When Trusted Professionals Get Caught Doing The Unthinkable

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]She's a senator? Yeah, was. Was or is currently?

[00:00:03]>> she is, I meant after this. And when I came back from lunch, there was like a student like like not sitting on her lap, but his face was like on her lap.

[00:00:14]And then He thinks that I was in the front in the store recording his daughter with my phone.

[00:00:22]That's not true. This lawyer was caught secretly filming a 12-year-old inside a Target. Minutes later, police found him nearby. And this body cam footage captures the exact moment he realized what he's done.

[00:00:35]Um, he says I'm in here in my car and like I don't know where he gets that. Okay. On December 17th, 2025, police were called to a Sierra Vista Target after a dad blocked a guy he said was filming his 12-year-old daughter.

[00:00:52]That guy, Paul Correa, Chief Civil Deputy County Attorney at Kern County, one of the top lawyers in the office.

[00:00:59]When cops showed up, Correa looked nervous, out of place, and well, his zipper told its own story while he mumbled something about holiday shopping.

[00:01:09]Hi. Hi, how are you doing? All right, how are you? Take your hands out of your pocket. Something going on in your waistband? Come out in front of your car. Sure.

[00:01:17]What's your name?

[00:01:18]My name is Paul Correa. Okay, have a seat right here.

[00:01:22]All right, proof are not necessary.

[00:01:23]Okay, well, yeah, lean up against your car. Why? Because I'm telling you to.

[00:01:28]Okay.

[00:01:28]>> Is that a better you can go have a seat in the back of my car?

[00:01:31]Because I'm the only guy here. I don't know what the hell is going on.

[00:01:33]>> sorry. So, what what's the issue today?

[00:01:36]He thinks Okay, go far from now, party is separated, but you listen to me.

[00:01:40]Well, he can give you a statement. He thinks he saw something.

[00:01:44]Okay.

[00:01:44]>> He's confused, he's angry.

[00:01:47]Um, what's he confused or angry or what does he think he saw? He thinks that I was in the front in the store recording his daughter with my phone.

[00:01:57]That's not true.

[00:01:58]It's absolutely not true. My phone I was either buying gifts for a holiday party.

[00:02:03]Maybe. I don't know. I don't know what he thinks he saw.

[00:02:05]So, what does he What what How did this transpire to now in the parking lot?

[00:02:09]People are blocking each I was sitting here calling my son to say the pizza place is closed in there. So, what do you want to eat? Okay. And then all of a sudden he's banging on the door telling me, you know, I don't know what he's just banging on the door real hard.

[00:02:25]So, you're here shopping?

[00:02:26]Yeah. Did you buy anything? Yes. What did you buy?

[00:02:30]A bunch of chocolate balls and stuff. It's for an office party tomorrow. Cool.

[00:02:37]Where do you work?

[00:02:39]I work at the Churchill County Attorney's Office. Oh, okay.

[00:02:43]What's a good telephone number for you?

[00:02:45]Are you an attorney? Are you a paralegal or is this >> Yeah, I'm the Chief Civil Deputy County Attorney. Okay.

[00:02:50]So, there's no altercation, there's no contact between you guys in the store.

[00:02:55]Um but at what point did he tell you or did you hear an allegation that he thought you were filming his daughter?

[00:03:03]He came banging on my door.

[00:03:05]Just now?

[00:03:06]I I've been sitting here for a minute like uh trying to figure out what to do about dinner for my kid. And then did you see him in the store with the daughter or I don't know who he was with.

[00:03:17]>> know.

[00:03:18]The first time The first that you hear of anything is right here at the car he's banging on your window. Yes. Okay.

[00:03:23]All right. I think I'll hang up on my partner uh Officer Thompson real quick.

[00:03:26]Let me go talk to him and get his side of the story. Obviously, until we're done here you're not free to go. We'll figure out There's no physical altercation between you and him or anything in the parking lot here. It's just he's banging >> I tried to close my door and he he prevented me from closing my door and told me I was breaking the law.

