the the board. He want me the clipboard. So I reach out a little far to grab it and he grabs his arm and tries to pull me out of theing window. >> Tried to pull me out of theing window. >> Do you know him? >> No, he paid with credit card. He was a customer. Okay. What's his Does his card have a name on it or anything? >> Right here. Ezekiel. I don't know if it's a stolen credit card. He was in a in a >> In the middle of the night at a bikini espresso stand in Lakewood, Washington, a stranger reaches through a window and tries to rip a 19-year-old barista out by her arm. She only knows him by a blue jersey, a scion coupe, and the name on a credit card. What starts as small talk over an $11 drink turns into a case detectives will later call something we've never really seen before. But officers didn't expect what happened next or how far they'd have to go to find the man on that receipt. August 18th, 2025, 2:24 a.m. Lakewood officers are dispatched to Ladybug Espresso on South Tacoma Way. The caller, barista Margaret Mao, reports that a customer just tried to grab her and pull her through the window toward his car. By the time officers arrive, the car is gone. The night is quiet. All they have is a terrified victim and a name she can barely pronounce. >> Okay. Have you ever seen this guy before? >> No, I've never been before. Never. Ever. Ever. First time. >> Okay. So, I know you described him to the dispatch on the phone, but what did he look like? >> He was like a Uh, anybody else in the car with him? >> No, he's by himself. >> Okay. >> The suspect doesn't say a word when he grabs her, but his clothing and his grip leave marks. Margaret describes a young white Hispanic male, mid20s, dressed head to toe in bright blue, a Dodgers jersey, designer jeans, a bandana. The bruises on her wrist, bicep, and shoulder match her story. Still, officers don't yet know who he really is or why he suddenly snapped. >> Did he mention anything? Like, how long was he here? >> He was here for like I was making wrist right there. >> All of my arm. >> All of my arm. >> Jesus. >> All right, let me get my camera. We'll get pictures of your red marks and stuff and we'll uh keep looking for them here. All right. You ready, Margaret? Okay. See your wrist right there? Okay. You're outside your arm. Okay. Anything else on you that you'd feel right here? All over. >> Okay. I assume like your arm was just getting like yanked against the >> right here. I always I grab this though whenever I go to me up. You got me so up. >> The body cam records the raw aftermath. Shaking hands, ripped clothing, bruises spreading across her arm. Detectives will later note the injuries to her wrist, bicep, and shoulder and the torn shirt as they piece together what happened at that window. But right now, they still only know him as a customer in a gray scion with one more clue sitting on the counter. >> He was in a in a >> in a Scion TC, right? Yes, INTC. It was like that space gray, like that like not dimensional color or metallic >> whatever. I couldn't get the license plate cuz I was too busy getting >> Do you Did you see which way he went? >> That way. And then I I told the cops. >> Okay. >> When officers look down, they see it. A thin paper trail left behind in the chaos. A masterard receipt for $11.75. Timestamped just minutes before the call. The card holder's name reads Ezekiel Fern Guerrero. It's the first solid lead, but is the person on this card really the man who tried to pull her out of the stand? Or is the name just another dead end? Your call has been forwarded to voicemail. The person you're trying to reach is not available. at the tone. Please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up. >> Hi, this message is for Al. This is officer Brunson with the Lakewood Police Department. Uh, today's the 18th and I'm calling at 10:30. Reference the incident that happened at your coffee shop on South Toma Way in Lakewood. If you could please give me a call back or call the Lakewood Police Department 253-459-9233. Thank you. The stand's cameras aren't in Margaret's control. Only the owner, Al, can pull the footage. Without that video, all investigators have is her word, the bruises, and a suspicious credit card. But officers didn't expect what they'd see once the surveillance finally uploads. While detectives wait for that crucial video, a quick note from us. These long- form breakdowns take time. Real reports, real body cam, real investigations. If you want to support more in-depth police documentary content like this, you can buy us a coffee at buymec coffee.com camwatch. It helps us keep telling stories that others might miss, especially when a simple receipt turns into a statewide manhunt. Detectives input the scion into automated license plate readers. The system hits on a gray 2012 cant plate CTC 0334 captured just north of the coffee stand minutes after Margaret's 911 call. The car matches her description exactly. Meanwhile, open source searches on the name Ezekiel Guerrero finally connect to a possible address in Tacoma and a second vehicle, Akia Sarrento, registered to the same man. Then another lead. [music] Margaret scrolls through Instagram and thinks she's found