On September 22nd, 2024, Ulis, Texas police received a call from a tow truck driver claiming that there was a man sitting inside of a Pensky truck that he was trying to tow. According to the Texas Department of Licensing and Registration, if you return to your car and it is being hooked up to a tow truck, but is not fully hooked up yet and ready for towing, you can keep your car without paying a charge. You do not need to prove ownership of the car in this instance. However, if the car is fully hooked up, you do have to pay a drop fee. Hefe was walking his dog when he noticed his nephew's Pensky truck about to be hooked up, so he ran and jumped inside of the truck to leave with it. The tow truck driver admits to the police that the truck was not fully hooked up when Hefe jumped in. But rather than letting Hefe with the truck, he called the police. Go there and look at it. should be brought down. Dude, you've been up and down the whole time. It was before that, though. He just told you it was before that. Can you come here and talk to me so that we're not sitting in the middle of the road and you don't get hit by a car? I'm going to get hit by a car right here. It's impossible. If they hit the back end, it's going to bump into you. No cars don't hit this truck. They bump into me. Do what you're saying, man. Can I have like your phones real quick? I'm going to pat you down for one minute. I'm not giving you an option. Turn around. Turn around and put your hands on your head and interlock your fingers. I got to put my phone down. Put them down. Drop them on the ground. I can't put them down. You hold them. Just hold the phone. She said interlock my fingers. Spread your feet. My feet are spread. Spread them more. You're tall. Hefe jumped on a call with me and told me something about this pat down that I wouldn't have noticed if he hadn't told me. When when officer PTO starts to search me, officer Hamilton is standing on my left side. Officer Lord, who's is from his body cam view is standing on my right side. Po now she's conducting a Terry stop uh pat down. She was supposed to be. But you see her go into my pocket on the left side where Hamilton is standing because Hamilton's not thinking about it. But when she comes over to my right side and get before she goes in my pocket, Lord turns his camera so that you can't see her going into my pocket. You got to catch on to that. Hold on. That's They're searching me down. Make sure I don't have any. I'm just patting you down for what? You're not patting me down. Why are you touching me as a female? Why he can't do it? Are you offended by me petting? Yes, I am. Okay. That's That's what I'm saying. Turn around and look at me. Talk to me. Not your phone. Okay. Tiger. What is your name? Excuse me. I was talking to you. Look, but they're the ones that came out of here. So, if you want to talk to somebody, ask them know about what's going on. Talk to her. Who's the officer in charge? Yes. Okay. Okay. First of all, can I have the badge and name? Yes. My name is Pel Officer. Badge of police. 706. Can I have your name and best number, please? You're going to do what she says. I know. Can I No. Can I have your name and best? It's going to be on the report. Yes. Okay. Can I have your name and best number? It's going to be on the report. Civilian asked for an officer named the best. I don't owe you anything. So, you're the one that's in the wrong here. Okay. Okay. My nephew can start from the beginning. What is your name? My nephew, okay, drives his truck. I'll pick you on the phone right now. He lives in his complex. He parks his truck. He's on vacation for a few days. I'm walking his dog. I'm dog sitting for me. I'm walking his dog. I see the truck being moved. I ran and tried to tell him, "Hey, what are you doing?" At that time, he was not hooked up. As you told Hamilton, he was backing up to get ready to hook up the truck. I ran and jumped in the truck before he hooked it up. Now, I don't know about Texas law, but in Illinois, if a guy is sitting if a person is sitting in a truck, you cannot hook it up to to let me let me let me explain this to you. Let's explain. Just just go ahead and talk, please. Okay, sir. All right. If a vehicle is parked in a public place, listen, she's explaining. Okay. If a vehicle is parked in a public place for 48 hours, it is considered abandoned. It was red tagged. That red sticker on the on the driver's window, it was red tagged 48 hours. Okay. That is up to him intent. He can he can contact his employer. You said he he works in the company. Correct. I said he drives Pisces. Okay. Okay. So, he knows I assume that you can't park it in in the parking lot of a park. May I ask you this? And it was marked abandoned 4 days ago. May I ask you this? Yes. Where are the signs that prohibit him from doing this such? It's a city ordinance. If you look it up, Google City ordinance, you'll be able to find it. If you