They have heard a baby up there screaming. I can hear the baby near the door. Where is mommy? It's not her fault. The fact that the house looks trashed? Y'all playing wrong, bro. Come on, call my job. You can't arrest me. I WASN'T EVEN HERE. >> [screaming] >> ON APRIL 29TH, 2023, officers responded to an apartment complex following a report of a couple leaving their toddler home alone while taking their other two children to the store. Has anyone tried checking on this apartment? >> supposed to help. Uh-huh. But the lady that lives underneath there came to my apartment and said that they had heard a baby up there screaming. Yeah, I can hear the baby near the door. I don't know where the mom is. I have the keys to the unit. Is there really a baby screaming? No, she is comes up to the door when I knock on this one. Hello. You want me to call my maintenance supervisor? I have the key. You have the keys? Yeah. Now, let's go ahead and make entry. Do you want me to knock first? No, let's go ahead. Do you want to wait for the other officer? Figure it out. Mama. Hello. Where is mommy? Stay here. Don't go downstairs. Hold on. >> [crying] >> Hold on. Come here, mama. Stay here. Hello, police. Sit here, mommy. Sit down. Hello. Sit here. Don't move. Stay. I'm in room 412. Hello, police. Hello, police. If you're in here, make yourself known. Did you check behind the bed? Do you have contact info for the person that's supposed to be living here? >> Yeah, but it's in my office. Let's go get it. Excuse me. How's it going? Who are you to her? I'm the baby dad. The baby daddy? Do you live here, too? No, sir. You don't live here? No, sir. What were you and her doing? We went to the Dollar Store real quick. Okay. Did you ever visit that apartment at all? No. All right. She lives like that? She don't. But over the course Mhm. I want to say I want to say maybe over there. She had a lot of mental issues. Mhm. And when I did used to stay with her Mhm. there was a lot going on at the time. Okay. And basically, it's it's not her fault. Not her fault for what? The way she The The fact that the house looks trashed? It's Okay. Is I've been trying to come over here and help her in this situation. Let me ask you this. How many kids do you guys have between you two? Between us? Okay. Are the kids in the back seats also yours? One of them. Okay. You got the other one first? Yes, sir. Do all these kids live with her? Yes, sir. Is there a reason why y'all went to the Dollar Store and left one of them in the in that apartment? She was sleeping. We were just real quick. We were going to go in. Where was she sleeping? She was sleeping in the the bathroom. On like the mom's bed? Okay. We got called over here cuz the neighbors heard the baby screaming. And we had to get the manager to open the door for us for us to find a kid alone in a house that looks like that. That's pretty dangerous for that kid. >> Where is the baby at? My baby? Yeah. What baby? The one that's still My baby is in here. All right. Just making sure. Ma'am, just real quick. Do you guys have family in this area? No. Not you. What about Uh I think it's my mom and I live in the apartment. Like how close? What do you mean how close? Like where does she live at? Um probably not that far from here or if it's it's I think it's the home but I think she has something to do. All right. Mr. DeNoir? All right. Due to the circumstances going around with all the situation, we're going to place you under arrest, all right? What what We're charging What is this for, child neglect? I Hands behind your back. Hands behind your back. We'll explain everything. Bro, no. No. Hands behind your back, all right? Come on. Are we serious right now? Yep, we're serious. What What did I do? Can I call my job? Can I call my job? He said I wasn't I was at work, man. I was at work. Call my job, man. Tell them what we're doing before y'all do this. I want to tell y'all no, no. Tell them what we're doing. Call my job, bro, before y'all do this. Y'all doing it wrong. Y'all playing wrong, bro. Come on, call my job. No, no. Well, no. No, no. I refuse. I refuse. No. You can't refuse. Why are you placing me under arrest? I was at work. They're still your children. But I was AT WORK. I'M CLOCKED IN RIGHT NOW. CALL MY JOB BEFORE YOU DO THIS. WE'RE GOING TO PICK HER UP AND TAKE her to the store? No, I met them at the store, bro. You know, you can't arrest me. I wasn't even here. I wasn't even here, bro. I was AT CALL MY JOB RIGHT NOW. CALL MY JOB. NO. WE will confirm it with your job. Here. We need you to sit at the car first. I'm not sitting at no car, man. Call my job, bro. Call my job. Look, I'll call the cinema. I'm calling them right now. I will call them. I will call them. You can call them but then I'm going to call them cuz I don't know who you're calling. >> We're here. It's my phone. Give me my phone. Do you have his number? Give me my phone. I got the job phone right here. That's the job phone, which is this phone, but my manager's number is in my phone. Unlock my phone. Let me unlock my phone and I can call her. We'll we'll we'll we'll do this. >> No, no, sir. Just can you listen to me? Is this your job truthful? Yes, sir. Okay. We'll we'll ask for your manager through that. Is that this is the phone right here for? >> but it confirms it. It confirms it for us to make sure we're getting the right person. All you have to do is let me unlock my phone. All right. Cuz y'all can't arrest me