CAUGHT RED-HANDED: Buying a $101K Tesla Fraudulently Ends in Cuffs | Bodycam Analysis

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]see the watermarks. It's missing a watermark here. Um, we contacted our loss prevention department. They say this information is correct, but from what they can see, that's not >> Yeah. So, the license is fake.

[00:00:16]>> Yeah. I mean, clearly, um, they went and they got a cashier's check. I mean, the cashier's check looks legit. I don't know what this company is because she's buying it personally under her, right? But obviously we're not going to deliver it. But because it's a fake, they did say for us to contact you guys.

[00:00:39]>> Hello.

[00:00:48]>> Hello.

[00:00:53]>> So she trying to make a purchase.

[00:01:05]you from here visiting or you know give us this I don't know if that's I think I do everything else because the cars inside just so I don't know what the deal is, but I don't know if you guys want to take that.

[00:01:51]>> It's from her government.

[00:01:54]>> On February 9th, 2026 in Miami Gardens, Florida officers responded to a Tesla dealership on a fraud complaint. A woman attempted to buy a $11,000 Model X using a counterfeit Florida driver's license and a suspicious cashier's check. This analysis sets aside the narrative and focuses on the constitutional and statutory law that governs each critical decision point.

[00:02:18]>> I want to read you something. Okay.

[00:02:20]>> Okay.

[00:02:20]>> All right. You have the right to remain silent. Having this in mind, are you willing to answer any questions?

[00:02:25]>> Okay. You you speak foreign English?

[00:02:28]>> Yes.

[00:02:31]>> Who is this person?

[00:02:33]>> This is you. Okay. Where did you get this driver's license from? Um, from government.

[00:02:39]>> What government?

[00:02:40]>> So, shipped to my home.

[00:02:42]>> It was shipped to your home in order to get Have you had a Florida driver's license before?

[00:02:47]>> No.

[00:02:48]>> Okay. So, you can't just have something shipped to your home. You have to go in person. And you were attempting to do what here?

[00:02:55]>> I want to buy a car.

[00:02:56]>> You want to buy a car? Okay. What type of car are you trying to buy?

[00:03:00]>> X.

[00:03:01]>> Model X. Tesla.

[00:03:03]>> Okay. You have a social security number?

[00:03:06]No. Where did you pick the check up from? Uh >> from the business account.

[00:03:12]>> From the business account. But what bank?

[00:03:15]>> Bank of America.

[00:03:16]>> Okay. Whose business account is it up under? Is it your name? Somebody else's name?

[00:03:21]>> Somebody.

[00:03:22]>> Okay. Who owns the company?

[00:03:24]>> Um >> since it's under a company's name, like where's this this check? They gave you that check to get a Tesla.

[00:03:31]>> Yes.

[00:03:32]>> Who who gave you the check to get a Tesla?

[00:03:35]Your who?

[00:03:36]>> My friend.

[00:03:37]>> Your friend. What's your friend's name?

[00:03:41]>> You have a phone number for him?

[00:03:43]>> You don't have a phone number for your friend?

[00:03:45]>> Please know what's going on.

[00:03:47]>> Okay. This right here, this is is not a real driver's license.

[00:03:52]>> If you got this from the government, that's what you're claiming.

[00:03:57]>> So, this is Okay. And when did you get this?

[00:04:03]uh last week.

[00:04:06]>> Last week. This is not a a real license.

[00:04:09]This is is fake as we can see. And this driver's license here, this number, it comes back to somebody that's totally different.

[00:04:20]>> Your ID so I can make it.

[00:04:23]>> Sure.

[00:04:24]>> I don't know if this is real.

[00:04:29]up. We all >> What time did she come in yesterday?

[00:04:35]>> She was having issues making a payment on that 10 grand. Uh cuz what we have you can do like ACX through the app sign in like Bank of America or like a major bank. She was having issues logging on.

[00:04:45]So what we told her was um told that you can't come with a cashier's check. We do accept that. So she obviously with the bank being closed Sunday, she ended up coming today. So uh that's why we did a little bit more digging and we finally got her ID for how she got it, but it's all her information on the ID.

[00:05:02]The DL number is the only thing that ain't right. You think use a fictitious name. Why would you wait to your real name and date B on a fake ID transaction yesterday at 4:30, but she was having an issue with getting that $10,000 cash?

[00:05:21]>> I don't know. She was trying to commit fraud, but the ID >> the ID. Yeah.

[00:05:25]>> All her information though, correct?

[00:05:26]date birth and everything.

[00:05:28]>> Well, I haven't I haven't ran her by name and date of birth, but >> ask how long she been in the United States in all that >> probably everybody up in the jail around here.

[00:05:44]>> 10 years. 10 years.

[00:05:47]10 years.

[00:05:48]>> Had a Florida license or license any other state?

[00:05:51]>> No.

[00:05:51]>> No.

[00:05:52]>> So, where did you live prior when you when you came here? You lived here where you California >> in California. You didn't have a license over there or ID card?

[00:05:59]>> I have.

