these people thought it was the perfect setup for their next scam but the real setup was waiting for them here are five instances when scammers take the bait set by cops number five two men scamming the elderly gets caught in sting operation on September 9th authorities in Georgia conducted a sting operation to apprehend phone scammers exploiting elderly victims watch how the situation escalates silver car turning around a has on the ground everybody move in6 is after the silver malib he he's turar around silver car is coming back to the intersection toward the house he's going to be coming right on you get out of the car stop get your hands up D your hands yall have taking them down now not move put your hands behind your back put your hands behind your back 1095 we're 1095 guns I got scared pulled out a gun I got scared you P out a gun no when you had first pulled up in front of me think that was a gun I didn't know not yet radio clear I had seen a gun I'm so sorry I radio9 is back in service radio go ahead and starter whis record please saw the blue light before I got the car no I seen a gun I'm so Sor nothing but the blue lights before I even pulled that gun out before I even got out of the car my blue lights were on didn't why you up here huh I got L heading back to the city of ATA place right to radio 27 out of New York oh right there I follow now let me check the car we'll put free stuff in there the game is over for the scammers the first suspect is now in custody while additional officers have apprehended the second suspect at the victim's house hey is anybody with Atkins Atkin and uh what's his name up there new yeah I'll go up there go you got anything on you that's going to hurt poker stick me man my car was in like Allway Drive I when it shift I was like good that was good [ __ ] right there and then finally when I hit it shift that is a rental vehicle Returns on a 2021 Chevy four-door silver in color hey y'all search the trunk Alamo financing urance information not on file NR what's up man we're Towing that car we going to the office huh ID oh this is definitely going that's getting seized cuz probably from the last the last hit they got last week I got find the he's got cash on him how much you know not much that's be over th maybe I don't think so he's in that yeah so one's in mine the other one's in that one they should be already the what oh you're not working no you had the other guy in your car yeah with both suspects detained the officers notify their supervisors as the remaining team finalizes the investigation TR 86 radio please adise bar County we've got their suspect in our suspect car we're going to have chares yeah absolutely but I mean they stop looking for it yeah they're going to well you know so you know what what you know what started all this so last week I worked a day of overtime they popped they popped an older lady for 18 Grand that's the one and I called Smith when I heard that I was like bro call CID on that one that's major fraud I'm I called them he's like you you think they'll come out I'm like yes I showed up to it so then when I heard this one come out and I was like Hey V call CID because if they haven't shown up already I'm like we were going we thought they weren't ever going to show up cuz this all started at 12:00 well they see the thing is is somebody already fell at once they're getting greedy that whole car down there WS yeah so do he I just wonder where you've got a fire on your hat inside the room I wonder where they're staying oh they're staying at the hayatt where at I would have ass Atlanta that was good sh good job man I told you I was come running so what are we charging them with we're going to charge them with two counts of it's going to be fraud and then we're also going to hit him with uh I'm taking fleeing and alluding so that's my charge yeah we're we got the fraud and we're going to hit them with we're going to look at look back again but whatever we can charge them with as far as the elderly goes how old are these folks they're old are they she turned 79 this month that just made everything worth it though all right yeah good what time did we start this at 11: 11:41 cuz we got set up at 12:15 yeah we were an hour ahead of you it was his idea he deserves an award you kidding me I didn't do any work prior to the sting operation an elderly woman was scammed out of $188,000 the scammers used a simple tactic claiming to be relatives in legal trouble in needing money simple as it sounds manipulating empathy can be surprisingly successful all I did was remember that something happened on a day I worked overtime hey you want this Hyatt card for a search warrant yeah I'll tell you it's hard telling what's inside that room no tell them could be probably mountains of cash $100,000 yeah oh there's going to be some money seizure bro seizure TR6 radio same traffic R 53 something C me real quick hop on out huh hop on out right back here right back here you ever been to Hall County before no so you ever been to jail before at all no no all right going to that door right there do I get a Lo yeah I right now you're going to jail for and looting but the investigators have gotten involved they're going to take the charges honestly I got scared you got the black car I thought i' seen a gun or chase whatever it was all I seen was something pull out pointing towards me I ain't know for enough okay you didn't you didn't drop that guy off though huh yeah yeah I'm gonna get all that are you write it down for me and a case number to emphasize the victims one of whom is 79 years old consented to give $12,000 during the scam what just so fleeing in a looting uh like fleeing from the police no but like what is that [Applause] consider some kind of fraud curently gra so where are y'all staying H where are y'all staying which one do you know where kind of forgot the like Lawrenceville or Atlanta like by Atlanta like it's like in Atlanta like a boat I can't tell you you remember a street no don't so is it off the interstate by the airport I think you about the airport the high is it the high at airport from New York no I don't understand like like what what are y'all doing here like in my neighborhood huh really really what just ripped it out of my book I did excuse me man you are foul that's what he do he is he's foul what's up what's up you a foul right there you want me to bring mine in too they're code to fin I don't see why not but they just can't be housed together hold on give me a second let me get this one out who is it when you enter the room take a left face the wall see those yellow Footprints right there don't say a word to each other both suspects were charged with exploitation of an L person with a first suspect receiving additional charges including fleeing reckless driving and obstruction number four woman thinks playing innocent will get her out of arrest on August 9th 2023 officers were dispatched to a bank in response to a woman trying to cash a fake check see how the case unfolds hello hey how are you hi so you're going to come with me for a second okay you have any weapons on you no I I'm going to explain everything to you here in a minute all right okay so they're saying that you're trying to pass a bad check okay no I'm not trying to pass no I understand that we're going to get everything figured out all right okay okay so if you want to sit in the back seat of my car you have any weapons on you I don't on she okay I'm going to get everything back I promise you okay yeah so what's so they they're telling me that the check looks fraud what kind of check are you trying to cash or what okay from Charles okay Charles wrote me the check okay I yeah I'm not I'm not a a violent person no Charles wrote me the check and um I've been working I've been working doing um I've been cleaning up for like a whole month okay okay and then doing decor and everything for the business I didn't I don't I didn't wrote I didn't write the check you can check my handwriting everything I I wouldn't do that who is Charles Charles is the man that I've been working for okay so it's like a private yeah you've been cleaning for just cleaning wrot you a whole whole Mon and I gave him my real ID everything says my old name on it I don't have everything this is me this is really me this is really me and what is Charles's last name you know what and I don't even know but you don't