please speak you will be bit morning please speak you will be bit sleeping I didn't do anything why is heting me on October 25th 2023 in akan Ohio officer Markham was dispatched to assist detective Connell who had eyes on a stolen vehicle the suspect Robert Mercer had two firearms in his possession and officers took every prec caution to get the suspect into cuffs officers first spoke with Lillian Nagel who stated that Mercer was inside of her apartment here is what happened when the officers made [Music] contact right hey out yeah where's yeah so when I drove by uh Mercier was standing on the passenger side and then I pulled over there to get set up Let's uh let's go knock see if we find our gentleman hey go around to the back I'll grab 603 my hey yeah if you guys go to the rear and then have 603 come up here to the front that's what I'm doing what is going on uh this guy stole this car you might want to get out of the way we got our K9 coming up oh my God please don'ts you got any dogs for catching no okay no dogs no cats oh yeah she just told us he's in here did he just run in here or you know this guy it's your friend friend I got you go to the rear the building please how many people are in here okayy have the dog come up here what I'm doing what going on let me get with you let's get some cover this guyo car hey Mar get with please don't hey any dogs in here you have any dogs C me b morning please you will be we got somebody on the rear right yeah got a room to the right room to the left room straight down back Police Department come on now wait for the dog that that [Music] drop yeah now messing with that window that window's not open right where's he at bro a couple do over here cover left I'm right yeah there's a closet to the left two he was messing with the door window right here help I'm sleeping sleeping why you me what why you me show us your hands right I do stand up I didn't do all right I out what am I doing I didn't do anything I was so pleas I have nothing I have nothing can you please let him go he hurting me please I sleeping I didn't do anything why is he biting me why he please stop King he hurting stop right now I swear to God I'm not doing nothing St figh I'm not fighting he's he's hurting me for no reason I didn't do anything sir sir I didn't do anything what is going on be on your back now hands be on your back right now hands be on your back okay so why are you doing this you do about you got any weapons on you man no sir s after being placed in cuffs the officers searched Mercer and found caliber bullets in his pants pocket as well as the key to the stolen van officers searched the apartment as well and under the bed in the bedroom Robert was found in they found one of the Firearms hey can we get the lights on yeah oh what are these buddy sir are you allowed to possess ammunition what there's no lights in whenever you guys are good with a good pat down we can do it out here I'm just taking bullets out probably a gun somewhere in here ATT me put your knees under you buddy stand try s sir good or bad uh we can't start the gun uh let's walk out walk what I um I'll talk to uh I can SE [Music] just sleeping why why that Tex me sleeping we just go Um where she here on front of my [Music] car stand up stand up anybody read [Music] R do you understand these rights sir yes what yes or no understand the rights EMS is already on it way yes or no do you understand your rights yes yes sir okay having these rights in mind how'd you get over here today day yeah how'd you get to this department today I stay here how did you get here you drive you walk you fly you ride a bike my friend Dro me off who's your friend what did he drop you off in she okay so did you have a firearm you didn't have a firearm why did you have bullets in your pocket friend told me hold bullets your friend told you to hold bullets are you legally allowed to possess ammunition oh sure no you're not I didn't know I was possessed I was just sleeping man what I do what did you say who's the friend who's the friend who dropped you off who told you to hold that those bullets for him I'll be honest with you man you're in a lot of trouble right now so like what did I do I was just sleep so like I it would it would help a lot if you I had tack by dog tried to help us of what is going on here because it's looking really bad against you right now what is going on wer we weren't sleeping in this is Robert he was bit by our dog okay where was you bit right over here on the right arm we did you probably have to cut the coat away to get to all of it you at 11 up right there you all right you feel okay to talk here is that person around here was pardon who was who is he Adam right Adam right who is he who was Adam right Dre is right here Dre Dre who's Dre I don't know any of these names milh milh home is that what you said who is who is that is name what do you want to tell me I don't want to die now my well nobody wants that do you live here what are you doing over here picked up this morning picked up by Adam slim Adam right goes by slim okay and then you came over here no why did you come over here I don't know the whole reason