some [ __ ] Whatever. But as far as I guarantee you cannot account for every single one of those transactions, even in the slightest. I can. Okay. I can. She orders a beer every single day. A case of beer. I drink Bush Light. I personally drink Bush Light. Each of those cases are about $12. $20 on Instacart. Okay. So, check the Instacart. Check the Instacart. I don't have my phone with me, but check the Instacart. No, I'm saying check my Instacart. You can see all the deliveries were sent to her house. Every delivery was sent to her house yesterday. I ordered $150 worth of groceries. And I You don't know who Jane Smith is, though? Jane Smith is a person on Facebook. What is she cash cashing that lady for? Thousands of dollars. You shouldn't be cashapping anybody besides me. I'm her caretaker. So, if she typically writes you a check for 600, right? Like that that's your fee or whatever it is. She wrote me a check for 1,200. She wrote me a check for 600. She wrote me a bunch of checks. Okay. Cuz the bank's looking at that stuff and that's like federal stuff. So I don't any of that stuff. I said she said, "How much do you think I should write you for the whole month?" 600 bucks. No. Oh, for the food and the and whatnot. $1,200. Yes. She a carton of cigarettes a week. She smokes 305s and those are $50 a carton. 200 bucks plus all the other stuff. Food eaters $70 worth of Chinese food. Yeah. Well, as long as you have a great explanation, that that's all that matters. But I I have a feeling once the the subpoena from Cash App comes back, it's going to tell a different story. But I don't know. Can you look at my Insta car? I've sent everything to her house. But just making sure you don't know who Jane Smith is. Has no ties to you. 0%. Jane Smith. Jane Smith. Look at my cash app. I don't use cash out all that much. What am I looking for? I don't even know where to go. I'm going down. Slow down. right there, James. So, who is that? It's just this girl that I play this game. There's this game on Facebook where you have to load money onto it. Okay. And then she loads the game. So, what does she have anything to do with her? I have no idea. Okay. What game is it? It's Golden Dragon. I I don't I don't get it. But I don't either. Can I show you? What are you going to show me? Golden Dragon. Okay. And And then she plays Golden Dragon with you and Jane. Why would she send money to Jane Smith? Anybody can name their cash after Jane Smith. I don't know. I saw the bank statement. I don't know who she's sending money to. How would she even know who Jane Smith is? She shouldn't know who Jane Smith and Jane Smith shouldn't be in her Cash App either. I don't know who she sends money to on Cash App. I don't know. But either way, I'm kind of done. As the investigation continues, the question remains, was her mother truly in the dark about the scheme, or was she silently complicit in the fraud? Share your thoughts in the comments below. 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