How are you? [Music] I brought you back. [Music] She was crying. Is this yours? Uh, yes, that's mine. Yeah, I just got finished buying that at Walmart, so I just want to make sure there's nothing wrong with it. There's crazy people in the world. You found her? Found her. My name is Jeffrey, right? Yeah. Hold on. Let me just write it down. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. So, you did you see her? I was walking home. I walked over here on 65th Way just on this street and turn left. Turn right and I'm down at the first street on Okay. When you were coming from Walmart? Yes. Yes. And what was she doing? She was just walking coming this way and then she start she was crying. She saw me and she started to cry. I guess the first person then I speak Spanish a fair amount. So I started speaking to her and calmed there. I said, "You hungry?" And I gave her some bread. Nothing yet. Look, open doors. You look alike. Okay. Unless she knew her car. They had a car. on a white. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. Oh, let me put you over here. Okay. [Applause] Over here. Let me go over there. Jack. I forgot what? No. Since we're doing I thought we going to start over there. Yeah, he's going to be my scribe. So, I need him to document all the stuff, all the houses or buildings we have. He needs to get a piece of paper. Get a piece of paper. [Music] Doc, I need you to give the buildings. You give the buildings you already. He's going to be our Hayden. He's going to be unlocked. I thought he said you said the door was unlocked. It was unlocked. It's not. It's locked. It's locked. Check. Okay. Okay. That's what I did. I checked the door knob and uh I already I was asleep. So my wife, she was here. She Maya my daughter. What's your daughter's name? Maya. Was it? Maya. Hey, Ranger. Is that your daughter? Yeah, man. Okay. She was Yeah, we'll talk to you in a second. But she was all the way somewhere completely off away from this area. What unit is uh what's your unit? Is this B? No, it's D. Let me let me call cuz I've been asleep. I had I had got in the car accident yesterday when I was I got robbed yesterday in Miami. So, I was sleep from the medicine and stuff, but my wife, she was here. I I don't know. Nobody knows. Call your wife. Yeah. Make sure she's okay. I don't need it. Yes, sir. trying to pull you, but uh it was [Applause] car. What's her car? No car. Hello Jenn [Music] but I guess you she was out of the complex they said so completely out of the complex she told the neighbor that she was sleeping and she woke up She's been looking for her parents. He was sleeping on the room. He was sleeping inside the house. She decides to take it upon herself to the house. Hey, let me just get my tell my partner. Are you the daughter? Okay, hold on one second. Hold on. Is there an ID card with you? Okay, just grab that. remind people here. Okay. I don't even know why she did that if her if her dad was sleeping. Um well, I wanted to ask you what happened. So, okay. Okay. Go ahead. So, which um first of all, what happened? Where'd you guys find her? Uh we found her on Southwest Third Street at 441. Where's that? Right here. Right here on the on 441 State Road 7. By the street. By the by the light. Yeah. By the way. Yeah. Who got here? A man coming from Walmart. There was a neighbor across the way who's brought his groceries and had saw her. He was wandering around. Yeah. Okay. Do you have like a DL number or ID number or? Yes. I'm I'm honestly in shock right now. What happened was last night? Wait, before we get that, let me just get you married because I'll forget that. Did you just come real quick? Yeah. Hold on one second. Will you grab that? Can we discuss taxes? Yes, definitely. Definitely. Here. Okay. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, wait. Oh, no. Okay. So, she's looking for her ID. 17. Okay. Let me just let me just grab your number there so you can run. Oh, did he run around with me? I have the uh the for the human app. Do you need this? Does he need the number? Maybe there's one. I'm still working on Do you need the number? Um he say he'll take a second running. Okay. Oh, I just got to get her information. You're the daughter, right? The older daughter. Okay. And you guys live there? You live there tonight? Okay, let me grab that. No, I'm thinking, you know what I mean? So, I was over there and I was I had I had um put on a second. So, I had fell asleep in the parking lot. I just told her I was like, "You know what? Let me in the parking lot. I'm going to just sleep here." at the school cuz I was so tired from last night. Yeah. And then when I woke up, I'm like, "Oh [ __ ] I don't have my phone. No, nothing." And then the dad was sleeping and I I don't know if she didn't see him, but she was sleeping in the in you know, she was sleeping with her and she I guess she didn't see her and um I mean she didn't see him and we lost the cat a couple like weeks ago. So, I don't know if she went looking for the guy. She went looking for me or she thought she was alone at the house, but she was not. You know what I mean? You came back at You guys came