know no and I don't and everything in his mind I have let for and this even going to everything in here has my name on it nobody else but mine okay hang tight with Ser Hill right quick okay let me go as one officer enters the establishment to speak with a complainant the female officer engages with a suspect hey so what what's going on I've been working for a whole month and I came to cash a check okay and he says it looks like it's FR but I don't do nothing for her everything in here is mine and with my name on it and been working a whole month a whole month everything in here has my who who you been working for Charles what have you been doing for Charles clean the I got kids why would he give me a CH that's not good okay was his name on the track I don't you know what I even I'm thinking that I just re workking and then this is it and didn't I had to check anything I just finally got freaking paid after a month this it I I wouldn't do nothing for it cuz this is who I am how much was he supposed to pay you he supposed to pay me $4,400 over a month okay and then that's and that's how much the check was for yeah it was yeah and but was his name on the track no not not even that I'm looking and thinking no it's not I know think you know you work for somebody you don't think you have to even check nothing you just go to work and you get paid I don't do nothing you doing what kind of cleaning were you doing like for a business for him or yeah for a business for him that's just now been to get ready to open up where out and that's indicator indicator yeah and that's IND theator Georgia okay I had to come all the way out here why did you have to come out here because there's no self sake indicator oh okay yeah there is none this is the closest one yeah I don't have one of these indicator where I said right by the camp count the jail okay and how did you get here I caught an Uber you caught an Uber more money that's what I'm saying I wouldn't come out here like that I got well just let them talk to whoever they need to talk to from the bank and we'll try to get it sorted out okay yeah you said you said his name was Charles his name Char now watch the officer's point of view as he talks with a bank employee I snuck up on her she do say she's passed a fake license and a fraud check I'm not sure the CER now trying to verify V it but is it a Charles uhhuh okay but you're on the you're on the phone with him now though this check cleared that account already that same check number it clear it cleared his account already yes but to a different person for a different amount so honestly we don't know what's going on is it what is this the driver's license youy to use to me she didn't that don't look same from the distance I was at I don't know that's what her social says but yeah um do y'all have y'all don't have access to like see what this check was written for before can y'all can see all that stuff that's what she's trying to verify okay which I mean there's no way that you can can write two checks with the same check number so but see what's weird is she's from and this person is from SM why they're here in Winder cuz we have offices in the market MH okay see the check is attributed to an elderly person but the bank tellers are convinced that the man they reach by phone is not the genuine issuer me what do you say I I don't think it's him you don't think it's the customer I don't think it's the customer yeah I don't think it's the customer he's telling me that he issued both of the checks they both have the same number on them he's telling me that his grandson brought him up that didn't sound like an older guy no it sounds like young a young guy and this guy gets Social Security that did not get Social Security and he sounds like I'm not that young but he sounds my age okay or younger or younger and he's saying oh yeah I but he he knows all the information on the account which is not un okay which is not uncommon if they get a hold of an older person's information and he's like oh yeah well I I I wrote both of those checks out and yeah she did a service for me I said what service did she do oh well I have I have an expense report right here yeah yeah and I wrote that for her I said well what about this check right here to this Jan cuz that's the same that's the same check number there it's the exact same check number and it was wrote to a Jana I can print this for you can you awesome and the thing is if you [Music] look altered see how of the Box looking and look this says reimbursement okay that that is too much red flags here 12 you and I yeah yeah we're he's from smea and I the customer is the customer the account holder is from smna yes okay and I said um she's I mean she's from the C too I don't know why she would be a to L her right and I asked I said do you you know do you look he writes checks they're only small dollar amount there's nothing that's ever okay check fraud comes in many forms fake checks for signatures or altered amounts in this case old checks were used in Altered it's just so what sounds like to May she's got a hold of the they got a hold of his checks of his checks and wrote and there's yeah and there I I have a feeling there's something that's going on and especially when they have expense written on that oh 10 see how it just looks weird mhm and that's a different check all together you can tell them the size that's a different font yeah see and this was deposited at bank of America yeah see look that's a different quality you can tell that was cuz I've never seen any of our checks be ripped from the bottom all of our checks ripped from the top the checkbook I have from here is you rip it from the top you see how uneven that is and the checks that I asked did he order the checks from us through harlon Clark and he said yeah and I looked at the check order that was back in 2022 and he said when my grandson just brought them to me I didn't realize they ordered it with the same check number what is the chance that you write the same check number cuz it would have kept in our system and would have automatically progressed in the next check number correct yeah and then I said well can I put you on hold cuz I need to ask another question oh I got I got places to go and I got things to do I don't have time for your stuff this don't feel right okay yeah I just put in a so she is uh obviously passing a check that was written to somebody else so she is saying that this is her after scrutinizing all the details it's now more apparent that the suspect handed over a forge check she said that Charles wrote her a check for some cleaning that she did for him um but what I'm gathering Nice cleaning yeah so from what I'm gathering it looks like she's a and he told me it was an it was a expense invoice cuz this check y'all said has already cleared out of his account correct and C yester they clear yesterday okay do you want us to do the B okay okay Angel can you do the bolo and copy in that accounting branch and Carol and Renee and then we need to do [Music] fi it's fun time fun time to commit a felony and like I we are and she already has warrant out of the Cab County yeah see that's why and see for us I don't know what they're for but I'm going to guess she's probably from well and that's what makes it stand out for us because when they're here yeah it's awfully awfully strange have branches in Atlanta right and that person is from SM and then bank with us like n well especially when he gets cocky with me too about and like I said that that sounds like my husb why you call that sounds like a 45y old man yeah yeah I feel like I feel like this truck is smaller than the ones I got from here uhhuh and like I said you can tell it's been cut like it's uneven right so we need oh yeah it is uneven yes and it feels weird okay thank you all right well I'm going to go outside and take care of this right Thank you thank you after hearing the side of both employees the male officer heads back outside to finally handcuff the suspect oh all right go on and step out for me okay let me have that wallet turn around for me I'm going to explain everything to you here in just a second I'm going to jail right now you're under arrest okay I'm going tell you here in just a second and I got my boys to pick up where your boys at they in school and I'm there only on my C school but listen to me what school I go to get back there