the severity of the crime. It's the dollar amount is over the felony amount. >> Yeah. So that's like filling it. >> I should have [ __ ] I would have bet off having that amount of money. >> So So it's technically grand theft. >> And that [ __ ] going to be on my record. >> August 1st, 2024. Flaggler County deputies arrive at an auto zone after report of employee theft. Outside, the employee is waiting to explain what happened to the money. >> What's going on, man? >> What's up? >> What? >> They called you for me. I guess they feel like I was stealing. So, they my to be right here. I ain't going >> to go in there with me. >> I'm going to be right here. Oh, you want me to go? >> Yeah, we'll go in there with you. >> That's why I ain't leave. He said I could go, but I I ain't going nowhere, man. >> So, what happened? What they say? >> They lost conventional people. And uh we was doing refs and I was taking like if I do a person refuh >> it's it's it's a certain customer. He come here on the regular. For some reason he always pick me to do his ref. So I got used to him coming. So I kept doing the refund for the battery. Sometimes she will come out >> instead of him waiting for me to get him the money back. He'll be like, "Hey man, I'm going to put my battery in the car. just bring me the money. And I told him straight up like it would look just as crazy if I go in the reg with the receipt >> and just walk out the door. So I put it in my pocket. He would give me a $5 $10 tip every time he come and that's what that and I told him they will show they show cameras of me putting it in my pocket on inside the store. But I'm like well what's the picture of me outside the store once I leave? Well, we can't show you that or we don't have that. So I'm like well that's only one side of the puzzle. But I told him, "Man, I y'all doing it. They doing their job. It's it's it's no hard feeling." That's why I'm not even I'm not running nowhere. I'm not >> It make myself look like a suspect. That's why when you pulled up, I gave you my ID. >> I appreciate that. Yeah. Just let us talk to him real quick. >> How's it going? >> What's going on? >> Yeah, sir. I'm the regional law intervention. >> Okay. >> Uh manager. So, the gentleman is sitting outside probably on his bench. >> Yeah. um while he was working for us. He completed these project refunds of the parts, he returned them for that dollar amount >> and then um I called the customer. Customer said they didn't do a return and he took the money. I have it all in color and kept the money and put it in his pocket. >> Okay. >> This young lady, she's already gone. Um [music] but I like the file charges, but I can do that, you know, at a later date. Yeah. >> Cuz she split the money with him on that transaction. Okay. But I have multiple transactions where he did it. Um, and that's his name. Heywood Jordan. >> So the person would come in for a refund. You give him the refund money and you would just put it in his pocket instead of >> So a customer would come in like for example, a battery went out on their car and they came in and they thought they had the battery on the warranty. >> So in reality, we're just supposed to give him a different battery. >> Yeah. >> So he wouldn't give them a he would give them a different battery, but not run it through the system and then do a return. Like let's say if he came in and said, "Hey, I don't I don't want your battery. I'm going to go to >> advance." >> So just give me my money back. So in reality, he should have given him the money back, but what he did is let him take our battery and then pocket the money. >> Okay? >> He pocket the money for about um >> that we can prove uh about 900 bucks. >> Okay? >> So I talked to him. This is a Q&A that I do with him. Question and answer. He signed it, made it um where he, you know, kind of BS the kind of story he told me. But um video doesn't lie. take the money, put it in his pocket, and then he claimed that he met somebody outside and gave that person the money. >> Did you confront him about the uh about taking the money like in his pocket? And he said, "Yeah, >> I did." He did put in my pocket, but then he would say, "I went outside, I met somebody, and gave it to him." >> Yeah, that's what he just told me, too. >> Yeah. But I talked to the customers that are on that information cuz we take everybody's customer information and check um so we can have for the warranty. I'm like, "No, I just went in there and swapped out my battery." Okay. So, they don't even know that he was returning it. Yeah. Okay. >> You want to uh fill out a statement? >> Yeah. >> You guys looking at fresh charges? >> Yes, sir. >> The two accounts describe different transactions. The employee says he carried refund money outside to a customer. The store's losserevention manager says these were warranty exchanges with no cash owed to the customers. Deputies go back outside to test that