back at 3:00 in the morning. Yes. And I was dead tired and I had to wake her up school and I'm like I never left her alone by the house. She just left out of the house. Okay, hold on. What time did you go to school? Like 6 6:30 7 7 a.m. When you left? When you left? Mhm. What school did she go to? Apple. Go ahead. Um, so you say you left 6:30 in the morning. I'm doing a favor while talking to you. I'm I'm just calling my dad and my mom to bring my baby. Oh, okay. Cuz I'm going to have to go to work and I'm just like, where do you work at? Um, I live on um I work on Belair. Bel. Mhm. And I have to be there at 2. So I'm not trying to like, you know what I mean? This is a lot more important. Okay. I mean, we just found your daughter in the middle of the roadway by herself unsupervised in the middle of the day and she was by herself. No telling how long until we got her. Yeah. Before two and it took us over an hour just to find where she lived. No one reported her missing. No one. No one was looking. No one. We were out here. We knocked literally on every door here. Where did you go find her? Excuse me. How did you guys find whoever? I just told you the door. One of your neighbors say, "Hey, I told you girl. I I've seen her before. She lives somewhere over there. Your daughter cannot articulate where she lives. She couldn't remember your phone number. She can't remember dad's phone number. She doesn't have a cell phone. There's nothing on her to identify who she is, where she belong. She's walking. So, this is very important. So, what we as far as work 90 We're dealing with you. We already spoken to him. Mhm. There's a whole gap of time that we have to account for as law enforcement deputies. So, I'm just ask you be a little patient with us. No. No. And try to communicate as best as can cuz this is very important. Okay. So, again, you dropped off the school 6:30 this morning. How did you take her? How did you go to school? You drive, you walk? Take a bike? Uber? No, she drove. You drove? Who drove? Who drove? She drove cuz I was driving and I couldn't drive. She have a driver license. She has permit. Do you have a driver license? No. That's why I That's why I waited for her. Okay. So, you fell asleep at the school. Mhm. That's why I was like, I'm just going to wait. I was going to go to sleep. Yeah. I'm going to wait for her to drive. So, what time did she What time did you leave the house? [Music] What time? Can you do me a favor? Can you walk to the house? I just come back and get you. Okay. Thank you. Um I can't do the back and forth of her answering for you. Okay. I was drugg is he does that exact the best best of your knowledge. Okay. Prior before you leaving the home, was your husband awake? No, but he was on medication because So he's on medication. So there's no other adult in the house. I didn't know he was on medication until he just told me. I thought he because he went to the hospital. I'm on I was on medication. That's why I stayed sleeping in the car. I didn't know that they put him on medication because of the incident that happened yesterday in Miami. We were in the hospital. Okay, I got you on that. No problem. You you you he told us about I'm just nervous right now. She's like, I don't know. This is crazy. All crazy that you're doing was in the middle of the road. Exactly. That's crazy. So, and we have to account for that. Yeah. And we're trying to figure that out by asking you these questions. So again, when you got home from the hospital at 3:30 this morning, like you said, knowing that you had to take your daughter to school, what prior before leaving, who was responsible for watching her is what I need to know. Me and her father. Did you tell him, "Hey, I'm leaving to go to school." Like what was We do this every morning. Every morning I take And what was the conversation today? I'm not worried about what happened two mornings ago. What was the conversation between you and him today as far as taking your other daughter to school? There was no conversation. I just got up and took her to school and I and I was I didn't I didn't tell him anything. So he's passed out. Well, yeah, but usually he gets up around like 89. So where was your daughter at at that time? She was sleeping in in the room. She has She only has her own room. Okay. Was anyone else in the room with her? No, she usually gets up goes and lays in our bed. Who's uh whose crib is on the bottom right above the bed? What happened? Whose crib is on the master bedroom? His hers. I mean hers. I'm sorry. Okay. So, she sleeps in the master bedroom. Yeah. I'm sorry. This thing happened so hard. Okay. So, you got up to take your daughter to school. You didn't have no conversation with her father as far as, hey, I'm going to go take What's your daughter's name? No, I just told him I said I'm taking her to school. And did you tell him or do you not tell him? I'd tell him that, but I I don't know if he was up or not, but usually I just tell him, "Hey, listen. Leave a bit. All right, I'll be back like that." It was something simple. It wasn't like, you know what I mean? It's like every day. Every day. Anyway, I'm