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When Walmart Employees Get Caught Stealing · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: All right, so they got you on camera. We're taking
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Speaker 1: money from the register.
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Speaker 2: This is Dodja Holly, a Walmart employee who has just
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Speaker 2: been accused of stealing hundreds of dollars from a cash register.
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Speaker 2: Or when she was confronted with evidence, she snapped. But
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Speaker 2: some employees have caused much more harm than this, like
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Speaker 2: this manager who did not only steal money but also
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Speaker 2: assaulted an employee, doesn't it Or this man who posed
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Speaker 2: as an employee and stole expensive products and attempted to
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Speaker 2: escape the cobs. But first, let's start with the case
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Speaker 2: of Dodja, who got caught red handed stealing on security cameras.
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Speaker 2: On November twenty fourth, twenty twenty three, police were called
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Speaker 2: at an Illinois Walmart where security staff caught an employee
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Speaker 2: stealing cash from the register for the first time. In
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Speaker 2: analyzing the footage, you can see the Daja slips her
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Speaker 2: hand under the bills and removes an extra bill each
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Speaker 2: time she gets changed for our customer. She then gives
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Speaker 2: the customer the correct change, but palms the stolen bill
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Speaker 2: and slips it into her pocket. If you look carefully,
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Speaker 2: you'll notice that the left bulge in her vest starts
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Speaker 2: to show a crease, indicating that she's stacking up a
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Speaker 2: sizable amount of cash in there. She's obviously far too
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Speaker 2: comfortable doing this and may have been doing it for
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Speaker 2: longer than security realized. After the officers looked at the
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Speaker 2: surveillance evidence, it was time to confront Dodja.
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Speaker 1: All right, so they got you on camera basically taking
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Speaker 1: money from the register, putting in your pocket.
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Speaker 3: Where they got you on camera, can icy for myself.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna show you, I know. So here's the times
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Speaker 4: that I guess you were taking it the other days, right,
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Speaker 4: the other days, Okay.
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Speaker 3: I see me, couldn't.
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Speaker 5: Taking money out.
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Speaker 2: Dodger argues that she can't see anything in the printed
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Speaker 2: photo and maintains her innocence. The security footage may be
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Speaker 2: somewhat unclear, but it's easily enough to show exactly what
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Speaker 2: she was doing. Still, it doesn't quite dawn on her
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Speaker 2: just how much trouble she is in. But for the cops,
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Speaker 2: it's time to arrest the culprit, and that's when things
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Speaker 2: get violent.
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Speaker 3: I can remove your vest, okay at that moment property,
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Speaker 3: so you can put that vest and uh, your ID
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Speaker 3: and your work want them, okay. So y'all saying that
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Speaker 3: I took something or what I'm saying.
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Speaker 6: You know, you arrest me.
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Speaker 7: So you're gonna do what they told her to do, is.
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Speaker 8: Take me because you're under arrested stealing.
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Speaker 6: I didn't steal anything.
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Speaker 5: Just off your vest.
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Speaker 3: So then we can get out of here. Okay, can
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Speaker 3: I go?
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Speaker 9: I didn't steal even from down hill.
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Speaker 10: Don't talk to me.
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Speaker 5: I gotta get motion. I gotta get my style.
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Speaker 7: Okay, I'm going, okay, okay around stop.
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Speaker 5: Give me your hands, your hands, let me easy.
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Speaker 2: As she starts to realize the gravity of the situation,
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Speaker 2: fight her flight starts to kick in for Dodga, and
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Speaker 2: she gets about as violent as she could in this situation,
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Speaker 2: but realizing there's probably no other way out of this,
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Speaker 2: she's not about to stop here.
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Speaker 7: Oh no, there is no hell?
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Speaker 11: What you mean.
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Speaker 5: Around? Did I get belongan?
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Speaker 7: Wo?
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Speaker 5: You de literally? Oh yeah, I'm sort of what the hell?
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Speaker 3: God?
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Speaker 1: God resisting's believing?
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Speaker 5: No diad.
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Speaker 9: No you did No, I promise I didn't stop touching
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Speaker 9: up your hands.
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Speaker 6: I am burned.
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Speaker 9: I'm not going to y'all already got me in the
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Speaker 9: hec Where can I go?
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Speaker 7: You're getting an ambulance. He gets why that.
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Speaker 6: Don't even amaze this.
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Speaker 5: I hard put me in an endless look, you're bleeding.
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Speaker 6: That's why you're.
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Speaker 5: Here, y'all. Did you I did it?
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Speaker 9: I did it. Oh my god, Oh my god. I'm right, y'all, y'all.
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Speaker 2: Despite the female officer being quite patient with Dodga, she
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Speaker 2: doesn't take the hint and gets more aggressive injuring herself
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Speaker 2: in the process. Eventually, they were able to de escalate
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Speaker 2: the situation and medical staff arrived shortly after to treat
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Speaker 2: Dodga's injury. She was then transported to the squad car
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Speaker 2: and back to the station, where she was charged with theft,
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Speaker 2: resisting arrest, and aggravated assault on a police officer. But
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Speaker 2: Dodga wasn't as unpredictable as this next thief who tried
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Speaker 2: a daring get way in the worst place possible.
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Speaker 11: What are you going?
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Speaker 2: Albuquerque Police received a call earlier last month about a
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Speaker 2: shoplifter caught by a Target employee trying to steal a
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Speaker 2: pile of Xbox console. Twenty two year old Curtis Van
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Speaker 2: had come up with an ingenious plan to walk into
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Speaker 2: Target to grab a selection of his favorite consoles and
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Speaker 2: walk out without anyone suspecting a thing. He did it
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Speaker 2: by pretending to be a Target employee, and he managed
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Speaker 2: to get away on more than one occasion, robbing three
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Speaker 2: other stores until he was finally caught.
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Speaker 3: Did you check out? Oh I did not?
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Speaker 1: I just kid okay, jos, no okay?
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Speaker 3: Could you please say I just won't check for your.
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Speaker 2: As you probably noticed, the shopping cart the police have
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Speaker 2: confiscated is full of brand new Xbox consoles costing thousands
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Speaker 2: of dollars. He was caught by their loss prevention officer,
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Speaker 2: who explains how Curtis came to be in possession of
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Speaker 2: a Target uniform in the first place.
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Speaker 3: His name is CJ. He used to be a Target
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Speaker 3: team member, sayo target.
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Speaker 12: He pushed out eleven gaming consoles out of our Rearrancho
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Speaker 12: store a couple of months ago. So he imitates that
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Speaker 12: he's a Target team member, gets keys, gains access to
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Speaker 12: the lockcase or the stock room. He just left our
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Speaker 12: rear Rancho store and then came here. He didn't get
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Speaker 12: anything from them this morning, but he was able to
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Speaker 12: get someone to let him in. All those consos there
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Speaker 12: is what he selected. He tried going out the entrance
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Speaker 12: store where I stopped him.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure you were.
