You're going to get tased. You're going to get tased. Stop running. Good deal. Get the other on the ground. Get on the ground. >> She punched me four times in the face. So, I didn't even get to cuz I didn't think anybody was going to go to jail. >> Once those hands tucked their child in with lullabibis and promises of forever love. >> NO. I SAID NO. >> I said no. I said no. I said no. I work at the jail. I know my rights. I said no. Back up. >> Now those same hands shove that little soul straight toward danger. Proof that love can rot when pride takes the wheel. No one's born to be a bad mother, but some take the path that makes sure their kids will never call them mom again. On July 20th, 2024, police were called to a quiet suburban neighborhood after reports of a violent dispute between a mother and her daughter. But when they arrived, it became clear this wasn't just a family argument. It was years of buried anger, betrayal, and heartbreak erupting all at once. >> Okay, >> ma'am. That's not how this works. I'm about to put you in handcuffs. Go stand over there >> for what? >> Because I'm investigating a crime right now. And you Yes. >> What's the crime? >> I'm working on that. So, do you want to keep getting involved or you want to stay over there? >> No. So, stay right there and let me figure this out. >> Now, I'm calling a cop on you. This is my property. >> I don't care. Do what you have to do. If you call 911, if you call Listen to me. If you call 911 right now, >> how embarrassing this is. >> If you call 911 right now, ma'am, if you call 911 right now, >> I'm going to put you in handcuffs. So, go ahead. >> Call 911. >> Go ahead. Call 911. >> I'm calling another cop. >> Call 911. I'm already here. Call 911. >> Property. Let me go get my >> Why are you being so rude? >> I'm not I'm trying to You call me walk to that side. Can you please walk to that side? This is my home that this woman does not live in. >> Step over there, please. Can Can you and him step over there? >> No. >> Why? >> It's not how that works. >> This is my property. This isn't hers. I don't want her on here. That's why you're here. >> Okay, ma'am. You can step over there. >> Okay. Who? Her or me? >> You. >> Okay. I'm going inside and she better be gone. >> Okay. Go ahead. >> I would like to leave, but getting to her house, she threw my car in. >> Fantastic. >> She threw my car in so many times. My transmission I can't I can't move. You know what? Okay, >> I think I'll just take the car myself. It doesn't >> Okay, >> this is what we have. >> Ma'am, you're not free to leave. >> It played out like a live streamed family tragedy. A trembling mother, a defiant daughter, and officers forced into the role of reluctant referees. The daughter wasn't afraid. She wanted control. Calling 911 wasn't a cry for help. It was a move to control the narrative, to make herself the victim, even if it meant tearing the last thread of trust holding them together. >> You don't want to talk to me. I don't want to talk to you. >> Get out of the car. >> No. >> Get out of the car. >> Get out of the car. >> Get out of the car. Put your hands behind your back now. Put your hands behind your back now. >> One of you and you know you step it up for the fight. >> Put your hand. You're going to get tased. You're going to get tased. You're going to get tased. Do you understand me? You're going to get tased. Put your hands behind your back right now. Put your hands behind your back. >> I can't. >> Put your hands behind your back. >> I can't. Why am I >> Put your hands behind your back. >> Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. >> Why am I getting >> Put your hands behind your back. >> I can't. I can't. >> Put your hands behind your back. You're going to get tased. Put your hands behind your back. >> Put your hands behind your back. See, you have no >> You have no alone. >> GET HIM OFF THE PROPERTY NOW. >> ALL I ASK YOU TO DO IS GET OFF THE >> PROPERTY. Guy's my husband. Come here. I JUST WANT TO SAY YOU SEE YOU REAL QUICK. >> I just got to tell you what happened. Okay. >> What a man. He throws a woman on the ground. What a man. >> I know. That was the most >> appalling thing. >> I can't believe this is going on. >> Why? What is the charge? >> Sit up. >> Do you know what the charges? >> I don't. Sit up. >> Yeah. I have a She punched me four times in the face. No, I didn't even get to cuz I didn't think anybody was going to go to jail. >> So, she punched me. I called. >> So, I want her in jail, too, now. >> Okay. >> Yeah, because I now now all >> my husband came out to to agree. >> All I asked was that that was on our property. Could you talk to that woman on the other side? >> Her fury exploded the moment officers arrived. The very people she had summoned. It wasn't fear that drove her rage. It was frustration that they wouldn't take her side. Her defiance was raw, almost rehearsed. But when the mother finally spoke, the mask fell. Every lie unraveled, exposing the truth that had been festering beneath the surface. >> She I can I tell you her um her >> I'm not worried about that. I need to know >> what exactly has happened. Okay. >> What the from the very beginning >> from today? Yes. >> Um she slept up at my house last night. Okay. >> And while I was sleeping, she got a hold of my phone >> and she asked me, "Do you want Google Pay? You should have Google Play." I said, "I don't want that on my phone. I'm 65. I don't understand all of that." >> Okay. >> Well, she did it anyway, >> unbeknownst to me. I today I got my social security check today and um I was checking my account and she I stupidly had it on speaker >> and she said, "Mom, will you go to the bank and get $40 out for me?" I says, "What do you need it for?" She says, "I could really use my cigarettes." And okay, yes, I did. I got the money out. Okay. And then she said, "Can I drive, Mom?" And I said, >> "So where happened to the point of >> Okay. >> where you said she struck you. >> She struck me first and it's in front of TD Bank. And if you want to play the >> When did that happen? >> Less than an hour ago. >> Okay. >> Anyway, I found out she in a matter of minutes. >> Okay. >> Took my card and started shopping online. and I didn't know. >> Okay. >> And then she said, "Oh, no, mom. I need another $20 because we don't really have any food in the house." >> So, why didn't you when you got when you're at TD Bank and she hit you >> outside? Because I she hit me because she was out of control. First of all, I was very upset because I went in and when I found out it was her that had compromised my card, I was like freaking out. >> Okay. >> And then >> this wasn't just about stolen money. It was the ultimate betrayal. A daughter exploiting her own mother. The officers didn't need to push hard for details. The mother's eyes said everything. The shame of realizing her own child saw family as a financial transaction. >> Do you need EMS? >> No. I looked in the car. >> Does she see? She does. I looked in. >> She's the one who called for EMS. >> I looked in the purse. My old ID is in her wallet. >> Okay. >> So, >> ma'am, I need we need to talk. We need to go back to the point to where touch strike. >> Okay. >> Stuff like that. Let's stay on that. >> Okay. So, I was I was just so upset. I wanted to leave. She opened the car and she punched me. >> Where'd she punch you at? >> Right here. But I managed to get away. Okay. I started going home. She called me up. Please, Mom, pick me up. It's this hot sun. Please, please, please. >> As we're going down the road. I'm driving her home. >> Hey. Uh, I think it's going to be her. >> Yeah, >> she she's she's she took she she kept on hitting me and like nothing major, but she put the car in park three times while we're driving. And >> she then she says I said you just hit a 65y old woman. She goes no. Then she stops hitting herself. You hit me. There's documentation that I had to have her trespass off my property. Okay. When she >> So where did she strike you at exactly? Like on your face or >> I think it was just in the should I I think it was here. I don't know. It wasn't hard but it was >> okay. I got you. All right. Give me one second. Hi. How you doing, ma'am? >> Yes. Hi. >> All right. Want to have a little talk? >> Sure. >> Yeah. I'm a little pissed. >> I understand. I'm a little pissed. >> I got you. Will you calm down enough to talk to me? I'm going to give you a couple more minutes. >> Yeah. What? I'm sorry. >> You need a couple more minutes. You want to talk now? >> Talk about what? No. Um, I want these cuffs off me. >> All right. We We'll get to that. Okay. So, um, you have the right to remain silent. Do you understand that? >> No. That means you're arresting me for No, it does not. No, it does not. No, it does not. I have to read you Miranda warnings. Okay. It's it's case law. I have three grand wars for ask any questions. >> The officers stayed calm but firm, piecing together the story from two clashing versions of reality. When it was the daughter's turn to talk, her tone suddenly softened. Sugarcoated but hollow. It was classic manipulation, turning black and white truth into emotional gray, making even trained officers doubt their instincts for a moment. >> So, and how I read them to you? >> Sure. >> Are you willing to talk to me? >> Yeah, I'm sure. And I asked you to step out of the car, >> right? >> Yes. >> And you refused and you pulled away from me. >> Step out of the car. >> Yes. >> When I told you to step out of the car, you said no. And you kept the and you went to go pull for the door. I opened the door and then you went into the car as I was trying to grab you out of the car. Would you consider that resisting my >> No. >> What would you would you consider that? >> I wanted what I wanted to do was sit in there and call my husband. >> That's not what you said. You said you're taking the car. >> Then I'll be sitting in the car. No, you said you were taking the car, which means and I it doesn't I don't it doesn't matter what you wouldn't have when I said it's an active investigation and you are not free to leave and you get into a car. >> Yeah, she had the keys. >> I don't know that. I don't know that. And you going to try to actively you say I'm leaving. I'm taking it happened at the TV bank. >> Oh my god. Okay. So, um since this morning my mom lost her debit card. >> Okay. >> She lost her debit card. >> Lost it physically. We trade purses all the time. That's why I want all my belongings out of that vehicle before and my $40 is missing. That vehicle is >> which I have a feeling you gave it to her. >> I have to give nothing to nobody. >> And if or she picked it up. >> What What vehicle is that? >> That's my mother's. It's registered. Yeah, it's registered to her, but we're both on the insurance. >> Okay. >> So, we found her card. It was in my purse cuz we swap purses. >> Okay. >> So, I find it in the morning. And so, when I hadn't found it, I wanted to set up her card to Google Pay >> because she knew the card number off the top of her head. Okay. >> So, I went to set it to her Google Pay. Right. Will we find the card? So, we go, "Okay, let's go to the ATM. We go to the ATM. Everything's fine." Well, in between, I'm playing around on my phone and she's just yelling at me, "Oh, pay attention to the road." Which she's right. And so, I I did. Well, I went on my team room and I clicked yes, pay, we will pay, which my card is the first card on my phone, not her card, >> but because I had just set it up, >> you know what I'm saying? So, it didn't even go through. It wanted to authorize. So, that's what led us to the TD Bank to go, hey, we have to take this. At any point, did she strike you or you strike her? >> No. No. I >> It's okay. Look, it's okay if you guys got into an argument and it was combative like both together. >> No. Nope. I might have like taken my hand to her face cuz I do that a lot. I go, "You're going to go to jail." Like I I >> like you do like one of these. >> No. Like to the side. Like I held her like >> you might be going crazy. I guess. >> In the end, the daughter was arrested and taken to jail, charged with nonviolent obstruction of justice, a misdemeanor carrying up to one year in jail, and a $1,000 fine. If financial records confirm she exploited her mother's account, she could face additional felony charges for elder financial exploitation, a crime that can lead to years behind bars and a permanent stain on her record. On December 8th, 2022, police were called after a string of theft reports at a shopping mall. The Prada store manager reported that two women had stolen over $4,000 worth of merchandise. Just hours later, the same pair turned up at Old Navy and Forever 21, prompting police to move in for an immediate takeown. >> Thinking they might have, >> especially Do they know? >> Hey, STOP. HEY, STOP RUNNING. YOU'RE GOING TO GET CHASED. YOU'RE GOING TO GET CHASED. STOP RUNNING. GET THE other pursuit through the outlet. Please stop running. Please stop running. PLEASE STOP RUNNING. PLEASE STOP RUNNING. 94. PLEASE STOP RUNNING. YOU'RE GOING TO GET SAVED. GET ON THE GROUND. Get on THE GROUND. >> DO not move. Do not move. FACE THE WALL. >> TRYING TO PAY FOR my foot. >> YOU'RE GOING TO GET TASED. GET THE ON THE GROUND NOW. >> Get on the ground. GET ON THE GROUND. Get on your stomach. