after trying to sneak out of a store with unpaid Goods this woman had a total meltdown when cops caught her red-handed no you have the right to pleas somebody help me please this is not right there's also a guy who pretended to be an FBI agent but was caught in the act by a former police officer so the individual that you were having a confrontation with right so so that that same individual um is prior law enforcement and a young girl with fake documents who tried to talk her way out of trouble with some good acting but first take a look at the family from Romania who pulled off a shameful scam in Florida a mother with two underage boys stood at a busy intersection holding a sign saying she needed financial help for her deceased niece the police came to warn them that walking through the intersection was dangerous but they soon discovered shocking details hello how are you so I understand what you're doing and and I'm sorry that you're going through this however we cannot have you guys walking in the middle of the roadway it's interfering with the flow of traffic it risks you getting hurt or one of them getting hurt and someone else getting to a crash okay so I understand I don't know if you have any did you have any permits you have to also have a permit to select it okay again I'm sorry that you're going through this I'm not trying to be inhumane or or discredit what you're going through at all I understand you're probably going through a lot of pain but you can't be out here walking in the middle of the [Music] roadway okay how many of you are out here four four okay do you have a way of calling them so they can all come here so I can tell them the same thing okay when did this happen where France where a France pleas was that your daughter your niece was she like vacationing over there was she living over there oh were you guys over here previously on the other side of the parkway no just day just today okay so is this your mom okay so what I was telling her is I'm sorry what happened to your family it's very tragic I'm sorry that you're going through that however we can't have you guys walking in traffic okay someone's not paying attention I mean you almost got hit when the lady pulled up when he was crossing the room okay do you guys have any ID with you no no what's your first name dumu what is it d spell it for me okay and that's your last name Maria Maria is your last name no that's your last that's your last name and this is your first name Maria do you have a middle name do you have a middle name no okay and this is the moment when things start to take a different turn the officer went to check the name provided and discover something interesting 3 months before this event the same lady was collecting money at the same intersection for the same deceased person back then she claimed that the deceased person was named Demitri Maria which is the same name she now gave to the officer as her own this turns out to be a plain scam where this family tries to Swindle money from random people now the police begin a different approach to get her to admit that it's all a lie when did your you said your niece what's her name Maria Maria okay and when did she pass 3 days ago 3 days days ago okay so in September did you have another niece named Maria that passed huh yes I you and your two sons were on the other side doing the same thing collecting money for a funeral me yes your name and your date of birth that you gave me yeah always no nothing no so what funeral were you trying to save money or collect money for in September no I you're lying to me I don't like being lying too I don't like that I swear and the fact that we have videos your face is on video I recognize you from last time I talk to you and your two sons in jackon here here on the other side yes oh I swear you swear yeah you're going to you're going to swear to God really 12 that's a shame you should be ashamed of yourself you should be ashamed of yourself trying to do this in front of your two kids it's first time no it's not I am telling you I recognize you from last time I talk to you let's start over why are you collecting money what do you need help with get out of here get out of pond Coast do not let me see you doing this again let me let me put it this way next time I see you out here with your two kids I'm calling DCF and I will be sure that you're going to get every citation I can think of yeah but this is is not okay you lying is not okay yeah but fake doy true Maria thinks the best defense is to stick to her story it's my I don't like I swear you told the other deputies the same thing in September is I yes you wrote your name down I looked it up and it pulled up in September of this year nohm to name no it's not no I Romanian okay I'm Romanian and in Flagler County there's only one person that popped up and that's you hi I'm my child my my son yep yep wearing green vest with two juvenile males holding a sign saying they're collecting money for a funeral so again do you want to keep lying I don't make this it's first time you're a liar you're lying you're lying I understand if you're going through a hard time and I'd be more than happy to help you and give you resources to help you with whatever it is you need to help get you by cuz I get it it's been a hard year for a lot of people finances have been very hard not everyone can afford to get by and I'll be more than happy to help you with that but you won't stop lying I can't help a liar I promise I come I don't go I go home with my children I don't go that's not up to you that's up to us to decide at this point what's your name again what is it Maria your first nameit demitro what's your last name Maria Maria's your last name all right I'm going to have you step back here for me the police have had enough now so they're going to use fingerprinting to find out the real identity of the