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Speaker 6: That's from yesterday.
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Speaker 12: That's him walking out with it out about around so
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Speaker 12: I know he got one.
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Speaker 3: I'll have to ask the PS.
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Speaker 12: Four, PS five okay, And that was at the uptown
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Speaker 12: store yesterday. He was driving a U haul.
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Speaker 6: Okay, I'm going to talk to him. Sounds good.
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Speaker 5: My name is also?
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Speaker 6: Are you your CJ right right? Is it short for anything?
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Speaker 3: Short? Chris?
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Speaker 6: Chris?
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Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 13: Chris, I Lena read you and random warning's okay? So
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Speaker 13: does this stuff for at K? Would you like to
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Speaker 13: talk to me yesterday?
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Speaker 3: Wow?
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Speaker 13: About just about the incident while you're detained right now?
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Speaker 13: You don't want to talk to me? Still, don't talk
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Speaker 13: about it? So going to sign up? Okay, So you're
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Speaker 13: gonna be placed under arrest or phony level shoplifting.
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Speaker 2: Kay, Shoplifting isn't the most serious of charges unless you've
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Speaker 2: stolen goods worth over five hundred dollars. Then it's a
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Speaker 2: felony where you could be looking at thousands of dollars
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Speaker 2: in fines and even prison time. He's been caught red handed,
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Speaker 2: and there's plenty of evidence to link him to the
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Speaker 2: other thefts. But Curtis doesn't want to cooperate and choose
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Speaker 2: us to say nothing at all.
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Speaker 6: We acid I'll tink about that.
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Speaker 2: You want to use Yeah, Now that Curtis is in
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Speaker 2: the police station, you'd think his best option is to
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Speaker 2: cooperate and surrender to the inevitable. But what he does
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Speaker 2: next is bold and extremely stupid.
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Speaker 10: What are you doing?
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Speaker 5: What are you doing? What are you doing? Stay here?
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Speaker 5: Stay here, man, stay here. You're not going all dose
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Speaker 5: of law.
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Speaker 11: You have any to get back that you're not going
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Speaker 11: to get away from him?
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Speaker 5: You cannot leave you put the hair down, Put the
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Speaker 5: hair down.
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Speaker 13: But hey, you make this hard, make this easy.
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Speaker 6: We don't want to see this.
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Speaker 5: That's we're not going anywhere.
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Speaker 3: Work with us.
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Speaker 6: That's how you're not going anywhere.
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Speaker 3: All doors law.
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Speaker 6: We don't want to use force. You're off camera, you're
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Speaker 6: not freely.
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Speaker 2: It looks like Curtis knows he's gotten nowhere to run
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Speaker 2: as he barricades himself in the corner. He isn't a
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Speaker 2: major threats, but he can cause harm with those chairs,
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Speaker 2: So the officers have to play it safe and try
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Speaker 2: and talk Curtis out of this crazy standoff that he
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Speaker 2: will never escape.
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Speaker 3: Fraum can you.
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Speaker 6: Specify a little bit more.
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Speaker 5: Alright, I'm not gonna let you hurt one of these officers.
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Speaker 3: All right, live your stance right now.
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Speaker 14: Look what you're doing, you'll ast you, you'll obviously you
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Speaker 14: are physically going.
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Speaker 6: To resist us and not go to jail.
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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna let you hurt one of these officers.
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Speaker 6: All right, So what we're.
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Speaker 1: Gonna use, I'm gonna I'm actually gonna specify.
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Speaker 3: What we're gonna use. We're gonna use our taser. And
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Speaker 3: it hurt again, what goes back to my point? It hurts.
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Speaker 3: It hurts. It's not we're gonna happen.
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Speaker 4: You can do it, Okay, I'm again, man, I'm being
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent truthful with you because I'm not gonna
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Speaker 4: let you.
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna let an obstc go hands on.
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Speaker 5: You the way you are right now.
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Speaker 3: Then we'll be.
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Speaker 15: Talking and doing I'm trying to help you out.
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Speaker 7: Man.
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Speaker 3: Drop the chart.
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Speaker 16: Drop the I don't I don't want to taste hurts.
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Speaker 11: The chart.
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Speaker 5: A man's falling apart already, Chris.
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Speaker 17: He last, Oh my god, I'm sort of shame bro.
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Speaker 2: After that frankly hilarious standoff, officers were able to easily
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Speaker 2: overpower Curtis and arrest him again. He was then put
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Speaker 2: back in the squad car to be transported to the
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Speaker 2: main station. Curtis is yet to go to court, but
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Speaker 2: is facing charges including felony, shoplifting, resisting arrest, and battery
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Speaker 2: on police officers. Another case where surveillance footage played a
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Speaker 2: crucial part was in Florida, where an altercation at a
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Speaker 2: fast food restaurant between employees was caught on camera.
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Speaker 3: We're all.
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Speaker 5: Flegler.
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Speaker 2: Police arrived at a fast food restaurant after a nine
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Speaker 2: one one call about a man assaulting a woman. The
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Speaker 2: man shown wearing a dress and bonnet is actually one
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Speaker 2: of the managers of the restaurant, and he's angry after
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Speaker 2: being accused of stealing over fifteen hundred dollars from the register,
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Speaker 2: and the argument had become so heated the police had
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Speaker 2: to rush to the scene.
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Speaker 5: Real, Hey, babes, were all.
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Speaker 18: Come between me and my femis If that's how y'all
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Speaker 18: just go in, go in. No, it's about money because
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Speaker 18: this girl croking working on.
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Speaker 3: The fake name she told you the alcohol for about
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Speaker 3: forget you want I got.
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Speaker 5: That is a false.
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Speaker 3: Going on. Well, first and foremost the fight with the scrap.
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Speaker 3: All I do was holding down, you know, man against
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Speaker 3: for a woman. I got a surgeon. Let's sty it
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Speaker 3: up first. The dirt guy she works on the fake
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Speaker 3: name either I came up, but yeah, we're arguing.
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Speaker 19: But the moment he swung at me and you ripped
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Speaker 19: my hat in my hand, bro, I'm all the boys
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Speaker 19: hold you down.
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Speaker 2: Trying to distract the officer by accusing his workmate of
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Speaker 2: using a fake name isn't going to take the heat
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Speaker 2: off himself. Apart from the theft, he's also been accused
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Speaker 2: of assault, and he's claiming he was the one who
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Speaker 2: was a slator. And the officer is about to hear
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Speaker 2: two different versions of the same story where this up.
