a badly damaged car, a suspicious plate, and a routine stop that turned into a double arrest. On July 31st, 2025, an officer pulled in behind a vehicle leaving a parking lot. And the moment he flipped on his lights, the situation took a sharp turn >> 126. >> It's either Edward John 4114, >> 1407 West 50, Perry, Charger, Missouri. Tom John 5 Lincoln. >> As soon as the officer activated his lights, both the driver and passenger opened their doors before he even reached the car. >> Hey, is there a reason why you waited for us at the restaurant over there? >> Yeah, because your f your license plates are fake. >> They're fake? No, they're actually to the car. This is my car and I got it 3 years ago. >> Well, I'm officer >> and I got pulled over a couple times. And I've been getting pulled over from a Fred end because somebody hit me and they didn't have insurance and the police didn't do nothing about it. >> No disrespect. >> I'm a nursing student so I don't have no money to pay for >> I take this every day. I don't take it personally. So I'm officer Finn in the police department. Reason I stopped you. Your license plates are not coming back with any record in the state of Missouri. Is there any reason that that might be? >> So the plates are probably expired. >> The car is mine. >> Okay. >> I got pulled over just last week in Freeberg when I was leaving school and they didn't let me go a couple times. I had never been arrested. So, the car has always came back. >> Are you Lauren? >> I am Lauren. You want my ID? >> Sure. If you have it. And then driver, do you have your ID on you? >> Uh, I do not. So, >> do you have anything with your name on it? >> Uh, >> it's okay. >> No, I don't. >> I'll just take your name, sir. >> Uh, Deonte. >> How do you Is there insurance on the vehicle? >> No, there is. And after I got hit and nobody did anything about it, I said I wouldn't go to pay nothing else on the car because I'm in school right now and I don't have money to pay on the front end. I graduate the end of the year. I make plenty of money down right now. >> Hey, Lauren. >> No. >> I'm not here to jam you up, okay? I'm just here to investigate why there's a problem with your license plate. >> Okay? You're making a mountain out of a molehill. >> Okay? So, just calm down. We'll get you out of here. I'm not here to give you a bad day or cause you any grief, but I got a job to do. Okay? If a a car from Missouri comes back and we don't have any information on the license plate, I'm going to have a look at it. See if it's stolen. See what's going on with it. Okay? It's probably not the case here, but just calm down. Take a breath. We'll get through this. We'll get you out of here. Okay? Target. I mean, we watched you watch us watch her go into the bathroom. We watched you pull around a lot. >> It's okay. I just want to get home. I got to be up at the hospital in the morning. >> What are you going to school for, Lauren? >> Nursing. >> Nursing tomorrow. >> You at Goldf or something? >> No. Bet in Red Bud, Illinois. >> Okay. All right, guys. Well, um, any reason why there's the smell of cannabis coming from your vehicle? We'll cross that bridge. >> My boyfriend smoked. >> Okay. When did you last smoke, young man? Yeah, >> we smoked at the park. >> We had parked there and he was smoking outside. >> Did she answer all your questions for you? >> When was she pretty frustrated right now? I am as well, but I I'm keeping my calm and I'm trying to >> I appreciate I'm trying not to call my mother. She's been for 20 years and she's going to be pissed if she find that I got pulled over again. >> Okay. So, when was the last time you spoke, Deon? >> About 2 hours ago. >> Okay. On a scale of 1 to 10, one barely feeling the effects of the cannabis and 10 being the highest you've ever been. Where would you place yourself on that scale? >> Three or four? >> Okay. All right. Sit tight real quick. I'll be right back with you. The officer quickly learned the driver had an active warrant with an armed and dangerous warning, and he called for backup. That way you can see. Just hang on for a second. >> No, Pacy, give me my warrant before you Brandon Wood drive. Caller subject name started calling her and her husband's name. >> Driver's got a warrant. ISP console. >> I don't see why she's struggling so bad. You plan to tow it? >> It has no registration. Nobody's valid to drive it. It has no insurance. >> I'll have Braden start working on that. >> Okay. Good lord. >> All right. Sorry about the delay. >> Christina, >> what's up? I'm on the I was calling my mother. Is there a problem? >> Yeah, there is. Deonte, you want to step out with me real quick? We'll talk about it and we'll get out of here. Okay. >> Are you >> exit the car, please? >> We're going to walk right to the front of my police car. >> Trouble or anything? >> You're good. You're good. Um, you do have a warrant. Okay. State police stopped you in driving on uh suspended license. So, I'm going to take you in for that. Okay. And we'll get that taken care of. Okay. >> Stay in the car. Stay in the car. >> Sit in the car. >> Are you yelling at me? >> Sit in the car. >> Turn around. >> I'm turning my mother. >> TURN AROUND. >> HOLD ON. Are you Are you being aggressive with me? Hold on. >> Go. Go to the car. >> Do not move. >> Hold on. Hands behind your back. PUT HIM IN MY CAR. >> I'm not being