jul in in Middle School Tre I got five boys that's what I was telling her I don't have nothing on me okay we're going to walk to the front of my car come here I don't I don't do nothing everything belongs to5 walk to the front of my car for me you don't have any no I don't to come out here you want to just advise him we have our own charges she's going to be be kind of that's all I need you to do okay would do that not knowing about the investigation and what just unfolded inside the suspect continues to insist that she wasn't involved in any scheme listen I'm making sure you I don't I don't I don't do anything so listen I told you I was going to be honest with you okay yes the check that you were trying to pass was written to somebody else 2 days ago and just cleared their checking account two days ago okay that check that you tried to pass is but it was not me it wasn't me though completely fake check but it was it was not me and Charles wrote me to check and I told her I swear to God I did the work that I was supposed to do I did cor you're going to have a cour DAT I did the work explain everything to the job I didn't do the work I was supposed to do it and why am I going to jail if I was set up if somebody did a checking wrot me I I'm what do I do I go to jail now yes ma'am but for what what is the charge fory forgery y I don't have a I can't make a B I can't do anything please I actually have an account here and that check she was trying to pass is completely fake our it's not even our checks from here ripped from the top out of a checkbook yeah that one ripped from the bottom and it's like completely cut crooked um the same check number got written by to another person on the E and it just cleared their account yesterday on the 8th they deposited at Bank of America America and um so they called there's there's more of the story that's going on they called the the account holder and they were like I don't think it's him at this point the officers see just how obvious the scheme is um cuz the account holder was like I wrote that check to ma Cathy person I guess it was just a mistake I had the same check number yeah and they were like sir that's not how that works and he was like oh I don't have time for your click so they were like I don't think it was him yeah so either way she passed the yeah I'm not sure what she was wanted for but I'm I'm assumed fraud yeah it's cut it's cut completely different and I mean you can so they said that the copies that they gave me is the exact size which are the exact size of the checks that come from here so you can tell this is the real check and this is the same but it is kind of like thinner on this side so got a feeling she's about to get ey right in the car yep we'll show you what am I supposed to do no I don't you're going to have to get up here and talk to the people from the jail and see what your buns going to be and all that good stuff make a I don't have any money now real life I don't work for it work for this being rout to the jail one female 376 he would just ad them she's pretty out rate in the back seat what I kid AIG for me to pick them up I came all the way out here and pay the U you don't understand I'm not guilty somebody BR me the chance okay Char me the chance and like I explain like I explained to you you're going to have to tell all that to the judge whenever you get the see done on route to the station the woman tries once more to plead her innocence but the officer refuses to entertain her arguments further dispatch has been updated like all my ID belongs to me everything belongs to me corpor don't have a no fraud things going on please oh God please why why way out here nowhere how'd you get out here huh how'd you get out here I caught a l for 76 bucks I thought check was real but what did you come to Winder for because we don't have South Station the G they have South States in Atlant we do not we do not like Google I don't believe nobody innocent should go nowhere why am I going why am I going how many people do he do this to have do work and then right [ __ ] check and they get in trouble this is not cool I got doing nobody to come get me nobody to come get me how long will I stay here my boys depend on me and I work I have work I work for this money I work why am I going why what is I doing I want to understand why you don't believe me did you know you had Warren out of the camp they don't want me anytime they pull my they don't want me okay in the end the woman was booked for her existing warrants and forgery number three woman tries to make easy money until the police unravels her scheme on May 4th 2024 officers were called to an apartment complex following reports of suspected identity theft according to the leasing officer a woman's online lease application raised red flags behind me yeah supposedly is trying to open up a get a new apartment here using the victim's name who is overseas in the military right now no way I believe you spoke with the other officer about her filling out some paper yep so that's going to be right here here's her money orders she was supposed to move in yesterday and then uh I guess push it off because she figured management wouldn't be here today and whatnot but is she going to be taking more than yes there's a separate officer in charge here but yeah so what's what's going on today um my uh my friend needed uh I don't know what's going on really I'm just doing her D to work coming in and getting getting her key getting some keys for who's your friend um Alysa Alissa uh free free Freel forell what do you mean you're doing her dirty work what does that mean um she just asked me can I come get some keas for um I told her no problem put my face on you know come do it for I didn't think it was an issue but yeah it is okay are you saying the solicit person want to pick you up to this is that what you're trying to say I can't even you know my kids involved and he didn't know you know I'm seeing what's going on and this U-Haul right here this is at this isn't mine this is my brother's U-Haul I use this U-Haul because I was with him in his car but he went to his new job today at BIR this morning but he left and I wanted to you know come grab the kids from friend so I just took his you grabb my son and was supposed to be droing him all with James Town when she just came out she tells the her son whoever it's like you'll be okay you don't you don't know what's going on but you'll be fine I'll tell you later or something s during the review of the application a credit check showed the name provided was that of an active duty military member currently stationed overseas that heard that's kind of the way a lot of these Financial ones go not aggressive from do one to get a place they can't afford it did you submit an application she did she did I don't know any other information I just went you know just okay is there a reason why there's a Georgia ID with your case on it that was submitted to actually I'm going to be honest with you um she asked me can I send her uh a picture of me so I'm thinking you know she know my name you know so when she said picture I'm like okay well maybe they just needed that's when she gave me the driver's license with my face and I say wait how my face got on who is this you know and I asked her I said how my face get on the ID and she said oh um what was she telling she was like don't ba don't worry about it you good you in good hands I said yeah but who who is this like who is the actual I said o I told her I said I was scared and she was like ain't nothing to be scared about and I said well I ain't want to but I seen she had a boyfriend with her and I know her boyfriend do the M she scared of I'm scared of I've always been for years so I just was like when he was standing right there so I didn't want to do it and I told her I said I didn't feel comfortable and she was just like bab you all you got to do is just go pick up the keys I said yeah but who is this that I got to be that you put you know why you put my picture on the ID and that's when she was like oh um they just do it you in good hands and stuff so I was like all right so there's an officer in charge here speaking with your mom that's Mom right that's your mom right yeah so they're speaking with her now they'll kind of explain everything that's going on I'm guessing you're kind of unaware again you're not nro man I'm