behind Okay you came over here then what happened when you were over here he told me that he needed to do something and I said okay you do what I was standing over there and you guys showed up he he said go to go to that house we were in okay and then what happened I went lay down and the dog what reason did the dog like you I was I was laying down I didn't hear him you didn't hear him you didn't hear him say anything the police I have my music on okay you didn't hear giveing you any orders I didn't hear no orders I was just laying down I I got bit that's how I got where were you when you got bit laying in the closet okay laying in the closet are not a normal place place people lay down what were you hiding in the closet people generally hide in closets I'm not hiding from you guys well were you hiding from somebody were you you got to get him we will oh man what did he do I I don't know okay you you were hiding in the closet am I right laying I was okay why were you laying in the closet shelter there's no other shelter in there open okay people don't generally lay in closets I mean you had a reason to be in a closet what was that reason you hiding from someone you were yes okay who were you hiding from what's that slim Adam right you hiding from him okay what was he going to do to you I don't know he was he he he yelling and you guys showed up he was yelling at you and you guys showed up he got in the car so I just went to the place that I was at do the place that you were hiding do you know anyone that lives there do you know that apartment I just was there with him you were you in that apartment with him okay so you were in the closet right and then police showed up right in the apartment obviously okay and then they yelled for you to come out I didn't hear them yell you didn't hear them yell if I heard them yell who you hear y I didn't hear anybody I had music on okay so you were hiding in the closet and you had music on Just laying down it laying down listen to music you were laying down in the closet I was I was I was behind the doors no nothing I just laying on the floor under blanket okay laying down under a blanket in a closet generally means someone's hiding my body was uncovered you [ __ ] on me but you told me you were hiding right I was trying to take shelter from Adam right okay all right so you weren't just laying down in a closet we talk know where does where does he live I don't know okay so you ran in the apartment sir can you please you please sir can you just LIF up his name Adam right look his name their names and find out who they are and then come talk to me get me out of here before they hurt my family sir what did they do I don't know what they did so get me out of here where does he live is your family is your family here my family's here here sir can you please please any longer seen can you please anywhere else anywhere else pleas I don't I don't understand why you're here didn't you come with Adam right to do something right he tell me sir he just said come with me sir can you please I'm begging please I don't know who he knows here I don't want my family getting hurt man please I'll talk to you please any just can you get me to get out of this area okay well watch your foot Robert was read his Miranda rights and he denied ever carrying the firearm when officers asked him about the bullets he stated that A friend gave it to him he also told the officers that he did not know the vehicle was stolen and that this friend gave him the keys the officers took a swab of his cheek before they escorted him to akan General Hospital to get treated for the dog bite he's up front of your friends dude I just met him okay no not right now I'll give you one I'm talk can we over here [ __ ] do you live here yeah who else lives here just my kid I mean we to God damn well the dog it's a dog all all besides the point okay uh so you don't know what dude listen you know his first name do you know his um what I call Rob Rob Rob because I call him Bush monkey Rob Bush monkey Rob Bush monkey Bob really but okay no dude was he acting all weird when he got here dude I didn't he was like always weird that's why I call him Bush monkey Rob and how often does he come here no this is the second time he's been here maybe first time second okay so a friend dropped him off and no my friend came over here and she was hanging out with me and he was with her and then their other friend and then I thought they all rode in her car then he kept going in out now I guess I know why I kept going in and out I can't see like I thought I mean you're not in any trouble if he was here he's here no yeah no no no he was here for a little bit but he was in and out and I was wondering like what he's doing I didn't know there's outside okay and then he come knocking on the door when you guys got here I'm like no and he's like well just let me in I'm like I was like you're going at the front of B so here here's the deal okay you said how many kids do you have I have one one okay yeah he's known to carry guns do you know does he have a gun on him uh he he did he did where where is that gun should be on them okay do you know if it's oh