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. >> Drop your phone or YOU'RE GOING TO GET TASED. >> PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK. BRO, why don't you >> put your hands behind your back, bro? >> Why don't you give me a bag, bro? I got one secure. >> Stupid as [ __ ] >> Drew, you good? >> Yeah. You got yours? >> Yeah. >> Keep it up. You not got me on camera doing anything. I got money. That girl just shot my knees. >> Stop resisting. >> I'm not resisting anything. >> Before their arrest, the women strutted around with bold arrogance, the kind that makes crime feel like a performance. This wasn't about need. It was about ego. They wanted to prove they were untouchable. But in just a few tense minutes of pursuit, that illusion shattered with the sound of handcuffs snapping shut. >> She just gave her bad. >> All right, get up. >> Come on, >> bro. I'm burning my [ __ ] out of here, bro. >> No, you're not. >> How I'm not. I have money in my purse. >> There you go. >> Hold on. She's still fighting right now. >> I'm pun. >> I'm not fighting you. Excuse me, ma'am. Can you please go get my my cousin's car keys, please? >> Hold on. >> I don't want to lose her car keys. Not to lose anything. >> I'm not resisting you. I have money in my bag to buy the car I wanted. >> When I tell you to do something, you stop. >> I'm stopping. You scared me. She gave me her bag and started running. What you expect me to do? >> I need patrol. >> Can I get my shoes, please? I don't want to walk barefooted. Excuse me, sir. Please. >> Everybody spits on this floor. >> He got us. Do we got her? >> Do we? >> Thank you. >> Stop moving. >> I'm not going nowhere. I'm telling you. I'm paying for my [ __ ] >> Do you need anything from us or No. >> Can you please? She had my [ __ ] Gave me the bag. I'm trying to buy my stuff. I have money. I'm not spending. >> I mean, I don't think they stole from you guys yet, but >> they've been hitting a bunch of stores. So, >> no, I have not. I JUST BOUGHT STUFF OUT OF NIKE. >> I just bought stuff out of Nike. >> Forever 21. >> Where do you THINK YOU'RE GOING? WHAT YOU DOING? >> WHAT TO DO? >> Told you what to do. You're not going to make me go chasing after you again. >> All the way out. >> Can I Oh, sorry. I don't go to jail. I have money though. Y'all got me here. I'm buying that stuff. What did I steal? >> Closer to the west side. What did I steal? >> You can come in through sacks. >> Bro, the lady got mad. Put >> your feet back out. >> Oh, I'm sorry, >> bro. The lady got mad because I shot a bird in her old navy. Nobody stole anything. Like, y I have money. I have buo money in my purse. >> I have buu money in my purse. >> Stop. >> One of them had once stolen a job application. Poetic irony for someone now stealing designer clothes to look rich. The paradox was painful to watch. Terrified of others taking her money while she was taking what wasn't hers. Her entire image, luxury on the outside, emptiness on the inside, was a flawless counterfeit. >> Appreciate it. >> Where was that? >> In the fitting room. >> In the fitting room. Yeah. Okay. Uh, just give us give us a minute and then we'll >> once we get more officers over here, they're going to come in and try to see what else they have there. >> That was the other girl that just walked out deep in them. >> Stop yelling. >> Stop talking. Stop. Stop acting like we don't know what we're talking about. >> Stop yelling. Stop yelling. Blackie, stop yelling. >> Those other girls that just walked out of there just left because something was going on. I'm in there shopping. Why would I be in there that long? >> Yeah, THAT WAS THAT BLACK GIRL. YOU WATCH THE BLACK GIRL WALK RIGHT OUT OF JAIL. YOU LISTEN. >> She walked right. SHE WATCHED THE BLACK GIRL WALK RIGHT OUT THE STORE. >> Y'ALL CAME LIKE 5 MINUTES AFTER THE GIRL just walked out the show. >> Hey, you got an ID? >> On emergency downtown. >> Do you have an ID in there? >> You have any weapons in there? >> No. >> Okay. >> So, she thought you messed up with the black >> girl. She said she going to go watch the footage. See, >> we don't have y'all mix up with anybody. Why would you? >> I never Did I say you got me mixed up? Did I say that? >> I don't know. She's saying that. >> That I didn't say that. I didn't say that. >> Excuse me, sir. >> Can you Can I talk to you? >> No. >> No. >> You can talk to me. >> Okay. Okay. >> You don't You don't want to talk to me like you're being slick. Like you being like, "Yes, sir. Please." >> Well, hold on. >> I mean, they're probably stolen, too, so we got to make sure. >> No, they not. They're mine. Look at the bottom of them. We got paint and everything on them. >> Okay, hold on. >> Can I get my shoes? >> We'll make sure. >> Can you please call my mom? >> Yeah. It was auto black girls. >> No, you got no problems going on right now, sweetheart. >> The storm you ran through. >> Should have done that. >> Got yourself a felony. >> Their voices were hollow, their eyes vacant. Shame had been replaced by twisted pride. Every denial, every raised tone was self-inccrimination in real time. The officers didn't have to expose them. They were exposing themselves one outburst at a time. >> Can I Can I Can I be honest with you? It was three. It was three already in there when we went in there and I just don't have the girl. I'm being real with you. Hey, Uncle Joe. >> That's my [ __ ] [ __ ] kid. >> Joe, >> like the best security guard we have here. >> Oh man. Uncle Joe. You >> know her? >> You know her, >> Uncle Joe. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> It's a lot. I know that. It's a lot. >> Let her know that I'm here. and running too. >> No, no, ma'am. We're not going to We're not going to deal with the We're not We're not going to deal with this part of the investigation. No, >> ma'am. You can be charged with >> can be. She's going to be >> I mean, you are going to >> cuz they look they looked back at us both and then turned off towards the store without >> scared me. something bad. >> Um, okay. >> Oh, shoot. >> Thank you. >> I have one on you. It's 920 missing. >> Let's check, shall we? >> Uh, that looks like yours. >> Yep. That's ours. >> There's that. Is any of this yours? >> Yep. That >> Mhm. >> And probably this one there, too. >> Mhm. That's ours, too. >> Okay. >> That's Old Navy. >> Old Navy. And then that is probably Yeah. >> Is there stuff that's >> No words were needed. The evidence was in the bags. Pants, shoes, and purses with pristine tags still hanging. Silent witnesses to their betrayal. When the camera stopped rolling, the truth was already clear. Justice didn't need to shout. It spoke through images. >> Josh Brooks adventure cuz this looks like that. >> Yeah. So these are both Steve Madden. >> This is Steve Madden. And this is their rental. >> And then this is Old Navy in here. >> Old Navy. Old Navy. Old >> Navy. >> Where's the come out of sacks? >> They lost sight of them at the fountain. Okay. >> So after they fall as well, >> you got my purse. That purse. >> Which purse is yours? >> This is my purse. >> Come get my purse. >> This purse is yours. No, it's going with you. You're an adult. It's just going with you. >> It's got money and all that in it. It's going with you. >> That's my money. >> I know it's going with you. in here. >> It's going It's going to be in my belongings when I get out. >> Yes. >> All my money. >> Yes. There's money in it. It's staying with you. We're going to count it in front of you and all that stuff. I'm not handing it off to somebody else. >> Okay. No, that's my auntie. That's what I'm telling you. >> I'll I'll handle this stuff. >> Come on. Y'all can't y'all can't be talking no more. You're an adult. You're done with it. >> On the wall. >> What y'all talk about talking about? Y giving damn thing. They did. that [ __ ] They [ __ ] They did. >> Somebody tie the back of my neck cuz it's my thing. >> What? >> Yeah. >> Pull it up. Pull it tight. >> What? How do I do that? >> Untie. Wait, let me go down first. Untie cuz it's going to come on. >> He know you do your girlfriend's on. You know how to do it. >> You said untie. >> He press the thing. He press the thing to record. He press. All she said. All she said was like my neck. >> Both women were later booked and charged with organized retail theft and resisting arrest tied to multiple incidents across the same shopping complex. They were released the next day after posting bond and fined over $5,000. But with no real consequences beyond that, their actions are bound to repeat because without accountability, crime just becomes rehearsal. On November 29th, 2024 in Florida, what started as a typical Black Friday shopping trip turned into a police response. A young girl was caught with a backpack full of unpaid merchandise. But when officers arrived, they realized this wasn't just petty theft. It was a dark story about how adults teach children to make the same mistakes they once did. >> What's up, Taylor? >> Hello. >> Hello. >> What's going on? >> Yeah. So, this young lady had this stuff inside of that green bag and >> a backpack over here. >> Okay. >> She just decided to walk out. I stopped her escort her back here. More information revealed she's with mom and grandma here. >> Okay. >> Mom and grandma did not see me bringing her from points of sale to here. >> Okay. >> So, they're completely out of the loop on that. Um, on camera, the mom is putting stuff in her bag/backpack as well. I don't know if she walked out with it or not when we escorted her back here. That's where our focus went. So, um, it looks like the mom is potentially walking around looking for her who's obviously detained in here. >> Okay. >> So, >> how old are you? >> That's alcohol. >> Put it in your backpack. >> My grandma. My >> They put it in your backpack. >> Yeah. Hello, Mr. Tamara. >> Yes. >> How are you? >> I'm fine, thank you. >> You need to come with me. >> Uh, >> yep. I have your I have your I have Yolina and your granddaughter. Come on. You can come with me. I'll take this. Come on. >> Okay. >> Come on. >> All right. I'm just going to stand right over there. Stand right over there. All right. So, here's the rest of it. You want to see if there's anything else that's uh >> Yeah. Do you guys have any receipts for anything today? Did anybody pay for anything at this store today? >> You didn't pay for anything? >> No. >> So, you just walked out with all this? >> This is the from the from the store. >> You didn't pay for any of it? >> No. We just because of the wallet was in Morocco. That's it. >> That's not a really good excuse. That's what I mean. >> The child had become a tool. The mother justified it with hard times and not enough money. While the grandmother silently went along, whether by ignorance or complicity. In this family, the lesson wasn't about honesty or safety. It was about survival, even if it meant crossing the line. The message was clear. Material comfort comes first. Morality second. >> You mind if I look in here? Get this stuff out. Can I get this stuff out? Our stuff? >> Oh, wow. >> There's a lot. >> Okay. >> You're telling me there's no resale? >> No resale, guys. I'm telling you there is no resale. This is $10. $10 $9. Sorry, man. >> In New York. Okay. So, you're down visiting for the holidays and >> getting a lot of wine. Okay. >> This is >> Oh, I that doesn't matter to me. >> Okay. >> My apologies. Really, I really apologize for this. I would like to apologize. >> Oh, you don't have to apologize to me. You didn't steal anything from me. >> No, like anyway, >> everyone always wants to apologize after they get caught. >> All right, I will get a receipt for you guys. >> Okay, hand out with the other two. I'll question mom. All right, before I ask any questions, I got to read you something. Okay, before I ask you any questions, I have to read you your rights. Okay, you have the right to remain silent. You understand? You have the right to an attorney. Do you understand? I need a yes or no when I ask you these questions. >> Okay. Don't apologize to me for. You didn't do anything to me. You did something to the Target store. Okay. So, walk me through what happened. >> This is last time. because this this is the first time and the last time I just >> Okay. Well, there's a whole lot of stuff in there. Regardless, we'll we'll get to that. Okay. >> Talk talk me through what happened. You came to Target. What happened? >> When the officer read her rights, there was nothing left to say. The body cam saw it all. She had divided the stolen goods among her kids, thinking it would help avoid detection. Clever in her mind, but cruel in reality. When the truth unraveled, all she could whisper was, "I'm sorry." Not out of guilt, but out of the humiliation of being caught red-handed. >> We uh you know, I said, "Uh maybe some uh visiting mom, you know, just getting the Black Friday. It's a just opportunity to get some um gift for the family, for the business as I said business partners. >> Okay. >> Because we have a party usually you know Christmas party and uh other you know just get the um of course of course of course this is unquestionable. It's >> so let me ask you this. >> Why let me let me ask you this. Why were you putting alcoholic beverages in your 17year-old daughter's backpack? But because of your I idiot. >> Okay. >> Because I am idiot. One more time. >> So you put a bunch of bottles of wine and champagne in your daughter's backpack. Then you put a bunch of wine and champagne. Is that your bag or is that your mom's bag that you put them in? >> No, this is the old just floated the bags. >> Huh? FL I mean it's from her house but >> Right. But was it a bag you were carrying or was it a bag your mom was carrying? >> Which one? >> The one that was in the cart >> on on on the cart. That's >> talking about the bag. I'm talking about all the things that you stole and put in the bags. >> Yes. I have no you know this this really what I'm saying is this is the worst you can do you know in front of your child just because you have