6 in uh roast beef and cheese with Swiss. Turn around. Turn that way. Turn that way. Turn that way. Face that way, please. Thank you very much. Ladies, it's going to be a moment for your sandwiches. I do apologize. This is no way, shape, or form reflects poorly on Subway. February 16th, 2024. At a quiet Florida Subway, one employee had been playing a long game. He clocked in like everyone else, prepared sandwiches, handled the register, and slowly drained thousands from the store's safe. Over time, he managed to steal nearly $10,000. No break-ins, no threats, just careful manipulation hidden in plain sight. Mr. Smith, step away. Turn around. Turn that way. Turn that way. Turn that way. Face that way, please. Thank you very much, ladies. This is going to be a moment for your sandwiches. I do apologize. This in no way, shape, or form reflects poorly on Subway. I hope that you guys do it fresh and you enjoy your meal. Thank you, sir. Come on, please. Any knives or anything on your butt? No, no, no. Someone will be right out to help you. She'll be right back. See you in a second. Step on. Step. All right, we are going to park right over here for a moment. 63 delta 105. 10:15. Same location. If you can send ro patrol for transport if you would just lean against that for a moment. Thank you sir. Anything on you that I should know about? No, it's just my cell phone. Okay. Nothing that sharp or I don't have to worry about being stuck. I've been stuck before is a reason. Oh, some cash flowing out of your pocket. Looks like 25. I'm going put it right back here in your pocket. All right. What about these keys? Oh, that's store key. Store key. Okay, I'm going to make sure that I leave that here. All right. What's in here? Oh, nothing. Not getting fresh. All right. Looks like more cash. You got a lot of zippers, man. Not getting fresh. His arrest came during a regular shift. Body cam footage captured the moment as officers calmly approached and took him into custody in front of unsuspecting customers. He was searched and found with cash, keys, and no weapons. The scene didn't look like a takedown. It looked like the end of a quiet operation. Now, Jake, you already made a police report with us, and what we're going to do is I'm going to swear you in. Okay? So, everything you tell me from here is going to be the truth. Okay? Okay? So, raise your right hand. You swear everything you're telling me is going to be the truth. I do. All right. So, let's get started. Uh Jake, briefly, what the major calls initially? Well, I just started noticing the sales were lower than they should be. Well, it started off um what store we Okay. And you are the owner. And what is the address of the Subway? 12041 Southern Boulevard, sweet 2 L. Okay. And um what day did you notice the shortage? Um, since then, well, I've noticed the sales been down for a while, but last uh two Saturdays ago would have been the third, I went to the store and there was, you know, I open the safe expecting there to be money and there was none. So, that kind of got me thinking, Louis. Yes, sir. Yeah. Take the beams. You I'm always good. You always good? Oh, good. Unless I'm sick. All right. So, you know why you're under arrest? No, sir. Just going to explain why you're under arrest. You already told my partner here you don't want to talk, but I will at least inform you what's going on. Okay. No, I didn't tell him I didn't want to. He was reading me the Miranda and I was like, "Okay, I guess he wanted me to um I guess converse about it." But the Miranda, I know, you know, there's nothing you could really say. But you understand you understood your rights in the Miranda, right? Of course. And she explains the rights that you afforded. Of course. And but right before that you said, "No, I don't want to talk." Was that in reference to what's going on or you didn't want to talk to him in general? No. When when he was talking about I was just waiting on him to read the Miranda. He didn't read me the Miranda then. Oh, okay. So, you wanted It's pointless to talk about anything. So, you wanted your rights read first. Not even. But it's like we come on, we grown, man. We We don't got time to be playing around like, you know. All right. So, over the course of I would say Two weeks. Mhm. All right. You have been voiding out transaction. The investigation had started weeks earlier. Management noticed a strange pattern. Sales were dropping and transactions were being voided at a much higher rate than usual. When they cross-cheed receipts with security footage, the truth became hard to ignore. The same employee was voiding full orders and pocketing the cash. The till wasn't short because of customers. It was because of someone behind the counter. Okay. Okay. So then the manager started matching up because the profits were low and these were all on days you're working by yourself. Mhm. Okay. So this is why you're under arrest. Okay. Okay. Do you understand that? Um sort of kind of. Yeah. Sort of kind of. Yeah. Sort of kind of. Okay. So I mean you were read I mean you read Miranda. So, if you want to talk about why you're doing it, I know maybe you're not getting paid enough