as we were filling them up, um, I had to
use the restroom. Um, and I made a joke
saying that I was going to
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watch 56. In March of 2025, a high
school baseball player in New Mexico was
accused of putting a foreign substance
in an opposing team's water jug. Players
filmed the incident and word got out
about it. Police were called to
investigate the incident.
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Yes, that works. Okay. Oh, where do you
want? You're here. Okay.
Doing all right. Oh, not too bad. Not
too bad, my friend.
Okay. Okay.
So, one of the school resource officers
here. So, what I kind of tell all the
students, cuz I know we look a lot like
security, we're not security. We're with
the police department. Okay. Um, so two
different functions. Um, not saying that
to scare you or anything. I'm just so
you're fully informed. Okay.
Um, I do want to talk to you. An
incident's been brought to my attention.
Okay. Um, but because I'm a police
officer, you're a juvenile, um, I do
have to read you your Miranda warnings.
It does not mean I'm taking you to jail
or juvie or anything like that, okay? It
just means because of the circumstances
with my position of authority and you
being a juvenile, I just have to make
sure you understand your rights. Okay.
Um
so, okay. So, you have the right to
remain silent. That means you do not
have to say anything. Do you understand
that?
Uh there is a staff
car loading and unloading zone for
special education in
um you said yes. Yes. Um, so anything
you say can be used against you in
court. Do you understand that? You have
the right to get help from a lawyer
right now. Do you understand that? Sir,
if you cannot pay a lawyer, we will get
one here for free. Do you understand
that? Yes, sir. You have the right to
stop this interview at any time. Do you
understand that? Yes, sir. Uh, do you
understand what I just said? Yes, sir.
Do you want to ask me anything? No, sir.
Do you want to talk to me?
And just to be fully clear, okay, this
is about the water jug incident. Yes,
sir. Um, so you have the complete option
of talking to me or not? It's completely
Oh, yes, sir. Um, so with that said, do
you want to talk to me? Yes, sir. Uh, do
you want to have a lawyer with you while
you talk to me? Uh, no, sir. Okay. Um,
do you
understand everything that I just read?
Yes, sir. Okay. Um, and to just kind of
inform you, um, just for your own
understanding, um, the way it works with
us, um, with juveniles, um, should you
decide to talk to me about, again, in
this case, the water jug incident,
um, whatever you do decide to tell me,
we'll just go on a report and then refer
to the juvenile probation office. Are
you familiar with them? Yes. Oh, no,
sir. No. Okay. So, it's basically like
juvenile courts basically. So they take
um should this incident rise to the
level of a criminal offense, they
basically take a report, read it, look
at the evidence, decide what to do from
there. Usually um for misdemeanor level
stuff, it's like um probation, things of
that nature, community service. Yes,
sir. They have their own little process,
but I tell you that just so you're fully
informed. Yes, sir. Okay. Um,
so for you, can you kind of walk me
through what what's going on? Um, so
around I think it was March 25th,
Tuesday, we're playing with Qua and um
it was my job to go get the water jugs
and fill them up. So Landon usually
drives the Gator uh down to get the
water jugs and then we fill them up with
the hose. And so we're filling them up
with the hose. Um,
and as we were filling them up, um, I
had to use the restroom. Um, and I made
a joke saying that I was going
to and then, um, we filled them up and
then we dropped the first water jug off
at the third base dugout. And then we
went to the first space dugout and
opened the lid. And then I painted in
that
one. And then um we put the lid on and
put it up. Um not very much came out.
Um that's pretty much it. Okay.
And sorry, I'm trying to keep up with
notes, so I'm I'm just going to kind of
Oh, no. You're okay. I was going to
apologize. Um, I'm going to go back and
kind of recap what what I was able to
get. Um, if I miss anything or if I um I
guess repeat anything back that's not
correct, feel free to correct me. Okay.
Um, okay. So, you said uh March 25th,
you guys are playing Laquva. Uh, it was
your job to get the water jug um and go
fill it up with a hose. Um, you said
that you and Landon were filling up
Yeah. a jug with a hose. Sorry, I forgot
to Jaden was there, too. And can
Okay. So, as you guys are filling up the
jug, um, you had mentioned that you had
to use a restroom. Uh, you made a joke
about in the water. Um, you said that
you returned the jugs. You said you
first stopped at the third base dugout.
Uh, put jugs there. You went to the
first base dugout and you lifted the lid
and the jugs. Yes, sir.