no budget as I said this is the first time >> do you have money to pay for the items >> really no >> no you don't have the money >> of course I can afford like three bottles >> but not 15 >> the child was trapped between two worlds one that preached love and another that practiced deceit. In that tugofwar, wrongdoing became normalized. The grandmother, with eyes clouded by both age and denial, could no longer tell right from wrong. Her silence spoke louder than any defense. >> The wallet in the car and uh I stay there and she go back to pay. >> Okay, >> that's what she told me. >> So why were you putting things in your granddaughter's backpack? And uh this is the same thing if you >> So you put them in your granddaughter's backpack. >> Just only Yeah. One bottle >> even one bottle. >> Me one bottle. >> Okay. >> Because >> Why did you put it in the backpack? Why didn't you put it in the cart? >> Because she doesn't have a car. I put in a in a in a bank. >> Yes. For my for my granddaughter I put because she doesn't have a pushka. I think she's uh you know to anyway she's a pay from the box. Sometimes I use if I use bed park sometimes I put it in uh go to registry and took everything. It's not >> this time you took all the stuff that was in the bag. That's only one. >> Let me finish. >> Mhm. >> All the stuff that was in the bag in the cart that you had with you out at the car, none of that was >> go to pay it. Come back to >> Why did you take it out of the store? >> This I don't know. It looks like >> that's stealing. >> Why you say it's stealing? >> Because you have Let me finish. Because you have things that belong to the store. You walked out of the store to your car with the stuff. >> No. >> But when I found you out, let let me When I found you out there. >> Yes. >> You had the grocery cart. >> Yes. >> And you had the bag >> that had all the wine in it. >> But I didn't know that. They have all wine or something there. I didn't know that. >> Did you actually eat the >> I don't know. I don't see what she's was in in a because I was in a bottle. So, you're saying she put everything in the bag? >> I just want I put my granddaughter one bottle. What? She uh That's it. Nothing else. And I don't have a car. >> So, how did all the other bottles get in your grand granddaughter's bag? >> You see in because I was in the bathroom. You see in a screen I was in the bathroom. I don't see what they they're doing there because >> the grandmother wasn't the mastermind, but her quiet tolerance fed the wrongdoing. Out of fear and misguided affection, she let moral decay grow unchecked. It's the tragedy of a generation that believed silence means love. Not realizing that silence can also be a legacy of guilt passed down like an heirloom. >> This time is 10% all the time. 10 15 minutes I have to go to bathroom because I had a cancer and I didn't know where she there was she told just she push car and I followed her and she told me we have money in a wallet in the car that's what she told me wait we took uh Vlad because I give Vlad uh my key from the car >> Mhm. Huh? >> And I don't have anything. >> And I said, "Wait, I don't see anything what they put in in the uh in the back >> because I was not there. >> I was not there. >> Okay. >> I was in a bathroom. >> Okay, >> that's what I'm going to right now. >> Okay, hold up. >> I didn't take anything. >> Stand up for me. >> I didn't take anything >> except the backpack that was on your back when you walked out of the store. Forget about that. Turn around. Put your hands behind your back. >> Get a hold of her. >> Yes. Yes. Someone is. >> Who's coming? >> Who's coming? >> My dad. >> Your dad's coming. >> Your dad. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, I am going to give these to all three of you. These two are going to go with you to the jail. I'll explain what they are. Here's yours. This is a trespass warning for Target. You are no longer ever allowed to come back to Target. If you come back to Target and you're seen, >> you will go to jail again. >> Okay. >> Thank you so much. >> Do you understand that? >> Do you understand that you cannot come back to Target? Okay. That means in the parking lot, that means in the store, anywhere, nowhere. >> In the end, all three, the mother, the grandmother, and the teenage daughter, face charges of petta theft and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Both serious offenses. The stolen goods valued around $400 made it a misdemeanor, but any proof of coordination or repeat behavior could raise it to a felony. Penalties could include fines, probation, community service, retail bans, and ongoing supervision. On July 31st, 2025 in Ohio, police were called after a man spotted a car pulled over on the side of the road. The mother was slumped over in the driver's seat unresponsive, and the baby in the back was crying alone. The car showed signs of a crash, and the driver was suspected of being on drugs. In an instant, this turned from a traffic concern into a full-on emergency rescue. She was left over in the car with her daughter, young daughter in the car with her. Probably overloaded. >> Okay. >> I believe it's just a single car. What did that guy tell you, X? >> He said that he just Okay. So, he didn't see it. I think >> What happened to you? You were in that car right there. So, what happened to you? >> Yeah. What happened? >> Your boyfriend's not here. Your boyfriend's not here. So, what what happened? Do you know what you hit or what hit you? >> Not too much. >> Do you guys need anything? >> No, we're good. Thank you. >> You were not to the point where >> How you doing, sir? So, what did you obviously You didn't see the accident, right? >> No, she was already there. I was dropping my son off the down that way. >> Was she where she's at now? >> Yep. And then I went to the gas station and then when I came back from the gas station I need to turn down here and I turned down here and that piece was in the middle of the road. So I was go move it and I tell I'm like well let me check on sitting there too long and nobody over here and I knocked on the window. She was not respond. I didn't know the little girl was back. >> Okay. >> So I just called 911. >> I just talked to a lady where that black car in the driveway is. >> She said she had to drive around all this [ __ ] She's back at her house now, but she said when she went out to drive around this crap, the people in this white house here were sitting on their front porch, so they might have seen stuff. And then there's a Ring doorbell one, two houses down, too. >> All right. Thanks. So, yeah. >> The witness's statement and the first impressions all pointed to a mother who was not in her right mind while her child had been so terrified that a stranger had to call 911. And yet, she still tried to play the I'm innocent card. That whole I care about my child act just didn't match anything we were seeing. And once officers started going through the car, the picture got a lot clearer. >> I didn't tell him about the damage on the car. I don't know if the screen existed. I'll let him know >> there's damage on the car down there. >> I mean, but I don't know if it's been there or not. The black Mitsubishi closest to us has front end damage like >> like could be like a sideswipe kind of deal. Front left bumper and then the black Mitsubishi, two cars behind that has a uh driver side mirror. Okay. >> They did not. >> She was slumped over. Her daughter was in the back seat crying. >> Was she buckled in? >> She said she was buckled in. She wasn't when we got here. I think she unbuckled herself to check on her mom. um ex like pressure pointed her to wake her up and it took a decent amount of time to get her out. >> We got a traffic unit coming. We're probably going to go OVI route. >> Yeah, she doesn't have uh >> no medical issues. >> Ma'am, we're going to stop going to clean the car. Can I get my verse? >> We'll get it in a second. Okay, >> let's go sit. We're going to have you sit out of the rain in my the back of my car, okay? When we figure out what's going on. >> Listen, man. >> I don't want to handcuff you in front of your daughter. But if we play this game, it's going to happen. You're under arrest. One for driving without a license. >> All right. >> So, we're going to figure this out. What's going on? You have narcotics in the vehicle. >> So, you can either we can go this route and I handcuff you in front of your daughter or you can sit in my car and you can console her until I can figure out what's going on and what we're going to do. >> The little one was checked out and thankfully wasn't physically hurt. But there's no measuring the fear in that child's eyes. Meanwhile, the mother dodged the hospital, dodged the word overdose, and dodged admitting she'd been driving while out of it. With her drug history and everything that just happened, her explanation sounded more and more like a story she was telling herself, not reality. >> If you want me to place you in handcuffs, I >> don't want to do that because your daughter's here and she's stereo. >> So, let's walk to the back of my car. Let's sit down in it >> and get you guys out of the rain. Come on. >> Come over here. Real quick, do you have anything on you that's going to poke me, stick me, steady me? We knives, guns, bombs, drugs. Right. I'm just going to pat down your pockets here to make sure you got nothing in them. What do you got? Some money. >> What's in here? >> You want to put daughter in your car once once I give you a bag? >> Yeah. >> Stick your hands out in your shirt. down. You can do all swings. Okay. Other hand. >> Stuck your foot in. >> I'm trying. Let's grab that. Hold on. The witness said he got done dropping his child off at daycare down there. Was coming down here. She was parked here, went to the gas station, came back and she had moved. Um, slumped over at the wheel unresponsive. Child in the car was screaming. So, there's no accident. There is an accident somewhere. I haven't found it. >> Okay. >> This mom seemed more worried about how she looked in front of her kid than about how her kid actually felt. The officers, on the other hand, did the decent thing. They chose not to cuff her in front of the child and let them ride together so the kid wouldn't be even more shaken. From that moment on, it stopped being just an accident and became a question of who should really be caring for this child. What's >> going on? Your child is already traumatized. I'm not going to put you. >> I go to paddle down. She's got a large bag in her. So, >> little one has uh that teddy bear that's in there. >> That's what she figured cuz she just sitting here. >> Yeah. Hey, Kennedy, >> I'm going to figure out I'll take care of the criminal stuff if you want to do the OBI. >> I don't or we can >> we have to get uh O'Brien to run the test and everything. >> Yeah, if you want to do that >> cuz I I do not know how to do any of that stuff yet. So, I'm not certified any but I mean if we can take her like this this pisses me off. >> Yeah. >> And I think Six is going to go look for the accident down here. >> Okay. Um, there was a car that has a busted driver's mirror and one that looks like it was sideswiped, but if you look, all of her damage is right here. >> So, I got her ID. I'm going to add her to the call for you. >> All right, Desiree, who can we call? Who who can we give your daughter to? >> Um, my daughter lives um right on the street. >> She said she's got a grandma in Norton. Um on uh 22nd Street. It's not Lauren. It's in It's in Kenmore. >> In Kenmore. Okay. What's her name? >> Kathy. I can show you how to get there. >> Do you have your calendar? >> You don't think she had any of those cars? >> I mean, there's damage on like the black one there, but I think it looks old. And that mirror that's damaged there. There's like no pieces or parts around it. >> I wonder if she had something further down. father's mom. >> Where? >> That lives on 22nd Street. >> My mom's >> your mom. Okay. >> So, once the phone powers on, we're going to call her. I got to get some information. >> Uh, so what's going to happen is we have to call CSB. We're going to roll six your daughter. Um, and then if CSB is okay with her going to your grandmother, that's where she'll be released to. Okay. >> Or your mom. Is your mom ever been convicted of any crimes, any felonies, anything like that? Wait, can can I change your person then? >> Is there a different family member that you that you want >> that might be more qualified? Yeah. >> Who would that be? >> Um, could you get my phone for me? >> It It's dead. So, that's that's the problem. Okay. So, we're going to I have it plugged in. It's going to charge up for a little bit and then we'll get the numbers and things like that. >> Okay. >> And then just give me your number then. >> Huh? >> And then just give me the number then. >> Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to have to talk to you. >> You mean like I need a supervisor and stuff like that? >> What do you mean? >> Like when you say like she >> we're going to take cussy your daughter. You overdose in a car while driving. >> The truth hit her carefully built narrative headon and she chose to save the story, not the child. Because admitting to an overdose means admitting that her entire history as a mother has been built on shaky, unsafe ground. And think about it. If no one had spotted that car in time that day, this story could have taken a much darker turn, cocaine, peas. If I were to have to guess, I have a guess is morphine. >> Oh, I wonder if it's a green bar. >> She also had a green zy bar. Is that a >> Yeah. Amazol. Where are the keys? Desire. Desire. >> Hey guys, >> he's zonked out. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. >> Hey, there. You got to stay awake. >> Are you going to have to go down to the hospital? >> I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm sorry. >> I know. I know. I'm not trying to hurt you either, but I got to get you up. >> Okay. >> Okay. Hold on. Here. This is what you need to do. This is driving me crazy. You need to blow your nose. Blow it. >> Blow it again. >> Yeah, that's what you needed to get out. Be quicker. I need to do the paperwork. Okay. >> I gave her my phone. She was watching Netflix. 9357. >> I don't think I'm going to reach my mom. >> You want her to go with your mom? >> My doctor, >> they they said because you had the drugs on you, >> you can't just go straight there. >> I'm not going to lecture you, but I I I really hope that uh this change is something for you here. If you you if she starts kning off, whatever, dude, just grab that mat. Okay. And just pinch hard. >> She usually just wakes. Yeah. She had to get all that [ __ ] out cuz I'm sure that's drugs. >> Mhm. >> In the end, the woman was taken to jail and now has to face charges for DUI, drug possession, child endangerment, and assaulting an officer. If she's convicted, she could be looking at up to 18 months behind bars, four years of mandatory probation, losing her driver's license, being ordered into rehab, and most importantly, losing custody or temporary guardianship of her child. On March 27th, 2022 in Illinois, police responded to a 911 call at a Walmart parking lot. Two little kids had been left inside a car. One bolted straight into traffic, barely escaping death. But when officers finally found the mother, the truth behind her actions left everyone speechless. >> Hi. >> You call? >> Yeah. >> Okay. He's in here. >> Yeah. >> Okay. All right. >> I mean, >> okay. >> There's another little boy. >> Yeah, that's what they were saying. I got another guy coming. He's going to go inside. So, I guess somebody else brought the other child inside. >> Yeah. The the woman that drives this car right here. >> This one. >> I've been here for almost 30 minutes. I haven't seen anybody else. >> Okay. So, it's been it's been a while. >> It's been a long time. >> Okay. All right. >> Girl, she didn't get out when her brother got out. >> She just stayed in there. Okay. I get Well, I appreciate you calling her up, >> buddy. >> Okay, that's fine. >> Able to find out anything on name or >> No, he doesn't speak. >> No, he um he jumped up and he seen this one lady, but okay. Oh, no. Kisses. >> He was wandering in the parking lot. One lady yelled, the other lady grabbed the kid. So, she went over there to get him out of the street and she was picking the lady. She like, "He's not my kid. I just seen him in the road." >> Yeah. >> So, I walked back out there. She said that there was a car parked next to her. They had like a six-year-old in a car seat by yourself. So, we went out there. The car was gone. >> Oh, the other officer got there with the car, right? >> Oh, the car out there >> cuz somebody else called also on >> before he took off and so we was already on the way for that one. The woman officers had been searching for finally showed up. She walked right past her own child as if he didn't even exist. No reaction, no words, just silence. The kind that makes you wonder how a mother could be this detached. >> Go back out there with your sister. >> You want to go with your sister? You want me to go with you? >> Yeah. Both the kids are in the car. So, >> so we're going to attempt to find out how long >> um said she was looking at video. Okay, she is okay. >> Oh, your cup is here. >> She's in there. >> Oh, she's in there. Tell her where the police car is sitting with the lights on. >> He said where the police car sitting with the lights on. Right out the front entrance door of grocery or >> right out should be one, two, >> can I open the door? Oh, can you open the door? Can you open the door? Oh, no. Other one. Try the other one. Press that button. Yep. There you go. You got it. You got it. >> Yeah. Hey, sweetie. Hey, where's your mom? Here. You want to come out here with me? Hi. >> How are you? Are you okay? >> Yay. >> How long How long you been out here by yourself, sweetie? >> She's inside. >> Do you know what's mommy's name? Do you know mommy's name? >> Yeah. >> What's her name? What's her name, sweetie? Here. You want to Here, let's go sit. Let's go sit in my car. >> What? No. >> You don't want to sit in my car? >> No. >> I know. We're We're trying to find mommy. We don't know where she's at. Is this your Is this your child? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Where where have you been? >> In the store. >> In the store. How long were you in there for? >> Take them or something. My husband got killed a year ago. I'm doing the best I can. If y'all going to take them, take them. >> We're not We're not going to take your kids. >> I'm at my um I'm at I'm at my wits. I I can't. So, >> we're we're not going to take your kids. I get your >> I've been trying to get my And now the No, the police got my kids. I guess they had woke up up in the car. >> You remember Lonnie? >> I'm at Oen at Walmart. Told them that we going to take them. Take them. I'm tired. They daddy got killed last year. I'm doing the best I can. So, >> are you guys? >> So, some lady saw two kids little like a three-year-old got out, walked in traffic, walked inside. Nobody's around. And then she's saying that she was inside and her dad or husband got killed and she's doing the best she can. >> Is that mom? That's mom. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> How long have we been in here? >> He said like 30 minutes. >> How long have you been inside for? >> Probably 10 minutes. >> Okay. Cuz we had we had a lady that saw Well, she said somebody Is there somebody else inside with you? >> No. >> Okay. So, you're by yourself. So, we had some other lady say that she saw nobody in the car for like 30 minutes. >> 30 minutes. Okay. >> She didn't seem the least bit worried even with police surrounding her. She downplayed the danger, convinced everything was still under control when in truth nothing was. The bitter irony, the person who cared most about those kids wasn't their mother. It was a total stranger. >> I I've been trying to I'm trying to do the best that I can. Like >> can you take a seat for me? I want to talk. >> Why do we got to talk in public and try not to >> listen? Listen, Dex, you just look at kids in the car and got hit. Okay. If it wasn't for these kind citizens who witness this whole thing and then help corral your kids and then get us involved. >> Who knows where your son would be cuz you don't know where your son is right now. >> I do know where he >> You have no idea. >> Be right there. >> Listen. Sit. Sit. Sit down. >> I really want my mom to answer and she's not answering the phone. >> Can you get a hold of mom? >> I'm trying. >> Keep trying. >> Since he's got a an attachment to you. >> We'll walk out there together. >> Walk out to the car with him or go at least just sit and help LP and Hey, so you know how I was just begging you to help me with the kids? >> We at Walmart in the parking lot with the police. So I'm like I was telling him I'm tired. >> Tell her to come here. >> I'm tired and now they want you to come up here. But I'm tired. I'm tired. I left the kids up in the car to try to run up in Walmart to get a toilet plunger and Yeah. That's why I was begging you for help. Like I'm I'm When I say I need help, I need help. came up to customer service while standing there with the child and finished the transaction up there and then left knowing we were right there with her child. >> Who else do you have to come take a picture? >> No, Bobby. It's just me that daddy got killed. It was just me and him. Nobody. >> Who's this number? >> I don't know. What is that number? >> I don't know. It says ask phone. >> Hello. Can you stop calling my phone, please? >> Is it? >> No, I don't know him. Don't tell him. I don't >> Stop. Give me a second. I'm trying to find somebody to >> Okay, hang up. >> Give me >> You're about that close right now to go check him. Give me my phone. >> You're about that close to going and turn them over to them. >> Is that what you want? >> I don't know who that person is. >> That's the other option. >> Okay, but I don't know who that person is. So, don't give no random guy calling my phone for my business. I don't know who that is. >> I'm calling your phone. Yeah. >> Okay. So, try to get a hold of somebody and come up here. >> Okay. >> Otherwise, you're going to jail. Okay. >> She kept trying to justify herself. She didn't deny what happened, but every sentence circled back to me. I'm tired. I'm struggling. I've been through so much. Not once did she mention the kids or grasp how close they came to harm. It wasn't pure cruelty. It was the kind of emotional collapse where you can only see yourself and no one else. I know y'all white and I'm black, but listen, I'm mad at you. I'm a person. >> You left your kids alone. >> I I have feelings. >> And one is running around out here in traffic. >> Can you please try to reach my mom? >> Do you have anyone else you wanted me to call other than your mom? >> That's the only person out there. >> Uncomfortable. Call somebody else over here besides y'all. Call a Walmart worker. Call a random person. Call somebody else over here because I feel uncomfortable. That's all I want. my friend. >> Why don't you take the phone? I gave you an opportunity and you obviously couldn't call anybody. >> Okay, here's the thing. We're trying to work with you. If I've been nothing but nice to you this entire time. >> Okay, I'm trying to work. >> They daddy already gone. This all I got left. So, if y'all going to take them, I will go. >> That's That's not what we trying to do. >> Like, I will blow my [ __ ] off in front of everybody. That's all I got left. >> That's it. >> Here's the thing. >> That's all I got. That's all I got left. >> I understand that. Okay. I'm Stop. >> No, I'm not. >> Don't do that. Stop. >> Shut up. STOP. >> STOP. >> STOP. LET ME GO. What the are you doing? >> You're under arrest. You're under arrest. >> Let me go. >> You're under arrest. >> Call my mama. You're under arrest. >> I'll call my mom. >> You're under arrest. >> My baby. Please. You're under arrest. Quit resisting. >> Please >> stop resisting. >> Okay, let's get up. Let me get in the car and stop. >> STOP. STOP. >> STOP. >> MY KIDS. >> MY KIDS. MY KIDS. >> I didn't do [ __ ] Move. >> Stop. >> Let me go. >> I didn't do anything. My kids IS IN HERE. THIS IS RECORDING ME. Y'ALL IS DOING THE MOST FOR NOTHING. >> Carlo me car. >> Hey, come here, buddy. >> Hey, it's okay, dude. >> It's okay. Hey, it's okay. >> To her, being a mom wasn't about care. It was about control. The moment she realized she might lose her kids, reason snapped. Fear turned into panic. The officers stayed calm, fighting off the guilt of being seen as the bad guys, when in reality they were the only thing standing between those children and the chaos their mother had unleashed. >> Call my mama, uncle, >> put your foot, please. >> I'm not A CRIMINAL AND Y'ALL. >> YOU'RE UNDER ARREST. >> NO, NOT YOU ARE. >> Can y'all let me out? >> Y. He got killed in front of us and you doing me like this. >> Come on. Put your foot in the car. >> Call my mama. >> Put your foot in the car. >> Call my mama. >> Put your foot. >> Can you help me? >> I will help you. You put YOUR FOOT IN THE CAR. >> PUT YOUR CAR TREATING ME LIKE >> MY MAMA. >> WAIT. It's okay, bud. It's all right. >> It's okay. >> Come here. >> What is your passcode? >> What is your passcode? >> Listen. This is serious if I'm under risk cuz listen. >> What is your passcode? I'm trying to help you. >> Y'all going out this. My kids don't have nobody else. My kids don't have Please, I will act right. >> Look, I'm just under stress. I don't have nobody else. >> What is your What is your passcode? >> I want to try. >> OH MY GOD. MY NOT ELSA. She the answer. Hold on. Take me out this cuff for real cuz I can't. I'M NOT A CRIMINAL. I'M GOING TO GO TO A POLICE ACADEMY. >> I CANNOT STOP. I CANNOT I cannot >> I'm not a criminal. >> Can you let me >> Will you Can you Can you work with me for one second? Work with me. >> My kids don't have nobody else. Listen, my mama ain't going to do right. She going to act it. >> Let me hold it. I'm telling you, IT'S ALL IN THE TOUCH. I DON'T KNOW THE PASSCODE, SON. It's only taking a passcode. >> It's six digits. >> Thank you. >> Call my Hey, what they going to do with my kids? >> Hello, >> mama. Hey, this is this is officer with the pound police department. >> Uhhuh. >> Hey, we're out here with your daughter, Dad. >> Are you are you heading are you heading here right now? >> Yeah. >> Okay. How far out are you? >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay. >> Hello. >> Hey, how are you? >> All right. Cousin. Okay. Is her mama on the way or >> she I'm trying to see where her phone is. >> Whose phone? Is she gone already? >> Yes, she's gone. The phone's right there. Grandma said she was about 10 minutes out. >> Okay. >> So, she shows up here shortly. >> Okay. >> Leave the the children to her and >> Oh, okay. >> All right. Just remember, cooperate with us. Get your get your your handcuffs off. Get your hair back on. And then this will this will honestly go really easy. Okay. And I don't think you'll honestly be here that long. >> All right. >> Probably half an hour. >> All right. You got your hair? >> Yeah. come back. >> Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. >> They