[00:03:43]Okay. Well, I'll go talk to him.

[00:03:44]>> he pulled my door open. He's breaking the law. If I had a firearm my firearm would be right now I would have shot the guy.

[00:03:51]Upon a deeper investigation, it got more disturbing. Store surveillance showed Correa deliberately positioning his phone to record multiple young girls, not just one. Officers later discovered sustained movement in his car consistent with him washing the footage immediately after. Investigators also believe he attempted to delete evidence once police became involved. With all this, of course, [music] he was fired immediately and charged with sexual harassment, public sexual indecency, and evidence tampering. Turns out being a county lawyer doesn't give you a pass for being an unsolicited cameraman. But while this lawyer clearly needed some lessons on the law, this doctor forgot her oath after a few glasses and almost took her husband's life.

[00:04:35]>> How did How did it happen? She hit me in the head. With what?

[00:04:39]>> With her hands.

[00:04:40]>> Yeah. So like a punch, a slap.

[00:04:45]At a local hotel in Marco Island, Florida, police were called to room 15 after the hotel manager reported complaints from neighbors that there were concerning noises coming from one of the rooms, almost as if someone was being attacked. When officers arrived, the husband met them at the door with a visible injury on his forehead [music] and a story about his doctor wife trying to hurt him.

[00:05:05]>> I'm not saying that I'm not saying that I'm not saying Hello. Hey, where's room 15?

[00:05:11]This one. Same.

[00:05:13]Have a great night. Hi.

[00:05:15]Hello.

[00:05:17]Hey sir, how's it going?

[00:05:20]Want to step out for me so we can talk?

[00:05:27]If you could keep your hands out of your pocket for me. Thanks. You're fine. If you could just hold it open. Yes, sir.

[00:05:32]So what's going on, sir?

[00:05:35]Nothing new. Hm?

[00:05:37]Nothing.

[00:05:38]Nothing. You need a password?

[00:05:40]You need a password?

[00:05:43]We got complaints on you guys.

[00:05:45]>> It's all good. Okay. It's all good.

[00:05:46]Oh, you're the one who called. Okay.

[00:05:49]So, what happened?

[00:05:51]And my head is hurting. It's Yeah. You need medical attention? right here. You can feel it right here. So, this is not the first time it's happened? No.

[00:05:58]Okay. You guys married? Is it your girlfriend? Married? You guys have kids together or not? No. How long you guys been married for?

[00:06:05]Married in 4/27/13.

[00:06:07]Okay.

[00:06:08]Almost Almost 10 years? And then remarried in August of '21. Okay.

[00:06:14]You guys live together now or are you two in it? Yes. Okay.

[00:06:20]So, when she was already in the room when you got here?

[00:06:23]I was here by myself.

[00:06:24]Then she came in? I guess. Okay. And what happened then? After she came in?

[00:06:29]She said I'm in the face again. So, I'm right here and then I have video of it if you want to see it. No, get it right now. I'm just waiting for my partner also to get here.

[00:06:40]Hey, ma'am.

[00:06:41]Ma'am.

[00:06:43]Ma'am.

[00:06:50]Hey, ma'am.

[00:06:52]Can you just open your hand for me? I don't know what's inside your hand.

[00:06:54]Oh, it's a A lighter? All right, you can just place it on the bed.

[00:07:00]You want to at least sit down on the bed so you can speak with me?

[00:07:05]So, what's going on? What happened tonight? Um I am just Nothing.

[00:07:17]I'm just here.

[00:07:19]You're what? I am just I am doing nothing, sir.

[00:07:24]Well, what happened? I'm not like I told your husband, I'm not here for no reason. Nick, sir, I'm just I'm just here. I'm just I'm just I'm just here, sir. I'm just We're just We're just trying to buy some property. We're in Islamorada. We're from We're just trying to buy some property. And um I work My husband just gets a little irrational and he's He's a little uh I'm a retired um doctor. He's a He He works in um Uh How long have you guys been married? 15 years.