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Speaker 19: He came up in here, he had already texted he.
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Speaker 3: Was on his way to her to fire her. Reminds
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Speaker 3: him they've been.
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Speaker 6: It's an argument or whatever whatever you got.
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Speaker 3: In his head. Friend, I gotta ask, you don't know what.
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Speaker 5: I don't confidence.
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Speaker 2: So far, it seems like everyone involved in the incident
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Speaker 2: our acquaintances of each other, but the officer is justifiably
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Speaker 2: confused as they all try to explain their side of
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Speaker 2: the story. Fortunately, a compelling piece of evidence emerges that
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Speaker 2: will decisively reveal the true culprit.
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Speaker 3: It's the first video. Yeah, a that that's through video.
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Speaker 3: That's when he first came here. Hold on, that's when
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Speaker 3: my first game out.
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Speaker 5: Okay, the one with the paint the boat off.
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Speaker 6: No, we're not arguing to call him on that for
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Speaker 6: a file.
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Speaker 3: Were supposed to come on that, but he came in
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Speaker 3: here and started. So he went and hit me.
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Speaker 10: When he hit me?
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Speaker 18: When he hit when?
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Speaker 3: When he when he when he was doing that, did
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Speaker 3: his finger touch a news or.
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Speaker 18: His nail?
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Speaker 20: Yeah, it's not a hard to speak, but you gotta
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Speaker 20: watch kind of close.
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Speaker 3: Like.
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Speaker 2: The officers now have all the evidence they need to
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Speaker 2: apprehend the perpetrator. Luckily for them. He also sent several
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Speaker 2: text messages to staff at the restaurant telling them that
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Speaker 2: he was coming over to beat someone up, giving the
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Speaker 2: police plenty of probable cause. But as the officer moved
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Speaker 2: to make the arrest, the situation began to escalate.
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Speaker 3: I'll drive a life. I'm about to fan out.
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Speaker 18: But no, and when the two come out, now, you
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Speaker 18: want to first of all set ce, so don't talk
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Speaker 18: about dangerment, babe.
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Speaker 3: You run your record.
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Speaker 6: That's all you do.
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Speaker 3: Maybe trust heading that's fine? Well, oie David, I hope
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Speaker 3: he's working on the heat. He locked his name you.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, your inputment is today.
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Speaker 18: I come up here to confront you about some duty
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Speaker 18: of home you to get lot of Well, take a swing,
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Speaker 18: get me all.
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Speaker 3: I'm putting first things first.
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Speaker 21: Right, here's the first last morning for five yes, okay,
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Speaker 21: being issued to you by the general manager of the store.
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Speaker 11: This explains it right here.
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Speaker 3: This means you can no longer come back.
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Speaker 11: You could let me explain it.
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Speaker 21: To you, okay, and then you're gonna roll you guys
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Speaker 21: at roll.
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Speaker 11: I'm okay.
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Speaker 21: If you come on this property at all, parking lot anything,
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Speaker 21: you will be arrested and.
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Speaker 3: Taking a jail understand. Okay, So go ahead to set
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Speaker 3: that inside your car. The doact.
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Speaker 16: Thing we're going to explain to you, is you going
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Speaker 16: to jail for battery?
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Speaker 3: Yn drop your phone? Drop your phone? Wrest What is
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Speaker 3: that a No, it's a misdemeanor. I'm not being rough. Yes,
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Speaker 3: come home, man, you're going.
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Speaker 5: To jail for battery.
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Speaker 21: Let me let me explain all your charges to you, okay,
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Speaker 21: because you got more Okay, You're going to jail for battery,
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Speaker 21: criminal mischief, and disorderly conduct inside of a restaurant.
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Speaker 2: And that's exactly what he was charged with, along with
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Speaker 2: an additional count of grand theft. He was sentenced to
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Speaker 2: probation for his crimes, but instead of staying out of trouble,
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Speaker 2: he committed a similar offense only three months later and
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Speaker 2: was arrested again, unlike this next employee who was caught
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Speaker 2: committing a bold theft on surveillance cameras. On July twenty eighth,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, Lisa Logan, Township, New Jersey, were dispatched
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Speaker 2: to a Target store after an employee had been caught
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Speaker 2: stealing thousands of dollars of goods. He works in the
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Speaker 2: warehouse and has been helping himself with some of the
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Speaker 2: most expensive items on the shelves.
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Speaker 5: So what's going on?
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Speaker 18: So we had eighteen number if four thousand dollar theft
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Speaker 18: in the facility.
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Speaker 2: Okay, he the sign of documentation, this itemize what he's stolen.
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Speaker 14: Okay, great coomity thyes guy, Okay, he's in the interview.
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Speaker 2: Room right now with one of.
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Speaker 6: Our security stats.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are only two ones in there right now.
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Speaker 5: Okay, very well, I can.
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Speaker 14: Give you the I would an optimized list of everything
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Speaker 14: that he said, Yeah, I'm going to need that.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 3: My supervisor just showed up. Let me go tell him what.
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Speaker 14: We got, and then if you want to get that
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Speaker 14: for us, I'll be right back in.
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Speaker 5: Okay, I just want to do a security guy.
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Speaker 3: Say, the dude's an interviewing cooperative.
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Speaker 14: He's signing an itemind list of everything that he stole already,
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Speaker 14: it's about four thousand dollars worth of products.
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Speaker 3: So I told him, off, I'm out, let let you know.
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Speaker 3: So at least we're in there. But in an interview
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Speaker 3: of room and I I told him getting the list
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Speaker 3: of everything they can show THEE think the course, I
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Speaker 3: think down in charge. I didn't ask that.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I told him to get the list alreaything I
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Speaker 14: was take it first. Are you guys looking to get
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Speaker 14: them charge for everything or okay, I didn't know if
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Speaker 14: you just want to documented it or if you guys
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Speaker 14: look at a charge or do you want to stiff
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Speaker 14: go through the process.
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Speaker 6: Is there any video or anything of him taking items?
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Speaker 3: It is not to see that please?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Video evidence will be key in getting a prosecution, as
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Speaker 2: the store has chosen to press charges, and the evidence
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Speaker 2: speaks for itself.
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Speaker 22: You have this whole this is our like evidence thing
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Speaker 22: that we track.
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Speaker 3: So yep, that's him. That's him exiting, and.
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Speaker 22: And then this is our evidence, so iPads five of them,
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Speaker 22: Apple watches ten and then air pods ten. So this
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Speaker 22: thing that he's driving is called an order picker. This
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Speaker 22: is him here, and we purposely put our high value
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Speaker 22: products back in this aisle on the other aisle that
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Speaker 22: we were just looking at. So the mo is that, like,
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Speaker 22: they'll just go up to it on their order pickers.
