Florida a police officer pulls over a vehicle expecting nothing more than an ordinary traffic stop but as the officer begins asking questions and checking the vehicle something doesn't seem quite right what follows is a traffic stop that quickly takes a very different turn and the body cam footage captures the encounter as it unfolds here's what happened sorry for taking I didn't know what both four were back there or not you're good alright hands up thank you driver's license registration insurance okay thank you got any weapons in the vehicle I don't think so okay whose truck is this Joe Michaels I I'm an employee okay so this tag does not come back to this vehicle this tag's not assigned to any vehicle well I don't know that I'm a if you look I'm a construction guy so I do all hands up okay but as the driver of the vehicle you're responsible for it you have to make sure that it's legal I don't know which is why I'm gonna ask you for your insurance your registration as well and she's okay great I work right not trying to turn fast toward you right here at Lady Lake's we're putting pot belly's on okay yeah what is that what kind of restaurant is that it's sandwich shop I've been working there for five months putting that place in it's supposed it's kind of like a um it's kind of like subway yeah oh alright um it's open Saturday or Saturday and Wednesday no get my get my updated one I don't have your updated one sure give me one second please I don't know where the information on trucks is I don't know that stuff you know what I mean well good thing you got her with you huh back on the roadside the investigation continued the mismatched plate had already raised questions now officers needed to determine exactly who they were dealing with all right so you don't have registration you don't have insurance and all you have is an out of date driver's license I got no my driver's license is up to date okay this is my but that's the one that you have is an out of date I mean we can call the owner the old owner of the truck and the tag that's attached to this truck does not belong on this truck and I'm gonna go check the stickers as soon as I get another officer here because it doesn't look right to me it looks odd I'm just gonna say that so I'm just driving I don't know yeah okay can I get in trouble for that absolutely as you you're the driver the vehicle you're responsible for it should be in legal status as you're driving it down the road so if the tag attached is in the sign and you can't provide me a tag for it it's gonna get towed oh come on I can't let you drive a vehicle on the road you can't provide me insurance you have no valid registration the tag that's attached to it is not assigned to this vehicle it's a non licensed it's not a licensed vehicle you can't drive it on the road maybe someone swapped tags I don't know we can check it should be legal can I park it right at the work right here my work right there we'll talk about that oh here okay what do you got in your wallet will you check that for me it's what do I got in my wallet no you have your ID in your wallet your valid ID yeah no that's that's the only one he has I OK alright just look it up OK hang tight for me I'll be right back I didn't want to look at that yeah that's what I thought that sticker that's yeah that's what I thought that tag's not attached the officer then runs the expired Missouri license fields provided which was issued under the name Walter Richard Long public records show that a man by that name died in a Missouri senior care facility in March 2021 died in a Missouri senior care facility in March 2021 about a year before fields disappeared there is no publicly documented connection between the two but the FBI later listed Walter Long as one of fields aliases the passenger was later identified as Jennifer Ann Fields formerly Jennifer Ann isgriggs indicating she and fields were married with the driver's identity still in question the officer then returns to the vehicle to check its VIN huh no VIN go figure open your door this explains why it was a wreck truck there was the operation right there it was a total truck that's an accident so we're gonna have to find it on the vehicle I need a VIN right there okay there could be yes I don't know there could be cause I always got a gun but I don't know if I brought that's why I won't touch nothing cause I'm trying to show you I didn't know so I asked you that early if you had any weapons and you told me no and now you said I could have a gun I don't know Liam you get back in you get back in we're gonna deal with you one at a time you're fine you're fine you want both of them back there alright walk back here I got Mister Long one more thing for me can you turn around and lift your shirt so this officer your back please all the way there you go that's good nope Oh I'm sorry what do you want me to do hey man put your hands behind your back for what put your hands behind your back alright the man behind the wheel was Donald Eugene Fields the second fields had been wanted in Missouri after failing to appear for a court hearing in March 2022 that failure to appear changed everything he became a fugitive and authorities continued searching for him federal prosecutors later indicted fields on a charge of based on allegations involving a between approximately 2013 and 2017 stop I'm not pulling nowhere you're not back up stay back stay back don't cuss at me stay back stay back I have had back surgery I have had back surgery good for you shut up stop yelling unless you wanna go to jail too shut up shut up I'm from Missouri would love you for your warrant shut up shut up exactly shut up you're fine are you gonna calm down or do you want handcuffs you're calm good thank you 54 is this your phone in your vehicle okay yes it's my ring ring here who do I call okay just calm down just calm down okay I just want you to calm okay thank you and began the process of facing the federal case that had followed him for years he later appeared in federal court in Saint Louis the case continued for more than a year after his capture the case reached a major turning point according to federal prosecutors the plea concerned the exploitation of and the exchange of money or other items of value for access and in July 2026 the arrest that began with a traffic stop had ultimately brought a years long fugitive case to its conclusion yeah yep yeah yep yep yep yep yep yep yep like what kind of trouble right here