really jumped on me. Three of them jumped on me because I didn't want to get there. >> In the end, she was taken into custody and charged with child endangerment and resisting arrest. Both misdemeanors, but the fallout runs deeper. She faces up to a year in jail, fines, DCFS child supervision, and a temporary loss of custody. More than that, her record could haunt her for years, casting a shadow over any chance to rebuild her life as a mother. On February 19th, 2025, officers were dispatched to a Meyer store after employees reported a shoplifting incident. Suspects had hidden merchandise in a baby stroller and turned aggressive when confronted. Police had to step in immediately to keep things from spiraling. And the body cam captured every second. >> Ma'am, hang up the phone, please. >> Huh? >> Can you hang up the phone, please? >> Hi. >> So I can talk with you. So I guess you and another male ran out the store. You guys trying to take something or >> No, nobody didn't take nothing. >> Okay. Were they trying to talk to you? >> He was talking to me. He let me go. He got everything back. It wasn't even nothing but a hat. >> It's a cohart hat. Sorry. >> Okay. Where Where's uh is it >> boyfriend? Husband? >> He didn't take nothing. Yes. >> Where's he at? >> Pull it up. Yes. >> Ma'am, one more time. Hang the phone up. >> Yes. >> Until we figure this out. All right. >> Yeah. Okay. Cool. >> Do you have a car here? >> Yes. >> Where's your car at? It's It's coming. See him? >> Okay. Is it the male who took the car? >> He opened. >> He didn't take nothing. Do y'all >> Okay. But he took the car and left you guys. Is that right? >> No. >> I was in there shopping. He went to go get some food. That was it. That's how >> All right. You got your ID on you? >> Yes. >> It's in the car with my purse. >> I ain't stealing. >> That's cool. I'm just We're going to have a conversation. What you got a kind of conversation going for >> right now? You're being detained for investigation. Get out. I'm being detained. >> Hey. Yes, you are. All right. So, you just park the car, bro. >> All right. We're going to ID. You guys going to be on your way. >> Just tried to pay for this [ __ ] He didn't even want to let us pay for this [ __ ] >> Hey, wait. What happened? >> I'm talking to you. What happened? >> They trying to say I stole. I ain't steal. That's all that matters. I ain't steal nothing. >> You got your ID on you? Sit back, girl. You have to sit back. >> Sit back, son. You have to sit back. >> Man, can you just like You can walk. We can close this mother park. I just want to get out there on you. I'm ask. >> No, I'm just saying like, can we can you just walk right here so I can park it? >> No, it's okay. We just I'm not worried about nobody else. All right. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Hey, chill out. Chill out. Chill out. Hello. >> The truth is officers had every reason to stop them, but the couple spun it into a story about being mistreated because we're black. They tried to cast themselves as the victims, even though the report showed they actively stole and caught between those two versions of reality. Was a child who had no voice in any of it. >> Excuse me. I'm out of time. >> You're good, man. Are you sure we got there? >> So, we're going to hit them both with complicity. He selected all the merchandise. You can seal it all. Okay. Can I see the video of this? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> All right. >> It's been a while since I've seen you. >> It has been. It's a good thing. >> No, we we still get hit. >> We going catch them all. >> What's going on? Why are we here? >> The hat. Well, we tried to buy it, but he act like we couldn't buy. He said police was here. And I'm not even trying to say no racist stuff, but he looked like he was one of them. You know, we black. So, he wanted us to say I guess he wanted us to not pay and just talk to y'all. >> Okay. So, you guys had a hat and you said you were planning on paying up. Yeah. Cohort. The cohort hat. I don't know if you know this what it is, but it's cohort. >> Cohort. Yeah. >> Put it back. He He got it. >> Okay. Did you guys have a card or anything or were you just >> cash like push grocery cart? That's what I'm saying. >> Oh, yeah. >> Okay. So, you guys had a grocery cart, whatever. >> He was going I was going ain't got nothing I see. But like that's it. That's all. >> I picked them up right there in men's. Started watching them. look like they're concealing underneath the baby. Long story short, they did went to stop him. They stopped her, stopped her with backup, went and he came back and start getting very hostile going yelling. I'll just trip right here. I ain't got [ __ ] on me. A word I'm not going to say stuff like that. >> Okay. >> So, once we got like right here, she goes this pulls everything out cuz she's going to go and ditch it. And I'm like, "No, you got to keep coming with me." She's like, "I got to grab something else." I'm like, "No, no, no. Come on." Finally, one sweet guy right there. She just pulled everything out and walked out the door. >> Okay. You guys didn't put any clothing >> in your like sweatshirt, anything like that. You didn't put in the baby stroller, baby carriage. >> I gave it all back. I gave them back to him. >> Okay. How many items did you give back? >> All of it. It was just the hats. >> Just the hats. How many hats? >> It was like three little Kobe hats. >> Okay. Let's do this cuz I'm cold, too. How about we just sit sit back here? I'll turn the heat on. All right. This is the classic self-justification loop of a troubled mother. Once the stolen items are physically gone, in her mind, the guilt disappears, too. That mental dodge keeps her from facing the fact that she chose to teach her child through theft. She passes down excuses, not responsibility. >> They're together. >> Yes, these two. She's the one that committed the theft. She walked out with it. He was just like merch knives with her, but we picked them up and they were way back here. So, they select the jeans, the hoodie. >> There are some other things I can't remember off the top of my head. Jeans, hoodie that they put back there, the white shirt, black jeans, two hats. I think that I believe that's it. >> Okay. >> It was a total of 11876. >> Yep. >> So, what is she selecting there? >> Uh, she was just concealing merchandise with the >> All right. Can you show me that again? >> Yep. Seal in there and then just conceal it like that. when I gave it back. >> No, if you would have worked with them, maybe walk to their back office. >> I wasn't I ain't give him no bad >> sign something saying like, "Hey, I can't come back anymore." >> It's just him cuz he don't don't put it on my name like >> I understand where he coming from. >> Yeah. They said your guys being hostile. That's why we just he >> nothing too serious. >> I just don't understand why he drove off and left you and the baby. Especially when you guys are out in this cold. >> No, he went to go get something to eat. We supposed to be in there long. >> We have a good offense. >> Amir, it's going to be end up being both. The male aided in selecting the merchandise. She concealed it and the baby carrier. Total loss is 118 bucks. LP says they were stopped at the door. >> Was the merchandise recovered? >> Yes. >> All of it was >> Yes. All merchandise will clear. We're going to get him out and secure him. >> All right, Mr. Horn. Are you good if I patch you down? >> No. >> No, you're not. >> Pound me down for it. >> But to make sure that you didn't steal anything. >> I asked him did he want me to strip [ __ ] naked? He told me no. I was good. >> I'm asking you. >> Hello. >> So you asking me to search me because you felt like I stole something. >> I'm going to pat you down. >> I'm not going to search you. >> Hold this man. Let me [ __ ] Put your hands under what? >> My bandit found in my bandit. >> No sir, you are under arrest. >> For what? >> Put that. >> I stole. When did I steal? Where? >> How did I steal? >> You guys don't have to walk out with that merchandise. >> Hold on. How did I steal? >> We're going to go over all that. >> The child doesn't understand legal definitions, but they see one thing clearly. The adult male in their life isn't the calm one. He's the one making everything worse. Arguing for ego. puffing up in front of the cops, ignoring the child inches away. That's the crooked lesson this kid is being raised on. >> Okay. All right. >> Don't drive off. All right. >> He's going to go in the back of the car. I'm going to pull up this cruiser again. >> You just said I stole the >> You're not going to jail as of right now. So, do not drive off. Do you understand, Mandy? Do you understand? Okay. >> Can I get another? >> Just Just hang tight for me. All right. >> Walk over to my car over here. >> Y'all basically covered me up because I was hostile. Y'all didn't like that. That's what's going on. That's what's going on. Basically, just be honest. Y'all didn't like that. I was being hostile with the situation due to the fact I didn't steal. What am I stealing for? I have money on me. I asked him, "Did he want me to buy this shit?" He said, "No." He tried to make me go back there. I told him, "No, I ain't steal [ __ ] What am I going back there for?" And I walked out. So, how did I steal? Can you explain it now? >> I will. >> But I have to read you your rights first before we have a conversation. >> You have pocket? >> You don't got anything on you? Money money, bro. This [ __ ] don't Okay, can you explain now? Let me read the right to remain silent, etc., etc. >> All right, so they reviewed the cameras. >> Yeah, the both of you trying to conceal uh merchandise. $118 worth of merchandise. >> How did I try to conceal anything? >> They stopped you. They retrieved the merchandise. >> They didn't retrieve nothing from me. Not my person. They don't. Well, I mean, there's an officer in there. He's reviewing body camera or camera footage. So, you told me you told us to go check the cameras and somebody's doing that and that's what it shows. You're trying to conceal merchandise. >> It shows me dropping it in the car seat. That don't mean that we trying to steal anything. >> Okay. >> What the >> All right. So, that was the answer to your question. >> Then I asked him to buy this [ __ ] He said no. So, can I go in here and buy that [ __ ] >> No. Like I said, you're under arrest. >> All right. Cool. Close the door. That's all it is. >> Got to get your seat belt. >> Here, the moral picture sharpens. The mother shifts from absolute denial to partial admission to the half-hearted plea of I didn't mean anything bad. She tries to twist the story into a misunderstanding. Anything to preserve the version of herself she wants to believe. The good mom video evidence, everything like that. You guys are consuming merchandise, correct? You told me about the multiple hats. How many hats? >> Like I said, just keep working with us so we can work with you a little bit better. >> Yeah. >> He's going to jail. So, as of right now, for that, okay, I said the camera footage, we're still going on it. Okay. Our policy is we usually take two like people who get charged with theft to jail. Okay. We're trying to work with you so you don't go tonight and give you a court date. But I would prefer to get your side of the story a little bit better now. Okay. That way, we don't have to take him, take you, and your baby needs to get picked up by somebody else. We took a couple items, but we put it back. >> He got it all. He don't We don't have nothing. >> Okay. You took a couple items. Were you planning on paying for them? >> Yes. He was going to pay for some. >> And where did you put those items at that you were planning on playing? >> He got them. I told you. I gave it to him >> when you first picked them up. Where did you put them at? >> Yes. >> Did you put them in a cart? Did you put them in the baby's uh baby carrier? >> Baby carrier. But we you know, I used it as the cart and you know, >> he got he got everything. You put underneath the baby, on top of the baby, >> on top. >> On top. Okay. Were there any other items? But your intent was to steal them. It did not work that way. You put them out and you guys did not walk out with any clothing. Correct. >> Okay. >> And you know you can still get charged with theft for attempting, right? >> Okay. I said they're going through camera footage. They see everything. >> I said it might have been better. You guys were a little bit nicer. You could have got trespass. I understand. >> Okay. >> Met them, right? So, they're going to verbally trespass you. All right. So, you can't come back to this meer ever again. >> Annie Meyer. >> Annie Meyer. All right. And then, um, they're going to take a picture just and post it up in their office so people know. All right. So, I just ask you to comply with them so we can continue on with the night. All right. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. Mr. Horn, these are loss prevention guys. All right. You already met them. All right. They're gonna give you a trespass. All right. From all Myers. All right. >> So, I'm just going to ask you to listen to them. >> I'm still going to the Justice Center. >> You're still going to just That doesn't change nothing. >> So, close the door. >> You don't want to talk to them? >> What is What am I talking about? I didn't steal [ __ ] >> I'm going to trespass you from the Green Township Meer. Okay. >> I didn't steal. >> That's okay. It has nothing to do with anything. I could >> trespass you because they don't want you here. All right. So, don't ever come back to Green Township Meer. Got it. You understand that? if you're found here at Greenhouse. >> In the end, the pair were charged with theft and attempted theft for selecting items, hiding them in the stroller, and heading for the exit. Actions that meet the legal threshold even if all the goods were recovered. The man was taken into custody. The woman received a court summon, and both were permanently trespassed from the supermarket chain. If convicted, they face fines, probation, or short jail sentences. On April 2nd, 2024, Craig Head County police responded to a call about a 7-year-old boy who walked over 7 miles to school by himself. When asked, the child said his mom punished him by skipping dinner and told him to get ready on his own because she wasn't going to do it. And here's what happened next. >> Good morning. >> Morning. How are you? >> It's not raining. >> No, got a little shower a while ago, but other than that, I think that's all we got. >> How you doing, buddy? Where you live at? >> Say what? >> Can't remember. >> Come here, baby. >> It's okay. You can't remember. >> Where's your mama at? >> I don't know. What >> is she at home? >> Yeah, but I don't know what road. >> See, I can't figure out what which bus driver runs this route. I don't Not a whole lot of kids out there. >> I know his address. We'll fix him go over here in a minute. Did you Did you talk to your mom this morning? >> No. She She I got in trouble and then and my mom said today you have to wake up up on your own and try to get catch the bus. If you don't, uh you should maybe Maybe a lot. Now, she doesn't want me to just She said like I'm like I got in trouble last night and then and then she said, "Go to sleep. I won't set your alarm clock." And she won't like >> Did you set your alarm? My mom My mom always do that, but she didn't. >> Do you know how to set your alarm? >> So, no alarm was set and you got up a little late. >> Okay. >> Said his mom's name. Hawkins. >> No, I I can't remember. >> You can't remember your mama's name. You just call her mama. >> Forcing a seven-year-old to set his own alarm and walk to school alone isn't teaching independence. It's abandoning your duty as a mother. She turned responsibility into punishment. The boy chose a sevenmile walk through danger over going home. And that fear showed when he couldn't even remember his own mother's name. >> Okay. cuz she she does want me to go to school cuz cuz she loves me but she wants me to go to school. >> Okay. Well, we're going to make sure you get to school, but we got to go talk to her real quick. Tell her anything. Are you hungry? All right. Did you eat supper last night? Didn't eat last night either. She she said you're not going to eat eat supper. And she does and she said you just eat to stay in your room for all night. >> Okay. >> And I just been doing my homework. >> What did you get in trouble for? >> Can't remember. It was a long >> Oh, you can remember. All right. Well, come with me. We're going to run to your house real quick. Okay. I want to just go to school cuz my mom don't want me to. She didn't want me to go to school. So, >> okay. Well, come with me then. >> Are you going to go to school? >> Say what? >> I'll be back in a second. >> Are they going to go to school >> in a minute? Get up there and have a seat. Give me just a second. Okay. I'm going to go talk to to this guy up here. Okay. >> Been out all night. And I'm like, why have you been out all night? You know, then he says, "Well, it was kind of dark and I missed the bus." And but at first he wouldn't tell me anything. He was scared, I think. >> You know, and I was he was just like, "Please just take me to school." And I'm like, "I can't just take you to school, buddy." Because >> you did the right thing calling us. You know, >> there's actually a family at their house right now trying to figure out where he's at. >> In that fragile little mind, love and fear had become one. The boy repeated what his mom taught him. That cruelty meant love. That's the deepest scar of abuse when the victim defends the one who caused the pain. But the neighbors report painted the mother as completely invisible. >> Our neighbor's kid, she was driving down here this morning. She called the police um and um she picked him up. He was walking. She took him back home and she's been out there beating on the mom's door trying to get him to come to the door. She said the kid went around to the back of their house too, man. I my kids at no. I said showed up. See, I guess he >> I guess he thought he saw this vehicle and thought, you know, and I just seen him come back past the side. >> You ready? >> I'm not sure. >> I'll follow you over. >> You got a 2-year-old brother is what he told me down there. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. He's got >> He was all the way down there by the landfield. He walked that far. >> Yeah. Well, I picked him up and I brought him back and he whenever I was cuz he called he opened the door and I didn't go in, but I was yelling for him and he walked around the house. So, I thought he went in the back and I've been yelling for him and I can't get him to come to the door. Well, I know why he I don't know how he went past me. >> He said mama's going to be really mad if he didn't make it to school. >> Yeah, that's what she That's what he she said, too. >> See, >> I told her I said, "Don't leave until you find out somebody's okay." man. >> Well, we're going to keep him in here for now so he don't run off. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> He said he got >> He said he got in trouble last night and they seemed to bed with no supper. Told him he was going to bed and setting his own alarm, getting up and going to school on his own. They wouldn't waking him up. So, he got up this morning late on his own, missed the bus, and his mom told him last night if he missed the bus, he'd be in trouble. So, he started walking. H. You can't be walking by yourself, buddy. That's scary. Traffic and cars and >> All right, we're fixing to go clear this ass. >> Hey, >> we'll be right back. Okay. >> Okay. >> The neighbor confirmed she was still active online, deliberately cutting contact when approached, ruling out any medical emergency and revealing a conscious effort to avoid responsibility. With a child possibly in danger and an unlocked door, the officers had every reason to enter the home. >> Sheriff's office. >> Sheriff's department. >> Kid in the bedroom right there sleeping. >> Hey, buddy. Sheriff's office. >> Another kid. >> Hey, buddy. Hey, the police. >> Sheriff's office. Clear. Clear. >> Hey, buddy. Where's your mom? >> Oh, sheriff's department. >> Sheriff's office. >> How you doing? >> I'm good. How are y'all? >> I'm trying to figure out why your kids walking down the road by the landfill on his own. >> Who? Which kid? >> Your sevenyear-old. >> I don't know why. >> He said you told him to uh get up and go to school on his own this morning. >> He got in a lot of trouble last night and he got an alarm for um Easter. Well, he missed the bus and he's scared of you. So, >> he's scared of me. >> Took it amongst himself to walk all the way down by the landfill. >> He's scared of me. Okay. I mean, he can he can be scared of me all he wants. He needs to be scared of me. I'm I'm his parent. That's his That's my job. >> You got any ID on you, ma'am? >> Um, my husband actually has a he has my ID in my social. He had to take us attorney's office with some things for our business. >> Okay. Well, what's your first name? Amber Thompson. I know my ID. I know my DL number by by heart. >> What' he get in trouble for? >> Who? >> Your son. >> He um purposefully left his 2-year-old brother on a trampoline in the backyard by the pond cuz he thought he he just flat out said he wanted to be mean and left him on there by himself. >> What's your birth date? >> 8:22 of 90. So you think it's >> He also yelled at >> You said 92 >> 90. >> When she was finally woken up, the mother didn't even know which child was missing. No panic, no worry, just excuses. To her, motherhood meant control, not care. She felt no remorse, only conviction that her cruelty was discipline. >> Did he get to eat supper last night? Cuz he told us he was >> Last night he did not get to eat supper. That's the first time that has ever happened. Ever. >> Okay. But when he left his 2-year-old brother because he said he wanted to go play with a cat. >> Yep. >> And he left one of my other babies on a trampoline. >> But but but with you being an adult, you can't expect a seven-year-old to give his full attention to a 2-year-old kid. >> Yes, I can. When he says, >> "I want to play outside." >> Well, come come come out front with us real quick. >> I have two other babies that are sleeping. >> Yeah, we done woke them up. They're not sleeping now because we had to come in to find you. Okay. Hey, y'all need to lose y'all side with me. I'm being very kind. I'm a mother with three boys and I'm doing everything I can do. Where are my babies? >> Okay. And we don't have an >> Y. Y'all are Y'all are tuning in and I >> Well, I'm a police officer. >> You don't need to have it just cuz you're a cop. >> Okay. Well, listen, man. We can just take you to jail for child endangerment. >> I didn't do anything. You let an 8-year-old get all the way across town, that's a problem. So, don't say that we have an attitude. No, listen. You've talked this whole time. >> Don't say we have an attitude when your 8-year-old is walking down the street and we can't get a hold of you. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> It's a problem. The kid is starving right now. I had to feed him beef jerky because >> starving. >> You just said he didn't eat supper last night. Last night. No, he didn't. >> He hasn't had breakfast either. >> Yes, he did. He had breakfast this morning. >> He said he ain't even seen you this morning. >> No, he that was what he was told to do this morning. This is the first time >> you expect a sevenyear-old to be an adult on his own. Are you serious? >> This is absolutely the first time this has ever happened for him to have to wait. >> Just hang tight up here. >> Just hang tight up here. I'm fixing to call >> I'm fixing to call the child services. >> The situation escalated because of Amber Thompson's confrontational and unapologetic attitude. Her lie about breakfast destroyed what little trust was left. Worse, bruises found on her three-year-old shifted the case from neglect to physical abuse and domestic battery. Her husband's admissions sealed it. She now faces seconddegree domestic battery and firstdegree endangerment of a minor's welfare with bail set at $50,000. And if she's found guilty, what do you think justice should look like for a mother like this? On August 21st, 2022 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 30-year-old Samantha Nicole Hitchcock was charged with firstdegree child endangerment after officers found her wandering drunk having left her 10-month-old baby alone. When police arrived, the story they uncovered was far sadder than anyone could have imagined. Okay, this woman has been We are at that hotel, the quality and in sweet. She's been walking back and forth between our hotel room for at least probably 30 40 minutes. Okay, she's obviously messed up on something. She asked us to plug her her phone up in our hotel room. We plugged her phone up in her hotel room. Then she started to tell us she had a kid over here. We asked her for details. She's at the country in this week. So, we came over here. He helped us get her to her her Sorry, >> I'm really messed up. >> Take a breath. >> What do you want to say right now? There's a baby in that hotel room by herself. >> Take a deep breath. Deep breath in and deep breath out. It's going to calm you down. It's going to help you relax. You can tell rest. >> Hey man, how you doing? How are you? Good. I'm off the phone. Just waiting here. She y'all got here. We were just outside of our um our room next door and she come out and she was obviously under the influence or something and she asked she waited around about 15 or 20 minutes and and finally I was like hey what's your name? you know, and she came, she needed to charge her phone and um after she was charging her phone, I was like, you know, what are you doing here? >> Have time and >> so what's going on tonight? >> Really nothing is going on, >> huh? >> There's really nothing going on. Witness statements painted a chilling picture. She was disoriented, impaired, and emotionally detached. Leaving a 10-month-old baby alone just to charge a phone wasn't an accident. It was a selfish impulse over responsibility. Even as officers approached, she remained eerily calm, as if nothing serious had happened. >> Concerned about her earlier. >> Oh, I'm always concerned about myself. >> Well, not if you're leaving her in a hotel room. >> I'm not. >> Get your ID. Leo asleep. >> Get your ID. >> How old is your baby? >> He's 10 months. >> 10 months. >> 10 months. >> He was asleep, by the way. Chilling with my kid and then I went downstairs. >> Yeah, that's what happened. >> So, you were chilling downstairs while your kid was asleep. >> I was chilling downstairs. I went downstairs to smoke a cigarette. Yeah, >> I don't normally use a smoke. >> I I went to look at some Tik Toks >> instead of doing that with your kid in the room. >> Um, >> you had to drink >> a margarita perhaps. Not much. So, you're supposed to be being responsible for your kid and you're leaving her up here and you're drinking while you're supposed to be taking care of her. >> That sounds nothing like ridiculous if you put it in that context. It was more like I was a super responsible human being. My