just kind of trying to figure out where your mind's at the leasing office reached out to the number linked to the ID and the individual verified that no permission was given to lease property under her name watch's officers question the suspect about the person she claims to be acquainted with I had gave her my number um told her to call me she did call me but she told me um she was like she was in the process of trying to find somewhere to say just you know her whole little background trying to me in Alysa how do you spell it um a l i that'sa does she have a middle name you know what's her last name um I think it's I if it's not free men it may be free bull free bull free bull that's soci do you know her birthday um okay um I thought maybe October don't make me lie I don't remember I know it's October uh she was always like two three years older than me I'm I'll be 34 wait a minute I think she's about to be 36 you have like an estimate for the day when she was born I don't I won't I I what Jesus forgive me God knows anyone I met her through somebody um she was cool years ago met through somebody she was cool hung out a couple of times with her um didn't see her hey can you um still needed to go to moments later a relative of the suspect arrives uh my friend Alissa yesterday and she well more little story I'm put you in cuz my business but here we go um this come to the trunk of the car is a car oh stop going back and Sh it over here too um I need some food oh what it was exact from me uh more little story one of Home girls um you you Bo you might be too old right now to remember her one other story she called me she hit me up um got in contact with me said she needed to move in um she was getting in the process of moving whatever whatever more little story she was getting ready to move in she said if I need you are you able to go pick up some feys for me so I'm like yeah you know what I got to do and she was like nothing I'll let you know you know just waiting to see if I'm approved or not whatever the case is my auntie was going to help me get the place or some so one little story I ain't hear from no more up until uh yesterday and she just uh and I spoke with her on C but more before that right before that uh about two days before uh two days ago more little story she asked me to send her a picture of me and I was like um okay you can't go on my Facebook you know and get a she was like no um send me a picture of you I need it real quick so I'm thinking what she was like you know these apartment so crazy they be wanting three times to R they want you to do the M or whatever I told them that somebody else was going to pick up my keys BL y um can you send me a picture you so I was like yeah I'll see a picture of me um and I sent it to her and I said can you see me good and she was like oh yeah that's all I had needed for you I was like okay I said what did you get approved for the apartment she was like I think I did but I still got to speak to the office more the store that was it more of story can I tell you don't don't judge me I I try to encourage y'all motivate y'all to do what's v but now listen as the suspect tries to talk herself out of Suspicion he me out more little story um I met with my friend yesterday when I met with her um so the whole time when she asked me for the picture two days prior of yesterday when I seen her yesterday and met with her she had a boyfriend with her she gave me an ID when she gave me the ID my face was on the I and she was like you just got to pick up keys so I was like to pick up the keys they couldn't just let me pick up the KE she was like um no you just be her go in there and get the keys so at that point that's when I became guilty of anything that has sh FR today what are you what are you guilty of specifically I'm kind of lost using she gave me it's not my ID I'm from Florida you know so it's a fake ID yeah yeah that ain't me you know what I'm saying I'm not her I don't even know I have no information on the person I don't know the person no nothing moreal of the sort I knew right in and there that's where when I agreed to take it from her and said okay I'll go you know pick it up she gave me um two money orders and what she say I got to be there by 10:00 so to pick up the keys whenever so you did do paperwork in the leasing office I just um signed signed the name and then then did you give them an ID when you were you didn't give them any for no so it seems like we're all on the same feach here identity theft is a serious crime as major ramifications I know I do know right being in possession of a of a fake ID is illegal cor and that's why I appreciate your honesty here but I I knew I up when I had seen it yesterday and took it from her so I have to take full responsibility of that well you are under arrest today put your hands behind the back um can I can I um before I have my fent going for my children as the suspect elaborates on her story the officers allow her to talk but it becomes evident that she's struggling to tie it all together a few stuff in my purse you saying you want them to have it yeah you'll be able to bring you first no I want to be able to give them oh give them so yes cuz I I jumped up I still got my kids and stuff to see that Grandma house um I need you to you want them to have something in your purse let me let me see with okay go thank you you got you need my number um oh can can you give him get you in the car get I got something else in there to give him something come to the I Got King stuff with me can you get it from him can you give him I got king um go into the car and if you need something else we'll talk to you I Got King papers and keth okay this officer she's just going to search you again okay can you tell them where jail I'm going to yeah we'll get them all that information she's just going to search you first and then we'll get you in here anything on you she know about you um you can I give him a number at my phone you have anything in you oh in me yeah I was listening I'm so sorry no sorry desk I'm going to roll the window down for you um can I give him a number at my phone yeah let me go get your phone for see you guys the woman faced multiple charges including possession of a forged driver's license two counts of uttering forged bills checks drafts or notes and criminal use of personal identification information with a public servant number two single mom thinks sympathy will get her out of arrest on June 18th 2024 before Florida officers were dispatched to a bank following a report of suspected fraud watch how the situation unfolds as they arrive on the scene who is Maris to you he's a friend of mine I'm about to be evicted with my two kids and he told me he would help me with my rent and that basically I just have to go in cash this cheuck and that would help me with my rent how long you know I know for a couple months is your only job serving I'm not getting enough I'm working 2 days a week kind up you knew this was a fraudulent check I just knew that they were biting me a check that you knew was fraudulent I don't know I don't know where they got it you showed up here in Scrubs with a stethoscope and your only job as a server you knew what you were doing no I just did what they told me to do okay all I did was get in the car and I was just expecting to he picked you up from work my house what from my apartment he picked you up from your apartment yes and y'all drove all way in land I just well I will tell you that this is the third check that has been cashed against this account today in his account in this account off of this account that's why it it triggered he hit so many other so he probably hit another T thir TD Bank he hit thir TD Bank all right it's not me am I going to be arrested most likely you can't come in here and cash a check I know but it's not me and then you admitted to it I mean I'm just going to tell the truth that way I'm not going in you walked in here and told me that you did work as a nurse for these people you know that this is a fraudulent check officers were informed that a man had attempted to cash two fake checks totaling $1,000 but left the scene as they arrived simultaneously the female sus ECT walked into the bank with a $3,390 check been a ring of these fraudulent checks going around of these savings bonds copy thank you I'm sorry I didn't I'm no you good um so and we actually just