[00:06:00]>> That's another thing.

[00:06:01]>> I have.

[00:06:02]>> You had a Do you have one with you or you don't?

[00:06:05]>> Um I have >> It's in your stuff. Where is it?

[00:06:09]>> It's in your bag.

[00:06:10]>> You got a purse over there or something?

[00:06:12]>> Yes. I can't drive it.

[00:06:13]>> It's a purse.

[00:06:15]>> And then you came here where vacation >> for vacation?

[00:06:19]>> Yeah.

[00:06:19]>> Then you tried to purchase a car?

[00:06:21]>> Yes.

[00:06:22]>> And you was going to drive it back?

[00:06:23]>> No. No. No.

[00:06:24]>> You going to ship it back? I think so.

[00:06:26]>> Huh?

[00:06:27]>> I think so.

[00:06:28]>> I can't hear you.

[00:06:28]>> I think so.

[00:06:29]>> So, you just want to get a better deal on it or something? I don't What you doing?

[00:06:33]>> Yeah.

[00:06:34]>> Cuz they sell Teslas in California.

[00:06:36]>> Cuz I just I just >> because of what?

[00:06:42]>> Where's the ID at in the purse? In the purse. Just tell me.

[00:06:45]>> Wallet.

[00:06:46]>> In the wallet. In the wallet. She going to get it.

[00:06:50]>> Okay. It's a total different person.

[00:07:01]>> The nose looking like the nose. I say the nose.

[00:07:13]She Chinese. That's Chinese.

[00:07:18]She She talk like she Chinese.

[00:07:21]long enough.

[00:07:23]I don't know. That black box, that's your wallet, >> huh?

[00:07:27]>> That's your wallet or that's not your wallet?

[00:07:29]>> Uh, I don't know. Where's the wallet?

[00:07:32]>> Oh, no, no, no. It's here.

[00:07:34]>> Oh, right here. You got it?

[00:07:36]>> Yeah, I got it.

[00:07:37]>> You got it.

[00:07:37]>> Okay.

[00:07:39]>> Yeah. And I have one in there. So, three in here and one in Okay. So, why does your Florida driver's license have a different name than these names here?

[00:08:06]>> Uh, that's no money.

[00:08:07]>> That's not you.

[00:08:08]>> That's my money.

[00:08:09]>> What's not yours? The Florida driver's license.

[00:08:11]>> No money.

[00:08:12]>> Okay. But you just told me you got it from the government. So, now it's not your license.

[00:08:17]>> This is yours.

[00:08:18]>> No. pool zone.

[00:08:20]>> Okay. Who zone is it?

[00:08:22]>> I don't know.

[00:08:23]>> Okay. How did you get it?

[00:08:24]>> Just someone came and then asked me to to buy the car.

[00:08:29]>> Someone did what?

[00:08:31]>> Someone give me >> Okay. Someone gave it to you?

[00:08:34]>> They can't just give it to you with your picture on it.

[00:08:37]>> Uh they put my photo.

[00:08:40]>> I know the driver.

[00:08:41]>> Yeah. This is mine.

[00:08:43]>> How did you get the the driver?

[00:08:45]>> Someone shift to me. Actually, I don't know the person.

[00:08:49]>> You don't know the person? Okay.

[00:08:50]>> It's just online.

[00:08:52]>> So, you got Okay. So, tell me the story.

[00:08:54]How did you get to get online to get it?

[00:08:56]Did you know the person or >> just someone friends? So, I don't know the person. My friend.

[00:09:02]>> And you purchased it or gave it to you or how did you get it?

[00:09:05]>> They mailed it to me.

[00:09:07]>> Okay. For free?

[00:09:09]>> No. Pay?

[00:09:09]>> You pay? How much did you pay?

[00:09:11]>> Uh, $100.

[00:09:14]>> $100.

[00:09:15]>> $100.

[00:09:16]>> Okay. And when was that?

[00:09:18]>> I think last week. Did you grab the check?

[00:09:21]>> Oh, yeah. We got it.

[00:09:22]>> Okay.

[00:09:23]>> One more. Why were you trying to purchase the Tesla with that name?

[00:09:27]>> Uh cuz I think it has the good credit.

[00:09:33]>> Because it has good credit. And you don't think you have good credit?

[00:09:36]>> Mine is 7 6 700 because I don't know how to do the lawyer. So, I don't have the good credit.

[00:09:44]>> Okay. But 700 is a good credit >> for my 67 something.

[00:09:49]>> Okay.

[00:09:56]>> You got six phones.

[00:09:57]>> Oh, >> it's a six. I know. I got one right there.

[00:10:00]>> So that's what this one right here, right?

[00:10:03]>> No, I got one right there.

[00:10:03]>> That makes seven. Three right here.

[00:10:06]>> Six.

[00:10:09]>> Oh [ __ ] You got six, right? Three.

[00:10:12]Four. Two. Well, she her check is uh valid.

[00:10:16]>> It's in her name.

[00:10:17]>> This in it's in a company's name, >> but it's a legit check.

