A nononsense cop pulled over a woman for a routine traffic stop. Her non-stop lies about her identity raised suspicion. Something big was hiding beneath the surface. How are you? I'm okay. I'm Sergeant Heftner at the Monro County Sheriff's Office. The reason I'm stopping is your high mountain brake lamp is burnt out. I don't think your high mounted brake lamp window. Yeah. Oh, I don't even remember that. Okay. Where you headed? I'm trying to find Where's 322? Uh, is it like a business or my friend? So, I've not been to her house yet. So, I was right behind me. I kind of I didn't want to like keep running the like she kind of looks so fast as Oh, late to go visit a friend. Yeah, she's going to She's got cat litter and cat food. And I have kittens right now and mama needs some cat food. So, Okay. Yeah. Do you have a driver's license? I do not have the driver's license on me. I have an information for you. So, is this car yours? This is my it was my sister's. Okay. So, you don't have a debit card with your name on or anything like that? You have nothing with your name on it? No. Okay. But I'll have you do Okay. I have you on buck your seat belt. I'll identify you, but I'll have you out of the car to do that. So, you have a license issued out of the state of Wisconsin then? Yeah. Okay. So, you should have a DOT photo on file. Okay. I would. So, you don't have any debit cards? Nothing with your name on it that you would be carrying at this in your purse? I don't own a debit card. I have never had a debit card. What about a library card? Like anything with your name on it? I guess I lost I just bought a new wallet cuz I lost my old one. So, I have an eye thing cuz I just recently had an ex-boyfriend that sprayed some uh hand sanitizer in this eye. So, your light's bothering it. Can I face this way? Is that okay? That's fine. Okay. So, this is your sister's car. Yeah. Yeah. Well, how long have you been blood sister? But, um, friend, sister, basically. Yeah. Okay. What is your first name? Heather. Middle initial? M. Last name. B E A H. Birthday? June 1st, 1983. Had to think about it for a second. I did. Yeah. No, I didn't. What's your address? Tall are you? How tall am I? I have no idea. Five. Very short. I don't know. I don't have the good shoes. 55. I have no idea. I don't pay attention really. Okay. What's your friend's name that you're going to go visit? Jessica. Jessica? What? Honestly, I don't know her by a last name. She goes by her boyfriend's last name, but they're not married yet. Ballinger, I think, is his last name is how you say it. And you said you're traveling at 1 in the morning on Saturday to get pick up cat litter from this cat food. Yeah. I met her through church. So you're in Mustin though, huh? You're in Austin. You live in Austin? I stay in Austin right now. The What's your address that you're staying in? 514 Grove Street. Okay. Which where the car should be registered to? Cuz my sister's name is Michelle Sanders. Um, and do you have any warrants or anything like that? No, not that I'm aware of. Okay. Do you have any drug history? No, I mean I don't not anything recent. I mean, other weed stuff, but that was years and years and years ago. You don't have any like harder drug any history with that? No. No. No. Okay. All right. I'm going to What I'm Why are you like Why would you ask me that? your some of the your some of the stuff you're telling me just doesn't make sense. So, I'm asking question though. I mean, I I can't help that this if you want to step out. I trying to figure out what's going on here. I mean, if it's a weird time for me to have drove over here, this is the time that I could drive over here. Well, what I am going to do is look you up via DOT photo. Um, so any warrants that you're not aware of, like what what like have you had any traffic tickets that you haven't paid or anything like that potentially? No. No. Okay. All right. When I tell you on my PA, I'll have you turn and face. Maybe pull up a photo. Okay. Um, obviously asking about drugs. What do you think I do for a living? Hence the dog. So, some it's just some of the stuff and what I'm picking up on. I just that's what I'm trying to figure out. So, um I'm not trying to give you a hard time. It's just my job is to ask these questions and figure out if anything nefarious is going on. So, it's very very very abnormal for an individual not to have anything with their name on it, not to have a license, identification card, debit card, library card, anything with their name on it. Um, be driving out at this time of night, right? So, that's part of the reason you're going to be standing right here is because I want to identify you. I need to identify you before I can go for any further action on the traffic stop. And I'm going to look at you right right there. Okay. That's all right. I never remember what the difference is between the two of those. Um, do you need glasses to see or anything like that? No. No. No. I have glasses for reading. Oh, okay. You don't wear contact or anything like that? No. Okay. So, what's your real name? Heather. Heather. What? Heather May Beam. So, you want to know an issue with that? What's that? Heather is 5'5, 140, has brown hair, brown eyes, and does not look like you. So, I've done my hair was brown before, but it's always been blonde. So, we'll I'm going to give you every opportunity. This is This is my last olive branch, okay? Because after this portion