going to finish school. And I was like so drowsy cuz of what I was taking to my doctor. And then I was just like, I left. I was like, "Oh my god." And then out of every single day, I guess cuz the time that I took it, it kind of like hit me a little harder. So, I was just like, you know, I'm just going to stay and wait for her. for your daughter to get out of school. It usually picked the month. I think it was a little bit later. So that's why I said it was 7 like 7:30ish. So she drove to Olympic heights. We were going to sit in the car for the next what about 6 to 7 hours. So she got out of school. I was going to get a little bit early and I was like, you know what? Let me just wait here. Yeah. I was driving that. I missed school. Yes. I waited in the parking lot. No problem. Any particular reason why you didn't take your cell phone? I was drunk. I never I'm asking. Is that a normal thing? No, it's not. It's not. That's why I'm like It's not. I always take my cell phone, especially since I work on my cell phone. I always take my cell phone. I I don't know why I didn't take my cell phone this time. This is my first time ever leaving my cell phone when I'm home. Okay. Is it normal for you to take the daughter to the school? Is it your primary? You primary take your No, I usually she usually take the bus, but I did not. I just was like, "No, it's late. I don't want you missing school." You know, we had an incident last night. I don't want her having any tardies. I didn't want her missing school at all. My When that incident happened last night, who that incident? Who stayed with the kids? The incident? I was with the kids. I was just with the kids. Uh-huh. Here. No, I was at my mother's house. Both kids were with you. Okay. And then I had to go get him. So, I had Where was he? In Jackson Memorial, Miami? Yeah. Okay. And dad's They had like robbed him for like $8,000. He was literally in the mall. Mhm. And they robbed them outside or whatever it was. They like it just this has been crazy cuz now we got to put it just like a lot going on. Okay. You know what I mean? And I and I fell asleep. Like I I feel really bad. I feel so irresponsible. Like I'm I'm embarrassed. I just I'm really glad and I'm really thankful to you guys and whoever found her. Like this is like something like you read on. You know what I mean? Like you find a little kid. Oh yeah. This is very serious cuz anything could have happened. She could have got hit by a car. Somebody could have somebody could have taken her. No, I know. without nobody knowing. That's a great distance. No, it is. And that's that's why it's not I can't I can't answer you guys. I'm just curb. You read about these kids and I I love her so much. You know what I mean? She was literally sitting on the curb. Sitting on the curb. Sitting on the curb like chilling. Somebody's walking by, saw a little girl sitting, looked around. No adult around. So, you know what people do? They dine 911. We show up. We see her sitting on the curb. So, she was Yeah. No shoes, no phone, no nothing. We go to we we literally knocked on every door in this walked around and it was just thankful that a lady down there say, "Hey, I've seen this girl before. She lives somewhere around here." So, we started investigating more. We walked over here. We had literally had like 30 deputies here knocking on doors. I'm not even making this up. Just a time frame then. So, 7:20 you leave. When you said goodbye, you told uh she usually doesn't get up. Maybe he's going to get up so much. I would fade. Okay. No, but she Okay. Okay. So, she gets up. That's what I'm thinking. When you told your husband uh Yeah. I was so jealous. I was like, I'm going to go to school and I I knew I didn't take my trash. I don't know. You leave with your daughter. What was the initial time on this call? Um you leave with your older daughter. We got the first call in at 10:51. I'm not going to tell my mom. I'll put on sleep. Yeah, but let her let her go to the house. If you left at 7:30, we got this call at 10:51. So from 7:30 to 10:51. What? We got this call at 10:51 in the morning. That's when the first person calls saw your daughter on the They called 10:15. Yes. A.M. That's when we got this call. That's how long we've we've been on this call. Let me just give you an idea. Time frame. So, you're telling me you left your house at 7:30? 7:20. So, from 7:30 up until 10:51, there's a possibility that your daughter could have been by herself. We don't know. Maybe she could have got up maybe 30 minutes prior to the call. We don't know. You can't account for it and your husband can't account for it. I mean, her father can't account for it. That's a long period of time frame. She could have got up right after you left and walked outside. We don't know. That's a very long period of time that we can account for. And then when we go to the house, he basically has no clue of nothing. He don't know where you at. He don't know where she's at. Ask about the Oh, the lock. Can I ask the lock? You um he said that you have electronic lock on your front door. It's a safety lock for the child, but when he thought when you