Take a seat. >> Can I explain to you? >> Yes. Now you can. >> Me and my girl were fighting. Okay. Okay. We were fighting. >> We already had cold and stuff. But we arguing about >> I'm scared. Let me get up. I'm not going to do nothing. >> Yes. >> The only one in his car. She's in his car. >> Roll over. >> Ah. How she How does she know your first name? >> I don't know how my first name, sir. My information in my damn glove box. >> Mhm. But they just hopped they just hopped in your car. >> On June 29th, 2024, officers swarmed a J C Penney parking lot after a shoplifting call turned into a wild getaway. [music] Two suspects jumped into a stranger's BMW, one allegedly holding a knife to the driver's throat. What started as a theft spiraled into chaos. Watch the video to see the shocking escape unfold. Stay in the car. >> I got you running on foot. Give me your keys cuz you're right now. Turn your car off. Turn your car off. >> What? Sir, I didn't do What the hell did I do? I ladies just dropped in my car. Hey, what just had a knife in my throat, bro? >> Step out of the car. >> Good lord. Mhm. Stand right there. Turn and face the car. We'll figure all this out. Oh, >> you ain't do nothing. I'm doing one. >> I'm by Wells Fargo. Male and female ran um westbound. Oh, excuse me. Eastbound >> toward 62. >> Okay. All right. Do you have any ID on you? >> Yes, sir. >> Where's it at? >> Right there. My blue purse right now. 62. >> Who had the Who had the knife? >> The damn girl in the front. >> She had a description. I don't >> First one was shorter tan p t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t tan shirt. The other one taller uh like a white shirt. Allegedly, the one with tan uh in the tan had a knife at this driver's throat >> in here. >> Yes, sir. >> Look, I'm going put this on the ground. Okay, >> I appreciate that. >> Yes, sir. >> What charges y'all got? >> We have uh shoplifting right now, but if uh I'm investigating right now, they just hopped in your car. just hopped in my dam. You can ask the lady in the pink. >> Allegedly, they just hopped in her car and put a knife to her throat. >> Hopped in my car with damn bags. What the? >> There's the bags that they got right. >> And they did the other man like that, too. He He end up going leaving. >> Okay. Take a seat. >> Can I explain? >> Yes. Now you can, >> man. My girl was fighting. Okay. >> Okay. We were fighting. >> We already had cold and stuff, but we were arguing about the kid. >> So, I told her if that's the way it's going to be, then you can pay for the [ __ ] by yourself. Okay, >> when I went through I didn't have my card anyway. >> Hold on. I'll I'll come talk to you in a second. >> I told HIM I'M NOT PLAYING ME. I SAID I'M NOT DOING THAT NOW. >> I'M not the officer. >> Ow. >> What are you doing? Where? Where? Coming from >> this help. >> Stop pulling. >> In these bushes here. >> I just hit cuz I'm scared. >> Honestly, I'm scared. >> I'm scared. Let me get up. I'm not going to do nothing. >> Yes. The only one's in his car. She's in his car. >> Roll over. Please >> roll over. I'm coming. Sit up. Please can you help me up? >> Can you help me up a second? >> Supposed to have the signal for you. >> The driver stayed eerily calm for someone who just had a blade pressed to her throat, casually chatting with officers like it was a traffic stop. Those poor jean shorts didn't deserve the strain of that getaway sprint. Pure fashion abuse. Her story started crumbling the second the cops started digging. Was she a victim or part of the crew? The girl just handed me something. She handed me something. I just put it in my purse. >> Put your other foot in front of you. I'll help you up. >> What? My knee. >> My knee. >> Your knee. >> You ready? >> I don't have I'm not walk to my car. So, you're clear on what's going on. We have one subject. >> So, you caught your BMW people here. >> You did? >> Yes. >> Excellent. >> So, can you tell me exactly? There was two that ran to the >> right. There was one that actually Hang on. >> Not bad. >> The short [ __ ] whatever it is guy or girl would you not figure out. This is like the fourth time they had got into the BMW. >> So the BMW was waiting for them or they >> Yeah, it was open. He just climbed right in the back seat. >> But then there's a different car. That car right there that's also in Boston girl got out of it. >> Supposedly held to the driver's throat. >> But you see this lady right here? I think she only said BMW. >> The red head. Can you uh accompany us over here to where we have these folks detained and identify some people? It's a It'll be a I guess you can drive with me. >> Okay. >> Find out who that is. >> That's what that's what we're doing. We got him caught. So, we're going to figure out is that >> I don't know, but we're going to find out. You know, verify your side of the story and whatot. >> We got somebody over there. We got somebody over there. We don't have >> um I do have a couple of questions to ask you. >> Okay. >> Want to let you >> go ahead. One my subject over here is saying potentially there's a third subject in the vehicle with them. Um I don't know if you seen anything. >> I only have the driver. Do they know the driver? and four. She said one of So, okay. Three person in total. Then we have two and then you have one um cousin or something. >> Oh, so the driver is the cousin of the people they got in the car. >> I don't know who that is. >> I believe so. And they will know her name. >> Find out they know her name. What's going on? >> I need to ask you some questions. Before I do, I understand. Before I do, I need these because of the nature of the questions, I need to let you know what your rights are. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say cannot be will can be held against you in your >> driver is the cousin of the subject I'm on with and >> officers cuffed the driver after her cousins were detained. She swore the thieves jumped in uninvited. Yet her suspended license and cousins phone numbers in their contacts painted a different picture. Cancelling their government assistance with a lifetime ban felt harsh. Yet her cool demeanor under pressure seemed rehearsed, not genuine. >> She doesn't know how last name. She can't find you back. >> I don't even know. >> I don't even How she How does she know your first name? >> Cuz I don't know how my first name, Sir, my information in my damn glove box. >> Mhm. >> But they just po they just popped in your car. And >> listen, ask the lady. But >> and then and then why they they had time to go through your glove box? >> She was tripping in them. She she was tripping in them. >> You put her back. Passenger. >> What's going on? >> Right now, you're being detained. Passenger. >> Okay. >> Well, I'm being under arrest for >> Well, right now, I have to ask you a couple of questions. >> You know, your license is suspended. >> Personal information that the cousin >> So, that's why you're under arrest for your license being suspended. Number one. Okay. Number two, your cousins are in the car cuz they have your phone number in their phone. So if you want to continue that lie, here's here's the thing right now. Okay, >> I'm listening. >> The truth shall set you free. May set you free. A lie will take you to jail. Okay, right now depending on how much property that is. We're looking at a misdemeanor. If we're misleading a misdemeanor amount, you're looking at a notice to appear. >> You want to lie to me and jerk me around, make my job harder, >> I'll take you to jail. We'll figure it out that way. So, I'm going to let you sit here and think about it for a minute. >> Okay. So, what I'm thinking about >> whether or not you want to tell me the truth or you want to go to jail. >> H look at that vehicle. Both those 99 local are they from Ocala area or south? Delaney's is local and out of >> All right. Go ahead. Have seat back in >> county. And the second one is just strictly out of county baler. >> Yeah, I figured. >> Okay. So, as she was trailing him out of the store, the other two, which I don't know if those are them or not. >> Yeah. >> This one was waiting in the parking lot by the BMW. Okay. >> They ran to her car, get into her car, >> and she gets in the car after them. >> Oh, okay. >> And then they drive off. >> Okay. So hang on, hang on. Just see if we can do this. Okay, I want to give you a scenario. Have you thought about what we talked about earlier about the truth may set you free? >> Yes. >> Do you want to tell me what happened? >> Oh, as far as what? >> As far as what happened, your involvement in all this? >> Sir, I was in the Okay. Only thing I lied to you about was do I know her? >> I know her. I know the little short one. >> Okay. She my cousin. But [ __ ] I ain't seen that girl in so long. She pulled up on me today. >> So they ran to your car and they hopped in your car. >> Yes. >> And then you hopped in the car and drove off. >> No, I walked I walked out of Forever 21. I was buying something. The clothes that I was buying is still up there on the counter. Okay. I was >> With all three in cuffs, the driver's I was just shopping excuse collapsed under witness photos and store footage. She'd walked to her car, let the thieves pile in, then floored it. Hardly a hostage situation. The knife story evaporated faster than her credibility. Did she really think a Saab story would override the karma? >> Out the store, the lady in the pink, she's like, she looking at me. She's shaking her head. >> It was a car in the I'm looking around. It's a car. It was a Jeep that was backing up. The is going on. And I see the big tall girl, which I know that's her girlfriend. I know that's her girlfriend. So, I'm pulling out. I'm getting walking to my car out of Forever 21. I get in the seat. I get in my car. I get in the driver's seat. Crank up my car. She come and hop in my car like the little short one. Her name is Lena. Okay. So, yeah, that's the only thing I do about was her name. Her name Lena. She came hopped in my car. >> I know. Right. >> She came hopped in my car and she put it back. She said drive. Drive. What I'm driving at? I'm driving. >> So, >> and when I got to the stop sign, I seen the truck backing up. Vanessa, that's the big tall girl. Her girlfriend, who the hell is that? She said, "That's Vanessa. That's how I know who that is." She came and she jumped in the car. Okay. >> In the back. >> Call somebody. >> Please call my mama. >> So the witness that saw the girls run out. >> Uhhuh. >> They saw them jump in your car. >> Yeah. They jumped in my car, sir. >> We're all straight with that. And then she saw you walk to your side of the car, hop in, and drive off with them. You were in the car when they jumped in. >> Yes, I was. Sir, I didn't have the choice to be in the car. I thought the car was going to move. >> You were outside of the car. >> I walked to my car. She got a picture on her phone standing outside the car. So, >> the driver's calm hijacking tale unraveled into a family shoplifting scheme. Her suspended license and cousin's escape, sealing her fate. From knife threats to bush dives, the trio turned a petty theft into a felony circus. This wasn't just a getaway. It was a sharp reminder that playing innocent rarely outruns the truth when the cameras rolling. All three individuals face shoplifting and obstruction charges. The two who fled also faced fleeing and eluding officers. So, in the end, if you enjoyed the video, hit that like button and drop your thoughts in the comments. 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