read the sticker, Hold on. Hold on. She's explaining something. If you read the sticker, you get a 48 hour grace period after it was red tagged. Okay, so we're way past that point. It's now the 22nd. It was red tagged on the on the uh on the 16th, actually. So we moved on. He said she said was red tagged on the 16th. It's an ordinance. And once you once listen, listen listen. No, no, no. My I know my attorney going to have a field. I know, but my attorney going to have a field day. You know that. So let me let me explain to you what can happen. And this is totally up to the tow truck driver. I'll ask him if he can offer a drop fee. Okay. But I can't drop you. Okay. The vehicle's go. Okay. The vehicle's going. Let them do their due. No problem. Let me get your name for you. I'm not going to give you my name. I spoke with you and you were detained. So, you need to give me your name. And I'm not going to make it super difficult for you. I'm making it very easy for you. You are going to give me your name or else you're under arrest. I'll quickly show you the penal code for failure to ID in Texas because it used to say that you only have to ID if you're lawfully arrested. But as of January 1st, 2024, it's changed to say that you have to ID if you're lawfully arrested or lawfully detained. As per the statute, ID means name, address, and date of birth, which means you don't have to give your phone number, your social security number, or anything else that they ask for. The only reason I show you these statutes is to show you that they're for you to obey, not your government. You see, the statute has consequences if you get it wrong. They call it a misdemeanor, and it's punishable by fine and/or jail time. But the statute doesn't list a consequence for cops who get it wrong. But for Hefe, the consequence was two days in jail without bond for the cops getting it wrong. So to sum it up, if you get it wrong, you go to jail. If they get it wrong, you go to jail. It's called freedom, bro. And it's why the terrorists hate us. Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate our freedoms. Our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech. Okay. No, listen. I'm going to let them arrest me. No, I'm going to let them arrest me and then just come to the station. How about you make it much simpler and just give me your name so that I don't have to take you to jail for this? Can I Can I Can someone hold my phones? Can you take my phones? Can I hold your phones so I don't get robbed? Sure. You don't want to just give me your name. Your your daddy can't explain anything right now. Let them do what they do. There's a dog in the park right now that's supposed to be attended to. The dog? Yes, the dog is over there in the park. It's your dog or your nephew. That's the one you were walking. Does anyone else live at the apartment? The office. They hear you, young speaker. Okay. Are you going to give me your name? Let's go to the car. Walk to the car. Walk to the car. Are you going to give me your name? Okay. You're under arrest. Give me your name. Okay. All right. Let's go. Oh my god. Hello. We're going to be ending the call now. He'll be at Ulis jail. Thank you. Or in Hurst. So, and the the uh recctor will be towing the vehicle as well. Okay. So, my dog is there and then my dad is he's also an officer that's trying to explain. Can you explain what's going on? Yeah. Uh you can call the jail here in about uh 30 minutes and they'll have more information for you. So I just explained the vehicle's getting towed. He's refusing to identify himself. So it is what it is. That was his choice. He's not under. I'm going to end the call now. Thank you. Crime commit. Interference with public duties. How many times? Yes. That white wall right now, sir. No, if you do have it on, we find it as a charge room. Try to help you out here. Can't help you out. Fine. Okay. when you work over. Before this situation, I thought that that Texas might be just like Illinois where you when you jump in that vehicle, it stop it kills the toll process. But they said they they tried to trick me into thinking it wasn't. So I'm like, "Okay, all right." Well, that's why I was getting ready to walk away when Pep and Lord walked up. But then come to find out after spending two days in jail, no bond, no never seeing a judge and them just releasing me, come to find out TDLR says you do have the right. That's why I sent you that with the highlights. When the officer Hamilton came up, I said, "Hey, Officer Hamilton said, "Look, look, he he's hooked up already." I said, "But he wasn't." When I jumped in the truck, Hamilton, he wasn't hooked up. And the tow truck driver walked up to me and said, "Hey, hey, hey, hey, he's right. I wasn't fully hooked up. I said, "Got his ass." He spent two days in jail without bond, charged with failure to ID. Six months later, on March 11th, 2025, the charges against him were dismissed.