July the 16th, 2023. On the darkest of nights, police in Villa Park, Illinois, have been dispatched to investigate an alleged theft which has left the victim 100% agitated, but only 50% dressed. What's going on? How you doing? What's going on today? Um, I was laying down probably like about 20 minutes ago and I heard my my my sliding glass door open up. Okay. And when I open it there, there was Sarah. Her name is Sarah Grant. I'm familiar with her. Yeah. She she stuck in there and I says, you know, you're not supposed to be here. Like, dummy, you know, it's kind of nice. So, I I I let the screen to open without locking it. And she says, "I'm here. I need to use washroom." I stepped back. She grabbed my pants, shorts I had under, put everything in it and ran out the [ __ ] door. I went back and hold up there. When I grabbed my stuff, she's riding down a freaking street. Which street did she go down? She went down right there. She made herself a left and exit out. A left or a right? I mean, a right screams there. Right. And exit out. The strings been going on for And she stole stole my goddamn pants with my ID. Every everything in my thing is in my shorts right now. and she run she come out of there and I said sir is she right there where is she staying at now you know she was staying with me but like uh like when this happened this this she causes her too I says look you you were not supposed to be around here stay away from her okay so she's been away for like 3 or 4 days and she caught me off guard there laying down and when she come she goes I just need to use washroom I said look get you wash get out of my house Harvard all right so what's all in your wallet my uh credit card uh IDs uh everything everything that you would carry in your wallet is is in my pants and she just grabbed the whole freaking pants and ran out the door. I put my [ __ ] down like trying to get you and you just run out the street say you like Sarah I already know who you are. You stole from me. You you were in my [ __ ] house. You stole from Let me ask you something. What you want to have done tonight if we I want her arrested. Okay, for theft entering. Yeah, I briefly checked. Okay. You uh got any currency or anything like that? Any money in my Yeah, she stole all my money in my pants. How much money was in your stuff? I I got like 200 something dollars in there. My credit cards, everything in my I just came out of the damn store. She got everything like you would have your all your interest is in my interest in my mouth. She didn't just She grabbed my damn pants and ran out the door like it's like checking, you know. All right. That's my car with my name on it. We going to try to find her right now cuz we know it's Sarah. Yeah. Uh, know who it is already. Yeah. All right. We got your phone number and everything like that. Uh, you got your phone on you, I'm assuming? No. No. This just phone right there. I grabbed my mother's phone there because like I said, she took everything out my goddamn phone. Keep your phone on you cuz if we find her, more than likely we're going to have to you're going to have to come into the police station. Okay. So, just keep that phone by you cuz if we find her, then more than likely we're going to have to interview you on camera. Okay. Yep. You got the I guess I guess it's uh 77B number. Yeah, you called uh 911 from that number, right? That's him right there. All right. Yeah, just stay close. We going to go look for Okay. Thank you. And put some pants on, my man. Don't be on the man, bro. It's nice out. Hey, man. I ain't trying to be talking to the man. He get a little a little excited. Then a little fruit start hanging out his loom. After speaking with the victim, the officers leave the scene. Fortunately, just over 3 hours later, the suspect is located in a nearby park with a male companion and detained for further investigation. Let's listen in. Yeah, go ahead. We're going to be at park in Princeton. Tired. It's a very busy night. Has it? I have to say the weather's nice though. You know that's good. Did you guys get any DUIs out of the bar? No. Too busy with that. All this other stuff going on. Why? What? There's a lot of stuff going on at the bar tonight or what? No. Like I went to we I went to Anona tonight and went to the Oaks Anonymous meeting. Okay. Mhm. Staying sober. uh off of medication. Okay. Well, that's good. Something sober sober, right? There you go. Cool. See? Yes. All right, Sarah. We got somebody that wants to come talk to you. All right. One of the officers. He's going to come talk to you. Okay. For what? Something that happened. Your name got brought up. He wants to talk to you. Am I under arrest? Not yet. Not yet. Nope. Okay. He's going to come talk to you. Okay. Okay. All right. Cool. So, finish your cigarette. Stay with me. Okay. What are you What are you doing today? Just chilling. Yeah, like my bike's right here. I was You say that's not yours. No, no, my bike's right there. I'm just chilling. Like it's my buddy from Elmherst. Like Yeah. Go ahead. We're just relaxing. I didn't do anything wrong. No. All right. finish your cigarette and then I'm going to place you in handcuffs and then we're going to talk long as you're civil with me. That cool and then I'll explain everything to you. But I'm going to let you finish your cigarette cuz I'm a nice guy. I have an open beer in my backpack and I don't want it to spill. Fair. So do me a favor. Take the backpack off. Place it down nicely. Okay. Fair. You got nothing on it. It's gonna poke me, stab me, or eat me? Hell no. All right. Cool. All right. All right. Do that. Yeah. I don't want