scammer but first a brief word about permits a solicitation permit is a legal authorization that allows individuals or organizations to solicit money donations or services from the public this helps authorities keep track of legitimate fundraising activities so fake diit Maria could face multiple charges such as solicitation without a permit providing false information to police fraud or deceptive practices and even child endangerment so you said your first name is Del me true you understand you can go to jail for pro providing law enforcement a false name right this is going to tell me exactly who you are if you lie you're going to jail understand so we can start over you can actually tell us who what your real name is because we already found where you were up in Jacksonville so you want to start over or do you want to continue to lie okay I am feel why why lie are you in trouble up there where in Jacksonville no so why lie now down here I mean you you have to have a reason to lie like I have a lot you have a lot what a lot of reasons why I have a fear from from police but I don't know why how long have you been in pal Coast here no you just got here 10:00 10:00 how'd you get here i h two boo bus bus those are who are they to you my son your son how old 7 [Laughter] so I am taking you to jail for child neglect oh like this there you go I'm taking you to jail for child neglect for interfering with the flow of traffic and soliciting it I was telling you about earlier and for providing law enforcement a FSE name all DET pain okay my child we're calling DCF what is DCF department of children and family no call my family your family we got to call DCF we'll give them the we'll give DCF a phone number to the family and they can deal with that but we have to call DCF right here but you can't be doing this you can't and then you say you have a fear but had you gave us the right name the first time and everything else you probably wouldn't be in this situation not that face that way no that's not how this works but no that is not how this works you do not pull away from me stop you're turning and we're telling you to face this way okay you need to stop and listen we'll talk to them when we're done do not do that again you understand me Elena Fu was arrested and charged with providing law enforcement with a false name child neglect scheme to defraud and obstructing a highway this is ridiculous I ring up the wrong freaking vacuum an unintentional mistake I just spent $250 for $20 this is ridiculous where do you work at I don't work I'm disabled what were the items that weren't paid for where were you born what where were you born I mean where where at what state for this I just spent $250 I didn't do this intentional I don't work here I don't know how it works all of that wasn't skinned that was not skinned maybe it's scan I did not not scan okay this is on here this is on here this is on here so um you're crazy oh and wait I have something on here that I didn't buy I rank I scanned something that I didn't get I get a credit for that I'm going to read your rice okay I'm going to ask you a question at the end I just need you to ask no he's lying about that I that well we're going to ask you listen I can't do this what's her name my kid Paul come right back here I'm just going to read your right here going anywhere okay don't touch me please please don't put your hands on me I'm calling what are you talking stop resisting this is all on video I'm resisting stoping okay call a lawyer I want a lawyer call me a lawyer please somebody call me a lawyer I can't believe this was happening you guys I can't believe this is happening I can't you don't understand I can't I have a child at home your child he doesn't have a father he's dead I don't so who's with your child now my mother okay no you have the right to somebody help me please this is not right I didn't do anything wrong I swear right didn't okay we're going to give you why are you doing this all right listen you have the right to remain silent please help help me anything you say can be used against your in court this is so wrong okay with these Rising Minds do you wish to talk to us no okay I want to go home you're not going home now you going to D I haven't done anything wrong I didn't even leave the store I did not even leave the store I never even left the store this was the beginning of the end of a failed scam this is Paula and she was caught by Walmart employees trying to pull off a scam at the self checkouts she scanned cheaper products products but put similar more expensive ones in her cart in the end she paid $250 for everything but had put several times that amount in her cart her defense started with the classic I did not do anything and later she claimed she had scanned various products only to check their prices and accidentally put them in her cart the problem was that she had more of these accidentally added products than the ones she actually paid for you're hurting me stand up can't I have a back I'm not even joking I was just in an accident would you please stop youring hurting me I'm not joking stop you're hurting me badly you don't understand I am disabled I can't believe you're making me do this it's making me feel like this it was a accident I swear to God why would I spend $250 please yeah please stand up here face the car spread your feet was a freaking accident I don't work here I rang up the wrong item you didn't ring up multiple items you just start CL in the back stop talking for a minute you want to know what's happening I will tell you don't interrupt me though I'm not going to talk to you if you interrupt me okay so it's time to listen I you're literally on camera stuffing clothes in the bags at the register without scanning them you scan you PID you didn't do that you I scanned them on the um as I went it was an accident not Hand by