aggressive. What is doing? >> Check him for weapons first. >> I don't have no weapons. >> Put your hands behind your back and stop resisting. I need TO ASK. I'M NOT HEY, I'M NOT with this. Mama, the police is I'm in Illinois, mama. He's arresting me and he's being very aggressive. I need you TO CALL UNCLE DEANDRE AND HE'S JUST SLAM ME TO THE FLOOR, MAMA. HE JUST SLAMMED ME TO THE GROUND. MAMA, HE SNATCHED MY PHONE. UNFORTUNATELY, >> go ahead and call Uncle UNCLE ANDRE. >> STOP RESISTING. >> I'M NOT RESISTING. I'm on the floor, but I got y'all. God sees everything. >> God sees everything. All right, >> young lady. I'm going to tase you if you stop if you don't stop resisting. Relax your arms. >> Dispatch 141. >> We have two in custody. >> All right, stand up. >> Anyone coming code two can reduce. We can still take one more car right now. >> Stand up. >> Can y'all pull my dress down, please? >> Yes. Thank you. >> Do you have anything on you? >> No, I don't. >> Once again, anyone can reduce code one at this point, please. >> It's okay. God see everything. I'm covered. He ain't never did me wrong. Kenny, did you check in for weapons >> very briefly? >> Nothing in his waistband or anything? >> Nope. >> Okay. >> Uh, excuse me, sir. >> Yes, sir. >> Do you have a body cam on? >> Was it Was it recording this whole time? >> My body cam was Hold on. Let me talk. I'll tell you everything that's recording. Okay. >> Okay. I don't need to My body I don't need to say anything else. I don't like the way you I don't like the way you just did that young lady right there, sir. With all due respect, that's not right. >> You don't do you don't do stuff like that. >> Let me talk. >> And And you're still You were targeting us this whole time. >> Okay, you can call. >> It's all a lie. >> The young lady never >> It's all a lie. [music] >> Neither one of us started doing anything illegal. They came up and put put us on the grounded for a warrant and driving >> cuz y'all racist driving. >> I didn't resist. Officer, can I get a phone call to somebody with police? Okay. When I get to where I'm going cuz my mother's calling my uncle and he's a detective and he's going to be up here. I wasn't resisting. I've been pulled over a couple times cuz my friend had got hit. I'm in school right now so I don't have money to get my friend hit. Every time I got pulled over, the police has let me go. And I don't I don't get into trouble with the police or anything. So that's why I'm upset about this. And then he slammed me to the ground and all that. I mean, I'm a female. I don't fight grown men. >> So do you really believe that? You you believe two men had to smack me down to the ground like that? >> So again, I don't know what the situation was. I didn't see anything. All right. I'm just here cuz they said they >> And then y'all have four police cars pulling up like for what? We went and got some food. He said he watched us. He was actually in there when I went to go use the bathroom. And he said that he waited on us to come outside. Okay. >> I got that car. I actually was in the military. I got that car when I came back home from the military. I was in the Air Force. >> Okay. >> And he's talking about the plates are fake and all that. >> I didn't had this car for 3 years now. I got it in August 2021. >> So I pulled him out and said, "Hey dude, you got a warrant. You didn't go to court. We just got to go take care of it." And she jumped out and started Get back in the car. >> Get back in the car. >> Yeah, >> she didn't want to get back in the car. >> And then she didn't want to sit on the curb, so she was assisted to the ground. >> I ain't got to do paperwork. >> All right, man. >> Well, you either tow them in the summertime with dollies or yank the real world drives out of the snowbanks in the winter time. >> Yeah. >> Half a dozen. >> All right. Can I ask you something though, sir? What's he Can I get his name and badge number? >> Yeah, you'll get documentation with that. His name is Officer Finnen, badge number 126. >> Okay. Where am I? Where are we going and what's what's going on? Cuz he didn't say anything. >> So, you have a you have a warrant issued out of ISP Collinsville. So, you're going down to St. Clair County Jail tonight. >> And so, like, will I have a chance of of getting out tonight or anything? >> Tonight? No, because we don't have bail in the state of Illinois anymore. You'll have to wait until a judge sees you. >> So, you saying I got to go to jail and there's no chance of me getting out? >> Not tonight. No. >> That's the new thing with the safety act. Once the safety act was signed in, we no longer do cash bail. >> What was that you was trying to say to me? >> Uh, what were we talking about? cameras. >> I don't know what you was trying to say to me, sir. You was trying to say something and you rudely closed the door on me. >> Well, you wouldn't let me talk. >> I like being talked over. >> I mean, I understand then, but I don't like when men disrespect women. You know what I'm saying? So, you know what I'm saying? >> I also don't really professionally appreciate when an individual of the public disregards a lawful order from a police officer that puts the police officer and his partner at risk of harm. What did I do? >> You have a outstanding warrant from the state police. >> Okay. But was I did I get out the car ruled or anything? Did my