[Music] for you. [Applause] How can I help you? Hi. Are you Miss Staples? Yes. How can I help you? So, we got kind of a weird phone call. Um Mhm. Do you know Latricia? No. No. Um I don't know anybody out here. Some lady called DCFS and what? And kind of made some claims that you had a child that accidentally shot themselves. Absolutely not. No, I It sounds crazy to me, too. That's what I am so sorry about this. My ex-husband, his new girlfriend, this broad is off the chain. I have went down to Rock Island and filed a police report on her. Okay. I have went and put a restraining order on her. What's her name? Uh her name is Tony. This girl is never in it. She has so many different Facebook pages she stalked me from. She has made up different names, called me from different numbers. I have changed my number. Try to do everything I can. Right. Unfortunately, I can never seem to get them served because they're always bouncing around in the Chicago area. Oh, okay. They're not even down here though. They're not even out here and it's been a constant Wait, have we been here before? No, you've never come to my house for anything. I've been here for 7 years and never had a problem in Rock Island. Yeah. I I didn't know you were I work I work at Genesis Hospital. I'm a patient care tech. I'm a student at Eastern Iowa Community College. I have a business in Davenport. This girl has made threats towards me on Facebook, posting her gun up, saying that she's gonna come to my attending, right? Um, so they they made some allegation that you had a son and he shot himself and he's in your basement. Come on now. You think Look, look where I live. I No, I get it. Just so I can check the box off, can I look in your basement real quick and I'll get out of here. No, you need a search warrant to do that. I'm sorry. I'm not about to have my rights violated because someone makes uranous allegations like this. I know. Like I said, it sounded crazy to me, too. I'm just up here seeing if you know, we have to investigate it. No, no matter how crazy to do that, I would suggest you go through the proper protocols. I'm not about to let some crazy woman who has now has my husband make Uranous accusations like this and have my rights violated. Doesn't No, I get it. That's not okay. I have four girls in here. That's what I'm just asking. I'm not four children. I'm not trying to blame anything on you. I'm not saying this is true. I'm just I was just asking. Okay. This is nuts. That's all it is. Okay. Um I have four children. My ex-husband's new girlfriend's been causing her issues. She thinks that's who it is. I'm going She's been harassing my job, harassing my place of business, harassing my children. I'm sick of it. Okay. I've tried to get a restraining order against her. tried to get one against him. It's never ending. I cannot have any peace where I live. And you guys only have girls. Yes. Okay. I have four. Do you want to see them? No. No. No. They said it was a son. I was just curious if that's even true. It's not. Okay. I This This is I'm just I'm It's a neverending story with this two. I like I said, I'm not I'm not trying to bother you anything, but we get a call. No matter how crazy it sounds, we still got to come up and see if there's any truth. And this is crazy. It is. This is very crazy. Okay. I have been living here for six years. I've never My neighbors have never had a complaint. Don't you think if my neighbors would have heard some some something like that, they would have made a call or said something to somebody? I would believe so. Yeah. Just think about it. It don't make no kind of sense. This girl is psycho. Okay. She's harassed my job. Do you know her phone number by chance? No, I don't. Okay. I don't know her phone number. Okay. All right. Well, sorry to bother you. Okay, it's like I said, we get a call, we we got to show up. They they done got to the point now where they don't have my phone number, so they emailing me. Okay, I have spam emails here from these people. I'm going to go down here. The last one I got was Let me see. Is it have a name on it? Yes, it has his name on it. I have to go here. This is the last one I have. And this gotten to the point where they're emailing me because they don't have a contact phone number on me. This is how bad the harass has gotten. But until I can get Rock Island to Cook County to serve them and actually find an address on them, right, that's going to be a problem. She looked out the window. Hello. Yes. Sushi, can you come out? What's going on? Well, just step on out. I'll explain everything. Wait a minute. My key is in here. Okay, I understand that. But we have a search warrant for the house. Thank you for your cooperation to be up front with us. Okay, hold on. So, step on out. Guys of the house. Do you all have a search warrant for the whole house? The whole house. So, you need to step out. Step out. Okay. Let me I'm I'm going to open the door. We'll all walk in casually. We're not going to tear up your house or anything. So, calm down. My kids are in here. How many? Four. And where at in the house? They're upstairs. I just made them go upstairs. I don't want to scare my kids. Can we just Can we just calm down? These officers going to walk in there with you. Then I got to copy the warrant right here for you. Honey, can I see the warrant, please? And I can call my lawyer. Can I see the warrant before we walk any further? We have a valid search warrant. So, I understand, but you haven't let me see it yet. And you're walking through my house. It's right here. Okay. I'm trying to see. I need your phone. My phone? That's not my phone. Don't hold on to that. So, which which rooms are your kids in? Obviously, not They're upstairs. I am very cooperative. I'm not finding anybody. You're fine. You're fine. Look, I'm scared going upstairs and it's empty. Well, it's for an old year. Do you know why we're here? No, I don't. I don't know why you're here. Okay. And I'm really scared cuz my kids are upstairs and I don't know what's going on. Okay. Yeah. Just can I call my family to tell them to somebody to come? You're you're not under arrest or anything like that. Okay. That's