got some the other day so everyone knew the feel of the check the writing on the check so the teller told me right away um did keep eive over here come look at the checks that's when I called you mhm we had him sit down he went to go leave he drove away with him standing out there I guess he drove past him okay and then when I came back in the teller called me up and asked me to come look at the check that she just had and then she's saying that the person that dropped her off here left her the same person and what car was he driving the Buick it was the I think it was a Buick that's what what like it was like a burnt orange kind of carette burnt orange car was it like a SUV sedan or was it like a like a hatchback okay do you know like did it look newer or older huh sorry she said SUV yeah SUV newer older newer older probably newer cuz the screen was all like touch screen inside okay so or Su the truth phone giving you the information from the source is not going to help me at all like I'm still going to like in cour it might help you but I can't won't help me now and she's confident in call no matter what my boyfriend no not your boyfriend so no matter what I'm going toest it today most likely call them the officers instruct the woman to call who she claims as the man who gave him the check to get more information she telling us who the person that one it's it's a guy that she met a couple months ago and was giving her a ride hello hello are you good like you're not detain the police are everything is good I can tell you right now frauds are not my strong suit so I am doing my best best so because you guys had me come in here and do this fraudulent now I'm going to jail so you can't leave I cannot leave so who are you in the office with right now the officer so something you didn't have because and disgu that yall put me in with check with my name and told them the story that you told me to tell them and now I'm being arrested I can't just come I can't just come near myself it doesn't matter yes I need you to come I don't know how I'm supposed to do it I'm not even over there but of course the woman's accomplice doesn't seem eager to return to the bank to face the police what am I supposed to do tell them you going to jail if he don't show up because of his fraulin check I'm going either way yeah both y'all can go you want to go for all of it no Okay then if you don't come here I'm going to jail for you I'm coming back BR ask him how far out he is how far are you I'm literally nowhere near that City right now I got all right well how far let if you told me you were detained I would have stayed and we would have just switched places but you didn't tell me you were detained or arrested so I didn't do anything about that because you told me you weren't detained or arrested if you told me you were detained or arrested it would have made more sense I have no knowledge of what's going on right now this is all tell them tell them you going on to jail so you better come back well I'm going to jail for you're you're a CH so can you please come back how far are you how far are you I don't have GPS right now I just got out of there so how an estimate or [Applause] something out of sympathy the officers Grant the woman another phone call to arrange care for her children despite this her emotions only escalate further some her children got the um right about oh oh yeah yeah than hey Grandma I'm being arrested right now I need you to pick the boys up for me today I'm being arrested I need you to pick the boys up for me because stupid guys I trying I try I was trying to get the money to pay my rent and I went to the bank with a check that wasn't that wasn't good and I didn't steal anybody's money I was given a check by this guy that I know and it's not a real check so I'm being arrested for fraud for fraud all the way in land and I need you to get the boys today from school for me by all right can you look at me for a second I'm read you I'm going read you your rights all right are you ready the officer proceeds to read the woman's Miranda rights you have the right to remain silent anything you anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law you have the right to talk to a lawyer or have him or her present with you while you are being questioned if you cannot afford to hire a lawyer or will one will be appointed to represent you before any question in if you wish if you if you can decide any time to exercise these rights and not answer any questions or make any statements do you understand each of these rights that have been read to you are you still on the talk test yes I need I need a confirmation all right so walk me from the beginning from when they picked you up all the way until now so how we get here they pick me up and when they picked you up okay so was this planned before they picked you up or they just said hey I'm outside I mean I knew they were coming to get me but you didn't know what for I knew that it had something to do with um going to the bank but they I don't know I so you knew they were picking you up and you knew you guys were going to the bank I didn't know that I was going to be calling in trying to cash a check okay but you knew they were picking you up and you knew you guys were coming to the bank what else did they tell you before you got in the car that's pretty much it that they were picking you up so you can go to a bank and help out with your rent yeah although the woman claimed she had no prior knowledge of the scheme her explanation of the circumstances surrounding the fraudulent checks reveals she had some understanding of her involvement and when did they make you put the uniform on we were I live in apaka we were almost to the I to get off I4 in um Ultima um when they started talking about scrubs going to the store and getting my scrubs asking me what size I was and I'm like what are you talking about like I didn't know anything about that and they were like um um that it just looks more official and I'm like what like what are you talking about I was kind of just going with whatever they were telling me that they were doing okay um because I'm desperate I need to my kid head all right um but yeah we went we got the scrubs um he paid for them yeah it's 15 are you going to be here for a minute I'm to walk in now all right copy only reason I'm asking is um we got a hold of the uh guy driving the burnt orange vehicle um he wouldn't explain exactly where he was at but he said he was going to come back so just in case if he does I was just trying to see if someone could be in the parking lot spot him okay so Maris was the passenger and Maris friend was driving M all right and then what else happened when they get okay so they said we're going to buy the shrubs it looks more official put them on yeah and you put them on I mean I didn't put them on right away but yeah when we got to the bank when you got here to the well he pulled up like across the street and like a plaza right there was like Little Caesar he PIR pulled up by the Fair Winds the land plaz okay and then um wrote the check and basically told me put those on is what you're doing and that's not at all what I left my like okay so he pulled in to the land Plaza and that's when he told you to change it to the uniform cuz it looks more official and he hand okay and he handr the [ __ ] the one driving the one driving hand okay now as backup officers arrive the woman once again reiterates the scheme to them confirming all the details from what understand this check is fake mhm you knew this check was fake I didn't know anything you didn't know anything no I just knew that this was someone trying to help me get my rent paid so I'm not evicted with my children and I'm at the point where I'll do almost anything to make sure that my kids don't feel that everything that I'm going through to keep the stuff going so when he told you to get dressed in the shrubs and he WR the and he uh wrote the check for you I me at that point I obviously figured what did he say to you when he wrote the check and gave it to you he just had to go in and tell them this this is what he wrote this is what it is what did he tell you to tell them that I'm a living assistant that I take care of someone's mom or something and that which is not true obviously no that way no you should be right for right now I'm not even entirely sure he's coming back