[00:08:04]>> 15 years? Yeah. You guys have any kids together or not? Uh no. No. Uh no. I'm a retired doctor, so yeah. Uh so you know so While she couldn't process how the cops were in her house, her mind had to make a pretty lame excuse for why the TV was broken. No. I'm just >> So what happened to the TV?

[00:08:23]I was doing yoga.

[00:08:26]I All right. Just Just give me a second.

[00:08:28]>> I was just doing that. I want my Texas deal. I I was doing that. I did that and Huh?

[00:08:43]It went like that and I and I kicked it, so Okay.

[00:08:46]>> [laughter] >> And I can't I I do yoga, so I accidentally kicked this one. Yeah.

[00:08:53]All right. If I can just see your hands.

[00:09:00]Take me back to the car. All right. You have ID on you?

[00:09:03]My ID is in um Yeah, I don't have any my ID.

[00:09:08]My I don't have any ID on me right now.

[00:09:12]>> [clears throat] >> It's at my friend's house. No.

[00:09:15]Top of things. All right, thanks.

[00:09:18]If I can just get your name and date of birth.

[00:09:22]I'm not going to give you my name and I Yeah.

[00:09:26]You're not going to give me your name and date of birth?

[00:09:28]All right. We can just turn around for me, please. Why am I getting Why? I'm just detaining you for now since you don't want to give me your name. We have to figure out what your name is. If you can just turn around for me.

[00:09:36]Why?

[00:09:38]Cuz we're trying to figure out what happened today. When the officers realized that they had just hit a wall with her, they decided to question the husband a little more, who calmly mentioned that his wife struggled with some mental issues and was currently off her meds. Talk to me.

[00:09:52]What's going on?

[00:09:53]I know you spoke to him already, so I'm just trying to I mean, what, man?

[00:09:58]My wife's, you know, bipolar one, manic. Um, she's, you know, on supposed to be on meds. Okay. And uh she gets crazy, so Okay. So and um when she goes to jail, so Okay. Were you guys arguing? Not at all.

[00:10:17]Not at all. Today I came I went to the pool, I did my conference calls, I came back, she left, she came back. My head is [ __ ] uh Your head? You can feel it right here. I have a knot right there on the back of Yeah.

[00:10:31]Okay. video.

[00:10:33]She broke the TV, she broke my computer, she broke my phone.

[00:10:36]With the with the head, how did that how did it happen? She hit me in the head.

[00:10:40]With what? With her hands? So like a punch, a slap?

[00:10:47]What hand was Was she facing you this way? Yes, sir. What hand she hit you with? Right hand. With the right hand?

[00:10:52]Yes, sir. So she punched you like this thing?

[00:10:54]>> Yeah. Yes, sir, multiple times.

[00:10:55]>> Okay.

[00:10:56]She broke my phone, you know.

[00:10:58]And then what she did to the phone? I mean, this is stuff amazing. I can't even look at the phone. Things escalated when the officers got back to inspect Michelle, and she realized she was being detained. This brought her aggressiveness into full view. My knuckles aren't red. Okay. How do My knuckles aren't red.

[00:11:14]>> That knuckle is red.

[00:11:15]>> No, my knuckles are >> And you have some marks there. These these knuckles aren't red. No, these knuckles aren't red. Okay. These knuckles aren't red.

[00:11:23]These knuckles aren't red. These knuckles aren't You know what? These knuckles aren't red.

[00:11:27]>> Okay.

[00:11:28]You know what? These knuckles aren't red. These knuckles aren't red.

[00:11:31]>> So tell me what happened here today? No, the Ma'am, put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back.

[00:11:35]No, no, no. Put your hands behind your back.

[00:11:37]>> The garbage is No.

[00:11:39]No, the garbage is Just Just relax for now, okay? No, no. Just relax for now.