girlfriend get out the car ruled and put her hands on it? Make a >> My girlfriend disregarded a law. Is that your girlfriend? >> That is my girlfriend. >> Your girlfriend disregarded my lawful order to remain in the car. She also disregarded my lawful order to submit to arrest when she refused to get back in the car and comply with my orders. during a traffic stop, she's lawfully detained, and she has to obey everything that I tell her to do. And she didn't. >> Okay. >> So, when she refused to get back in the car, then she refused to submit to arrest and tried to get back into the car. >> Okay. Hold on. Why does that mean she has to have her car towed, though? >> Because neither one of you have valid licenses. There's no valid license plates and there's no insurance. >> It's her car. >> The vehicle cannot be driven on the road. >> It's okay. Okay. >> So, that's why we're towing. >> All right. And he said I won't be able to get out of No, it a it ain't no debit card uh bond. >> Illinois doesn't take cash bail anymore. >> Uh I see a I should see a judge third. I mean on the third. >> You will you'll see a judge in the morning. >> In the morning. >> You'll see a judge I believe. >> Okay. So I will have a chance of getting out tomorrow. >> You will be getting out tomorrow. >> Okay. Okay. That's all I need to know. She when will she Does she have a chance to get out tonight? >> She will be getting out tonight. >> Okay. Will Okay. Will I have a chance to get your badge number and name and and also the other ones? It'll be at the bottom of >> I'm not trying to be rude, sir. I just I mean, I just don't I don't like that. And then the way you were just rude to us. I understand I understand the circumstances of the law and what you have to do your job, >> but it's it's it's it's a way that you go about it. And I I just don't like the way that you guys did that tonight. And that's all I'm saying. And I would just like your badge number, your name, and his name >> and badge number as well. And >> that's all I got to say, sir. I >> Okay. When we go get the car, >> whenever you go pick it up from the impound lot. >> So, you expect you expect us to still want to eat that food? >> Well, quite frankly, young man, >> I know you don't give a damn. I know >> given the the gravity of your uh girlfriend's behavior, the quality of your Panda Express is really not my issue, >> man. I know you you don't give a damn. Cuz if you did, you >> No, Deon. What I give a damn about is going home safely every night to my family when I'm dealing with people who I don't know what they're going to do and I don't know what they're capable of. Yes. I I tend to, you know, ensure that I'm going to be the one that wins. >> Okay. >> It's not about who wins, sir. It's about >> Yeah, it is. Cuz I didn't know what your girlfriend wanted to do. >> Did you see any weapons in our car, sir? >> I didn't have a chance to look in your car. >> You looked throughout the whole car. >> So, I have to assume your girlfriend wants to kill me. >> I'm not going to You looked throughout the whole car, didn't you? You front and back. >> Your girlfriend was in custody. Exactly. Did you find a weapon, sir? >> No. Luckily, I didn't. >> Exactly. So, and did she come out the car to make it seem like she had a weapon in her hands? >> She was unknown. >> You seen Were you visible? Were both of her hands visible. So, >> no, they were not. >> I saw both of her hands from where >> I'm not sure how you could facing my car with your back to her. So, I think that's probably a fabrication. >> Cuz I turned my head. I I do have a neck that turned. So, >> okay. >> I saw and I know what I saw and I know >> Well, maybe maybe this evening will be a learning experience for everybody on when the police issue you a lawful order that you comply and you end up walking away. Okay. Everybody's going home. That's what I care I make I want to make sure that your force knows that you were being racist and targeting us that whole time because you went in the restaurant, sat with your girlfriend or whoever that was. Sir, >> came out, pulled around the lot and followed us off the lot claiming that the vehicle was stolen, but later we will prove claim the vehicle. >> I'm looking you ain't let me finish. We will we will we will prove to you that that car is ours and you will be I I hope that you >> All right. Well, I'm going to close this because we're going to move and if you continue to amp up, I don't want you to hurt yourself. >> I got pulled over by two black officers while she was in the car and nothing like this happened. I get pulled over by you called four other cars. >> That's [ __ ] up. And I don't see how you able to go home and sleep at night knowing you just put a woman on her mothering stomach. Don't know if she was pregnant or not. >> 5876. >> But you don't even give a damn cuz you white and got the privilege to do whatever the you want to do, bro. That [ __ ] is bo step out for me. Go and walk down to the last stool. It'll be the third one on the left. Before you sit down, I'll get the handcuffs off of you. >> Have a seat. >> The driver was cited for driving on a suspended license, no insurance, and no valid registration, and taken to jail for an active warrant. The passenger was charged with resisting a peace officer and multiple vehicle related violations, then released with a notice to appear.