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Speaker 23: In this case, he'll just he's supposed to be putting
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Speaker 23: away products, but like you see him take it and
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Speaker 23: it goes missing in timeframe that it's reported missing.
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Speaker 3: But still implication.
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Speaker 2: Although the video doesn't clearly show the employee stealing the products,
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Speaker 2: they do disappear after he picks them up. To the
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Speaker 2: untrained eye, this looks like an employee casually going about
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Speaker 2: his work, but with security measures in place, they can
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Speaker 2: tell he's clearly stealing. After gathering the necessary evidence, officers
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Speaker 2: proceed to confront the culprit.
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Speaker 24: Your bedge, and well, for me, sir, your banker, there's
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Speaker 24: order here, that's going to hurt us in webs.
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Speaker 3: All right, and I just before before.
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Speaker 6: We move on with anything, employement sads, he's terminated. Now hurry,
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Speaker 6: I'm back now we welcome back here.
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Speaker 3: All right. You understand that if you come.
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Speaker 14: Back here, you're charges alight, So right now, do me
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Speaker 14: favorite caring mportunity to running back.
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Speaker 6: What's coming with us.
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Speaker 17: We'll get this stuff that can care get you out
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Speaker 17: of here, and then depending what ends up happening from there,
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Speaker 17: we'll probably be able to get you back.
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Speaker 21: Here and get your car.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Luckily for the officers, this employee is not as violent
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Speaker 2: or aggressive as in the previous cases. He was quickly
19:40
Speaker 2: transported back to the station, where he underwent processing and
19:43
Speaker 2: was charged for his crime. Following this, he was escorted
19:46
Speaker 2: back to the store to retrieve his car, and before
19:48
Speaker 2: being released, the arresting officer offered him some valuable advice.
19:52
Speaker 3: All Right, man, for.
19:53
Speaker 14: Any reason, if you have to come back here, you
19:55
Speaker 14: gotta go to the station beforehand. Let us know, and
19:57
Speaker 14: we can always mitigate some of the fro around it.
20:01
Speaker 14: If for some reason, this is just me just talking
20:04
Speaker 14: to you, okay, do you have any of those products
20:06
Speaker 14: that was taken if you want to return them.
20:08
Speaker 17: He usually helps in the long run. Come to our station.
20:10
Speaker 17: Say hey, listen, they know what's going on. I'm not
20:13
Speaker 17: saying you do, don't. I'm not saying you're guilty or
20:15
Speaker 17: in a secause we don't charge that.
20:16
Speaker 11: We don't do that.
20:17
Speaker 3: That's core, but just letting you know. Okay, man, all right,
20:21
Speaker 3: no problem, man, you have a better one. Dude.
20:22
Speaker 19: I wish we met, Yeah, so do I always do.
20:26
Speaker 19: I never meet people on good terms. That's that's a problem.
20:28
Speaker 19: All right, man, You're welcome you Usually we have Facebook
20:36
Speaker 19: for messages, all right.
20:37
Speaker 2: As well as losing his job, he was charged with
20:40
Speaker 2: theft of movable property, but last we heard, his case
20:43
Speaker 2: is still ongoing. He wasn't clever enough to full security,
20:46
Speaker 2: unlike this next employee who concocted a plan to steal
20:49
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars, prompting a full blown police investigation.
20:53
Speaker 3: What money came from the store, just one hundreds of
20:55
Speaker 3: ten inside.
20:58
Speaker 2: On June sixth, two thousand and two, twenty three officers
21:01
Speaker 2: from the Broward County Sheriff's Office responded to a call
21:03
Speaker 2: at in nearby Walmart. Upon arrival, the officers were greeted
21:06
Speaker 2: by two undercover employees who had suspicion about a cashier
21:10
Speaker 2: who was reportedly stealing one thousand dollars per day from
21:12
Speaker 2: her register. Their initial investigation found some evidence, but over time,
21:16
Speaker 2: more information was uncovered that proved this situation was far
21:20
Speaker 2: more serious than anyone had initially realized.
21:26
Speaker 3: For me, so, do you guys have everything, all the informations?
21:40
Speaker 3: I have all the information. Well, it wasn't receipts okay,
21:46
Speaker 3: how much?
21:47
Speaker 6: How much cash?
21:47
Speaker 3: Is it?
21:49
Speaker 5: Around seven thousand?
21:50
Speaker 3: So I have five thousand of it documented that she
21:54
Speaker 3: headed to be a formata.
21:55
Speaker 16: Go ahead and document that to them, and I can
21:57
Speaker 16: send that to you guys.
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Speaker 20: The cashier somewhere she said it said, she's fifteen hundred today,
22:07
Speaker 20: So it's she said, it's by the smoke shown.
22:10
Speaker 3: So I don't know if it's we asked for. We did,
22:13
Speaker 3: so let's scrab her.
22:15
Speaker 5: It's in the park in another store, Yeah, the smoke shop.
22:21
Speaker 3: She's stashed there.
22:22
Speaker 2: But that's not the only surprise in store for these officers,
22:25
Speaker 2: as they would later uncover that she had been orchestrating
22:27
Speaker 2: this operation across multiple Walmart stores, siponing tens of thousands
22:31
Speaker 2: of dollars in the process.
22:34
Speaker 3: No, we are, we're asking you what money came from
22:36
Speaker 3: the store? Just ten? How about forty times? On top
22:49
Speaker 3: of this? Is that she just because yeah, it's it's
22:59
Speaker 3: just that I found that the audit.
23:12
Speaker 2: The thief's employer explains that an audit had been conducted
23:15
Speaker 2: earlier and that there had to be more money hidden
23:17
Speaker 2: away somewhere, totally up to fifteen thousand dollars. So that's
23:20
Speaker 2: when the cops bring her into an interrogation room to
23:23
Speaker 2: try and figure out what she'd done with the rest
23:25
Speaker 2: of the money and figure out exactly how she's stolen
23:27
Speaker 2: so much money in such an elaborate way.
23:30
Speaker 3: It seems like you're disappointed. Yeah, I was trying to
23:35
Speaker 3: get my life back in order, so you're trying to
23:38
Speaker 3: press fast forward on that to get the life back together.
23:42
Speaker 3: Is that exactly what happened? What happened?
23:45
Speaker 15: You do know you worked for a really big corporation, right,
23:52
Speaker 15: Is there a reason why you were like, oh, they're
23:55
Speaker 15: so big, they won't know.
23:57
Speaker 3: Is that kind of the thought process. I don't know.