[00:11:44]The garbage is always outside.

[00:11:47]The garbage is always outside.

[00:11:52]You just provided me with your false name, okay? You gave me a wrong name.

[00:11:56]That's a crime.

[00:11:57]Okay? Have a seat.

[00:12:00]Are you going to shoot me again, too?

[00:12:01]Ma'am, please have a seat.

[00:12:02]>> to shoot me again, too? You can't kill me.

[00:12:03]>> Ma'am, have a seat.

[00:12:04]>> Are you going to shoot me again, too?

[00:12:05]You can't kill me. You're going to shoot me. You're going to [ __ ] shoot me.

[00:12:07]Have a seat, ma'am.

[00:12:08]>> to [ __ ] shoot me? You're going to Have a seat. You're going to [ __ ] shoot me. Shoot me. You're going to [ __ ] Come on. Don't No, no. Come on. Let's go. No. Come on.

[00:12:18]Do you have a car? Let's go.

[00:12:20]My car or your car? Oh, my god. My car is in the front. Yours is in the front.

[00:12:23]You can pull over here. Come on.

[00:12:25]Ma'am, keep going.

[00:12:27]She was charged with domestic battery and giving false information. Meanwhile, hundreds of feet away, a pilot entrusted with over 800 passengers was stopped mid-takeoff, drunk and ready to fly. And he still had to deny it.

[00:12:43]Yep.

[00:12:44]Would you be willing to perform a field sobriety with me right now? No.

[00:12:48]Why not?

[00:12:49]There's no need. Well, I can smell an odor consistent with an alcoholic beverage.

[00:12:55]Oh, sorry. Please.

[00:12:59]What is that? My wallet. Imagine going to the airport to take a flight and your pilot comes smelling and almost leaking booze. That's what happened in the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport when a TSA officer and a few passengers smelled alcohol on a Southwest Airlines pilot passing through security. Police found him in the cockpit mid-flight prep about to fly to Chicago.

[00:13:21]>> [music] >> Good morning.

[00:13:23]Good morning.

[00:13:29]>> Good morning, sir.

[00:13:32]Thank you. Yeah. You said what?

[00:13:35]You said what flavor? You said what? You said what flavor?

[00:13:44]Good morning, sir. Morning. Hawaii. You doing okay? Yeah. Fine.

[00:13:48]When was the last time you had something to drink? Last night.

[00:13:51]And about how many hours ago?

[00:13:53]Uh like 10 hours ago. Okay. At least.

[00:13:56]He admitted to having a few beers about 10 hours earlier, but insisted he was fit to fly. However, the signs of impairment became hard to ignore.

[00:14:05]Slurred speech, glassy eyes, and a heavy smell of alcohol, which he conveniently tried to blame on nicotine gum.

[00:14:14]How many drinks did you have?

[00:14:16]A few beers. Sir?

[00:14:18]Define a few beers.

[00:14:20]A few beers.

[00:14:21]Define a few beers. Like three. Okay.

[00:14:25]There's no need. Well, I can smell an odor consistent with an alcoholic beverage.

[00:14:31]Oh, sorry.

[00:14:31]>> Okay. Please.

[00:14:35]What is that? Rolaids.

[00:14:37]Do you have any fresh ones that haven't been in your mouth?

[00:14:39]>> Yeah.

[00:14:40]I'm afraid not, sir.

[00:14:43]After this, the officers decided to run him through field sobriety tests right there on the jetway, which the pilot ultimately failed. Okay. So, all I need you to do is the tip of my pen right here, this little white tip.

[00:14:55]I'm going to move it back and forth. I need you to follow it with your eyes.

[00:14:58]Just your eyes only.

[00:15:00]Do you understand that? Yeah. You don't have any issues doing that for me? Okay.

[00:15:04]So, just pay attention to the tip of this pen and look back and forth.

[00:15:16]Three.