it to spill either because you got some good stuff in there, I'm sure. Yes. All right. So, just put that down. Finish your cigarette. Leave it there. We'll take care of that. I appreciate you being cool with me. Yep. All right. Do me a favor. Yep. Pull up your pants and then take those back out. Marvelous. Um, I have a lighter. Okay, that's cool. Don't worry about searching yourself. Finish your cigarette. All right. Thank you. Uhhuh. Are you good, my man? Yes, I'm fine. Okay. Is this your mic? Yes, sir. Okay. Yeah. Are you guys going to take my bicycle, too? We're going to talk about everything. Okay. All right. Just finish your cigarette. I'm going to place you in a handcuffs like I told you. Okay. You are detained. You're detained right now. You're not free to go. Right. I understand. All right. All right. Cool. Do me a favor. Face my partner. Put your hands behind your back. Okay. There you go. Great. All right. Let me see these. Bend your elbow a little bit. There you go. All right. You got anything on you? Gonna poke me right now. That's yours, right? Nothing up here. Yeah. Nothing. What's this? A belt? A belt. All right. Let me take a look here. Yeah, it's my belt. Okay. Yep. Belt. That's it. All right. Cool. All right. Hang on one second. Okay. All right. Uh I'm going to grab this backpack. He wants to see if there's seats. Yeah. So, here. You got her? Yeah. this person. It's not on. [Music] What color was it? I can't even remember off topics. It was a pair of pants. His wallet and was in there. Pair of pants? Yeah. Do you know what color the pants were? No, but it had his wallet and Right. I didn't feel nothing like that at all. Yeah. No, it's not here. There are no dupants. Hold there real quick for jars while you searching the V. No. call. Hey, it's Officer Walker. What color pants were they? No, no, no. The ones that she took. Oh. Oh. Black shorts with a black belt. Yo yo yo. Black shorts. Yeah. Yeah. Hold on one second. Black shorts with a black belt. Black shorts with a black belt. What else? We're going to talk to you guys. Okay. And you should have black shorts, black belt. And your wallet. Does it have a driver's license in it or All right. So, you got nothing else on you? No wallet, no nothing. Right. Right. Okay. What's under here? Underwear only. Under your pants? I don't wear underwear. So, there's nothing under there. Is that for say? Okay. Yeah. I don't want to lift it up. Yeah. No. Okay. Okay. All right. We'll be back in one second, though. All right. [Music] You go there. Is it right here? Yeah. Just the lighter. No, that's good. That's it. Yep. All right. Okay. All right. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law. You have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him or her present with you while you're being questioned. Why would she do that? Where's the cards? You know, why would she keep the cash? There's no cash in here. Oh, hang on. Notating the remarks that Miss Brandt was just read Miranda warning. I have no idea whatsoever. I have a slight idea that I've been slight harassed by Lewis Diaz all day in Elmherst. Okay. To what end? Pardon me. To what end? What do you mean arrest? Like I said, I only see his cars. I don't want to talk about it. You guys can believe his side of the story. I don't We trying to hear your side of the story, Sarah. Mr. Walker, first off, how you doing today? It's been a little bit since I seen you. How you doing? I'm okay. I'm good. That's good. That's good. Yeah. All right. I did plasma today and I got my own money and I went into a movie by myself and he was chasing me all around Elmherst on his bicycle. Okay. Well, look, you said uh you didn't want to talk. Do you want to talk to me? Can I talk to you real quick about today? Sure. Okay. So, listen. You obviously know something happened between you and Louis. That's why we're out here today, right? over her. No signs of anything of his. Can you fix my hair? My hair is in my eye. You messed up my hat. I can't concentrate. Yeah. Hold on one second, please. That's better. Is that better? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right. All right. So, listen. Did you go by Anony's house today? No. God, no. No. Nope. This thing is clear. at Tony Harts. I'm sorry, not Anthony Lewis. I I'm sorry. Lewis's house. Did you go by Louiswis's house? I live there. I have residence there. Okay. Did you go by there today? This evening to get more clothing. Okay. What clothing did you grab from there? My jeans and my hoodie. That's it. Just your stuff. You didn't grab any of his stuff? No. Like we share a backpack. What backpack do you share? Well, it's technically my backpack, but um both of our belongings are in there. Okay. All right. Did you take anything that didn't belong to you? No. Okay. He's saying that you took his wallet with his credit cards. He doesn't own a wallet. That's what he's telling me. He said, "You came into the residence, took his wallet, his credit cards, and his cash." A, he doesn't have a credit. Everything in his bag, sir. He doesn't have a wallet. Go through it. And he only had $5 in his pocket, which was mine. And so I did not steal from him. Okay. No. The pants that you say the $5, where are they at, Joseph? Yes. Where are those pants at? Not in my possession. Where are they at right now? Um, at his house. They're still at his house. Yep. Why does he say you got his wallet if he doesn't have one? Because he's 65 and he's a lying piece of [ __ ] drug dealer. [ __ ] No, no problem. Okay, Sarah, if the pants are at the house, tell us where they're at the house so we can clear this. You think I want to