24:00
Speaker 3: I just try and give my life back in order. Yeah,
24:04
Speaker 3: just trying it make it quicker than it was. Supposed to.
24:09
Speaker 2: The interrogation starts with the officer acting friendly and the
24:12
Speaker 2: girl reacting positively to it. Officers and interrogations generally want
24:16
Speaker 2: to start things off in a calm manner when they
24:18
Speaker 2: don't have enough information. She may begin by telling him
24:20
Speaker 2: the details about how she was trying to speed up
24:23
Speaker 2: the process of getting her life on track, giving the
24:25
Speaker 2: detective resources that may help back her into a corner.
24:27
Speaker 3: Later. I knew what a credit card was, but I
24:31
Speaker 3: didn't know how I functioned, so I played around with it.
24:34
Speaker 14: I was young, so I didn't know.
24:36
Speaker 3: But she made me go into debt twenty one years old.
24:40
Speaker 3: In debt? How much did did you go into? I'm
24:44
Speaker 3: that five thousand dollars? First time he took money on
24:47
Speaker 3: the end to take it?
24:49
Speaker 15: Okay, is it kind of like the same way you
24:52
Speaker 15: were doing it today, like where you kind of leave
24:54
Speaker 15: it underneath the register?
24:55
Speaker 3: Yeah? Is that exactly how we started or was it
24:58
Speaker 3: some other way? I was like that started to do
25:01
Speaker 3: it like on every shift, Yeah, every shift.
25:06
Speaker 2: She explains her significant credit card debt to try and
25:08
Speaker 2: gain some sympathy and shed some light on her situation.
25:11
Speaker 2: The officer is kind and understanding once again, it's all
25:14
Speaker 2: an act to extract as much information about the grand
25:16
Speaker 2: theft operation she was running.
25:18
Speaker 3: What did you end up doing with the other?
25:21
Speaker 10: Uh?
25:22
Speaker 15: Well, if I do them math like every other week,
25:24
Speaker 15: do four or five? So over the course of the
25:27
Speaker 15: month of May, that puts you at like ten grand.
25:32
Speaker 3: So what did you do with that?
25:33
Speaker 21: Then?
25:33
Speaker 3: I also have T Mobile.
25:35
Speaker 5: I was paying I had a job and I quick
25:38
Speaker 5: because I left my parents.
25:39
Speaker 3: House, so I was up with T Mobile. So you
25:42
Speaker 3: paid a couple of grands to T Mobile? What did
25:46
Speaker 3: you end up doing with the rest of the money?
25:48
Speaker 10: Like?
25:49
Speaker 3: Did you pay rent? You after Mama? Did you give
25:51
Speaker 3: to your boyfriend? What did you do?
25:53
Speaker 5: Mom?
25:54
Speaker 3: How much did you end up giving? A error? As you?
25:58
Speaker 20: Like?
25:59
Speaker 3: Hey? Were you? It was flowed? She did alm, don't
26:04
Speaker 3: worry about.
26:05
Speaker 2: In an open and shotcase, the officer has heard her
26:07
Speaker 2: explain her reasoning for the theft of ten thousand dollars
26:10
Speaker 2: and possibly more, but it was clear with the amount
26:12
Speaker 2: that she had stolen in such a short time that
26:14
Speaker 2: she was very unlikely to stop even after she paid
26:17
Speaker 2: off her debts. After the interrogation, the girl was arrested
26:20
Speaker 2: and charged for her crimes, but her exact conviction is unknown.
26:24
Speaker 2: Another eagle eyed loss prevention officer was responsible for catching
26:27
Speaker 2: this next employee of Walmart who had stolen thousands of
26:30
Speaker 2: dollars of goods and was caught completely off guard. Least
26:33
Speaker 2: were called to Walmart on October twenty third, twenty twenty three,
26:36
Speaker 2: where they found the suspect had already admitted her guilt
26:39
Speaker 2: and her history of shoplifting, but she also admitted to
26:42
Speaker 2: having some disturbing thoughts that might alarm the officers and
26:45
Speaker 2: change the nature of this arrest.
26:47
Speaker 3: Wow that she has done.
26:51
Speaker 20: She didn't know that she also has a guess please
26:55
Speaker 20: on targets as the guys have done. She also her
27:00
Speaker 20: that she's been homeless, that her mom picked her out
27:02
Speaker 20: and that's the reason why she.
27:03
Speaker 5: Was feeling And she also admitted that she's multiple.
27:07
Speaker 3: Times trying to keep.
27:10
Speaker 9: So I just figured I'll let you now because this
27:12
Speaker 9: also might take her cheek that it so my dad
27:16
Speaker 9: is to inform you guys.
27:20
Speaker 18: I think it's kind of like she's helding that out
27:24
Speaker 18: and she's she's doing atten statement again.
27:27
Speaker 2: It sounds like this employee is facing significant challenges in life,
27:31
Speaker 2: but resorting to theft is never justified. However, empathizing with
27:34
Speaker 2: her is about to become considerably challenging as this next
27:37
Speaker 2: piece of information comes to light.
27:39
Speaker 3: So it is sitting out a little over I'm for
27:44
Speaker 3: when first to see that, you said these two watches,
27:47
Speaker 3: and it was these three islands. So I've had many
27:53
Speaker 3: watch and watch.
27:55
Speaker 6: But this is to me right now of everything that's
27:57
Speaker 6: been taken.
28:00
Speaker 8: And do you have her camera?
28:01
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, all that, you got all the videos of everything.
28:06
Speaker 15: There was a couple where she got the items that
28:09
Speaker 15: she'd stage it back at online pickup, sit it there
28:11
Speaker 15: until the end of her ship.
28:12
Speaker 3: By the omenship, she'd go over there and crab that.
28:20
Speaker 3: So she's still a wine too. Did she got wine?
28:23
Speaker 3: She's got corona. Yeah.
28:26
Speaker 2: Well, it might have been somewhat understandable if she had
28:29
Speaker 2: been stealing food or other essentials to survive given her situation.
28:33
Speaker 2: The fact that she was stealing wine and luxury items
28:36
Speaker 2: like apple products while being homeless makes her story less
28:39
Speaker 2: credible and difficult to empathize with. Nevertheless, the officers now
28:43
Speaker 2: have all the evidence they need to confront the culprit.
28:48
Speaker 3: Carol right here, Okay, I have a situation.
28:57
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm good, asking for forgiveness.
29:04
Speaker 5: You rode this and everything on hers true.
29:12
Speaker 3: Sent up.
29:14
Speaker 2: Despite being apologetic and taking responsibility for her actions, it
29:18
Speaker 2: doesn't change the facts that she must face the consequences.