[00:15:17]Four.

[00:15:18]Five.

[00:15:20]Six.

[00:15:21]Seven.

[00:15:22]Eight.

[00:15:23]Nine.

[00:15:29]>> Just do me a favor and just hang out really quick. Here's a minute back. I just got to go talk to them for a minute, okay?

[00:15:40]Yeah.

[00:15:43]I saw it, yeah, the mistake. I didn't really see it in the walking turn.

[00:15:47]Um but I definitely saw the mistake. So Um So, my issue is is I'm trained in standardized field sobriety, and you've exhibited strong signs, and even after speaking with your first pilot, like the issue is would you agree to a blood draw to test your blood alcohol content?

[00:16:05]>> Okay. Well, the issue is is when you agreed to the field sobriety, you exhibited the symptoms. If you're refusing to a blood draw, that's that's DUI less safe for the willful intention of operating a commercial aircraft.

[00:16:17]Seriously? Yes, sir. How did I fail?

[00:16:19]Did everything.

[00:16:21]The signs that you exhibited during those three tests, I'm able to articulate based off those and the odor coming off of your person.

[00:16:30]It's very consistent with DUI.

[00:16:34]You've already agreed that you did not want to participate in the blood draw.

[00:16:38]So, because of that, I have now I'm going to detain you. I guess as long as you just continue to be cool with things. You're cool?

[00:16:44]>> Okay.

[00:16:45]Yeah. Can you just step over here real quick?

[00:16:58]If you just want to put it up there with your ID and everything, I'll be all in for a little baggie for you.

[00:17:07]So, you know, just stand facing away from me, all right? Okay. Before you sit up just mention your feet are facing me, palms up.

[00:17:19]Very >> The pilot was arrested for operating an aircraft while intoxicated. The FFA eventually pulled his certification, ending a career that almost became a tragedy. If endangering the lives of everyone in your plane sounds terrible, this next teacher decided to use her position to take advantage of her younger male students. And then when I came back from lunch, there was like a student like like not sitting on her lap, but his face was like on her lap.

[00:17:52]Taking your kids to [music] school shouldn't come with assault concerns.

[00:17:55]However, in early 2025, multiple students at Horizon Academy reported a scene that some students found strange.

[00:18:02]24-year-old substitute teacher Diane Lee Torres was at her desk, while a 14-year-old student rested his head in her lap. While the student and Torres initially tried to brush it off as him just being tired or having a headache, school administrators and police felt something was off. So, they decided to question the students, and some of them had a lot to say about it. So, um some other kids have come to us and told us that they saw some things that were like a little odd for um the classroom.

[00:18:35]Can you um share what you saw happening in the classroom today? I went in there, everything was normal, and I went to lunch, came back, and then when I came back from lunch, there was like a student like like not sitting on her lap, but his face was like on her lap.

[00:18:53]And then I didn't like mind it like cuz I I wanted to do my work.

[00:18:58]Like she could deal with that. And then And [snorts] then when I left And then when I came back from on my way home >> [music] >> So, I went to I was in there with another person, and And I saw the same thing again.

[00:19:16]Do you know what that kid's name is? No, ma'am.

[00:19:19]You ever seen him before? I've seen him at lunch a few times. He has sat in front of me a few times.

[00:19:25]Do you know any classes that he Is he her kid? Do you know? No, ma'am. I don't know any of that. Okay.

[00:19:31]Um Is he in either of the classes that you have with her? Uh no, sir. Okay. So, he didn't You You've never seen him in those classes with you before? No, sir.

[00:19:38]Okay.

[00:19:39]>> [snorts] >> Well, I need you to write down what you just told me. Okay?

[00:19:43]Um you're allowed to use names. You're allowed to put like any details. There's no rules, okay? Um you can sit over there and you can fill it out for me, okay? And then whatever you say here, we obviously won't share with anybody, okay?

[00:19:56]>> Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you.