explanation. He say it takes a manager to do any um returns. >> Oh, does it? >> Yeah, you got to put the code in. >> Oh, you >> even Oh, that's my wife. So, >> just say if you bought this soda and you came back cuz you want to return it for us flat or whatever reason once I do the refi or actually I take it back if it's a certain amount like anything over 30 or $40, you got to have a manager have to put their code in. So no transactions have been done without somebody putting their code in. >> So the person >> purchase the stuff he would come back and try to >> he he would return uh he would um do battery returns. He been coming forever. Like this nothing new. He knew that. The store manager know that. Like this person doing this is is nothing new. But they see her taking money and they see me coming out here. But you see me in the store, but what about me outside? like you only showing me half of the picture. It's it's if it's a whole book, stop showing me two pages and not all. You know what I'm saying? >> I mean, but still like at the end of the day, what what's the benefit of bringing the money out here? >> And and that and that's the same thing I said. I should have been smarter than that. Because if I'm doing a refund, why you ain't standing right there and get your money? >> Yeah. >> With your receipt. You know, I said that early. So that didn't and and it's in my report. I told him the same thing. You know, that didn't that didn't seem right. But I guess that was that's that's part of his >> So, did you come out here and give him the money then? >> Every time. >> How much was it? >> Well, it just wasn't one situation. This was just like, man, we we returned thousands of battery thousands of anything a day. But it always been the same person. Always been the same guy. Even they know that everything we talk about is documented on their end. It always been the same person. >> So, it was multiple times. >> Yes, sir. >> How many total? um that I have on video five times >> in 30 days. In the last 30 days, >> 30 days. >> All the same person. >> Um no, all different random customers. >> Okay. So, it wasn't the same customer. >> Okay. >> All right. >> And then, if you don't mind, I just >> Another discrepancy emerges. One regular customer or several different customers. The deputies now ask him to walk through the transaction itself. >> So, it was multiple different people. or was it the same person? >> But but the the ones the other ones he showed I told him it it wasn't adding up because the the last ones I did that I'm aware of. I said all you had to do is call and verify. It It's basically that easy. But I don't I don't know if that was done because if it was done it would have been the knowledge that it was an actual terror. But the main dude, the main dude that I've been talking about the whole time is the same person that we always >> What is the money? I'm just I'm curious because if they Okay, so if they bring in an old battery and they return it for a new battery was was been returned but they said it was no financial swap because they see me put the money in my pocket but not showing the video or we they didn't discuss the video. What I'm saying is I don't understand where the money is coming from in in general. Like if he if someone comes in with this and says I want to return this and you give them a new battery >> and they walk away, where's the money? >> That's only under warranty swap. >> That's only under warranty swap. So you can e if your battery under warranty, you can either get a warranty swap for a new battery or you can get a full refund. Either or. It's whichever one you choose. But if you no no longer want that battery because it's a piece of [ __ ] battery, most people go want their money back like we are. >> So they get a refund and then they go and buy a different >> they can, but not that's that's just up to them. But that's that's an option. But you have an option to get a warranty swap for a new battery or if you realize all those old batteries is a piece of [ __ ] you get your full refund and go to Walmart and buy whatever do whatever whatever you choose to do with the money. So it's either or. But you said he was coming out here to put a new battery in the car. >> So he must have purchased one from here. >> Yeah. Under warranty. Yeah. Because for anything had to be returned, you either got to have a receipt or a warranty. So once I go once you bring me your battery and it's acknowledged that your battery is under warranty and can be swapped or returned. That's the only way we can go to the next process. >> Then where does the money come from? Like where what if you're swapping out batteries? There's no money in in batteries. >> If we swapping out batteries, you're getting a full refund. >> But my point is that if he came in and he got his battery and he got a new battery because he was putting it in the car like you said. >> So he swapped