that's why I'm sitting here talking to you. Okay. Okay. I'm scared to death cuz I don't know what's going on. And so the reason we're here, okay, is because we're investigating a call that we we had, okay, the officers came out and talked to you last night, correct? Yes. Okay. Um, we have to handle that real seriously, okay? Cuz the allegations are that you have a son and that he's deceased and he's here in this house. Okay? So, that's that's where we're at right now. Do you have a son named Zion? No. No. You've never had a son named Zion? No. Are you claiming benefits for a kid named Zion? No. I haven't gotten any benefits for anyone. I just recently went through a situation where a young lady stole my identity and she falsely filed my taxes and my informations and stuff like that. and I've been working with the FBI. I've been working with the IRS. It's been a lot of things popping up and um um have you had any interactions with DCFS up in Chicago? I did. Okay. False calls that were made. Okay. Correct. Um one of the calls from 2021, DCFS came out to your residence in Chicago and there was a Zion Staples there. along along with your four daughters and then another young boy. We had kids in the neighborhood come over. Some of those kids that were implicated were not in fact our children. They were there. So you're saying there was a kid in your apartment that was not your your kid named Zion? I didn't say Zion. No. Well, somewhere here, we've got to clear this up that this Zion Staples. Yes. And not benefits. Listen to it. Benefits being put in his name that you're receiving from. I haven't received any benefits. And then also involved in this. I haven't received any benefits. That's what I'm telling you. Someone has stolen my identity. I have proof of that. If you go in my phone, you'll be able to see the messages between me and the FBI agent in Milwaukee. So I'm But this is separate from that with the DCFS call because somebody is obviously claiming benefits and getting food stamps. But but they're getting food stamps for your your four daughters and and I've been having a hard time with that because I can't get any because of that and I've been working on it. Okay. Are we going to find anything in your house that has Zion's name on it? Birth certificate, social security card, or anything like that? Nope. Well, cuz we're seizing your phone. Okay, I understand you're seizing it, but that's like I should be able to at least call my lawyer still. I shouldn't be held in my own house and not be able to call my counsel. So, are you requesting a lawyer right now? Um, cuz if you request a lawyer right now, we're done talking. And then what? You're going to arrest me? I don't know what we're going to do. We're going to search your house. We're going to search this house upside down. Somewhere here. We need to get the bottom of this Zion this Zion thing. I can't This is coming from other This is coming from other people. This is I can't help people call and make allegations against me. People do this every day out of spite and I possibly had some visitors. It was it was probably the summer time. So where would where would they get the name Zion Staples? Pull up the Zion St. People make it up all the time. People make it up all the time. But see, DCFS does not come into your home and say, "Okay, have the neighbors over and let's let's do all this personal stuff that affects you and your family in front of all these other people." They do it with you. They did. And they do it with your family. They did though. They very much did that. That doesn't make a lot of sense. If you are claiming people back and forth amongst family members to get bigger returns, our biggest concern is that we can have somebody with law enforcement say this is Zion. This is what was what's going on and he is fine because right now we have a person that exists but we can't lay eyes on him and it's a child. So that's what we're looking at. So, if this is what's going on, if you have a cousin, a sister, a brother-in-law, a friend, or whatever claiming kids, or you're claiming them on the app, and you guys are splitting some extra money, I get that. The biggest concern that we have here is that we need to make sure that this kid is safe. And in that in the time since the officer was here last night, and the time that an officer had called you back in June, that we can say, "Nope, she's totally clear. There's nobody here. There's no stopping arrest." I'm telling you. Birth certificate. What is that? It's birth certificate for Zion Staples. Zion Staples. That's not mine. Sushi Staples. It's found in your room. We need to get We need to get this figured out. Stop this. It's over. Where is that kid? You need to come clean cuz we're not going anywhere. This is just You're just going to dig yourself a bigger grave now. I asked you if there's anything with Zion's name in this house. You said no. I needed some extra help. Okay. That was it. What do you mean by that? I had a person that makes documents and it was just really hard like So does is is Zion a real person? No. I can't call a lawyer and let them know you are here. I can't call a lawyer to come here to my house while I'm being questioned by you. If you if you want an attorney right now, we we we can just we'll just be done. We'll be done. All right. But the investigation continues. Okay. Okay. Go and turn on for me. Oh, no. No, no. I'm going to jail. What am I going to jail for? What have I done? He just admitted to fraud. So now you're going to railroad me on fraud. Railroad you what? We're trying to figure out where your kid is. My kid. You're saying that he doesn't exist? My kid walk out. We'll cuff you in front. Okay. This is embarrassing. Can I I can get in the car. Do you got to take my dignity away and put me in custo not we're not going to put them behind you. Okay, we can we're going to walk you to the car real quick and then we'll get you out of here. Okay, my neighbors they've been knowing me for six years. You see that badge over there? I work two jobs at Genesis. I hear you. I hear you. I go to school out here. God, this is embarrassing. Spider-Man. Foreign forchech.