Um
and you had mentioned how much came out?
Uh little to none. Okay.
And some questions I ask might seem
silly. I'm not trying to make you feel
uncomfortable or anything, but when you
say little to none, what do you mean?
Like five drops. Okay. Five drops of
water.
Like I said, I'm sorry, man. Some
questions are are weird, but I just
can't assume. Okay. Um, third base
dugout. Do you remember how many jugs
you guys put there? It was just one.
Just one. Yeah. Who sits at that one? At
that dugout? Uh, us, Rams. Okay.
And then first base
dugout. That's
how many jugs did you guys put there?
Just one. Just one.
And was water already in that jug when
you um had Yes, sir.
Who was around you when that happened in
the liqu dugout? Uh Jaden. Jaden. Yes,
sir. Anyone else? Uh no, sir. They were
in the gator outside of the dugout.
Okay.
And by others you mean um Landon and
Ken?
Um, what was going through your mind
when you decided to lift a lid and and
pee in the jug? Um, just trying to be
funny. Just
dumb. No intentions behind
it. Just being dumb.
Do you remember what Jaden was doing at
this time? Uh, he was recording. He was
recording. Do you know what he was using
to record? Uh, his
iPhone.
Was there anyone else recording? No,
sir.
Have you seen the video? I have. I don't
I haven't seen it since. Okay. When did
you see the video? Uh when it happened.
Has anything like this happened before?
and honesty with me.
Um, truly I I mean that I'm not trying
to be rude. I'm just trying to pull up
um something if you don't mind.
What's this one?
Is that the video you were referring to?
Yes, sir.
Okay. So, that's that's the video you
saw. Yes, sir.
And that's Jaden was recording that one.
Yes, sir.
um know why I'm involved from law
enforcement persided side of things.
Yeah, sure. Okay. So,
urinating into a a public container,
right, where another team is going to
consume water from. Do you see how
that's problematic? Yes, sir.
Um, like I said, I don't know. I don't
know if they drained from it or
whatever, but if someone ingests urine,
that's technically a battery offense.
Okay. Um, and what's interesting too is
because it's a baseball
team, if numerous people drink from
that, that's multiple instances of
battery. You know what I mean? And I'm
going to be blown with you, man, out of
respect. You know that's messed up. Yes,
sir. To urinate into the jug of water,
right? Yes, sir. Um that's why we're
involved. Yes, sir. Okay. Um like I
said, I truly do
uh respect you for coming forward and
giving me uh that statement. Okay. Um my
understanding you gave a a handwritten
statement to the school. Is that
correct? Um it's completely up to you.
Um do you mind if I get a copy of that
statement before you answer? Um just
know your rights as well. Okay. If you
do say yes, I'm going to attach it to
the report and then that's going to go
on to JPO in addition to this statement
you gave me here. Does that make sense?
Does it? Um, do you have any questions
about that? No, sir. Uh, do you mind if
I get a copy of it? Uh, no, sir. No, you
don't mind or No, you don't want me to
have No, I don't mind. You don't want me
to have one? Yeah, sir. Okay. Well, I
think there was some confusion. Okay.
Wait. So, with all that in mind,
completely up to you. Can I get a copy
of your statement? Oh, yes, sir. You're
okay with that? Yes, sir. Okay. Sorry
about the
confusion. Um,
okay.
Um, Mr. Baka, do you have any
questions right now?
What was the conflict
between your team and whoever's team
prior to
um like did anything happen? No.
Well, some of the students in their
statements said that even before the
game that there was tension between the
two teams. What was the tension? Oh, yes
sir. So, The first time we played them,
um, this kid, uh, Dylan Sofur, he goes
to Laqua. We were shaking hands and, uh,
he like kind of went around and like
shoved everyone and pushed my coach, got
it in my coach's face. So, that was that
was the tension. But, when I peed, it
wasn't to get back at them. It was just
I was just being dumb.
When you say that this Dylan kid got in
your coach's face, Coach Martinez or
Coach Gomez, which coach was it? Um, we
go Angel. Angel. Angel, that's his name.
I think it's Martinez. Okay. Yeah, I
think so. Okay. Okay. But Okay. But
you're saying when you peed in the water
drug that it wasn't out of revenge, it
was a joke. Okay.