29:21
Speaker 2: She's accumulated over two thousand dollars in stolen goods, which
29:24
Speaker 2: resulted in felony charges of grand theft. She's not as
29:28
Speaker 2: clueless as this next employee, who was caught out with
29:31
Speaker 2: one of the oldest tricks in the book when her
29:33
Speaker 2: boss planted money to see if it would go missing.
29:36
Speaker 2: On June twenty sixth, twenty twenty one, a call was
29:39
Speaker 2: made to the Castlebury, Florida Police Department by an employer
29:42
Speaker 2: who wanted to report an employee for theft. When the
29:44
Speaker 2: officers arrived, the employer explains that she knew someone was
29:48
Speaker 2: stealing from her and was trying to track them down
29:50
Speaker 2: by marking her bills and recording their serial numbers. She
29:53
Speaker 2: would then leave money in the cash register to see
29:55
Speaker 2: if it would go missing, only to find the thief
29:57
Speaker 2: a seemingly clueless employee sporting a Gucci handbag.
30:02
Speaker 6: The first question is can you guess part we're here?
30:05
Speaker 8: I was accused of showing money at a party that
30:08
Speaker 8: was it. All I was doing was trumble for a tampa.
30:10
Speaker 8: I thought I started my period and I had moved
30:12
Speaker 8: this girl's bag. I only paid her back because I
30:15
Speaker 8: didn't want anything to happen. I didn't want it to
30:17
Speaker 8: be put on me, because I'm not that kind of person.
30:21
Speaker 3: Who was the She was it your manager or no?
30:24
Speaker 8: It was all at the party that I guess. She
30:28
Speaker 8: had messaged me and she said like, I saw you
30:32
Speaker 8: the one doing that. But she said like either I'm
30:35
Speaker 8: gonna like put legal.
30:37
Speaker 3: Where was this party?
30:39
Speaker 8: It was at the New Rays Events Center, Like Mary, okay.
30:44
Speaker 11: Well, appreciate it, but that's not necessarily while we're we're
30:48
Speaker 11: here because you're being accused of theft.
30:51
Speaker 3: However, the theft is not in regards to that part.
30:54
Speaker 6: It's in regards to something that's happening here to that.
30:57
Speaker 2: Ironically, this girl isn't just facing accusations of stealing from
31:00
Speaker 2: her workplace, but believes the police are therefore a separate
31:03
Speaker 2: incident where she was accused of stealing from someone at
31:05
Speaker 2: a party. She's unwittingly providing officers with additional information, making
31:10
Speaker 2: their job easier.
31:11
Speaker 3: So you have a manager.
31:15
Speaker 6: Who advises that you're not a manager.
31:18
Speaker 21: You have one of your other coworkers, the advisors, that
31:22
Speaker 21: they left a certain amount of.
31:24
Speaker 6: Dollars, very identifying marks on that, and you're the.
31:29
Speaker 3: Only person in the still okay.
31:31
Speaker 6: So she also has the seats of the opening of
31:35
Speaker 6: when the drawer was opened. What the exact time where we're.
31:39
Speaker 3: At right now is ah, I can't. I can't promise
31:45
Speaker 3: you to be good.
31:46
Speaker 6: Vote for me, and I'm sure i'lso for our same thing.
31:49
Speaker 6: Honesty is the best policy, okay, So could you tell
31:53
Speaker 6: us anything about that?
31:55
Speaker 14: I did do it.
31:58
Speaker 6: I'm having some issue with money right now.
32:03
Speaker 8: I just like bought off a new car, so.
32:05
Speaker 6: I haven't been working lately.
32:10
Speaker 3: I will admit to that.
32:11
Speaker 6: So was it just today as bad as it was today?
32:16
Speaker 16: And then I've done it in.
32:17
Speaker 8: The past before, but never like large amounts, probably like
32:23
Speaker 8: three hundred maybe.
32:24
Speaker 3: It was the most beforehand.
32:26
Speaker 13: It's in my pad.
32:27
Speaker 3: Can I do that car?
32:28
Speaker 6: Yes, sir?
32:29
Speaker 2: Once again, experiencing financial difficulties is never an excuse to steal,
32:33
Speaker 2: and it becomes even more challenging to justify her actions
32:36
Speaker 2: considering she had recently paid off a car and luxury
32:39
Speaker 2: of handbag. Although she confesses to the theft, she still
32:42
Speaker 2: thinks it's minor and just isn't aware of how bad
32:45
Speaker 2: things are about to get.
32:47
Speaker 11: Yes, I do.
32:50
Speaker 5: It's been going on. You're breaking my freaking heart.
32:54
Speaker 3: I have a documentation in my car.
32:55
Speaker 22: I wasn't prepared to turn it over because I was
32:57
Speaker 22: trying to rule it out what I was preparing for
33:00
Speaker 22: my insurance company.
33:02
Speaker 3: Okay, let's see. It's well over what she has here.
33:06
Speaker 5: I was hoping she would show it all what you
33:08
Speaker 5: took this morning, and you didn't.
33:10
Speaker 6: So no, not contentious and where was other?
33:14
Speaker 3: Where's other things?
33:15
Speaker 5: I told him?
33:15
Speaker 3: I was in that back pocket of my back, like
33:18
Speaker 3: the one with the zipper.
33:20
Speaker 15: Yeah.
33:21
Speaker 3: Is that the rest of it from today? Or? Yes? Sir?
33:26
Speaker 3: She put, she put the photograph?
33:30
Speaker 6: Is this all from this business?
33:32
Speaker 3: Yes? Sir? All right? What's your name? All right? Stand up.
33:39
Speaker 21: Right now?
33:39
Speaker 5: You're going to be placing on the rest of that's okay,
33:41
Speaker 5: who lift your hands.
33:42
Speaker 2: The owner, who didn't even think it was the girl
33:44
Speaker 2: in question, is bitterly disappointed in this situation. It is
33:48
Speaker 2: clear that these two have worked for some time, and
33:50
Speaker 2: the owner even thought she was innocent before finding out
33:53
Speaker 2: the employee was arrested. And put on probation for a year.
33:56
Speaker 2: She must also pay back twenty thousand dollars to the
33:58
Speaker 2: store she stole from. However, this next employee had a
34:01
Speaker 2: much more elaborate scheme and managed to get away with
34:04
Speaker 2: stealing thousands of dollars for several months. On September fourteenth,
34:08
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, two, officers from Charlotte County were dispatched to
34:11
Speaker 2: investigate an incident at Plato's closet. Upon arrival, the manager
34:15
Speaker 2: informs the officers that an employee had been conducting fraudulent
34:18
Speaker 2: transactions on the store's computer, purchasing non existent items and
34:21
Speaker 2: pocketing the cash. The scheme nearly went undetected until the
34:25
Speaker 2: manager noticed a significant loss in earnings. With all the
34:28
Speaker 2: necessary evidence gathered, that police proceeded to interview the suspect.