hand like that was an accident it was not an accident yes it was see why why won't anybody listen to me it was an accident we gave you that opportunity don't let anybody no I tried because you won't listen to me cuz you keep talking I can't explain anything to you you I am trying tol to you the more you talk oh my god dude you guys aren't right you guys are not right I'm trying to talk to you I'm trying to explain to you and your H just because you talk a lot doesn't make you right that's what you're doing why are you being nasty I'm not being nasty you are being nasty you already resisted us you I not resisted us I just want help because this is wrong I was not stealing I just SP $250 I didn't steal on purpose I never even left the store I never even made it out the door yeah you made it into the pass point of sale no I didn't I literally watch you on camera literally on camera okay you literally have a watching after him walking me out what are you talking what are you talking about dude step in there go to jail I'm going to throw up I'm going to throw up please don't do this please back keep going keep going I'm begging the please all the way in I'm begging you please all the way in oh my God I'm begging you please I can't I'm going to dude I I need my medication I can't do this I'm going to be sick I'll tell you what we'll just call you Ms and I can check you out once you're clear you're going to I'm 45 I can't breathe I really can't breathe I'm not joking why can't you bre I can't breathe cuz I'm having an anxiety attack I'm not joking you think I'm kidding take a I'm not kidding please take a few deep just breathe I can't breathe okay I can't I'm not joking please help me please tell me oh my God I need my mom I need my mom Paula what stop screaming the more you scream the worse you you're not going to bre understand I'm okay this is you don't understand you don't understand you don't understand you don't understand take a few deep breaths if there is a God please I didn't do it on purpose can't jail I swear to you I swear you making you were making it impossible to explain you already explained it to me I tried I tried to give you more detail but you just keep screaming at us I just want to go so here's the deal we we get called here because you were stuffing clothes into a bag without scanning them okay I SC I thought I scanned them on my phone I scan it was an accident if it was like one piece I can understand you're stuffing handfuls no it was two bathing suits and I thought that it I it was scanned on my phone I can absolutely I thought that it was on there I didn't scan it on the register I did the phone scan thing yeah but you didn't do that with those I didn't know I didn't I swear to God it was a $10 bathing suit and I spent $ 250 why would I do that I promise you it was not on purpose give me one second I promise you please don't shut it I can't breathe the window's open see the window's open Paula claims she scanned the items using a mobile app but this has nothing to do with the physical payment at the self-checkout all her actions were recorded by the surveillance camera so she is lying and simply trying to wriggle out of the situation in every possible way now the police need to determine the the value of the stolen goods to know what charges to file against Paula a supervisor also arrives at the scene to better handle the situation because Paula continues to insist that it's all a big misunderstanding since we don't have a receipt we just took a total of all the items that weren't food cuz she 100% paid for all food right okay she showed us a original receipt that she paid for with scan and go uh the amount that she paid for that I saw was $211 uh all the merchandise that's not food totals up to uh $620 so so she didn't pay for any of this right here uh I can't tell without you know her receipt does she have a receipt yeah it's on her phone so she cuz uh we can't um go right here it's just the groceries yeah that's all her the groceries and then she had the scan go there's no way for you guys actually um not until probably tomorrow without her unless we get her phone or her card number so apparently well you can seiz her phone and you have to get a search for for is it a felony 600 it's not a felony you can't even seiz hey can can I talk to her by myself for a second I know you're using the skin as you go okay and if they're trying to Railroad you okay I could see if they're trying to Railroad You by scanning your card your credit card because it will show me the receipt do you want me to do that if it shows that you paid for that stuff that you SC no it it was an accident what do you mean the thing is you ring it with your skin with your phone right and it didn't scan I didn't not ring it on purpose oh is there some stuff that didn't scan yes so what do you think didn't scan these bathing suits so was it just the bathing suit I don't know they were they were try they were lying and saying other stuff didn't and I showed them on the receipt four things that they said that didn't ring up and were on the receipt they ring up the wrong vacuum like it was you ring up the wrong vacuum yes so did you ring up like a it was $89 worth of $100 so was a $89 vuum and how much was the one you walked $100 it was a a clearance thing they were both like clearance I scanned both of them to see to see which one was better price and yes and I grabbed the the opposite one the mentioned app works on the principle that you use your phone to scan the product on the spot which is then paid for at the self checkout however Paula claims she maybe didn't pay for a thing or two because the app didn't scan them so let's see what she didn't scan her story is that she used the app she thinks she put the clothes on first the app closed out she said the only thing that she knows that she screwed up on is the vacuum