child fell asleep around 10 or 11. It was not an hour. Also, I went downstairs and came back up. I'll fix it. >> I went downstairs and I came back upstairs. >> Well, I mean, we can also go pull video footage if you want. >> I'm I'm not worried about that because I didn't do anything wrong. Like >> looking for cell service. That was her excuse. But when asked about the baby's diaper, she froze. And diapers don't lie. They told a story of neglect, of a child untouched for far too long. At that moment, every bit of her defense fell apart. >> Go ahead and change her. Being her diaper's full. I mean, common sense would tell you that if it's full, it needs to be changed. Correct. Actually, I could tell you no kids because yes, I'm going to change your diaper, but you're actually not supposed to change the diaper. >> Oh, so you're not supposed to change your diaper when their diaper's full. >> No, not not right off that. You're supposed to >> I took her >> I think. >> Well, that and you got a 40 ounce there. A 40 ounce beside the bed that's empty. >> I take her and I'll do CFS and go from there. So, step off the bed. >> Yeah. Hop off the bed. >> I can't because she could fall off. >> Hop off the bed. >> Put your hands on that wall. >> Why? >> Do it now. >> You're under arrest. Put your hands on Put your hands on the wall. I'm not doing >> both hands on the wall right now. That's exactly correct. You aren't doing anything. >> Why am I under arrest? >> You're under arrest for child endangerment. We have more than enough probable cause to believe that you left a 10-month-old child, your 10-month old child, in a room by itself for at least 30 minutes while you're intoxicated. >> That's called child endangerment. You're not taking care of your child properly. You can't leave a 10-month-old by themselves. >> They can't fend for themselves. You can't do it. >> Are you serious? >> I'm 100% serious. >> Are you serious? >> 100% serious. >> I haven't done anything though. >> Yeah, exactly. You haven't done anything. I.e. you haven't taken care of your child properly by not doing anything. Okay. >> When confronted with undeniable evidence, her facade crumbled. She clung to the idea that it's not illegal, refusing to face the truth, that she had endangered her child. In her confusion, she saw herself as misunderstood, not guilty. A >> little ridiculous, and out of context. >> Which part of it out of context? >> The entire thing is out of context. >> What's the context? >> The context is that that sounds like a bag of [ __ ] when you put it like that. >> Well, nothing I said was an incorrect fact. I'm going to begin the car. I have a right to look at my shower. >> You have the right to lean up against the car. >> Let's get back this way. >> Why does that woman allow to like hold my car? 15. Have a DCFS supervisor call myself, please. You ready to go? Come here. Look at all those lights. Yep. Look at all those lights. Yep. What you think? Huh? What you think? Huh? You're a pretty girl. >> Yeah. Hey, >> you hear them talking on radio? I >> got that female in custody child. Yeah, you hear them talking on that radio. >> Even as she was being taken away, her only focus was herself, not her baby. Meanwhile, the 10-month-old was gently cared for by officers, waiting for DCFS to arrive. One officer quietly held the baby, whispering to calm him down. A rare act of humanity in a night defined by chaos. Yeah. It just makes all kinds of noise, doesn't it? Yeah. >> You listening to the radio, huh? You're a cutie. Yeah. >> Hi. You >> want to say hi? >> Sweet girl. >> Oh, yeah. You like the radio, huh? Are those toes ticklish? What you think? Huh? Yeah. >> Sweet baby. >> Hi. >> What you think? >> Huh? >> Yeah. You getting some tea? Yeah. >> You want to turn the steering wheel? Yeah. You give him five? Oh yeah. You giving five? You sure are a cutie. >> Oh yeah. You want to drive some more? You want to drive some more? Oh, big yawn. Big yawn. You getting sleepies? You getting sleepies? Oh, that smile. Look at that smile. Awful sweet. Yeah. Hi, dear. You passing them glasses. There you go. I'll put them back on. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. You got more hair than I had. Say my toes ridiculous. Yeah. You got them toes. You got them baby toes. Oh, them to go. On your toes. On your toes. On them toes. On them toes. Do I want to get the toes? I'm going to get some toes. >> I >> Yeah, push them buttons. >> I'm going to get you. Are you going to drive some more? Huh? You going to drive some more? >> What's your name? >> Are you driving? Where are we going? You going to go? You going to go? >> Perkins. I said just get possibly just being her blood draw. >> Samantha was booked into county jail on firstdegree child endangerment with a $2,500 bond. If convicted, she faces up to 6 years in prison. Because when a child's forced to grow up too soon, sometimes they become the very nightmare their parents created. On March 3rd, 2025, police were called after a mechanic reported being assaulted inside his own shop. When officers arrived, they discovered the incident involved a mother and her son. And what unfolded went far beyond a simple family argument. Didn't >> I just wave at you? Huh? >> Didn't I just wave at you downtown? >> Yeah, I just I just beat the [ __ ] out of that guy. >> What guy? >> He He tried to hit me in the head with like a a >> You try to hold me up in here. Trying to hold me up in here. >> All right, come over here, man. >> Trying to bash my six-year-old's head in with >> All right. Get the [ __ ] out of my car, fat ass. >> Dude, can you wait inside, please? >> Please go away from me. >> Is it Ashley? >> No. >> What's your name? >> Tiffany. >> Tiffany. All right. My >> fat mother. >> Can I have that, please? Before we do something stupid. Can I have that, please? Thank you. >> Piece of [ __ ] >> All right. Come over here. In my >> Tiffany, dude, come over here. Come on. It's It's okay. Take a breath. Take a breath. Do either of you need an ambulance? >> He just he just tried to hit in the head with that [ __ ] >> I beat his ass. I'm not going to lie. I whoop this. >> He just got jumped. >> Okay. >> Yes, he did. >> Do you want >> killed my kids? >> I just think I think my hand is already broken. So, I know that I just broke it a little bit more. But >> which hand hurts worse? >> Huh? I'm fine. It's just I'll be all right. >> Which hand hurts worse? Um, >> which hand broke? tried to square up and grab my when I when I took my hoodie off cuz he he took he was like this. He took his sweater off. He was like, "What's up then?" Cuz I was like I was like, "Don't talk to her like that. We can fight if you really want to." >> He takes his takes his zipper off and then I go to take my hoodie off and he tries to swing on me while I got my zipper on back up and I hit him in wolf face. And then I grab him and slam on the floor and he did >> and my son better not jail. >> I'm probably going to get >> No. >> She wasn't looking for justice. She was looking for someone to unload her anger on. What started as a minor disagreement turned into her twisted narrative of defending her son from being attacked. That's how she justified her own violence. In her mind, the real victim wasn't the mechanic. It was her bruised ego. >> Piece of [ __ ] almost killed my kids. I just came back because I came here. They had my car for 26 [ __ ] days. And this fat didn't even bleed my brakes. She said my shit's leaking. She said, "This car is completely [ __ ] safe to drive. I just came from there." So, I came up here because I'm like, "You need to know. You better fix my fuck." Me and my kids literally I was going to pick him up from the hospital and we drove up onto a [ __ ] because my brakes don't work. >> Ernie, >> we'll figure it out. Can you please just take a breath? >> Take a breath. I'm going to press her on that fat. >> Tiffany, listen. I can't help anybody if you keep yelling. I understand you're mad. >> Go the inside. >> Hold on. Can you >> away from me? Stay the >> PLEASE GO INSIDE. >> MY [ __ ] you >> Tiffany, you have to stop yelling. I can't help any >> me and my [ __ ] >> I I hear that. I I can't help you, though. YOU SPENT ALL MY MONEY WITH THAT FAT [ __ ] and he just tried to hurt MY SON. HE SAID, "IF you were a [ __ ] I'll [ __ ] you up, you fat." Really? And then he picks that thing up. He almost just bash I almost just watched HIM BASH HIS HEAD IN. You fat piece of [ __ ] Look at my forehead. He tried to kill us. HE HAS NOTHING BUT deadly weapons in that. >> Oh, it's a tool. It's a workshop. >> The irony, she insulted others for being fat without ever taking a good look in the mirror. She thought that kind of attitude would make the cops take her side, but they only tried to stay calm. She wouldn't stop talking, spinning herself as the victim in every story and from violence to money. While the mechanic, on the other hand, gave his statement calmly, almost unfazed. >> Are you okay? >> Yeah. >> You need an ambulance or anything? Okay. All right. So, what the hell happened? Excuse my French, but >> she she knows in Okay, she come in a couple months ago. >> We were talking about fixing her car because she pulled out somewhere and it everything snap left side left. >> Okay. >> Okay. This is a month or so ago. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. I broke my leg on 4th of January. So this is literally like third, fourth week back, something like that. Him and then the other guy that was here fixed her car. She drove out in a month. Then she comes in here and starts acting. Now she said her brakes went on. I almost try to kill her. >> They're screaming, yelling. I ask him, "Please leave." They wouldn't leave. Next day I walk over the corner, I turn around. That kid's like, "Oh, we're going home." I'm like, "Dude, just leave before you." Mhm. >> I was like I was He's like, "Oh no, he ripped his shirt off." I was like, "Take my jacket off." He swung and punched me. $300, $4 impact pocket. >> Okay. >> I want it back. >> Okay. What's an impact? Isn't that a drill or is it a wrench? >> Milwaukee. >> Okay. Yeah, that's what I figured. Okay. You got your ID? So, she's freaking out. She comes in here saying, you know, my car broke down. You guys are trying to >> And then you told her to leave. No. I said, uh, she was just I I could only understand her. She was so crazy. I said, I just did you a favor cuz the work I did for her was totally trashed. I did a favor cuz she has little kids. And then she comes back a month later today. I'm like, I didn't charge. Excuse the language. That's fine. >> And then she's just off. And I told her, I said, just get your [ __ ] He left my mom. I said, "Do me a favor, Joe. you get your mom and go. We'll deal with this. You know, it's another time when they're not. And then I said, I walked away, went over to my toolbox. I turn around, he's standing behind me. >> His composure stood in stark contrast to her chaos. He admitted using a tool to defend himself when attacked by both mother and son. A perfectly reasonable act of self-defense under the circumstances. But that's not what she wanted to hear. >> All right. And you said you got security cameras. Can you pull him up for me? >> I have to call the owner and get >> All right. Okay. Just hang out for a minute. I'm going to go back and talk to my partner. Okay. >> So, to my understanding, your son's going to the hospital. Is that Is that correct? Okay. Um >> I have to get my baby. My friend isn't home. >> Yep. Go to the hospital. Take care of him. >> I can't. I got to get my baby. She's >> Oh, I thought you meant he he is your baby. >> No, my baby's only six. >> Okay. Well, can you get your baby and then go to him? All right, listen to me. >> You are not to come back here, Tiffany. >> These >> I understand. I paid them $400. >> I understand. >> What do I do? >> I would be livid, too. Okay. I would be livid, too. >> He died with my kids. That's why I'm here. I can't even get an alignment on my [ __ ] after what he did. They owe me. >> That's why I'm here. >> Time out. I know. We're not the tire police and I'm not the money police. I can't do anything about that. He almost just bashed me kid's head in with a tool. >> Listen, everyone's a little bit of a fault here. Okay. Everyone's a little bit of a fault here. >> Well, not >> to. But besides to come up here, of course I'm angry. >> Yes. >> I'm allowed and I have a right to be upset with this dude. >> You have a right to be upset. >> Listen. >> And of course I show up. This is who worked on my car. >> But the situation Listen, I know you showed me, Tiffany. I know the h the situation was not handled in the best way that it could have been >> cuz he tried to kid. >> If you come back here, you're going to get charged with trespassing. This is going to be written up as an assault. Okay? >> You cannot come back here, nor your son. He doesn't want you here. All right? If we get involved again today or anytime in the future with this, you guys are probably going to go to jail. Somebody's going to go to jail. Nobody's going to jail right now. It's going to be a report. >> Even when the officer tried to diffuse the situation, reminding them everyone shares some blame, the real challenge was untangling the financial dispute from the criminal one. She was defending her pride and her child, but in the most self-destructive way, dragging both of them deeper into trouble. >> But he's not a matter, Tiffany. He's still a kid. >> It doesn't matter. Ernie is the size of a grown adult, and he assaulted another man. All right. He is a man at this point. how big he is >> just because >> oh my god >> he he is the size of a