34:32
Speaker 16: I wanted to talk to you because I have video
34:34
Speaker 16: surveillans about the past couple of days while even were
34:37
Speaker 16: doing these buys, and you take these buys I see
34:40
Speaker 16: on camera taking cash, putting in your pants.
34:43
Speaker 6: Do you want to tell a little bit about that?
34:45
Speaker 5: Uh?
34:45
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've just been having some stuff that I don't
34:51
Speaker 11: want and well majority of it is Yeah, I should be.
35:00
Speaker 3: Taking a look.
35:00
Speaker 6: Where is the stuff that you brought in? Because I've
35:02
Speaker 6: watched the video surveillance it is do not bring anything
35:05
Speaker 6: in the store.
35:07
Speaker 25: The last probably, like I want to say, two weeks ago,
35:12
Speaker 25: I have been I brought her up two verses and
35:16
Speaker 25: a pair of shoes to the rest of the cart.
35:18
Speaker 3: The rest of the times I haven't, so I.
35:20
Speaker 16: Would say only twice, quite correctly, twice you've brought in
35:26
Speaker 16: actual merchandise swapped it out, yes, But the other the
35:29
Speaker 16: rest of.
35:29
Speaker 6: The times you have done these transactions, you just scam
35:33
Speaker 6: the register to think that there was a buy done. Yes, okay.
35:37
Speaker 6: How many times do you think you've done this in
35:39
Speaker 6: the past year.
35:43
Speaker 2: Here, the girl is clearly reluctant to disclose the full truth.
35:46
Speaker 2: She's aware of her wrongdoing and the extent of the
35:48
Speaker 2: damage caused, but she tries to appear as reasonable as
35:51
Speaker 2: possible to mitigate the consequences. However, the officers investigating her
35:55
Speaker 2: have seen all the evidence and are asking questions to
35:58
Speaker 2: probe her honesty, a tactic that shows just how untrustworthy
36:01
Speaker 2: she really is.
36:04
Speaker 6: How much money do you think.
36:08
Speaker 5: Thou I want to say, A thousand.
36:12
Speaker 16: Thousand, Yeah, I have all the documentation, I have paperwork
36:17
Speaker 16: dating back until January.
36:20
Speaker 6: And I see hold it and it's holding way more.
36:24
Speaker 5: Than one thousand dollars.
36:25
Speaker 6: You're doing a couple of hundred. You're doing one hundred
36:27
Speaker 6: and something dollars a day? How much you take to day?
36:29
Speaker 3: It's like, is that typically what today?
36:35
Speaker 9: Yeah?
36:35
Speaker 6: It's saying is it always over one hundred?
36:39
Speaker 3: Yeah?
36:40
Speaker 6: Would you say you've done at this time.
36:45
Speaker 3: Over one hundred? You've done? That's two thousand right there.
36:49
Speaker 3: And that's a rough vest of all right, So anything
36:51
Speaker 3: how that adds up? So where is this money?
36:54
Speaker 23: I have?
36:55
Speaker 9: It?
36:55
Speaker 3: You have?
36:56
Speaker 2: It's clear that this had been an ongoing scheme, to
37:00
Speaker 2: the extent that the suspect struggles to recall the frequency
37:03
Speaker 2: of her thefts from the storm. To prompt her memory
37:05
Speaker 2: and elicit further incriminating details, one of the officers gives
37:08
Speaker 2: her a rough ballpark estimate to get her thinking, if
37:11
Speaker 2: I were.
37:11
Speaker 6: To say sixteen thousand dollars, would that be about what
37:15
Speaker 6: it is?
37:16
Speaker 15: Yeah?
37:18
Speaker 6: Do you think you have all that sixteen thousand dollars?
37:21
Speaker 3: Yeah?
37:22
Speaker 6: Okay? And what what's what's going on?
37:25
Speaker 3: Why is it?
37:26
Speaker 5: Do you have you ever revenge trouble?
37:28
Speaker 11: Yeah? I was just living in a hard spot, right
37:31
Speaker 11: name that I would at a name, and I've been
37:36
Speaker 11: working through for a.
37:37
Speaker 25: While Andy, and I feel like.
37:44
Speaker 11: I do so much.
37:46
Speaker 6: You got your undertain.
37:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I know that's not his.
37:49
Speaker 20: Fault at all, Like she'd probably look in front of
37:54
Speaker 20: the job. But it's like I feel bad for him,
37:58
Speaker 20: Like if I.
38:01
Speaker 15: What do you think?
38:02
Speaker 3: What do you think will have in him?
38:03
Speaker 5: When you're sitting here going along when I was sixteen
38:05
Speaker 5: thoullars A.
38:07
Speaker 24: It's not fair.
38:08
Speaker 10: I shouldn't.
38:09
Speaker 3: That should not be right. That's a cool responsibility to.
38:14
Speaker 5: At whatever thing to that is it? Because he hasn't
38:17
Speaker 5: paid you?
38:18
Speaker 3: Have you been paid?
38:19
Speaker 11: Oh?
38:19
Speaker 3: I have?
38:20
Speaker 21: Have I have been paid?
38:21
Speaker 25: I know this makes when you look like a stealer,
38:24
Speaker 25: like I'm stealing n Like that's like the most thing
38:28
Speaker 25: you could probably ever steal from somebody.
38:30
Speaker 3: It probably makes me look bad.
38:32
Speaker 5: It makes me look that I steal things, but I don't.
38:35
Speaker 3: He or.
38:35
Speaker 2: She attempts to elicit sympathy from the officers, citing her
38:38
Speaker 2: challenging situation and claiming to be underpaid for her hard work,
38:41
Speaker 2: as if that could justify grand theft. She even denies
38:44
Speaker 2: being a thief insisting that her actions were merely to
38:47
Speaker 2: make ends meet. However, the officers have hurt enough and
38:50
Speaker 2: it's time to conclude this matter too.
38:54
Speaker 6: Or she wants to say something to you. Let's talk
38:56
Speaker 6: to you.
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Speaker 10: Sixteen thousand dollars you've written me off. I could be
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Speaker 10: doing good and so I'm taking out love to survive
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Speaker 10: because you stole sixteen thousand dollars from me from January.
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Speaker 3: What do you want to say?
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Speaker 21: I'm honest, so sorry.
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Speaker 24: I mean, I don't expect you.
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Speaker 6: I expect you to pay me back.
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Speaker 3: Oh I, I.
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Speaker 11: Don't expect you forget.
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Speaker 3: That. Good to you, nothing but good to you. Ohio.