and then I'll take the kids home. We we have people to take care of the kids in case this is it ends up being the case. And how can y'all arrest me? I even told you I wasn't here. What's your name again? DeNoir Gaston Smith. Mr. Smith? They call me D at the Cal Cinema. All right. D? Yes, sir. You're going to call this phone right here right now. It's going to ring. See, look. Told you. Look, it's ringing right now. And Google says this is the number. Okay. So, what's your manager's number? Call my Let me unlock my phone. Are you on break right now? I told you the system went down earlier and it just came back up. Okay. So, can you please release me from the handcuffs? Yes, sir. Hold on. I even told you when you interviewed me. I told Sir, that that apartment didn't get dirty in 10 I didn't say it was. That is not a safe condition for children. The pesticide everywhere. There's little choking hazards everywhere on the ground. You got to see that. And I've been coming over here when I'm not at work I'm in here under age. Is that why No, cinema manager. Cinema I said I said cinema manager. >> [screaming] >> Can you listen to like my wife live here? >> [crying] >> Yes, this message is for Anita. My name is Charlotte and I'm with the Cal Cinema. >> Why you leave a voicemail? Can you call from my phone, please? Can you call from my phone, please? Hold on. Let's see if she just was texting me. Let's see Let's see if she hears the voicemail. She's probably screaming for Call from my phone. She's probably screaming to call. >> That's what I'm saying. Call from my phone. Let her Let her give her Let it Let's give her a chance to hear the voicemail. Call from my phone. Call from my phone, please. SIR OKAY. LISTEN TO ME. HE WAS NOT HERE. HE WAS NOT HERE. IF [crying] HE WAS AT WORK I've been here all day by myself. He doesn't live here with me. No, I told you officers that. Okay. The officer over here is telling me something different. I told them both I don't stay here. He don't stay here. He have his own place. He stay by his self. These aren't his. My two Y'all can see I got two kids. My oldest one is not his. The oldest one is mine. Her daddy is somewhere else. He was at work. If you put like I I I understand what you're telling me. I've got to go off of what my officers tell me. But your officers What your My officer is saying you said you came and picked her up and gave her a ride home. I don't have a license, sir. If your officers would have did their job correctly, they wouldn't be doing this. Well, everything that you would have told him would have been on body cam. >> them. So, he's >> So, check the cameras. I told them I don't stay here and I didn't pick her up. Check the cameras, bro. Stop. Stop. >> [screaming] >> I pulled up. That other gentleman I seen him upstairs. I got out the driver's seat. He was not in the driver's seat. I was He was in the Let me talk to him. You got the job phone in my hand and y'all still got me in here talking. PROTECT AND SERVE, MAN. THEY DIDN'T EVEN GOING TO LET ME TAKE THE KIDS HOME EVEN they do take me out of here in handcuffs. No, that'll be different. You'd be You'd be allowed to if you can secure the biological father. >> [crying] >> I just asked them Well, then why then how come what I said that y'all said I picked her up? No, if we can confirm that you were at work and you were not a part of this problem I GOT THE JOB PHONE IN MY HAND. YOU JUST CALLED THE JOB. GIVE US a second. Stop. Stop. Just call where it says cinema manager. Just call. Press Press call. That's all you got to do. Press call. Should be answering now. It's that phone. Why I said you can still just press call. Just with with him present, that it the state don't bring him today. >> [screaming] [crying] >> They explained to you, sir, what's going on? No. They ain't telling me nothing. They just threw me in handcuffs. She's being arrested for child Okay. Doing an immediate response to come check on the child. You do HAVE SOMEWHERE YOU CAN LIVE. SAFE CUZ IT'S OKAY. KIDS WILL MOST likely go with you. Okay? [clears throat] But we're not done with that. You're free if you want to leave, but if you want to stay with the kids, you can stay. That's fine. Is DCFS going to check the place today? Yeah, they're coming now. Now. Well, then they can give us a lift and they can see the place. Yeah, that's that's what's GOING TO HAPPEN. OKAY? >> [screaming] >> THEY HAVE TO CHECK YOUR BACKGROUND REAL QUICK. MAKE sure everything's good, which I'm not saying anything. Well, I I no stuff on is in but that's the case. As long as your house is good, they'll go with you. Now, the oldest one is not your child, then she Hey, does she want the oldest kid to go with him? No, they gave me a half an I'm sorry? Okay. So, they should be here within the next or so. Um they're going to do their investigation. They're going to look at the apartment, and we're going to go from there, okay? >> Okay. I think you can understand. I mean, you've seen in there. This is Yeah, well, I've been trying to come over here and let him get his sleep, but I mean, it's still the same way it was when he left to me. Because this officer thought you lived here, and he thought you were the one that picked them Well, why didn't they do their job correctly and compare notes? Okay. That's why you're out of handcuffs now, right? Yes, sir, but thank you. Okay. The woman was charged with of a dependent and possession of a controlled substance.