Um, what was Dylan's last name? Sofur. I
think it's S O P H E R. And you said
that he pushed your coach. Uh he pushed
Well, he punched me. He went around
pushing everyone. Um and then got in my
coach's face and shoved him. Uh we all
kind of held back and uh there was a
little arguing in the parking lot, but
no
like like fights or anything.
Do you remember when that incident took
place?
It's on my schedule on my phone, dude.
You want me to pull it up? Sure. My
phone's about to die quick. Was that
this season? Yeah, this is this season.
Um, you played over there? No, so we
played them at home and then we went to
their place. Nothing happened. Then we
beat them and then the third time when
they came, that's when it happened.
Okay.
This
was I think
this was okay. So it was a tournament.
I'm pretty sure it was March 1st. I
could be wrong. I'm pretty sure it was
March 1st that this incident happened.
And was that here or away? Yeah, this
was here. Okay. So, possibly a
tournament here in Arena. Yes. Okay. It
was a championship game
and they do this.
Um for you,
um I guess after being funny and went
out, how come you guys didn't change the
water? Uh I cuz usually they don't drink
out of them. Like no teams usually drink
out of the jugs. So I didn't think you
know it was going to like they were
going to drink them. Okay. So we just
left it. Um
and um how come what makes you think
teams don't drink from you? Uh just cuz
I never see them getting water. No
specific reason. I just don't ever see
them drinking out of it. Do you guys use
your jugs in your dugout? Yes sir.
Who's in charge of changing the water?
Uh, he did the first. It's usually
Landon and that's it.
Okay. All right.
um kind of let you know from my side of
things. Um
um I am going to follow up with the
school and with probably Laquva just to
kind of determine if the water was used
and whatnot. Okay. Um assuming it was uh
this case I'm going to refer to the
juvenile probation office. Um and then
they'll be following up with you. Okay.
Um what I'm doing here uh it's a
business card with my information on the
front. uh the case number right there um
that's what everything's going to be
documented under on the back side
because
um I can completely understand um once
your parents are made aware of this um
having a bunch of questions I can't
really answer what's going to
happen going forward once JO has it uh
they do their own thing but I'm going to
include their contact info in the back
okay so if you have any questions from
that side of things you guys can reach
out
Mr. Baka, did you have any other
questions, sir?
No.
For myself, Mr. Ba.
Um, again, I I really appreciate the
honesty. Um, on a woman charged with,
you don't say it a whole lot, so I I
truly do appreciate that. Um,
I appreciate your time again, man. Thank
you. Um I really appreciate you being
honest with me. Um I don't think I have
anything else. So you're good. Yeah, I'm
good. You're good. Okay. How do you get
home? You're dead. Yes, sir. Okay. Okay.
You're good.
Good luck going forward. Okay. Oh,
you're okay. You're okay. No reason to
apologize.
Thank you. I'm sorry.
Um something else I want to tell you,
man. It's not It's not the end of the
world. Okay. Yes, sir. Um, obviously I'm
sure the school will have some
consequences. Um, I said from our side,
I already explained everything to you.
You're young. Learn from it. Okay. Yes,
sir. Um, you understand how it looks,
right? Yes, sir. Terrible. And you're
representing your school, man. You're
repres You're representing your team,
the school. Yes, sir. Don't throw it
out, dude. Okay. Make better choices.
All right. Sorry. Yeah. So, just letting
you know this is like this is at the
superintendent level. Okay. like this is
like like this conversation is now
involving the superintendent, the school
lawyers. Okay. The athletic director for
the district is here. Okay.
Uh I'm disappointed in you, but it's not
the end of the world. Yes, sir. Okay.
What I worry is you have now put
yourself in danger because I don't know
how angry those boys are going to be
from Laquella. Yes, sir. Okay. And I
don't know how those parents are going
to react to this. Yes, sir. Okay. Um, my
suggestion to you is to lay low. Yes,
sir. If I was you, I would probably get
off social media because if you are on
social
media, the world is going to be
attacking you. Yes, sir. Okay. Uh,
that's just my recommendation to you.
You have a great dad. I don't know your
mom, but I know your dad well.
Uh, you know, work with him as we work
our way through this. I can't speak yet
of what discipline you're going to
receive from the school because the
investigation has just barely started.
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
Anything like that help or anything, you
can call the police department, too.
Okay. Yes, sir. Um, if you're having
issues with anything, don't hesitate.
Okay. Yes, sir. All right, my friend.
You take care. Okay.
The whole baseball team was suspended
for the incident. The player was
referred to the juvenile justice system
for battery charges.