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Speaker 3: It was nothing against you.
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Speaker 11: It was my personal issues, it was it was nothing
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Speaker 11: for you.
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Speaker 6: All right, I'm gonna grab your bag here if you
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Speaker 6: used to call me right, okay, do you have to
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Speaker 6: go to the part I'm not gonna put in here.
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, We're gonna walk out to walk out the front, doorkay.
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Speaker 2: The girl was charged with felony grand theft and ended
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Speaker 2: up on a five years probation, as well as being
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Speaker 2: ordered to pay back the twenty thousand dollars she stole
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Speaker 2: of This next corrupt employee wasn't just caught on camera,
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Speaker 2: but also caught red handed in front of the cops
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Speaker 2: while stealing.
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Speaker 5: I wasn't yes, you were. You put it all in
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Speaker 5: the box and you were leading with it.
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Speaker 2: On November eleventh, twenty twenty one, Athens Clark County officers
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Speaker 2: arrived at a Walmart store after security staff discovered on
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Speaker 2: surveillance cameras that an employee had been leaving her shifts
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Speaker 2: with items that she didn't pay for. Apparently it wasn't
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Speaker 2: her first time either, as she stole multiple items every
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Speaker 2: single shift. When the officer approached the suspect, he caught
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Speaker 2: her red handed in the very act of theft.
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Speaker 3: Your secret is, yeah, that was it.
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Speaker 5: I wasn't.
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Speaker 3: Yes, you were.
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Speaker 5: You put it all in the box and you were
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Speaker 5: leaving with it.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I wasn't gonna take it. I was going to go back.
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Speaker 3: So you've already taken it past the radular.
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Speaker 5: Just down for now.
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Speaker 21: I'm to text you Franco with the Athens Park County
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Speaker 21: Police Apartment. Put your hands behind the back, being super
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Speaker 21: shoplifting at this time. We're gonna go to the office
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Speaker 21: and talk about this. Up front of the store, you
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Speaker 21: went out the door with it.
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Speaker 20: I was gonna go.
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Speaker 5: You've done this several times.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about it.
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Speaker 21: You put stuff in boxes, like seven days in a
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Speaker 21: row and took it, so we'll talk about it all
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Speaker 21: a minute.
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Speaker 2: Brittany appears oblivious to the gravity of her situation and
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Speaker 2: immediately lies multiple times about going to return the items
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Speaker 2: she stole. She's about to be confronted with damning evidence
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Speaker 2: that she cannot deny.
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Speaker 5: She's she's pulled video and said, you didn't pay for
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Speaker 5: any of that. Okay, I don't even know how you
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Speaker 5: do that. You got to take them to a register.
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Speaker 3: You can't.
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Speaker 21: What do you mean online pay? There's no waiter scan
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Speaker 21: that on your phone. Yeah, you gotta do that register. Okay,
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Speaker 21: let's just go the next one.
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Speaker 5: Some of the boxes were ending, Okay, later that figure here. Well,
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Speaker 5: here's here's my problem.
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Speaker 21: If you did it today and you did the same
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Speaker 21: thing taking empty boxes out the other days, none of
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Speaker 21: those had to say on a murder helped.
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Speaker 5: Me put the name of boxes and my card the
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Speaker 5: other day. I don't know his name. They were just
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Speaker 5: empty boxes, I swear now. The mom car today. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: so when we watched back video, we're not gonna find
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Speaker 5: you putting anything in these boxes? I mean, I don't
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Speaker 5: think so.
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Speaker 2: Brittany keeps insisting that she didn't steal anything and claims
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Speaker 2: she was only taking empty boxes. She even has an
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Speaker 2: alibi ready suggesting she planned this and that this was
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Speaker 2: more than a spur of the moment decision.
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Speaker 5: You know, we're going to go back in review video.
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Speaker 21: Are we going to go back to the video and
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Speaker 21: find you putting stuff in those boxes? If you've done
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Speaker 21: it more than once?
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Speaker 3: And you can see we have great video.
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Speaker 5: She's been working on it.
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Speaker 21: Of course they haven't had time to review every video,
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Speaker 21: but all she has to do is sitting here she
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Speaker 21: needs to and she can sit all day in review video.
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Speaker 5: Are we going to find any more cases of you
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Speaker 5: doing this?
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Speaker 7: The more odd you are now the left part interview.
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Speaker 5: Because I don't want to.
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Speaker 21: I don't want to have to take a whole bunch
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Speaker 21: of arrestaurants on you that you don't know about, so
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Speaker 21: you get pulled over with your kids in the car
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Speaker 21: and get taken to jail.
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Speaker 5: Have you done this any other time besides to day
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Speaker 5: and yesterday?
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Speaker 3: I know the pillows I paid for?
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Speaker 5: How'd you pay for the pillows?
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Speaker 3: I paid for them.
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Speaker 5: I put them back there and I paid.
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Speaker 3: For them later.
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Speaker 5: Where at a register? Because that's the only way. So
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Speaker 5: you walked through a register. Box that was yesterday? Was
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Speaker 5: in this box?
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Speaker 10: Nothing?
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Speaker 5: That box in my card? Where is it in your car?
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Speaker 5: Because I just went and looked in your car in
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Speaker 5: the So why are you taking a bunch of boxes?
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Speaker 5: Because I was putting my Christmas stuff in.
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Speaker 2: After some more pressure from the detective, Britney starts to
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Speaker 2: change her story and admits to taking some items without
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Speaker 2: paying for them.
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Speaker 5: Are you still in these for Christmas presents? What's your deal?
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Speaker 5: Why are you doing it?
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Speaker 11: Is?
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Speaker 5: While I'm getting at.
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Speaker 2: Well, I understand how old are your kids?
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Speaker 5: Eight?
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Speaker 3: Six?
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Speaker 5: Well, here's what we're gonna do. Okay, you have somebody
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Speaker 5: that can take care of your kids.
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Speaker 21: Really, no, you're gonna have to, right, I call somebody
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Speaker 21: because you're gonna go to tail today because I can't
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Speaker 21: let somebody just get off who's been doing this every
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Speaker 21: single day.
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Speaker 2: Brittany was banned from the premises of the Walmart for
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Speaker 2: two years and was arrested for stealing from the store
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Speaker 2: multiple times. She was fired, but was given leniency because
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Speaker 2: of her situation as a single mother. Despite her protest
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Speaker 2: of hard times, none of the items she stole seemed
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Speaker 2: to help her family. Unfortunately, it's not known exactly what
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Speaker 2: happened to Brittany and her family, but hopefully she used
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Speaker 2: this experience of being caught red handed to learn and
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Speaker 2: to give her family a better role model.