or needing more money for your bills as just like a side hustle to get some extra cash. I don't know. Um, I don't know how you get to work. I know you have a suspended license, revoke license, right? So, I don't know if you need money to get home and this is why you're doing this. It's not a lot of money cuz, you know, Subway doesn't it's not like $100 bill. It was like 20 bucks, 10 bucks. Wow. And he did this morning, too, cuz he was sending me video this morning until the other employee showed up and then the transaction stopped. So, do you have anything to say about that? You want to watch one of the videos? No, I I I don't got anything to say, you know. I I don't have anything to say, you know. Yeah. This is a universe, you know. So, I'm not really, you know. What universe? What? No, I'm just saying that's just the universe. Like, you know, things happen, you know, like what things have happened. No, I'm just saying like things happen. I'm not I'm not, you know, I don't I'm not feeling like, you know, like really like on some other type of time. I I I'm aware of what's going on. Okay. You know, is there a reason is there like a like a reason that you have to do this or is this just you just don't? Um, uh, listen, I understand like rent's expensive, right? A lot of shit's expensive. And I understand that working a job like that and then you also just got out of prison a couple years ago. Yeah. So, it's hard to get a job that's going to pay. No, it ain't got nothing to do with that. No, cuz cuz if that's the case, if that's the case, I would have been back in prison for real. Getting in. I went to prison for it. I went getting the big rips. No, I'm just saying if that was the case. That's not really the case. Like, you know, you gotta you gotta you gotta It's like I don't I don't know. I don't know what the you know, I'm not saying I didn't do it. I'm not saying I did do it, but like you know, you got to you you you know, I know I'm a black guy, whatever. You know what I'm saying? I know I'm overqualified for the job. You know what I'm saying? I just feel like, you know, this, like I said, it's just the universe. Like, I wasn't like, you know, I take fools. During detainment, the employee remained oddly calm. He didn't push back or make a scene. Instead, he offered vague reasoning tied to unfair treatment and personal circumstances. Officers proceeded with reading him his rights, preparing to transport him for further questioning. While he didn't explicitly confess, he didn't deny much either. The scheme was more organized than anyone expected. The voided orders always occurred when he was working alone. Footage showed a clear pattern. Money handed over by customers never made it into the register. Instead, it disappeared into his pockets with the transaction canled shortly afterward. It wasn't sloppy or rushed. It was calculated and repeated. Responsibility or whatever. I'm a man for anything. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, it happened. Um, you know, I'm going just deal with whatever. Was it just something easy to do over the course of time? Nah, it's it's not that cuz it's like since you guys got camera footage, you could go back and I've haven't stole from him. Feel what I'm saying? I've been working for him for a minute. Two months. Yeah. And it started like right at the end of January. So it's like so it's been recent like the last um I don't know about right at the end of January but like I don't you know it's it's like if you're getting accused for something and you just get into the store it's like I ain't even been here that long. Yeah. But that wasn't right when you got in the store. H it hasn't it wasn't right when you got in the store. What you mean you got you started working two months ago. So this is like a little bit later. Right. This is right. But I'm saying like the videos I have go back to February 3rd. Right. Right. Right. Okay. So Right. I All right. So that's what two weeks ago. It's over what the 17th 17. So it's about two weeks. Right. So the last two weeks. So in the last two weeks the universe changed for you or you No. Oh, what I what I mean by the universe meaning whatever someone does, they either going to have to accept it or run from it for real. Well, that's everything in life. Consequence. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's so the universe. So, everyone has consequences to every action. Well, for for sure. That's why I'm not I'm not, you know, it it is what it is. I'm I'm not f to sit up here and and you know like I I you know I I've haven't been treated fairly. You feel what I'm saying? So you know No, no, no. I'm just saying like in general like I you know you I run the store you know I like I said it wasn't like I've been for the work you're doing you should have got compensated a little more money compensated a higher rate. Not even. It's like you got to treat you got to treat you got to treat the people right, man. You got what were the inequities at Subway? What was the was the owner not doing something right? Um, you know, man, I I don't Was he leaving you by yourself too much? Um, I don't know. You could say that