he didn't sound too convinc all right so he told you to come in here and act like he was taking care of somebody uh taking care of a okay and at that point did you know the check was fake when he gave it to you before he walked into his bank I figure so he wrote it for $3,390 and then obviously did he have the scrubs or did you he got me I was in my clothes he picked me up and I'm just riding with them thinking I don't know I'm just going with the flow and then he said you got to stop and get your scrubs and I was like what do we need to stop and get these scrubs for right and that was when he I mean he didn't even fully explain it he was on the he was had like two phones on the phone with different people like I was just sitting in the back just writing like whatever y'all tell me I need to do so I can pay my rent I know Maris for a couple months but the guy driving is maris's friend I don't know him now the officers try to get more more information about the other people involved in the scheme and I got you burn orange SUV yeah what about this white Mercedes I don't know anything okay but he did say to you on the phone that was the crackhead well because Grandma's I see my grandma no this is important you're looking at felony chargers right now I'll be honest with you okay it's called uttering a forge document okay so this is probably more important than what Grandma's got to say I mean I was just asked her to pick up my kids from school so that's probably why she said okay tell her to pick up your kids tell her probably she I told her I was I was getting eled so I mean okay then answer only because it has to do with your kids hello I got kids so as the investigation unfolds the officers grow more certain that the woman is tied to the previous case involving two men trying to cash a fraudulent check so check I'm working on getting you a c the the third Che almost $400 there's another check that was cashed what TD Bank did he cash this one grand I'm talking to the cops right now so he cash a couple cash like two before this at this bank no he cashed two at other TV banks in or somewhere else other was like I believe the other two were in Orlando okay and that one has his name on it this one has her name on it hry in here to act like are they the same same check numbers and all that this is University Boulevard 13 obviously you know that Orlando PD you that has to go through them because I their jurisdiction and all that so um well I'm just more or less giving this to you as far as information know that there was three checks that were absolutely yeah but for the for like reporting purposes and we can give you a case number and we can even fax this over there as far as like a a case linkage um because obviously this is the same people so it's going to be a case linkage it might even be a Statewide prosecutor because it's mul uh through multi- jurisdictions mult multiple if the two are connected no that nothing this is from the white Mercedes yeah let me just be perfectly clear with you right now there is no way that I believe that these two incidences are not linked they're not I I I mean I promise on everything said he was on the phone talking to people right not to so he had multiple phones he's talking to people two people don't walk into a bank at the same time I mean I just that would just lightning stri both with a fake check they walk in and they just leave you sitting here I get that but that whoever that was I never see I you didn't have to see him know but he wasn't it might not be something you're knowledge may not know these guys may know but you probably don't cuz they just left you seeing I mean right away as soon as you said that they're dealing with somebody else and he said to you oh they're dealing with that despite the officer's speculations the female suspect denies having any connection to the previous fraudulent transaction I don't so he knew how how would he supposed to know what what we and they both and they both left at the same time One Cop showed up everybody leave you're still sitting here the they went to a TD with me in the car right before we came to this one and he was walking out of that TD too and then we I told them when I got here that I seen the same guy that walked out of that one here and you think that these two things completely by accid I don't know you don't I'm just I'm just asking you to think logically I'm not saying that you know right I'm not saying that you have some master plan in this I'm just asking you to speak logic think logically right two different people this might be the core okay two different people committing similar frauds over multiple jurisdictions just so happen to be leaving at the same time and you think that's an accident I get how it looks but I like I said I have no knowledge of anything the only thing I'm asking you for is if you have any names of these people which I know you or mar mar and he's supposedly coming back here that's he said I got you family doll car I don't know who the guy is driving to say that that's exactly what he said you knew he was going to say walk over the Family Dollar and that that that's what happened they've been texting so um did he say he's coming back when I walked out did he say he was going to come back but he was trying to figure out a way back he ain't coming back he said he had he had trying I all I can imagine is that he's not trying to have whoever's driving the burnt orange SUV the one that's his friend come back he's trying to get out of that car and find a way here so that whoever that is I I don't know his name I got you well now the officer asks the woman if she's willing to write a written statement and her answer will surprise you would you be willing to write a swarm written statement about what happened about this is this guy that you met two months ago that he picked you up today that he took you to The Scrub Shop that he took you to these banks that he told you to put the scrubs on told you you know everything that you're telling us would you be willing to put it in writing on paper I'm not still in trouble well yes I I don't have the ability to make felonies go away okay but what I can tell you is is that this will help you in court it cooperating suspects that's what I've been trying to do the whole time I no I appreciate that so that's all I'm asking if you'll put it in writing that's all I'm asking I'm not making you any promises that it'll lessen you're not you're not lessening any trouble you're in today okay it's just for the future right for when this goes to trial do you look like a accomplice to a Master scheme or do you look like a girl who's trying to pay her bills so her kids don't be homeless you know what I'm saying that's what do you want to look like what picture do you want painted of you for the jury the truth the truth right so will you write the truth for us and swear to it yeah thank you let me go get a statement for the woman's emotion escalates once again prompting one of the officers to step in and try to get her to calm down while they wait for statement forms I'm not going to say I know how you feel cuz I don't have K right now but I do have one on the way and I'm not in your shoes but I have to do everything but qu I don't get any help and I've just been stuck for the last two months I just paid May's rent I was just enough to be evicted in May I just paid May's rent June 7th and I'm going to get I already got eviction notice for June so they got you on a month to month that's what it seemed like I mean I have my lease or whatever but they give you 30 days from the day that it's late and then after the 30 days you have to paid it then they'll put in the note then they'll put in for the court to EV and then once you pay it they once you pay it go away and then you were late again for the month of June so they so they get another 30-day noce so I have until July 7th how much is your rent right now with the late feed it's almost $2,000 okay how much is it before 1750 1750 two bedroom one bathroom but like everything's included so my lights yeah do you uh you don't get help from the children's father are both of your kids from the same they're from the same die I don't get help from him at all now all that's left for the woman is to write a statement that includes everything she knows about the scheme I got you I got you all righty so what I want you to do