cleaner because she said she scanned the vacuum cleaner twice she was trying to see two different prices she deleted one and she think she said that she she deleted the wrong vacuum cleaner obviously she's stealing the vacuum cleaner for a cheaper one as well as uh I have a receip put up right here no clothes on no clothes what about this what is oh that's the 8 Amp yeah no that's no four four 4 amp you scan 8 Amp thing that's uh that's $36 that one's 52 uh 58 so she scanned something else for yeah stolen guarantee this is stolen uh 1384 1384 I don't care it's this going to didn't pay for it right no I figed pool lights guarantee if she didn't pay for this no this guarantee she didn't pay for this 100% I just know I can tell the stuff that people steal no no there's a lot of stuff you didn't pay for what what please explain to me cuz I promise you you didn't pay for any of the clothes told you didn't pay for any of the shoes I swear I'm my son I did I'm not lying listen to me look at me after the whole investigation was done uh it was UN cover that it was about $611 worth of items that were not paid how's it going good man how are you good good thanks for keeping the street yeah no problem so you're just driving and he just end up so I drive past him and then he passes me and I drive pass him and and he passes me and I'm going this is annoying yeah so and being a former cop I'm like I don't really want anybody like swirling or hovering so I just give it some gas catches up to me and I'm like this is weird but this dude keeps following me and doing weird I'm like I don't like this then he passes me and he's like this with he had he put red and blue lights on like he's got I think the little Center Mount on his Dash in his oh okay he has something mounted there but I don't know what it is so yeah was red and blue it it's two bars a red and blue was like flashing flashing so I pull over and he like then he he doesn't pull me over mhm I was like okay maybe he's a fed or something you know a courier or something I don't know and he passes me and he's like this telling me to slow down or something I was like cool like I and so if he's going to like use his lights or use lights and he's not a cop I'm I'm like what of my daughter's driving through here and yeah I know you know what I mean but if your mom or you know what I mean so what did you have mounted right here I have I used to have a radar detector okay so where did that go cuz you just had something mounted up here no I I used to have one up there okay I don't have one why would we be receiving complaints that some saying that you were flashing red and blues at them flashing red and blues I don't have red and blues at sir you don't have any so so they're so they're just seeing stuff so what exactly happened here this driver was bothered by the vehicle in front of him so he turned on his signal lights to clear the road ahead but he was unlucky and ran into a former police officer who immediately called the police the suspect's vehicle looks like an undercover vehicle there are traces on the windshield suggesting that something had been mounted there and the police also have a credible Witness things don't look good for the suspect so let's see how he will defend himself so this is what we got we got we got a complaint from an individual saying that a black Tahoe with a grill in front of it Texas LIC male with a long beard and cowboy hat with a dog in the back came up behind him and F flash red and blues at him this vehicle looks like a police vehicle right yes sir would you would you agree with me with that I agree with you okay so where you previously had something mounted right I don't have any I'm just saying that's exactly where he's saying that it was mounted right yes sir and so if if I'm driving down the road do you think that I'm going to pay any M to suction cups in the middle of somebody's vehicle how would I how would I how would I know that you ever had anything mounted there unless something drew my attention to that specific location right so do you just want to be honest with me or or what's going on I don't have it I don't have anything that's I used to have my radar detector well it seems fairly easy to take something down from there and so if I was somebody that was doing that I would be worried about impersonating a law enforcement officer and if I have anything mounted up to it I would just take it down so if if I got a search warant for the vehicle I would not find anything that would flash red and blue whatsoever there's nothing in the vehicle that flashes that no we want to stick to that story so so the individual that you were having a confrontation with right so so that that same individual um his prior law enforcement and so he stated that he thought that you were probably with the FBI or something along those lines and that you pulled up beside him and told him to pump his brakes after you flashed the red and blues at him so I didn't do anything I just passed him and you pass him yes sir you never told him with ppus brakes or do anything like that yes sir okay I have a hard time believing that again like it's pretty hard when you're going 70 M hour down a road and especially with this vehicle being as tinted as it is to be able to observe just suction cups on a clear front windshield and they're clear suction cuups and so he said that there was something mounted there so again I'm just trying to give you a chance to be completely honest with me am I have my my kid S car MH I mean you could definitely use it to your advantage right like if you're trying to get somewhere pretty quick and there's a slower vehicle in front of you your vehicle looks like a police unit in this case there are many possible charges such as impersonating a public servant unlawful use of emergency vehicle lights or maybe abuse of official capacity but the police