him. Profile Zeke 509. The photo shows a tattooed Hispanic male ink running from shoulder to fingertips. Detectives freeze the barista stand video at the moment of the grab and compare the suspect's left arm to the Instagram photo. The full-sleeve tattoo appears to be an exact match, but officers didn't expect what they'd find once they finally sat Ezekiel down in an interview room. Over the next several days, detectives watch both the Scion and Ezekiel's phone move across Pierce and King counties. An electronic tracking device order is approved for the scion and a pen register trap and trace order goes out to team a number linked directly to Ezekiel. Pings place him around Tacoma, then span away and finally Kent. Undercover teams follow him to an industrial area where he loads a white box truck, then walks alone to the sign. This time, officers don't let the car drive away. Kent detectives move in and take Ezekiel Guerrero into custody without incident. His phone is seized, sealed in a Faraday bag, and he's driven to Lakewood to answer one question. Why did you grab a stranger through a window in the middle of the night? >> Okay. Just so you know, the sign says we're being audio and video recorded. You understand that, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh, you're 19 years old. >> Yeah. 19. >> Um, all right. I want I I I do want to talk to you about this. And look, here's the thing, man. I'm not here to make you look >> I just I want to give you an opportunity to explain what happened. And we're just going to go about our way. Okay. But before that, I obviously you're in custody. >> I have to read you your constitutional rights. Okay. >> Okay. >> So, it says, "Before questioning and the making of any statement, I'm going to advise you of your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Do you understand that?" >> Mhm. >> Okay. You just say yes or no for me. >> Do you understand that? >> Yes. >> Okay. Any statement you do make can be used as evidence against you in the court of law. Do you understand that? >> Yes. >> You have a right at this time to talk to an attorney of your choice and have your attorney present before and during questioning and the making of any statement. Do you understand that? >> You want to read it again? >> Wait. Yeah. Can you read it again one more time? Sorry. >> You have the right at this time to talk to an attorney of your choice and to have your attorney present before >> what if I don't have what if I don't have an attorney like or like >> let me let me get through it real quick and then I'll answer your question. Before and during questioning and the making of any statement. Do you understand that? Right. >> Ezekiel Guerrero is 19 years old. Before detectives ask about Ladybug Espresso, they make sure the camera is rolling and his rights are read on tape. When he agrees to talk, the investigation shifts from who did this to why. >> Okay. Um what happened? Um, I'm going just be forward, you know. I mean, I could ask for an attorney, but I figured I mean, you guys seen uh if I'm being honest that night. Um, I I was drinking. I was uh I was crossfit. I was all of it. Um, I remember I was uh I had had something. I had lost a thousand that night. I remember being angry and I was drinking and um I had my ex uh she she just we're just over and so I was like in a sad moment. I remember I was just super drunk. I don't remember uh too much of everything. I remember I was drinking and um I I had ended up uh there and all I remember is um she asked me a question and then uh I had uh reached in and then uh I remember opening my eyes and then the moment she had like said help I let go and um I just stopped put my let her go put the thing and that's it like I I I I was I'm being completely honest. I was I was super drunk that night. I I was smoking all of it. And uh that night I just um I don't know. I It was It was a mistake. It the the thousand. >> So you lost a thousand? >> I lost a thousand. I was I was I was very sad. I was upset. My uh my ex we were [snorts] going through things and uh I felt alone. Uh I know I was just drinking and I was I was smoking and uh I had like flashes and I just remember I remember being there. I remember going there and then I remember like at a moment of time uh she had asked me a question somehow like be messed up or something like that and say uh yeah and then um after that uh I I remember reaching vividly grabbing her she said help. Ezekiel admits he was the one at the window, but blames alcohol, marijuana, a lost $1,000 in cash, and the collapse of a relationship with his ex. He calls it a mistake. Detectives see something else. A deliberate decision to drive out of his way, stop at the only bikini stand open at 2:30 a.m. and use that extended arm to try to pull a worker out of her booth. And still, they don't have a clear answer to the most important question. What did he plan to do if he'd actually gotten her into the car? What do you think you would have done had you pulled her through the window? >> I I promise you like at at that moment at that time I wasn't I wasn't even like I don't even I don't even remember like physically grabbing her like that. Like