out a battery. The dude that always come out, he always get a full refund and he will act like he's coming out to swap his battery or do something else instead of him standing to the register and getting his money. We're not just talking about one occasion. We're talking about different occasion where he he's not just purchasing or returning the battery. His other items also. So it's not it's never what he was he just doing batteries and batteries only. Sometime he would switch it up. certain times he would do this and sometimes he would do that. But on two or three different occasions, instead of him waiting, not always, but instead of him waiting on the register, he would come out to the vehicle for whatever reason and have me bring it out. I shouldn't have failed for that. I should have did that. And I I'm owning up like I've been owning up to. I shouldn't have did that. >> Okay. It was wrong on my behalf, but at the end of the day, you're showing me one video, but you're not showing me the other. So, I I don't I don't know. >> Okay. >> The conversation has not resolved the conflicting accounts. Deputies collect statements and transaction records. Putting money in a pocket and intending to keep it are different claims. The employee continues to dispute the second one. >> Can I see it? Show it. Need that. So >> that's a report that I utilize that tells me um cash up transactions and that's how I was able to >> Was it all batteries or was it a a variety of things? >> It was all batteries but did that I have on video? I know there other stuff happened but I didn't have video time. >> So five batteries were the cash for five batteries was kept. Yes sir. Okay. >> Which is a total how much is each battery? >> Uh they they vary. So each transaction at fashion it'll be electronic journal for the dollar amount for them. >> So it'll be the total amount is here. >> Yes sir. So that's battery number one >> and then that's some screenshots of you know it and the next one will be the same way other information but >> this is all on different dates that each battery. >> Yes sir. >> His written statement becomes the next point of contention. He distinguishes the total value of the refunds from the small tips he says he received. The deputy returns to how the cash was handled. I was doing a return. I write slap all the right person. I was doing a return a refund for a battery for a customer lots of times cuz he did come on the regular which we all know. Um he came on a regular basis. He would never stay inside the store. He would always come outside. I was using I said something like I was using very poor judgment. I should have known better. But it's short, but it's the truth. He would always come on the regular. I should have been smart enough to [ __ ] meet somebody outside with any [ __ ] thing. Yes, he would give me a tip and I admitted that on on in their documents on their recording. >> Like a lot of customers, they don't want to >> we we we there's no policy against us giving tips, but a lot of customers for whatever reason, they don't give tips inside the store. like I I don't know if it's his own, but every time he come, he would also give me a tip and I told him that. So, I mean, I don't know, but would I use a P drug? Maybe Yeah, I was. So, >> here here's what kind of gets me a little bit. Um, like when I'm giving somebody money, money that's not mine, doesn't go in my pocket. You don't. >> Well, >> what I would do is I would take the money and I would walk outside like this. >> I have a folk, but I'm [ __ ] up. Like, I'm not >> I [ __ ] up. >> Okay. >> Am I be thief? No. Did I [ __ ] up? >> Yeah. >> Smarter than that. Like, I ain't no goddamn fool at all. So, they was asking me, "Well, how much would he give you?" Sh $5 [ __ ] $20 there. like it was never no [ __ ] huge amount of damn money. So the the where the 931 come in is not what was feel like was put in my pocket and I went to the moon or whatever with it. The 931 come from the the amount of return he did since I've been working here. It total up to $931. So that was the amount of the batteries that was returned in total. I mean, so look, man, like you got to see from our point of view, right? Like they're still missing $900 something dollars. The manager says that each battery that was refunded, that money was in your pocket five separate times, which totals up to the $900. So there's, give me a second. So there's the surveillance that they have, and you admitted to it in your statement. >> You want to show me uh One maybe two. He ain't show me no. >> There's five refund or $900 total for five batteries. For five batteries that is missing. So there's five total batteries that is essentially missing the money. That's where the $900 comes up. >> Oh yeah. Well, yeah. That's that's what I told her. But also, I I told her that, but I also told her that $931, that damn show ain't go to my pocket. I ain't go home. >> They're