here, I'm going to ask you one more time if you can see my roots. I'm out. Okay. Okay. So, I will ask you this one more time. Okay. This will be your only opportunity. If you do lie, right? And it is obviously I'm going to go forward with investigating and it's not you. I'm going to charge you. You're going to go to jail. Okay. So, here's the deal. Let me just show you a picture just so you know. Okay. I mean, you can see my roots. Can you not? Does that look like the lady that we're standing there looking at? No. Does that look like you? It does not. Oh my god, that's a horrible picture. That's not you. So, you have a purse in there. Okay. You're a little bit evasive on the narcotics questions, your itinerary travel, right? All right. I think there's more going on, but I think maybe that you think you might have a warrant and you don't want to go to jail for that. So, let's I'm going to ask you this one more time. What is your legal name, your full name on your driver's license in the state of Wisconsin? It's one opportunity. I told you that. And my hair like it's a bad picture, but I'm just I have dyed my hair. So, if I bring the fingerprint scanner, I was going to say your name with your fingerprints is Heather B. Why wouldn't like I That's not who's in the DOT photo. When did you last have a DOT photo taken? Tell me that. I don't know. You don't know? I quite a few years. But quite a few years. It's got to be at least a couple. All right. Oh, yeah. Let me look at one more thing here. Where did you live in 2017? In Montello. What? What was your address? It would have been 249 East Montello Street. The same one I gave you. In Montello? Yeah. Okay. Cuz you said that address. Well, it's my parents address. Okay. That's not the address that's on the driver's license or the name that you gave. It's not. So, what's going to happen until I can further identify you right now? You're just going to be detained securely because So, go ahead and place your hands behind your back. I extend that olive branch. I don't want to be rude and call you a liar, but all the evidence so far is pointing against you. Okay? I'm not trying to be an a-hole, but I mean, come on. I'm just trying. Okay. So, your purse have your ID or wallet in it? Huh? Your purse have your ID or wallet in it? Because here's here's what happens right now, right? You don't just get to not give your actual legit name and just get let go because you know you gave a real name. What you do is you go to the jail for the traffic offense and you don't get released from the jail until you identify yourself. So, fine. Fine. You got a warrant is what was that the issue? Yes. Okay. Where's your warrant from? Richland Center. Okay. For what? Because I fell asleep before my court date and my public vendor hasn't gotten back to me to figure out what's going on. Failure to fear. What was the original charge for? Because the dude that I was dating had I had his drugs on me and he used to beat me in my sleep and he used to drug me and so I had that. He made me put it in my purse. Math. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Um, did who's Heather to you? My cousin. Did she give you permission to use her name right now in this traffic stop? No. Okay. How many times does that work for you? I've never had it before. Never. You never tried it before? No. How long has a warrant been out for you? I don't know. Okay. All right. So, what's your real name? Stephanie. So, is there any legal judge inside the car? No. You're absolutely positive. I have a narcotics dog here. Run him. I don't have anything on me. Can I search your car? I don't I don't do anything. It's not my car. I can't give you permission. You're in operation control of it. You actually can't. Well, then fine. But there's You're not going to find anything. I don't have anything to search the car then. Whatever. I need a yes or no. I can't do it. Just whatever. Obviously, you're going to do it anyway. So, whatever is going to work, huh? I don't know. It's a yes or no, man. Whatever you got to do. Okay. Um, with that being said, I can't They can't use that as consent. Okay. It's not We're not using arbitrary words. It's either a yes or a no. So, I just want to make sure. Do I have consent to search your car or the car that you're driving? Search it. Fine. Whatever. All right. Um, do you have anything on your person that's going to be Okay. All right. So, hang tight. We're going to confirm the warrant here and we're going to go from there. Okay. Right. Now, here's the deal. You're getting searched before you go in a car. You're getting searched before you go to the jail. If you have any I just asked nicely if you had a female. Yeah. We don't have any females. Sorry. So, luckily for you, we all wear body cameras and dash cameras. That thing about being touched like Okay. I mean, you So, I just I just need to know, do you have anything on you? That's I don't have anything. I already told you that. I don't have anything. All right. Stay. Let me go find some dope. Find check. Find a good boy. That's a good boy. That's a good boy. A large amount of cocaine was found inside her bag. [ __ ] I don't know if she's going to fit. I don't know if she's going to fit. We'll see. All right, step ball. You're going to come in my car. In the end, Stephanie was charged with providing false identification to law enforcement, possession of cocaine, and an outstanding warrant that led to her arrest.