[00:19:58]When detectives first talked to the boy, he was incredibly defensive of Torres, insisting nothing weird was happening.

[00:20:05]He was clearly trying to protect her, unaware that he was slowly exposing himself.

[00:20:11]Deputy Rafferty, I don't know if you've seen me around.

[00:20:13]I'm sure you have. So, um tell me Tell me what's going on.

[00:20:20]Well, to be honest, low-key, I think all of her seventh period just hates her.

[00:20:25]I guess my question is why why do you think that you're in here talking to us right now? Cuz you're not in any trouble. I want you to know that. You're not in trouble.

[00:20:31]Um we're just trying to make sure >> I'm already filled in on that situation.

[00:20:34]You don't got to Okay. What What What's the situation? Well, uh let's see.

[00:20:39]My other friend told me that uh apparently she's getting like told that somebody sat in her lap or something.

[00:20:45]Okay. Mhm.

[00:20:47]Was that you? No. Or Okay, so cuz somebody showed us you know, a video.

[00:20:54]And it it kind of looks like you. So, what is What is going on? I didn't sit in her lap.

[00:20:58]>> I I I wasn't saying sitting, but your head was there.

[00:21:01]I Yeah, I was laying down, but like nothing weird is going on, man.

[00:21:05]I'm just going to be completely honest.

[00:21:07]Nothing really going on. How often do you have her class?

[00:21:11]Like one period. Okay.

[00:21:14]It's my fault though. I made a fake pass somewhere in the school. Got you.

[00:21:19]How old are you?

[00:21:21]Have you ever talked to her outside of school? Well, I mean on Discord obviously, but >> Yeah, but not not like that. You never met her outside of school?

[00:21:28]>> No, no. Okay.

[00:21:29]You ever been to her house? No. Man, you're trying to make her seem like a pedo. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. She's really not. I just They're questions I have to ask. She's got like a girlfriend and all.

[00:21:39]If you want me to be serious, she's not doing anything weird. Okay. When his grandfather gave permission to search his phone, everything became more disturbing. A year's worth of explicit Discord messages, photos, and conversations. So, the first thing I was going to ask and so, how much of what you know is going on? Like Well, I know what's Well, my daughter just told me that a teacher is playing games with him.

[00:22:05]And you guys think that he that she was trying to groom him or some crap like that. Right. So, That's all I heard from my daughter. That's exactly what I know about what's going on. So, I'll give you the the the basic rundown of what we have. So, several students reported that they walked into a classroom and they saw him with his head laying in the lap of a 25-year-old substitute teacher and she was massaging his head.

[00:22:30]Um he was in that classroom all day. He never changed class periods and he doesn't even have that class period.

[00:22:38]Uh he was he was called in there specifically or went there specifically for her.

[00:22:43]But this is not you know my kid. Right.

[00:22:46]Yeah.

[00:22:46]>> He's playing with an adult online. He knows better. Right.

[00:22:49]>> like I'm like a computer geek and I don't want to go through his computer like a [ __ ] maniac. Right. So, that brings me >> say is if I find stuff on there with his room on it, should I keep it? Well, that that brings me to the next point. So, I just talked to I'm obviously writing up a case um and it's going to be forwarded to our sex crimes division.

[00:23:06]Uh and the the detective told me to ask you if you guys are willing for us to um collect the phone his phone and um do a consent to search form uh where they will open the Discord and see what they can find. Okay.

[00:23:22]When confronted, Torres admitted to meeting up with him at least three times at hiking trails and in her car. While she initially tried to claim they only talked, she eventually admitted to doing other things as well. The messages from Discord, stuff like that.

[00:23:36]>> 100% And I know you guys are talking about like hickeys, stuff like that. Tell me about those. Um those are mainly just us No, we go back and forth and talk about the ideas of it. Honestly, he's giving me some, obviously I'm giving him some, which is why I mentioned the neck part.

[00:23:49]>> Yeah. Okay, so that's what you're talking about the neck.