can't do anything without evidence and the suspect did not use the lights to pull over another vehicle now they will decide among themselves what to do and the outcome of their decision will surely be surprising I I thought in first officer was a so did I but I think a lot of the times it's a misdemeanor ABQ dude they well cuz that one in Albuquerque that dude tried to stop that the cop yeah okay he says he uses him or I think what he uses him is because he wants to speed and he wants to get other people out of the way so he hits his Reds to get I don't all right so a couple things here so I need a good address from you is it going to be the one that's here on the license yes sir that's going to be a good mailing address yes sir okay so you're very lucky today that you're not going to jail for imp person place offer here's the here's the thing man first off it's never good to start off with me with a lie right just be straight up and honest with me and I'll work with you okay if it's merely to move traffic out of your way some stupid reason like that then okay just tell me you know what I'm saying and so the second thing so need to hand me that light bar so that's going to get logged into evidence so is going with me today all right so in the future definitely do not be not anything like this after the windows cuz the next time you will go to jail for impersonating officer it seems the suspect had a lucky day the police confiscated the lights but he got off without a penalty where you coming from um I just was at I was picking up pizza and I grabbed them because she need a ride what that can you Al call to drink tonight no uh like 6 hours ago or more and then I took a nap wait more than that probably 8 hours ago you might ASA check your eyes real quick just make sure you're all right to drive it's fall took my when you make Happ of your half Fe you know like top your age okay I get it Laura yeah so when was the actual last time you had something to drink like genuinely like uh probably 6 8 hours ear like a long time ago genely okay cuz your eyes are telling me something else I know I know well my eyes are always red genuinely like I promise you I yeah so so the redness is what made me question whether or not you were you were sober but then me actually looking at your eyes is telling me that you probably had something to drink a little bit sooner than I I promise you I have not but but like I understand that okay would you be willing to perform some voluntary fied sobriety tests yes Laura seems like a friendly and honest girl at first but behind that smile she's hiding something and trying to deceive the police officers they stopped her for driving without lights on she claimed she drank a small amount of alcohol 6 to 8 hours ago which she believes is enough time to not be under the influence now she will undergo field sobriety tests which will reveal her lies so Laur I'm going to ask you one more time you very nice to me no no I actually when was the last time you you drank alcohol about 6 to 8 hours ago genuinely have you had drugs or narcotics since then um just my my regular uh and yeah no that's it that's it today are those supposed to mix with uh alcohol you can but it's I usually don't I mean like I didn't drink a lot and I walked to the game and I walked back to the game and then I took a nap for a long time and I haven't drank anything since then genuinely and then I came back got dominoes that they ordered and then I saw these girls at Domino's and they were like can you drive us somewhere blah blah blah all right this next test is going to be the walking turn Okay 7 8 9 and then this way and then is this my Lead Foot or is this my lead foot it the exactly how I instructed you to do great so one two ready and begin 1,1 1 2 13 1004 keep blowing blow harder hard you got to blow harder than that okay yeah you got to blow out yeah got it sorry so take a huge breath in and then just blow it all out as hard as you can keep going harder harder harder harder harder harder harder harder harder harder harder so you got to open your teeth up open your teeth up so you actually get it in there okay I'm sorry sorry all right I'm ready this time guys okay all right deep breath blow keep blow blow BL perfect you know what the legal limit is Laura 0.8 08 that's what I meant that's and you're .12 okay so we place you under arrest for DUI okay put your around you back right sorry all right Laura since you've been cool with me we're just going to go no cffs all right okay I'm I'm not like that and then is that that's your vehicle correct okay is it okay if I park it Laura tried to outsmart the police officers with her calm behavior and politeness but that didn't work out she's now arrested and during processing at the police station an officer will discover that she has multiple fake documents in her possession just pull it great I got sorry I yeah you as well I actually really appreciate you being very country and just like I said I I feel the same way that's my fake one from a long time ago obviously here I real ones in the front that's I uh also probably old fake one that this one's really bad too um it would be probably in the front like this pocket yeah that is also another fake one it comes with two there's my real one's in there though I don't think so oh there it is [Music] be terrified right now this is kind of a dumb question is this is it a bad idea it's a good idea to submit to a breath test so I cannot give yeah you can't tell me right but what I can do is I can get you in contact with an attorney and you can speak with them about it um so he said and I also agree um that I should consent to test okay kind of was thinking about doing that anyways but I just didn't know I don't know like I said I I understand what is your tattoo me this oh that's my wife's initial a very sweet thank you really appreciate