like I like I said you got kid is the gun on it is the gun on we don't know we we haven't searched that can you go search him and I'll well we're going to search basically what I'm asking you is it okay if we search your apartment for this gun I mean yeah he went straight back to my bedroom my closet okay all right so you give us consent to search your apartment we don't care about your little if you got we don't care about that no yeah I don't care yeah just listen because I don't want to see I was just a couple weeks ago a four yeah that's fine I don't care can you just check make sure cuz my kids like Grand trying to bring my we got to do no look I'm just like spooked right now cuz like I really I what kind of gun did you see it's like that dead end dirt road hey you uh you want these on they're on hey homie can you uh you want me to get them out and bring them up just me come side what's that you guys somebody watch my yeah this is the guy that you're going to want to talk to all right brother slide over there so you can have a conversation here man just uh just jump out I'll walk you over don't do anything stupid though come on all right now we around okay you listen yes sir okay listen so another officer regie your Miranda warnings and rights correct yes sir okay and you understand that's correct yes sir okay I'm going to ask you some questions um so tell me what happened today I got right over here by Adam right okay they call him slim okay then what happened in the car that was out there in the parking lot it's okay go ahead I'm listen what were you in when you were brought over some ug rust okay then what happened about what happened here you guys showed up would happened here okay listen no one's around dude you don't have to worry about it go ahead and Adam came together all right I guess she had she had some kind of job or something she doing I I had known I had known Drea before I was locked up We Roll okay okay hired her to do what I don't regular work I don't I don't okay so he didn't Fair all right he he didn't pay her and she sent slim to deal with it okay and then slim told me I needed to come up here family what what vehicle did he want you to Mo Vehicles he didn't get a chance to tell me okay so how did you get up here he brought you up here and then what happened so he brought you up here you didn't have a chance to move the vehicle why you guys so where did he go he left in that Rusty car he was he was in the car when you guys showed up I I got away from he was in the he was in the car that I walked away from when you guys showed up talking about the van right no I was over here the park corner I he was were you saying you were never in the van rust colored car okay listen from RoR car listen were you in that vanand and there's we just took your DNA your DNA is going to be all over it just be be straight with me I'm here to help you sir I've been in that van before I know that when were you in that vanand last I I worked in that van when was the last time you were in that vanand uh he literally took off just answer the question brother were you in the van this morning we'll be able to find him okay but we got to figure this out real quick that's why we're talking to you so you were in the van when was the last time you work in that van send people to help my family help you got to help us to help you come on man they left already you guys aren't helping my family where's your family they they last and you guys didn't even stop them so tell me about the van what about the van when were you in it last I he walked me over to the van this morning to do what he showed me what was in it I told him I I wanted move what was in it just the guy stuff they was working with he said that they were just going to hold it until he paid them okay and I said I didn't I didn't want to do it and that's why we didn't leave okay and then he said if I didn't do it he was going to do something to me and my family okay and then you guys pulled up stop we pulled up where you were by the van no I was not by the van standing right by the rust col vehicle I walked away from when you guys pulled in he took off in the car okay I swear SAR and then you went up into the apartment I walked towards the nearest I walked right towards the damn door I just walked whose apartment was that the one that opened the door okay so slim handed you these bullets before the police pulled up and said what said there be no driver coming okay that was it it was you just get the bullets in your pocket it's in my pocket I have no gun I didn't run from the guys I so do you think those bullets are going to match any of the same type of bullets and make a bullets in one of the guns in the car in the van I don't know sir I didn't know there was any guns in the vanand I swear to I swear to God where slim live I reach Slim's house far as I'm sure he came from out of town that's what I was with Dre where's Dre at right now so what kins last name is there going to be any pictures on your phone with you holding Firearms I'm just asking I don't know are you uh are you allowed to have a firearm no sir you're on parole of probation par sir so