[00:23:52]Yeah, like Okay.

[00:23:54]Those are mainly like the thing. Okay.

[00:23:56]Mhm. How many times have you guys hung out?

[00:23:59]Probably once or twice. I don't know if I sent him one or two. I don't remember what the contents are, but I know I sent him. Okay. What would What would be in there like normally? Um If you can guess what you have what you have said to him in a video.

[00:24:09]>> Probably the same thing, same content.

[00:24:11]Okay. So, Okay. Have you sent him videos of you mad? Mhm. Okay. Has he sent anything like that back to you? Mhm.

[00:24:18]>> [clears throat] >> Not any videos. Okay. So, you don't have any videos on your phone?

[00:24:22]>> No, not at all.

[00:24:23]Okay. And all this started within the last month? I don't know. You know, probably I guess I do have the Discord messages and stuff, so you can see that we talked about like begging, which is just essentially We just made mad jokes about him half the time. It's just a lot of I'm going to beg you. Oh, okay, bet. I'm going to beg you. Oh, okay, bet. That's basically what has actually happened in that sense. Okay. We like We like talk about it, but I'm just like it's like very jokingly. Like he knows there's a fine line, so Got you. Okay.

[00:24:49]What started as a report about a student resting his head on a teacher's lap revealed over a year of exploitation.

[00:24:57]Torres was arrested and held without bond at the Marion County Jail, and the case serves as a dark example of why those initial small red flags are taken so seriously by school officials. The next case involves a senator supposed to uphold the law who instead broke into her stepmom's house and somehow thought showing up fully dressed made it somehow okay. All right, so right now you're under arrest for burglary. Okay?

[00:25:26]Even if I didn't take anything? You broke broke into the house with an intent to commit a commit a crime, that's burglary. I mean, you're definitely dressed for it, and I understand your situation, but you still can't In the early hours of April 22nd, 2024, a woman named [music] Carol called 911 in a panic claiming she had tripped over an intruder in her dark basement in Becker County, Minnesota. When the police arrived and cleared the house, they found Nicole Mitchell, a Minnesota State Senator, hiding under the stairs dressed in all black. I called 911.

[00:25:59]Somebody broke into my house.

[00:26:01]He just ran down into my basement. Did you get a look at him at all?

[00:26:05]No, it was completely dark. I tripped over him. He was on the floor next to my bed.

[00:26:11]He ran downstairs into my basement.

[00:26:14]Okay. Can you hear him breaking out the window in the basement? I'm not hearing anything right now. Okay. There's a basement a drop window that can crank open. I don't No.

[00:26:26]Please just get here. I'll stay on the line with you. Don't worry. I have officers en route right now. If you hear anything, just let me know what's going on, okay? Are you armed?

[00:26:34]I have a little steak knife in my hand right now. Steak knife, okay.

[00:26:40]All right.

[00:26:41]I don't know where they could have I don't see any um um my yard lights haven't come on outside or anything, you know, it's the motion light in the back right? Did you notice any vehicles or anything like that?

[00:26:55]No. No, I haven't.

[00:26:57]Okay, am I speaking with Carol?

[00:26:59]Yes. I don't know what the hell's going on.

[00:27:02]My god, no.

[00:27:03]Do you hear anything at all?

[00:27:05]No. Is that There's police?

[00:27:08]There's an officer that just came outside your residence, yeah. He just came out there.

[00:27:12]Okay.

[00:27:15]Is he outside or inside? He ran down here.

[00:27:17]Okay. I'll go down there. You stay back here. Okay.

[00:27:24]Police department!

[00:27:26]Make yourself known!

[00:27:31]Police department!

[00:27:33]Make yourself known!

[00:27:37]37, McGregor, I got a little motion underneath the stairs in the house.

[00:27:41]Sounds like he's trying to get outside to the back to the north of the house.

[00:27:45]Police department, make yourself known!