saying otherwise. >> Well, you know, they they got a job, too. Like, I >> Yeah, they have their they have their videos, man. I mean, that's >> when it come to videos, I ain't see what they saying. He did show me one and I had a logical explanation, but it's is it a [ __ ] up scenario? Yeah, man. I mean, you ain't no fool. I ain't no fool. Nobody's a goddamn fool. I [ __ ] up, bro. But I ain't been around this [ __ ] stealer. I'm the [ __ ] number one employee in here. And and and like I told him, if I know y'all got cameras, you you have to be a fool to do it. And you know, it's [ __ ] eyes where the hell ever. >> Well, apparently apparently they didn't have cameras at one point. They just recently got the cameras. >> But either way it go like and and on top of that, it's always a manager on the floor. Nothing can like I said earlier, I'm not getting around it. I don't have an attitude or nothing. Oh yeah, >> like I said earlier, every transaction that anybody do when it come to return has to be verified. So the managers verify what was they transaction the all the transaction was verified. Okay, Jordan returning this. What is she returning this? Okay. Is this if what you this computer say you returning is it right here? Yeah. Okay. >> The manager put that code in verify and print it out. There's nothing I can do financially without being a friend of people. >> At the end of the day, man, all the >> all the all the circumstances and stuff is in line for us, right? Um obviously a crime was committed, right? >> You're owning up to it unintentionally, but >> Right. But you understand that what you did was wrong, right? That's the most important thing. Um >> I mean from from from maybe from a bigger perspective, I see what you say. I'm not trying to debate what you saying, but nothing I did was potentially and nothing I did was fraud or however you want to put it, but it was poor judgment at the time, >> right? >> I would say that it was poor judgment and I should have [ __ ] knew about it. >> But was anything intentionally? >> I mean, at the at the end of the day, like I'm not saying you're lying, but like how am I going to prove at the end of the day if it was intentional or not? >> You you get what I'm saying? I'm saying, "Yeah, you just like I told him, man, you just doing you just doing your job. So, I'm not going to go back and forth and debate prove you're wrong and prove you're right. >> At the end of the day, I ain't walking. I just >> The deputies decide to make an arrest. That is a decision at the scene, not a verdict. Before he is taken away, the employee asks what the charge means for him. >> It's always tomorrow. Just this hook, this hiccup, bro. just get through it and and figure it out. Um I mean obviously like the only issue is it's a the severity of the crime. It's the dollar amount is over the felony amount. >> Yeah. So that's like a felony >> I should have [ __ ] I would bet off having that amount of money. >> So So it's technically grand theft. >> And that [ __ ] going to be on my record? >> Yeah. I mean, >> that's >> I would I would have rather I had the $931 for this [ __ ] to build on my record. Like, come on, man. >> So, that's what that's where like the >> So, this is a trespass warning from this location. It's not criminal, okay? It's just saying you're not welcome back on this property. And if you do return back to this property, you'd be subject to arrest for trespass after warning. Nobody >> once we're all finished here, you know, if you're if you're here with us, you're fine. >> Like I said, man, because of the severity of the crime, because of the dire. Unfortunately, we have to take you down. Okay. You just turn around for me real quick. I'll let you >> just turn around for me. I want you to be rough. >> Do you want me to take your name tag, please? Pen. >> No. >> Come get uh I think it's in my pocket, my wallet, like with my debit card and stuff. >> So, he's the only one that's going to go. death. All right. The other lady's not going to death. All right. >> She They haven't reported her yet, but they are going to. They're just collecting one. >> She She quit. So, they're addressing >> Jackson's wife. So, we're not saying that she's not going. >> They're addressing that at a later time because she's not here. >> She was here. >> Well, not right now. >> Well, but was she Well, it's a she trying to get out. >> But what I'm saying she was here also called him to come to work. >> Yeah. Yeah. She called me. >> She saw him and ask him to have a good day. She went home. >> What? >> Today? >> Yeah. She She called me to ask him to come in. >> He says they're addressing it. >> Hey, I understand that. But then he gets locked up and she goes home tonight. >> So, I'm just so >> I don't know why they didn't report it. >> Okay. >> But they said that they >> got nothing else in your ch. >> Yeah, I just checked it. Yeah. Nothing else. You got a lighter. >> It feels like it. >> All right. I'm going give it to her. You can't take that. Just spread your feet from me. Got no uh jewelry on or anything. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. We'll just check it out. Uh I >> You want her to You want her to take that? You want to keep it off? I take You want to take this off, man? You want take his necklace off? >> No. She at least try. >> I could I could try it. >> Yeah. I don't know where it's at. >> So, we'll just keep your ID. You got a phone or anything? You just want to bring your ID? >> Do I need it? >> I wouldn't need it. >> You can give her everything. >> Okay. >> Y'all might need to keep me with y'all. [ __ ] He's very embarrassed. >> Just take like just take like a few more posts, man, and then we'll get this over with. All right. >> The faster this is all done, the faster, you know, we can >> How much How much? So, of course, y'all not a >> We don't Yeah, we don't know. You get in there, you see the judge, and then >> what I have to like persevere like in the corner. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> You got it. >> Go ahead and go. [ __ ] I might need to stay with them. Looking like that on this side. >> Appreciate your cooperation, bro. >> That's all good, man. I should have been smarter, man. >> That's all, man. Yeah, just take it as a lesson. You know, it sucks, but >> I ain't reap no benefits. No goddamn 9 what? $31. >> Yeah. >> [ __ ] man. fine. We'll be down there in a few right. >> The conversation continues in the patrol car. He still disputes that he benefited from the full amount. He also questions how his answers in the store's earlier interview were interpreted. >> Huh? >> You said it was a felony, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. What the [ __ ] Like what classes? Don't it go by like classes? Class A, B, or C or some [ __ ] >> Uh, it's first, second, or third degree felony. >> Which one it fall under? I think it's a third degree. >> Is that good? I mean, charges are charged, but like is that the high low or >> It should be the lowest. >> Oh, so Oh, yeah. Cuz like first degree murder like you get like Okay, I got you. >> And the amount was 931, correct? >> Yeah. The felony limit 750. >> Got you. [ __ ] 9:31 damn sure would have been handy to be right now. [ __ ] >> But I I [ __ ] up though. I made a mistake. I use poor judgment. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes you got to >> Yeah, man. I mean, all I can really say is like it sucks, but like all I can really suggest is just take it as a learning lesson. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's the And that's all it is. You know, that's all it is. >> At least you're man enough to acknowledge that. >> Yeah. A lot of people are. >> Nah, man. I should I'm way too small to even fall off for some [ __ ] like that. The only disagreement I have is that 931 wasn't it didn't go to It didn't benefit me. You know what I'm saying? >> Exactly. >> That's That's the only thing that got me shook up. >> That's That's pretty much it. >> Yeah. But I mean, you'll be able to talk to a judge about it and you go from there. >> Well, she got a job to do like everybody else. She ain't trying to >> Yeah. >> She try with you. I didn't have a 931. She look with [ __ ] you wouldn't be here in front of me. >> [ __ ] >> Oh [ __ ] I don't know how that go. But >> and when we was doing the interview in the back, you know, the question is kind of tricky because it's either yes or no, no, in between. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So if he asked, well, do you acknowledge this transaction on such and such date? If I'm saying yeah, then that mean I'm acknowledging >> to doing whatever they soon to be wrong. You know what I'm saying? So that kind of [ __ ] that [ __ ] tricky man explanation or nothing but I say I'm familiar with that transaction his response or you >> familiar with this fraud or not fraud but g you know >> later a deputy helps him contact his family as they wait for booking the conversation shifts away from the disputed transactions and toward what happens next. Stuff usually doesn't take this long. >> Oh, trust me, man. I ain't rush you at all. [ __ ] I sit out here forever. >> Trust me, man. I ain't in no rush. They need to take their time. >> [ __ ] that. >> I'm I'm still in jail, but I rather be sitting outside the gate than in that [ __ ] >> I ain't complaining at all. I told myself I never see Flatly County Jail. >> Oh yeah. >> Not even damn visiting [ __ ] man. >> Trust me, I ain't going to have no reason to come back to this [ __ ] I've been in parkour what, about 15 years. >> Yeah. >> Never had. >> The sheriff's booking record confirms Jordan Haywood was booked that evening on a grand theft charge. He was released the following day after a $1,000 bond was posted. An arrest and a bond do not establish guilt. That determination belongs to the court.