you're not even allowed to have bullets no I'm not have bullets or fls what are you on P for I'm on for um uh having and um and a weapon in the car so so Fally possession firearm and proper handling and all that they said something about about were you ever charged with aggravated robbery in the past never charged with aggravated robber you haven't been you haven't gone to prison for aggravated robbery never did you go to prison yes sir for what going to prison for uh receiving property uh uh you the hand gun so the gun in the closet where he at you had a gun in the closet stop sir there was no gun in the closet I didn't listen man they we did find that the Smith and Wen handgun right yeah she said that you brought it in there the white girl told us that I did not BR no gun in there sir listen sir listen here's the deal bullets alone violate your understand I'm here to work with you but listen if you I understand but you're not being 100% what you do you had listen pleas stop hear me out you had the gun you put it in the closet I don't care swear to God the gun in the closet I have gun Theos I was laying down the guns from the seven I have no G he has like the report number from Star gets match straight up who has it uh Conor now I no in the closet sir there was they found it sir I swear to you they can not say that they found a gun in the closet with me sir but they can I say that I had gun sir no i s okay well the same closet you hit in just so happens that there's a gun in the closet sir I do not believe that I don't believe I not see no gun all be on body cam video as long as it's on body cam sir I cannot argue but I did not have no gun I didn't have no gun man I didn't have no gun he wouldn't let me have none I wouldn't want none but I would have probably took one to defend myself uh markham's got it in paper bag did we secure the apartment yeah so she gave a consent to search um and they searched and they got the handgun it didn't look any further there's potential there's going be more long guns in there yeah we need to go in fact do you have anything else you can add to help me out to be able to help you out can you help me out man can you just watch I need 100% honesty 100% honesty no I'm not you think I'm lying about you're being about 90% honest can you please watch my family iner pleas tell about these guns in the van because hold on wait a minute I told you I don't know about no guns in the van brother can you at least be honest about the handgun I will take a freaking of these test I did not know no freaking gun was in no van I didn't know none of that that gun in the house is not fine the hand you might not have known about the guns in the van we give you that but the gun in the apartment is not belong to that girl okay I don't know who it belong to it's not mine sir they did not I'm G to be honest with you it was taken on a burglar all right that's that's fine but what's that got to do with me so the van was also used in that burglar and just so happens the van is over at the apartment complex and the gun that was taken from the burglary is now in the apartment that you were at and the girl that you just met today in the closet that you were hiding it was in the closet with me sir listen listen to me I can help you out if you're you're not trying to help me right now you're trying to assume that I did something wrong because I've done something wrong in the past no I'm I'm assuming you did something wrong because of the evidence that we have in front of us then show put fingerprints and all that on the gun there put the DNA on the guns put that put that on I didn't do that I promise you I didn't do that all right anything else you can help us out with don't you want to hear me now I do I'm here to listen I've been listening if there was a firearm in that I did not know it was there sir I yes if there was one in there that closet I did not so here here's the problem brother is that the van was used in a burglary and in that burglary the which is on video that a gun was stolen from the house right and then that van comes over to where you're at where you were seen walking from into the apartment and the gun is then knows I would never take anything from him L I'm not saying you did but you you brought the gun the apartment I did not bring that gun in the apartment sir I bet the bullets in his pocket match the bullets in the gun and she she I got to get back over here the apartment hop in I'll talk you get in a little bit if you want to but right now I have to go help finish this up okay keep your feed in brother all right thanks [Music] [Music] all right brother step on out we're going to walk over here to the uh this P we put this up on here who's comor uh Westlake is your cuss on there later take your time at the hospital Robert was admitted and as they treated his injury he was given a summons for these charges one count of having a weapon while Under Disability two counts of receiving stolen property one count of obstruction and one count of resisting Robert Mercer was left with a bite on his arm and a lot of charges to his name hopefully the prison bed is more comfortable than the closet