[00:27:51]Still in the house. A lot of motion underneath the stairs. Sounds like he's trying to get outside through a window.

[00:27:59]Get on the ground. Okay.

[00:28:02]Get on the ground.

[00:28:04]I'll go. You stay back. Stay back. Stay back.

[00:28:07]Hands behind your back. Okay.

[00:28:18]Carol?

[00:28:21]Yeah?

[00:28:22]It's Nicole.

[00:28:24]It's Nicole?

[00:28:26]I was just trying to get a couple of my dad's things because he wouldn't talk to me anymore.

[00:28:31]She also stole documents out of the house. She's my stepdaughter. I didn't steal any documents. How could I steal documents?

[00:28:39]God, I'm sick.

[00:28:41]Why was she squatting down there by my bed?

[00:28:44]Who is this to you?

[00:28:46]Pardon? Who is this to you? She's my stepdaughter. Stepdaughter? She's also a Minnesota senator. She lives in the Twin Cities. Mitchell explained that she was there to retrieve her late father's belongings, but somehow that changed to her suggesting that her stepmom was just suffering from Alzheimer's and was becoming paranoid. Anything else in here? No, I don't think so. No, sir. All right. I She's she's going to do what she's going to do. Okay. My dad died last year.

[00:29:15]She's paranoid. Well, now she's really paranoid, but um can I just [snorts] grab my shoes? Where are your shoes at?

[00:29:21]Right just under the thing. Has she done this before?

[00:29:25]Not that, but she has um it insisted that um my son should get nothing. She should get everything on that side. Where'd she come in at? Getting into my basement.

[00:29:36]>> I don't have a clue.

[00:29:39]You don't know? No. Any doors that are open? Does she have keys?

[00:29:44]Those six. Six on there. Any windows open that you don't know of? The kitties haven't run off and stuff.

[00:29:51]Okay, any windows in the basement? To the basement? Unless the one that I think she must have come in.

[00:29:57]Where's that window at?

[00:30:00]I'm obviously not good at this.

[00:30:02]Um All right, let's go out the front door here.

[00:30:09]Okay.

[00:30:11]I'm sorry. I We're leaving. I appreciate Yeah, we'll go to my car here quick.

[00:30:14]I want you to sit down.

[00:30:15]>> Yeah.

[00:30:18]Yeah, we made it.

[00:30:20]That window? The one over here. Yeah.

[00:30:22]Okay. This is her bag?

[00:30:24]Looks like it.

[00:30:25]I don't know.

[00:30:27]Yeah, stuck in the window. Do you want me to go out and try to get it out?

[00:30:30]Yeah.

[00:30:31]I'll take a picture of it before I touch it. Something woke me up.

[00:30:35]Did you hear something? I something woke me up. Okay. I stepped on the side of the bed and there was a body laying on the floor dressed like Okay.

[00:30:59]Do you know what she'd be here for?

[00:31:01]Paperwork, bank account numbers, I have no idea what she was doing. Okay. I also noticed a hammer on the steps. Do you know when I asked what the hell was going on?

[00:31:09]3705, where did you say that hammer was?

[00:31:11]Steps, last step before the door.

[00:31:14]Mitchell thought to keep the body cam footage private and changed her story when posting on her Facebook, claiming it was a welfare check. The point of checking and not rallying Carol up and not having her get more paranoid um would have been kind of futile if one of the neighbors would have seen me and told her, "Hey, we saw Nicole." However, the jury was not buying this and found her guilty of first-degree burglary in 2025. Count one, we the jury find the defendant Nicole Lynn Mitchell guilty of the charge of burglary in the first degree.

[00:31:50]As to count two, we the jury find the defendant Nicole Lynn Mitchell guilty of the charge of possession of burglary or theft tools. She finally resigned from the Senate in 2025 after resisting calls for over a year, marking a sharp fall from grace for a politician whose [music] family inheritance dispute ended in a felony conviction.