like I promise you in that mo the moment I I snapped back I promise you I let her go cuz she had said help and I just drove off. I I didn't do nothing. had it. I didn't I like I didn't I just remember like and like I swear I like I it was just a terrible moment and I I pul I don't even remember like actually like want having a reason why to do that. Like I remember it was just I was drunk. I was messed up. I was angry and I I did it and then like I seen what I was doing and I let go and I just drove off. >> Where did you go after you left there? >> I just went home. I I just I just I remember just going home and going to bed and that was pretty much it. >> To Margaret, the bruises on her arm are a constant reminder of how close she came to being dragged through that window. To detectives, the lack of an endgame is exactly what makes this case so dangerous. They have to consider the worst case scenarios, kidnapping, sexual assault, even murder. Because once she leaves that stand, anything could happen. And in the interview room, Ezekiel can only say he was drunk and very sorry. >> See, we had to be careful with this. This is something we've never really seen before. You know, we've seen barriers [clears throat] get robbed. That's pretty common. Not common, but I mean, it happens. But this was a different level. This was something that we had not seen. It really, [snorts] it spooked a lot of people because we did not know. We couldn't come up with an endgame. Like what if you got her or let's just say that person gets her through the window and into the car. Now what? It's not like she's just going to give up. >> So how do you you kind of see what No, I get it. No, I get it. Like I'm saying I I I don't even remember like fully doing it. Like it it was just a flash. The moment I I realized what I did, I let go. Like you've seen in the camera like I I I don't I like I just remember what happened. I I seen I let go and I drove off. That was it. >> Detectives are blunt. They've seen robberies, threats, [music] and the usual dangers of graveyard shift barista work. But a man using a credit card in his own name, tossing the drink, and violently pulling a worker toward his car is something different. It spooks officers, business owners, and other bikini baristas across the region. And it raises one more chilling question. Was this really just a moment of impulse or the start of something worse? >> Okay. Well, here's I mean uh you've never been arrested before, have you? >> No, I haven't, sir. >> Okay. So, what's going to happen tonight is you have to go to jail. Okay. You'll see a judge in the morning. My guess is they'll probably PR you. >> What is PR? >> You you you my my guess is that they won't hold you. Um they might for a short period of time. We'll have to see how that goes. And then um if and when you do get out, you're going to have to. So hopefully this is a humongous wakeup call. You're going to have to keep your emotions in check. And especially when you start putting substances on board like that, people do weird stuff. We've had people sitting right in that chair that have killed people because of being under the influence. Based on the surveillance video, Margaret's injuries, the matching tattoo from Instagram, the scion caught on license plate readers, and the credit card receipt bearing his name, detectives conclude there is probable cause to arrest Ezekiel Vaser Guerrero for attempted kidnapping in the second degree. In the interview room, they can't predict what a judge or a jury will ultimately decide, but they know one thing. The night at Ladybug Espresso could have ended far worse. Margaret doesn't go to the hospital that night, but the pain in her arm and shoulder lasts for days. Word spreads quickly among other bikini baristas about a man in a blue Dodgers jersey, a gray scion with plate CTC 0334, and a grab caught clearly on camera. For them, this isn't just a headline. It's a reminder of how exposed they are at 2:30 in the morning and how much depends on a thin layer of glass and a sliding window. A late night drink order at Ladybug Espresso turns into a violent struggle at the window. Margaret fights back, braces herself against the counter, [music] and survives with bruises and a torn shirt. A receipt with the name Ezekiel Vers Guerrero, a gray scion caught 700 ft from the stand, an Instagram tattoo that matches down to the fingertips, and weeks of cell phone and vehicle tracking all converge on a 19-year-old warehouse worker from Eastern Washington. In his own words, he was drunk, high, angry, and lonely, and drove to the only open bikini stand just to see a pretty girl. Detectives see more than a mistake. They see an attempted kidnapping that could have ended in tragedy if Margaret hadn't locked her knees and slammed that window shut. This case is now part of the record. A warning about impulse, intoxication, and the thin line between a bad night and a life-changing crime. The individual is presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. If you want to see more real police body cam and investigation breakdowns, hit subscribe, turn on notifications, and let us know in the comments which case you want us to cover