close it, it automatically locks that no one can get out. What happens is um the door it Okay, so it's one of those electronic locks that um But if you shut it, if you shut it, it closes. If you don't shut it for like a couple seconds, the thing the bolt goes. Right. So, I'm thinking maybe like I went like that, maybe the didn't close it. Yeah, because when we went back trying to knock the door knob try and there was the the dead bolt was locked. The door was locked. Correct. You couldn't because how you signal she closed. They pulled into this parking lot from the inside even with the safety. Their complaint was a 1070 driver followed them and advised it. They were driving signal 12. I know signal nothing but this and she never leaves. But it is a dead bull. She never leaves. That's why I'm like she never leave. All right. But she But she did. She did today. Okay. So that's what we deal. Now I'm just like what am I going to do? I'm going to have to put like something up at the top or something because I'm not going to have the top talk and walk outside. Like my partner has mentioned numerous times is we have to now because we had a three-year-old which is a very vulnerable age small child wandering in the streets. You can remove one layer of clothes if you want. So that is what we are doing here. Um you're doing with your mom. You said she stay with her your mom, right? She stays with your mom. She stay with your mom. Your mom stays with you or your mom has her own place? Which one is your mom? Your mom has to have her own house, right? Yeah, my mom has. So, does your daughter stay with you? No, no, my kids. But my but she stays with my mom, too. Like my mom my mom always watching, but my only um So we have that timeline 72010 mil 73. You you didn't know he was on the medication or honestly we left at 3 in the morning. I was sleeping there too. I was sleeping in the hospital like I was just really tired. Yeah. Okay. I'm trying to think. Um All right. So he comes You both come home. All right. All right. Let me uh I guess let me just I'll talk to you guys first. I have to tell Sergeant why we're still here. No, my mom said, "Listen, I when I came in, I just need to talk to your your other." Okay. Cuz when I came in, I I seen you guys. My mom's like, "Listen, talk to the police. Tell them that you're okay because they seen your phone there. They're worried about you. They need to talk to you." I was like, and I seen I was like, "Let me catch them before so I don't have to go to like a police station or anything." I was like, "Let me catch you guys while you guys are out here." We were going to get a hold of Yeah. We were waiting actually. We were hoping that you would show up. No, thank you. Um, text your daughter uh to come over here. We just want to talk to her quickly and we talk to Chris. Okay. So, this house all the way down to our house because she was along here and we thought that she lived here. So, but she couldn't unfortunately she just gave her surname and she even thought she what house it was but she was like no no and they were look alike. I know. I know. I know. Um Maria Maria is um I don't She was only thing I could think about is the cat in that when I left in the morning. She did say she was looking for you. She's looking for me specifically. Go get mom. Yeah, she said it a couple times. I don't know. Only thing I can think about is what if she ran out after she seen me and I Right. Right. And maybe the door locked behind her and she stayed outside. This is the only thing I'm thinking about. That's even more concerning, right? It's a lot long time before we got the actual call. No, I'm going to have to take her with me every single morning now. I don't care. I don't care if he's sleeping or not cuz now I don't even feel comfortable with her being at the house and 32 1050. Yeah. Car North Carolina. You don't know if they're going to wake up. Lay down with my daddy. She gets, you know what I mean? It's different. But then even it's a tough thing. You got to know where they are at all times almost. You know, hey, I'm taking my eyes off to go to the bathroom. And she knew that she's so close to us. Like she can't go hours without us. Like she right now. She was like, I was looking for you. I just called my mom. I was like, I was looking for you. I ran the way. I'm like, what? I don't know what she's watching. I don't know. I don't know if she watched something. He wants to Yeah, when he's done, I'll talk to him to be honest with you. Like, I don't know if she's watching something. No. Okay. All right. Jennifer. Yes. Okay. Because of our investigation, you're going to be under arrest. What? The neglect. No, no, no, no. But I wasn't. I know. I'll explain everything to you. Do not do not resist. Okay. I'll help you. I'll help you out. Please. Please don't do this to me right now. Jennifer, just relax. I'm going to help you and I will help you as much as I can. Okay. You know why we care about you and her? Tell you. Can I tell you something? Look. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. She look Look at me. Look at me. Please. Can you look? I'm on probation. Okay. All right. That's fine. But let me first do what I have to do. Okay. Can I explain something to you? Please, please. I I came here. So, because I care about my daughter. And I believe you do care about your daughter. No, but I just I I left her with her dad. I never neglected her. Okay. Okay. I'll explain why. Can I explain why? Please tell me. Okay. But first, let me do this. I'm on probation. Okay. What you on probation for? I'm I'm on probation for stealing. Okay. That's okay. It's not just climbing a century. Let me just try to get this small. That's not going to work. Please don't. Please. Please. Mia. Mia. I want to take you to school, baby. Please. Please. Listen. Don't do this to me right now in front of my kids. Let's go in the car. Let's cross from the top. Okay. Um, just Yeah. Let me see. Do you have anything? I'm going to put my camera here. Yeah. or I have to talk to you. Right. Right. Okay. Do you have anything? I need to get back on to my mom. Okay, I'll get it. I promise you. I promise you're you're safe. Do you have anything sharp? I need to get some numbers for you. I will. But you got to help me first. Let me show you. It's okay. This is nothing to do with your your probation. No, but I'm not going to get out. Yes, you will. This is done. Come on. But I'm showing a violent polishing in the driver. I beg you. Please. I love my kids. I love my kids. I beg you. Please. I want to take you to school. I was doing the right thing. Here. Just sit down. Please. Please. Please. I'm here. Just sit down and I want to talk to you. Listen, I'm such a good mother. Please. And I believe you are because I can see what you're doing. Yeah. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Please. Please sit down. Barely slept. I know. I'm trying to do my family. Listen, you're going to be okay. No, I'm not. I'm going to be in jail. No, no, no. You're going to get processed right now. It's only for one count. But we have You got to understand. Put yourself in. I understand. But I get it. We don't want to do this. Listen to me. We don't want to do If I get processed, I'm not going to get out. Why? Because I'm on probation. But that doesn't No. Nothing Nothing is going to change the fact that you're going to jail, okay, for child neglect. I get this. Okay. But it doesn't seem. But what I'm explaining to you is that what I'm explaining, right? Nothing promising. And we're going to have we're going to have a female deputy come and pat you down and search you. But we already asked you. You don't have anything on you that's going to be deemed contraband at the jail. No, I don't do anything. I was I take blood thinners. This is one of the first questions that we ask. Listen, I'm not going to go out of jail. Okay. Why? Because I'm on probation. When you're on probation, you violate another charge. You're going to talk to the judge. Okay. You think that they're going to believe anything saying that they seen my child out here? You're the mother. Of course they are. You're the mother. Are you serious? No, they're not. They're going to tell me. Listen, I'm breaking down the circumstance. That's why they're going to tell me you uh Yeah, you just have Listen, they're going to tell me you are on probation now. You got another charger, not you. Get out. That's not Well, I'm telling you from my experience. Can you please show up? Can you please show up? I don't know. I can show up, but I'll try that. Let me let me everyone know they're going to go to her dad. Let me go to my Where's my daughter going? You clear if you want. I'm going to sit down. Sit down. Sit down. I need to see my baby. Come on. Sit down. You have to sit down. Come on. I came to talk to you. Okay. Let me catch the AC. point. We would have still Yes, we still have that. We were just talking on what we were going to do and we have enough. Okay. Why me though? Put your seat belt on. But her dad's okay, right? Dad's okay. So why But why if he was in the house with her? Turn. Just look this way for a second so I can put a seat belt on. Look that way for you. I don't understand how what did I neglect if he was in the house with my with her father. I didn't neglect anything. I just took her to school. You still haven't told that at home. I did tell him. I said, "Be I'm going to I'm going." That's why I said, "Be I'm going to go take my Mia to school." Okay. And I was just tired and I left my phone. Let me do my stuff so I can get your phone. Please. This is not child neglect if I left it with an adult. Put your 32. You want to take your phone with you? Listen, I just told you I left her with her father. This is not child neglect. Okay, Jennifer, not but this How is this sounding good? Please tell me. Tell me. Tell me this, please. I will, but not this second. Not this way. Not you. We have to tell you. We will tell you. And I already told you. Listen, I'm not going to go anywhere. I'm just I need to at least call her father. Okay, we could do that for you. I need to speak to him, please. But not right now. Not right this second. All right. I need you to put your feet inside and we're going to put this window. Okay. I know.