do anything today? I want you to be out of those and go on your merry way. So, you want me to tell you where Louis's pants are? Well, he accused you of taking them and his wallet. And his wallet. I think the pants I didn't even own a wallet. That may be true. It's super true. Where's the pants? Does he have cards? Any kind of cards? He has a chime card. Okay, cool. Chime card. Would those have been in those pants? You said something about it was in the backpack. What backpack? That backpack? My backpack. Where the pants? The pants. My backpack. Your the pants. I left the pants. I don't have his pants. Right. So, where'd you leave the pants? Because if his stuff's in there and you don't have the possession of it, then we can work with that. But you got to tell us where they are with his belongings. And I think we can make this work out. We just got to find his belongings. Do you have any idea? I don't. He doesn't. You looking over there? Did you drop them? Did you throw them out? I'm looking. Can I please? Yeah, I think. Go ahead. There were a black pair of shorts. Okay. And I left them over there by Villa. By villa? Yes. Villa and what? By the veterans memorial. Oh, like Cortesi Park over there? Yes. By the Deitos? Yes. In the park? I rolled them up and I left them on the side. Okay. If we take you over there, can you show us where they are? Yes, I can. If you take these off of me. Is there going to be a wallet in those pants? He does not own a wallet. He never has the Chime card in there. Cash. No, he's a liar. Okay. Well, not for nothing. You lied to us cuz you said you didn't take anything and then you suddenly remembered that you rolled up the pants in the park. I went to my home to get belongings and which don't belong to you. All right. She said she could tell us where they are or I can go take a look right now. Why don't you do it? Cortesy park. Pair of black shorts. You said the black shorts are his. You took them anyway. He wears my clothes. I wear his clothes. Why would you leave them in the park? Why not just leave them in the Because they don't fit me good and I need to sleep outside because I don't want to deal with his mother. So why not just leave them in the apartment? What's the plan? They're going to go look. Okay. We're at We're at Bat Cortessesi Park. God by the stage. Oh, okay. So, close. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You're free to go, my man, if you want to take off. All right. You know, as long as All right. We know Sarah. We're not going to chew her up and spit her out. Joel, have a good night. I hope it works out. It will. It will. It will. Sarah Sarah will live to fight another day. Sarah's got some new stickers on her bike. I haven't seen some. Look at the back one. That's for my cool fans from Colorado. Sir, you feel free to sit down so you don't have to stand. Thank you. My legs are killing me. So, welcome. Thanks for uh cooperating. I appreciate it. Have a good night. As the bystander pedals away from the scene, this officer is chatting via cell with the victim who has a revised estimate of the amount allegedly stolen from him. How much money again? How do you get a hold of? So now 37. I thought it was more money than that, my man. You saying just $37 now? I saw Joanna Castiglia today. I don't know who that is. Oh, good. You don't want it. Well, if you don't like her, I don't like her. Exactly. I took it in Alaska. $37 now. He's saying that uh there's no wallet was all on the side of the pants. The pants it's all We'll find out when they get Where you living now since you're out of uh 336. I've been staying with that [ __ ] lion piece of [ __ ] I'm going get the out this grass just in case one gardener snakes over. Just shoot him. Yeah, might hit my toe. I got continued till the 31st. So now I'm You guys are stuck with me for another two weeks. Where else will you go? Back to Barl. [ __ ] Colorado. California. I've been stuck here on court cases. Damn. California. They'll give you everything there. [ __ ] All you got to do is go live on the beach. Exactly. They'll give you whatever you want. I know. Won't they? But they give you some kind of monies. I don't beg for money. No, not that. That's to the government. How much is this guy? It was 200 at first. Now I just changed to $37, too, cuz we found him. Yeah, cuz we found her. So, he's fit, too. God, dude. Can you get somebody that'll cooperate with your cases? I don't know, man. That's why I try to stay my ass at home. Okay. Yes, sir. All right. They got the shorts. Anything in it? All right. No. Nothing in it. No. They found a phone and this phone. This mother didn't say that. No, he didn't. Hopefully, it's a decent phone. Hey, my man. Did she take your phone, too? Said she took two of them. One of them she smashed into pieces. Was that today? No, I'm talking about today. I'm talking about today. All right. We'll we'll talk at the station, my man. All right. Yeah, we can just transport her now, man. And then uh 95 with the bike. All right. We're going to take you to the station. Okay. We'll talk more there. Stand up for me. We're going to get your bike, though. We're not going to leave it. I promise. And then your backpack. Obviously, you need long as somebody brings me a sandwich. I think you need a new client help. Okay, have a seat. We got to go walk. I'll wait with the bike. The suspect was charged with criminal trespass to residents and with theft, which obtains or exerts control over property of the owner for less than $500. She plead guilty to this charge and received probation, but was arrested and incarcerated at a later date. Heat. Heat. [Music]