grown-up >> all right he's not like a little 8-year-old he's a 16-year-old and he's massive okay so if he assaults another an adult >> kill for that >> okay I understand that but at the end of the day uh they don't want you on the property so you need to leave the property okay do you get what I'm put we're putting down please can you do you hear what I'm saying >> yes >> okay if you want to sue them for the money or the damages or anything. You're going to have to do that civily, Tiffany. We can't help you with that. All right. But you can't come back here. Okay. Are you able to drive? >> Okay. >> Yeah. I mean, even though my shit's not safe or drivable. >> Well, I can't even get alignment on my [ __ ] now because nobody will touch it because of what they did. That's why I showed up. She said, "Go back to him because he has to fix that." He had he is obligated to fix that. That's why I'm here. It's not like I just showed up to beat out of him. You know what I mean? What's my kid supposed to do? You would probably your mom, too. You know what I'm saying? You probably punch somebody in their face with pointing their finger in your mama's face, too. You know, just flat flat out. What am I supposed to do? I have two kids. I have no family. I >> I can understand your point of view, but the situation was not handled very well. It could. >> No, we're all adults here except your son. They could have it could have went a different way, >> you know. Well, what if I mean, like you said, he's big as hell. So once they got to Tango, >> let him go back. You know what I'm saying? Okay. At the end of the day, >> it's the situation is over and you need to leave the property. Okay? So, you need to turn the car on. You need to leave. We can't sit here all day. Okay? >> If you want to sue him or get an attorney that you're going to have to do that. I guarantee you if you pull in the lot, that dude's going to call us and it's just going to make it worse for you and your son. I don't want to do that, Tiffany. I want to see you drive off and go somewhere else and get your car fixed and I want to turn and go back to the station and ride it up and be done and leave it at that. Do not dig yourself in a deeper hole. >> Don't let your son dig him. I know. It's over, Tiffany. I know it's done and over with. like my >> I see your >> In the end, neither the mother nor her son was immediately arrested. Both received court summones to face assault charges. If convicted, penalties could include probation, restitution to the victim, fines, and mandatory anger management classes. The boy being a minor might be tried in juvenile court or depending on the severity transferred to adult court. On May 21st, 2023, police were dispatched to the scene of a traffic incident after a 911 caller reported a car that kept breaking and swerving dangerously, nearly causing a serious crash. But when officers arrived, what they found behind the wheel stunned everyone. What's going on, guys? >> She's she break checked me, trying to make it look like it's my fault when this girl literally almost caused me a car crash all the way on the intersection. I'm driving behind her. Literally, she kept going in front of me. I'm like trying to get away from her. She break checked me. I'm already over here trying to get over the side so she doesn't >> I I know I already called dispatch. I know you guys were already on the phone with 91 >> and they heard the accident over there. So I >> Yeah, I even have this guy that pulled over to talk to us. He's like, "Yeah, you couldn't even tell the cops to call us. I had his number." Like >> I'll need that. >> Car is like my door won't even open. >> Are you the driver? >> Yeah. Can you give me your license, registration, and insurance? Can I have your license? >> Ma'am, I need your light. Can you step out of the vehicle? >> Hey, she's not providing information. Not stepping out of the vehicle. Serge, >> what's that? >> She's not getting out. >> Run the tag. See if she's registered owner. >> Bravo Hotel 2. It's on a running >> the officer with the bald head. What's his name? >> Charger. >> Roger. He is over here. So, you please go over here, please. You're involved in a crash. You're involved in a crash. You can't shut the door. Okay. >> No, I don't want you to open my door. You can't shut the door. NO. I SAID NO. YOU CAN'T SHUT THE DOOR. I SAID NO. I SAID NO. WE need your license. I said no. I work at the jail. I know my rights. I said no. Back up. >> Put your hands on me. You got to go. >> OKAY. BACK UP. Back up. >> You're going to go to jail. You put your hand >> back up and get off my property. Back up. >> You're going to go to JAIL IF YOU >> BACK UP and get off my property, ma'am. Back up and get off my property. Back up and get I work at the jail. I >> But if you work at the jail, you know what we CAN DO. >> BACK UP AND GET OFF MY PROPERTY. YOU >> HAVE to do this. >> No, you're not doing [ __ ] You're wasting my AC and my gas. Back up and get back. I know him. Get back. >> Get back. OTHERWISE, I WOULD HAVE OPENED the [ __ ] window. I'm not stupid. >> I'm not stupid. Hello. >> All right, that's it. You can't you can't be you can't be h you can't hand the camera anything. >> Yeah, you did. I warned you not to do that. >> I didn't do that. >> The moment the car door opened, she didn't cooperate. She charged. This wasn't a conversation. It was a declaration of war. In her mind, her past work in law enforcement granted her immunity from it. A dangerous illusion of privilege until the cuffs clicked and reality stripped her of every ounce of control she thought she had. Get out of the car. You need TO STEP OUT. >> You need to step out. Step out or you're going to go to the ground. >> Step out or you're going to go to the ground. Step out or >> step out or you're going to go to the ground. You're hurting me. Make sure the vehicle >> step out. You're going to get tased. You're going to get tased. Step out. >> Step out. >> You're going to get tased. >> YOU'RE GOING TO GET TASED. STOP. >> All right. You're going to get tased. >> That's what you get. Crazy [ __ ] Shut the up. >> Step out. Step out. YOU CAN STEP OUT NOW. >> ALL RIGHT. THERE YOU GO. >> Get on the ground. Get on the ground. >> Give me your hand. Give me your hand. Give me your hand. >> Don't move. It's going to get tighter. Okay. >> Give me a little on your side. on your side. There you go. Sit up. >> Now stand up. >> Stand up right there. >> This way. >> Stop. Stop. Stop. >> Okay. Okay. Stop. I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. >> Stop. Stop. Stop. init. >> Sit down. You're getting tased again. Tased again. >> You're getting tased again. >> Get in the car. >> I got it. >> Sit down in the car. We'll talk, but sit down. >> You need to sit down in the car. You're going to get tased. Sit down in the car and talk. >> Now, the woman had been promoted to inmate, and she'd worked hard for that title. Pride turned to aggression, and self-pity followed close behind. She defended her own arrest as if it were unjust, blind to the irony. The same hands that once restrained others now begged for mercy. It was a perfect moral inversion. A lesson the badge never taught her. >> Put your feet in the car window. >> You know me and I know you. I didn't do anything wrong. These girls came about me and they were racing me and they >> work through it, but I need you to put your feet in the car. >> We'll work through it, but put your >> I got to go home to my kids. >> We'll work through it, but put your feet in the car. All right. >> No, because Come here. >> Put that window down. >> Can I tell you something? >> No, you need to put your feet in the car. >> I I have your I have my period and I don't have a tampon. >> I don't care. Put your feet in the car. We're not worried. All right. We're not worried about that right now. >> I got >> All right. You're going to get tased again if you don't the car. Put your feet in. >> Good. >> Not doing this. >> Look, man. >> You're going to get tased again. Put your feet in the car. >> I didn't do anything wrong. I work there, you mother. You got to being kidding me. >> Terra, do you need an ambulance? Do you need an ambulance there? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So, what's your complaint? Why do you want to see an ambulance? >> I don't know. You're offering something. >> Well, I am offering. So, >> yes. >> Okay. What do you need? I have to tell them what you need it for. >> I can't breathe and I don't like to be restrained. >> Got to get rescued ball. >> Go in her passenger glove box and try to find me her insurance information for her. >> I don't have any, so don't bother. You'll have insurance. >> Yeah. Go look. >> I don't Not EVEN [ __ ] FUNNY, BRO. I WORK AT THE [ __ ] JAIL, BRO. THAT'S [ __ ] FUNNY. You're on camera. That's >> I'm not laughing, but you're screaming and yelling. >> SMILE ON YOUR FACE and I know him personally. Okay, >> so that's going to look bad on you. You got a smile like [ __ ] Jasper on your face. >> I'm not smiling. >> Well, then you got a serious ugly face. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Nothing in the box. >> Nothing. There's no insurance. >> What the [ __ ] I didn't do it. If she acted like this in front of police, one could only imagine how she treated the inmates she once oversaw. After this incident, her position in the system would almost certainly be re-evaluated. As she screamed inside the patrol car, officers outside quietly documented every fact, letting the evidence, not emotion, do the talking. >> Pictures of her going in and out of the lane. Like, actually, I don't know what she was doing. I tried to get away. I really >> I'm sure the officer will have you give that information to him or or email those photos to him so he can put them in behind me. >> I can get a axe ready now. >> Yeah, if you can do that. Were you the one driving? >> What's your first name? >> Kaylee. >> Kaylee. Okay. Were you guys in a rush to go anywhere? Cuz we're going to have uh someone bring a statement for you guys cuz we had to use force. So, we have to do some paperwork now. Basically, what you guys saw from start to finish. >> I'm detained or I'm arrested. Which one is it? >> Under arrest. >> Huh? >> Under arrest. >> For what? What the am I under arrest for? >> Uh, you're under arrest for resisting without violence, resisting with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer times two. >> Doesn't make any sense, first of all. And what else? >> Battery on law enforcement. >> Battery. >> Yeah. >> I didn't hit anybody. >> All right. So, this one's going to be hers. This yours. Just write basically >> whatever you guys think pertains to whatever happened like from the start to finish. >> 23. >> Wow. How long does it take for like police officer. >> Uh, it's like to go through school. >> Yeah, >> it's like 6 months for the academy and then whenever you get hired. >> Yeah, that's fine. >> All right, guys. Send your information back. >> They're going to be sticking around the state. >> Okay. >> I get that a lot. She was found at fault for the accident and speaking with the third party independent witness as well as uh talking to 911 dispatch about what happened. I found her at fault for basically break checking guys and causing the accident. Yeah, we even have pictures even before she >> Oh, yeah. She was literally going in between lanes. Like, >> yeah, he uh he said he got them. He's an upload. >> So, this is your driver's exchange of information. It's got your information, her information, everything you needed. All you got to do is call your insurance company, let them know uh she does not have insurance. >> On the way to the hospital for a mandatory medical evaluation, she kept resisting, desperately clinging to the role of victim. But when officers warned her about the legal consequences of refusing a drug test, her confidence cracked. Reality pierced through the armor of arrogance. She was no longer someone who knew the law, but someone bound by it. >> Sir, I'm asking you politely to get in my patrol car. >> Come on, I'm not I don't want him. >> I'm a lawful order to get my >> I feel threatened by him. I don't want him I don't want him at all. >> Go sit down. I will. I don't want him in this car. >> That's too bad. It's his car. >> No, I don't. Then I want to go in a different car. >> You got to get some more charges. You want that? >> Is that what you want? Really? >> I don't feel comfortable. >> You want that? Nothing's going to happen. The camera's running the whole time. >> This is not funny. >> He's [ __ ] laughing. >> Nobody's laughing. >> I got to itch my face. >> You going to what? Sit down. >> I will tell him to get his hand off my face. Get your hand out. Sit down. >> I will sit. Thank you. This is >> This is false. You know it. This is [ __ ] Let >> me see you. >> No, I don't want to. No, I don't want it. I don't. I feel positive. >> So, when he gets in a car crash and you die and your kids don't have anyone, >> is that what you want? >> Yeah, I don't want it. Thank you. >> No, I I want to reveal it in your car. >> I don't want it. >> There you go. You're good to go. PSL ST. Lucy County Jail. I'm not taking out as of right now. We got three counts of Matt Leo resisting with now. I think she's uh she works here. She's a nurse. In the end, she was charged with six counts. Resisting arrest with violence, three counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, reckless driving, property damage, and refusal to submit to chemical testing. If convicted, she faces multiple years in prison, heavy fines, license suspension, and a permanent ban from law enforcement employment.