is fill out all this information up here um and then here you're going to start your statement with everything that you told us okay um and then this is a secondary page for you to write on uh whenever get me into here and then you know mention where yall went where the vehicle that you were in the fact that you saw that white Mercedes at the other I didn't see the white Mercedes I just saw the guy I didn't know what car came in so but you saw the guy okay yeah mention that in there um all of the everything that we've discussed today okay it might be a lot if you might you might if you need another one after that just let us know we can get you another one local is not local just put my address yeah what yeah your your local address connect them or do the two separate one case number this is all one incident those are the original documents that they tried to pass um can I get a copy before you take them and may I get the two of you to put your information down here thank you I apologize for that but we have to do our own reports and everything we don't have have to get the name for the other guy that's fine unknown okay oh his name is on that's his oh he has an account can I get all his information in I I know I thought he put his fake I thought he put like somebody else's name on yeah that's what Fernandez was telling me outside he was like nope put 100% his real name he Fernandez looked verified that it's actually him because it's the guy that obviously he saw so he verified it's him and it's the same name that's on the the bonds go ahead I'mma put we can get you more water at the police department all right I'mma put the I'mma put them in front cuz we're going to be sitting in the car for a while all right okay and you're being cool with this so yeah you have I don't do this the handcuffs are on and though the officers Express sympathy for her situation it doesn't change the reality of what she attempted to do I'm just trying to be as I'm not lying about anything I'm just trying to be us and we understand that we and we appreciate it you just got caught up in an unfortunate situ okay that they left you I know just here turn your wrists to face kind of there you go all right we're going to walk you out and try to get you in there quickly so that way it's not embarrassing okay you don't have anything in your pockets right no okay we're going to have someone check whenever we get back to the police station but we're just going to get you in the car real quick okay hello thank you you good all right the woman was ultimately charged with fraud uttering a false check the male suspects she claims to have told her to cash in the checks are yet to be located number one couple gets busted while trying to cash a fraudulent check in this footage an officer responded to a call about a couple trying to cash in fraudulent checks upon arrival the officer finds the female suspect Outside The Establishment go back inside yep both you guys take a seat now this is my boyfriend back me do what I said that's my boyfriend set up back stand up what happened I got nothing to do with anything what what happen sir sit down what happened Santa why am I going ja what I said why am I why am I going ja sir I haven't been do this sit down I'm just with him what problem 2 to 10 what the crazy got some guys where's your ID is at they don't have any ID with you at all no nothing in your purse nowhere no get up what am I like why am I ask you where your IDE is at I don't have my ID with me that's the thing I just came with my boyfriend here that's it take your hand outside your purse yes you show me 106 for 211 am I going to jail I didn't say you were going to jail oh and now you're being detained oh forward so I can lo These Cuffs just hang tight until I get another unit here and r you going to myv the officers decide to detain the two suspects in different police cars as the investigation unfolds hey um just sit her in the car right now make if she's got nothing on her just she can hang tight you have anything on you I'm just worried about anything it's going to stick or poke me real quick no nothing just wallet that's it all right you can want to talk to you huh I want to talk to you okay give me one second okay take a seat sit tight and we'll talk in a second hey just that's locked just hang tight for both them for me hello hello you me to come back or um you perfect and just so you know I am still recording okay okay all right so um this CER came to cash a check and then when I called the owner of the check and he's on the phone he want me to call the police because he can talk to him okay well let me let me finish you okay so because they cash it they stole his checks both and they already cash two check I think two or one check for him so they was looking for the person that's why he want me to call the Poli okay and this is the check that he gave you mhm okay and that's the let me see what the ID says Bolton William okay uh were they they both together yeah they both they were both talking about the transaction together and everything okay and so he provided the the ID and that okay let me do you mind if I talk to him is there a way to put this on speaker phone hey it's officer Fisher City West Palm Beach Police Department how do good good what's your name sir for the man's privacy his full name is redacted from the footage listen as the officer tries to get information from the legitimate issuer of the check have you already previously reported these checks stolen yes uh somebody cash I moved up here on the 8th of January Georgia and somebody has wrote a check for $525 I believe well they went to Bank of America and Bank of America according to Chase cash the check okay so they shut my account down so that account has been closed so uh we were trying to find out who was doing it because two I think it was a week ago somebody trying to get a Walmart membership using what I think they call AB using the routing number and the check number okay and they've been doing that for the last two for almost last month and I call Chase and they keep sending me FR well that account has been shut down for about three week three or four weeks now okay and I didn't give no checks Chase bank and they shut the account down everything and you know what that was uh what we move up here I moved up here on the so that check was done I think it was around the 10th 11 10 of January yes sir that the check was written uh Chase didn't crash it because they know my signature stuff they refund me the money okay and but did you make a did you did you make a police report and Report the check stolen in Georgia in Georgia I did but not down there okay do you have um where were the checks originally stolen in Georgia or were they stolen in Florida they were stolen in Florida see I I believe uh it had to be around the time that it becomes apparent that the checks might have been stolen when the family moved out of state okay did you have anybody move help you move yes do you know their names oh my daughter had her some of her friends hold on a minute this is her H sir yeah I'm I'm just trying to find out if the person that cash the check um or trying to cash this check today if you if you if you know who they are okay so let me get you the the um the first and last name I can u pull it up because when this originally happened they sent us a copy of the check itself and so I recognized the name on the check because it was somebody I trusted to help us move and so I have their name first last name and I also have their phone number okay what's what's their name it's the first name uh let me go back to so I can get the correct spelling for you give me two seconds um Jeremiah Jones and I know it sounds crazy because we have the same last name but there is no relation at all okay um the first name is spelled why okay well hold on one second that so that's the person that helped you move I'm trying to okay so um is there anyone else that helped you move um no that's the person who uh stole the first check who who stole the checks in in um who stole the checks period and what happened was they stole more than one so I'm assuming they're trying to get other people to cash these checks in their name okay how do you know that that's the person that stole the checkbook um because that was the only person that was in the house okay I got you and what what's that person's