maybe, but it's like, you know, just you got to do your people right, man. If someone's working for you. No, I understand. you know, you got to treat your employees properly, right? But I'm saying, what did he do that wasn't proper? What What was he doing unfair for you? Um Um I just I don't I don't really I don't really know. That's a That's a very good question. I don't really I don't really know. I don't really know for real. So, I met the guy. He seemed like a nice dude. Yeah, but you know, man, listen, man. I'm not I'm not sitting up here and making it a race issue. Okay. You know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day, like I'm a black man for real. Okay. Well, I'm a minority, too. Yeah. But but we not but we not talking about you. You talking about me. I understand it. I'm a minority. But what do you do? I know I know there's inequities minorities, right? And I can point something out. Treat treat just treat your people fairly, man. Okay. Well, that's what I was asking. What was he not just treat your people fairly? Like I'm not going to sit up here and talk about the guy like he's a bad guy. Was he just degrading you or demeaning towards you? Yeah. Like you know, you could say you could say, you know, but it's like treat your people right, man. You know, you got somebody that's working at your store and they the only one working. You know what I'm saying? Like come on, man. You got to treat your people fairly. You know what I'm saying? So brother boys getting treated differently. Nah, it's only two employees. So, oh, the the girl you specialize. Yeah. So, that that's it. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's like you got to treat got to treat us right. Like, you know what I'm saying? I got you. I'm going to wear whatever I got to wear. You know, I'm a real uh whatever whatever comes behind this, I'm going accept it. I'm not running from anything. You know what I'm saying? So, I understand. That's what we got to do. Well, right. That that's what it is. So, and then um I got another question for you. Yeah. Um you still live for uh Lauder Hill? Uh, no. Okay. I'm going to need your new address cuz the jail's going to need one cuz out of county changes bonds changes stuff like that. What you mean? Higher bonds. Lauder Hills out of Palm Beach County. Lauder Hills and Broward. So, so where am I where am I going? You're going to Palm Beach High. So, I'm I'mma be in there for the weekend. No, you'll get be given a bond. I'll be giving a bond today. Yeah. So, I wasn't Like I won't I won't even sit up here and be like I was like man I'm for the people so it did what it is it you know it is what it is. I'm for the people. Okay. You know so it wasn't like I was taken from like it wasn't like I was like robbing them like you know what I'm saying? Like I understand that's why we didn't go with robbery. That's why we went with the scheme to defraud. Right. Right. I I get it. I get it. I'm for the people though man. I'm for the people man. Like it is what it is. So is the was the money going to the people for the people? Yeah. You damn for sure. So you do like Robin Hood. Um you're doing some Robin Hood Robin Hood [ __ ] right? You taking money from people got money and giving it to the people. I I guess I guess giving them deals or whatever. I I guess you know that's what Hey, that's what Robin Hood did, right? That's the whole Yeah. No, I ain't never tapping into Robin Hood. I ain't never tapping into Robin Hood. That's what That's what he did. He he took from all the people and got a lot of money hooked hooked up everywhere. So when what time I'm going to be able to bond out though? Uh once you get booked in uh I think it takes like an hour or two and then they'll give you a phone call to a bondsman. You call Bondsman and uh you get your bond set. All right, let's get on this cuz I got I got I got a show tonight, man. A show? I do music. I do music. Rap? Yeah, I do music. I do all that. So are you rapping tonight or are you playing instruments or you playing the I'm playing for a band tonight. Opening up. Yeah. Well, not playing drums. Um, no. Now I'm opening up. Opening up for some artists. Where? Um, where is it? Um, what is the opinion? It's in Miami. Oh, you going to Miami? Yeah. Oh, you got long hair long drive ahead of you. Yeah. All right. Well, let me get your uh West Palm address and then I can get Oh, I don't have a West Palm address. Where do you live? I stay in like Oakland. Oakland Park. Oh, she was still in Broward. Yeah. What's the address down there? In the end, he was charged with felony grand theft and scheme to defraud. The outcome, 5 years of probation, no prison time. But questions remain. Was this just about money or something deeper? A reaction to low wages, a statement about how employees are treated, or simply a deliberate act of theft with no justification? And was probation truly a fair sentence given the amount stolen and the premeditated nature of the crime? He didn't go to prison, but the evidence spoke for itself. Was probation enough or did this case deserve more? Share your thoughts below and subscribe for more real stories from the body cam.