[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 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 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 found 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 she has so many different Facebook pages she stalked me from she has made up different names call me from different numbers I have changed my number try to do everything I can right unfortunately I can never seem to get them serve 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 have we been here before no you've never come to my house for anything I've been here for seven years and never had a problem in rock IA yeah I I didn't know who 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 going to come to my ADD it's just never ending right um so they they made some allegation that you had a son and he shot himself and he's in your 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 no you need a search warn 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 if you want 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 your Rous accusations like this and have my rights violated doesn't get that is not okay I have four girls in here that's what I'm just asking I'm not 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 that's this is nuts that's all it is okay um I have four children her ex-husband's new girlfriend's been causing her issues she think that's who it is 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 I get 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 ath and this is crazy it is this is very crazy okay I have been living here for 6 years I'm never my neighbors have never had a complaint don't you think if my neighbors would have heard some something 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 she's harassed my job 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 G 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 get was let me see is it have a name on it yes it has his name on it I had to go here this is the last one I have and this guy got 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 the address on them right that's going to be a problem so they keep having me come back to court until I can get an address on them I'll add some notes just in the call that I was hearing that it's a harassment thing so we don't have to keep coming up here and thank you all right sorry sorry to Buggy I just like I said we get a call even if it sounds crazy we got to come and see what man this this lady this I don't even know what to say about her it's never ending all right I have D cams here I I saw that I'm here I ain't got nothing to have okay she looked out the window oh hello yes Sushi can you come out what's going on well step on out I'll explain everything wa a minute my key is in here okay I understand that but we have a search warrant for the house for your cooperation to be up front with us hold on step on side of the house do you all have a search one for the whole house the whole house you need to step out step out okay let me I'm going to open open the door well 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 please 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 officers going to walk in there with you and I got to copy the one right here for you H 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 Chad and you're walking through my house it's right here you don't run how you don't okay okay I'm trying to see you are so I need your phone too my phone that's not my phone hold on to that so which which rooms are your kids in obviously not they're upstairs I am very Cooperative I'm not fighting anybody you're fine you're fine look I'm scared my kids going upstairs and check my kids are here mean you have to that's empty well it's for an old hereat 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 right here I just can I call my 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 I'm scared to death way cuz I don't know what's going on and so the reason we're here okay is cuz we're investigating a call that we we had okay 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 I don't 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 there 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 so 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 his name was Zion no somewhere here we've got to clear this up with this Zion Staples yes and 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 stolen my identity I have proof of that if you go in my phone you'll be able to see the messages between me 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 probably food St but they're 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 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 going search his house upside and down it's somewhere here we need to get the bottom of this Zion this Zion thing I can't help and this is coming from other this is coming from other people this is getting can't help when 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 summertime where would they get the name Zion stles Zion Staples I don't people make up all the time people make [ __ ] up all the time the 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 big biggest concern is that we can have somebody with law enforcement say this is z this is what what's going on and he is fine because right now we have a person that exists but we can't lay eyes on them and it's a child okay that's what they're saying is that noise are the beeping 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 half 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 and 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 is nobody here there's no stop get arrest I'm telling you birth certificate what is that first for Zion Staples Zion Staples that's not mine Sushi Staples it's found your room we need to get this figured out stop this it's over where's 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 need 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 can just we just we'll just be done we'll be done all right but the investigation continues okay okay go and turn around for me oh no no no I'm going to jail what am I going to jail for what have I done you just admitted a fraud so now you're going to Railroad me on frog 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 ready 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 C we're not we're not going to 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 in Genesis I hear you I I go to school out here God this this is embarrassing make sure e e e Rock Island County coroner Brian gustofson confirmed that an autopsy revealed that the boy died of a gunshot wound likely in December 2022 his mother remained in the custody of the Rock Island County jail after her arrest on July 26th 2023 Staples later pled guilty to endangering the life of a child on January 4th 2024 in exchange prosecutors dropped three additional charges against her including obstruction of justice failure to report the death of a child and concealment of a death on February 16th she was sentenced to 2 years in prison with credit for time served according to Illinois State inmate records Staples was released from Logan Correctional Center on July 25th with parole anticipated to continue until January 25th 2025 oh