name again go ahead you said Jones is the last name uh first name is Jeremiah it's y i r m e y a h fortunately the victim's daughter possesses details about those who helped with the move potentially the same individuals who discovered the the blank checks okay and also so when when did you guys move that the when the checkbook was stolen and where did you move from okay so she moved from West Palm Beach Florida okay when and when did he move what date we left um Florida let's see six s on Sunday the 8th and they attempted to I guess cash the check on the 9th but we didn't get wor of it until the 10th and also you you do you guys have a case number from Georgia where you I know that they were taken out of Florida but did they give you a case number um I'm not sure what she did with that card I can find look for because what they told us that we would have to file it here in Georgia and that they would send it down to uh Florida I got you they they told us um where is this phone number oh my goodness all right well let me do this let me call you back let me get going on this and I'll give you guys a buzz back I'm going to call you from a block phone number okay okay perfect and I'll try to get the rest of that information for you when you call back sounds good thank you appreciate you I appreciate you thank yep byebye byebye the responding officer steps outside to question the mail suspect but before the officer can say a word the man begins talking what's up man how's it going brother I came out of face farm and I walked and Rod the train here I don't have nothing okay I'm trying I was at the train station with money to go home and someone stole my money I'm out here spinning a sign trying to get back to Orlando and she walks up to me and so you want to make 50 bucks to cash a check it's my own stupidity man I just want to go [ __ ] home okay all right let me let me read this real quick okay yeah all right so listen I'm required to warant you before you make any statement you have find constitutional rights if you would just tell me that you do or don't understand these all right and I'll go from there okay you have the right to remain silent not answer any questions if you would just tell me you do or don't understand okay any statement we make must be freely and voluntarily given just after each one of these statements let me know if you do or perfect thank you you have the right to the presence and representation of a lawyer of your choice before you make any statement during any questioning yes if you cannot afford a lawyer you're entitled to the presence and representation of a court appointed lawyer before you make any statement during any questioning yes if at any time during the interview do not wish to answer questions your privilege to remain silent I can make no threats or promises to induce you to make a statement this must be of your own free will any statement can and will be used against you the court of law you understand your rights all right you want to finish talking to me about for C I was leaving the store just you understand your rights yeah I understand okay would you do you wish to continue talking to me yeah I'll talk okay so here's what I want to know so you you're not her her boyfriend you don't know so what did she tell you it's a check that she got from her friend her boyfriend I went over there I met him what's his name I don't know his name I just met him where'd you meet him at at the store what store the one right there by Taco Bell I've been staying in a trash can while I'm trying to get money out to go home I got you and um she they were going to give me 50 bucks and I would have got my train to now the truth behind the scheme is revealed all right so she says give you 50 bucks for you to cash a check yeah she didn't I didn't know if it was bad or not but I should have did you did you assume that this was going to be a bad check I didn't think so I mean I guess I don't think so okay who filled out the check she did she filled out the check yeah okay how much was the check for 400 400 and you were going to get 50 of it she said that she would give me something I was just hoping to get home all right what's the what's the boyfriend look like it's a black gentleman um it's like the first or second apartment on the corner there I I'm not familiar with this place I got you I'm just I just want to go man all right you got anything else you want to add this statement the officer moves on to interrogate the female suspect listen to find out whether her story matches the male suspect's account hey Dar listen up real quick okay I'm going to read you your rights okay just tell me if you understand them all right after each one I tell you just tell me if you do or don't understand so I can explain to you okay all right so I'm required to War you before you make any statement that you have the F constitutional rights okay you have the right to remain silent not answer any questions just tell me yes or no you do or don't understand any statement you make must be freely and voluntarily given yes sir you have the right to the presence and representation of a lawyer of a choice before you make any statement during any questioning if you cannot afford a lawyer you're entitled to the presence and representation of a courta appointed lawyer before you make any statement during any questioning if at any time during the interiew not wish to answer questions you're privileged to remain silent I can make no threats or promises to induce you to make a statement this must be your own free will any statement can and will be used against you in the court of law do you understand your rights do you want to talk to me about what happened here today um yes um okay I have I don't have nothing to do with this nothing to do with what this what is this this um check has okay what about it um how did you guys get up here talk he um we I rode the bike he's my boyfriend I told he told me that um he did we he did did a job for um for um for a random guy off the street who did he did this guy mhm okay and um that he was going to the person was paying him okay like $500 this or whatever and and I told him I was I said I just told I said I I will come with him um up here okay with him you know but I I don't have anything to do with that okay why would you come with them because we were supposed to be going out to eat after that is what he told me okay and how do you know this guy he's my boyfriend he's your boyfriend for how long I've been like for know him for two months for 2 months okay why is he telling me something different what he I don't know so you're saying you've known him for 2 months what he say Yeah in the end the woman denies knowledge about the scheme so he's saying that this is your check that's if this was my check don't you think I would be I would be what will be the one cashing the check that's not my check okay well let me ask you this how come when I pulled up the first thing you tried to do is get out the front door I was going to go smoke a cigarette okay so you don't think that that's a little a little suspicious that immediately upon sing police you try and get out that front door I trying to go smoke I didn't I didn't even I'm not I'm not even thinking nothing about it first of all okay so I don't know so this isn't your truck no it's not okay what would I tell you if if if he just came here on the bus and he hasn't been here 2 months and he can show me the bus pass that he came in here on how how would that make sense that you've known him for two months down here that me he he's he been here I've been know him for two months literally two months yes where's he been staying at he he been staying over there at my house with me at your house okay all right anything else you want to add in the statement No like I don't feel like that it's fair that he's lying on me cuz if it was my check I would be cash out I will cash and check myself literally okay I'm not I'm not no no all right Ain TI the male suspect was charged with uttering a forged check fraudulent use of personal information and petty theft the female suspect however was only charged with possession of illegal paraphernalia due to a lack of probable cause for the fraudulent check that's five scammers who got baited and busted do you think they'll try these schemes again let me know what you think in the comments down below