[00:10:20]>> A legit check.

[00:10:21]>> Where did you come from? California.

[00:10:22]What day you came?

[00:10:24]>> San Francisco.

[00:10:25]>> What?

[00:10:26]>> San Francisco.

[00:10:27]>> No. What day did you get here?

[00:10:28]>> Uh 7 Friday.

[00:10:34]>> Friday.

[00:10:35]>> Friday.

[00:10:37]You stay at a hotel here or >> Yes, hotel.

[00:10:39]>> Where? Uh W South Beach.

[00:10:43]>> The W South Beach.

[00:10:44]>> Yes.

[00:10:46]>> So you wasn't leaving the lane.

[00:10:48]>> No.

[00:10:48]>> So why you walking around with your luggage?

[00:10:51]>> Because I want to change hotel. South D is so expensive.

[00:10:56]>> It's very expensive.

[00:10:58]>> It's very nice though.

[00:10:59]>> Expensive.

[00:11:00]>> Very good tasting hotel. It's >> Bank of America. Bank of America. It >> say New Orleans 794. So that got to be that one.

[00:11:07]I don't know.

[00:11:11]How you doing? Where is this company located?

[00:11:14]>> Uh, North Montana.

[00:11:16]>> That's where you from?

[00:11:17]>> No, I come from California.

[00:11:19]>> You come from California, >> correct?

[00:11:21]>> Okay. So, what So, you say they wired you the money?

[00:11:26]>> No, that's that's my my business.

[00:11:29]>> This your business?

[00:11:29]>> I go to the check. Yeah. I go to get the cash check this morning.

[00:11:34]>> And you listed as the actual owner on that. What it and it registered out of Montana. Company had registered in in Montana. So you flew out there and registered in Montana.

[00:11:42]>> No, someone I had the agent in Montana.

[00:11:45]They have >> What's the agent name?

[00:11:47]>> Hman.

[00:11:49]>> Okay. Yeah.

[00:11:52]>> So why she needed a credit? She [ __ ] this down payment.

[00:11:56]>> Damn. She going to put 10,000 down.

[00:12:00]>> 600 credit.

[00:12:01]>> Probably got some, you know, cash.

[00:12:04]Let me call Gregor, a dude. She got luggages like she's from out of town.

[00:12:10]So, do you want us to like pull all the clothing out and all that stuff and and and place it in property like that?

[00:12:15]Okay.

[00:12:16]Yeah, we got properties. So, all right.

[00:12:22]Tell them. All right. Hey, do you have anything in your luggage that will harm us or anything like that?

[00:12:29]>> Huh?

[00:12:29]>> Luggage harm us.

[00:12:31]>> Your luggage harm hurts hurt us. No.

[00:12:35]Okay.

[00:12:48]>> Oh, no.

[00:12:52]>> Uh-uh. She can't have this.

[00:12:54]>> Mhm.

[00:12:55]>> These fing with documents.

[00:12:58]She can't have none of this.

[00:13:02]Nah, dog. They got to come out. It's too much. Yeah, tell them to recall that she got fake titles. A bunch of them. Hey, S. They got to come out. She got all these fraudulent documents, man. They She can't have this >> fake title.

[00:13:16]>> She got a bunch of them for vehicles.

[00:13:18]Yeah.

[00:13:20]>> Yeah.

[00:13:20]>> It's just It's another passport.

[00:13:22]>> That's her passport. Yeah.

[00:13:23]>> I got passport.

[00:13:24]>> She got another This is her. So, I asked if she got a social security number. She told me no. So, this is probably your her real name. That's fake. That's somebody else's.

[00:13:33]>> And you might want to send somebody else, man. This lady is in possession of a whole bunch of fake stuff. She got a whole uh >> title for vehicles.

[00:13:40]>> Tell them it's uh titles for vehicles.

[00:13:42]>> How many titles?

[00:13:43]>> It's over 20.

[00:13:45]>> Oh, look. She got a whole another uh Where you at?

[00:13:48]>> You said Tell them Tell them she's transferring a lot of money around in different bank accounts.

[00:13:54]>> It's It's 38,000. 38,000.

[00:13:57]>> She got Yeah.

[00:14:01]cars in there.

[00:14:02]>> No, they blank.

[00:14:04]Yeah, >> you can fill this out.

[00:14:09]>> I can go take your car information.

[00:14:13]>> This is a no. No, dog. We cannot get this unless you go to the DMV.

[00:14:20]I see in possession of this for a Yeah, that's for state of uh California. Dog, you can't get You got to They don't issue this. I used to live in Cali. They don't to get this dog, you got to go to the DMV. She don't stole it. I'm I'mma probably swing by Bank of America, too.

[00:14:35]Cuz if all this she got all this, I don't think none of that [ __ ] belong there.

[00:14:40]>> Did you say >> it looked legit, but but it looked like she did some type of bank transfer like 38,000. Yeah, she took it out of her account. So when they do a cash check, it just came out of account, but she like right before then, >> it looked like she transferred 38,000 to that account. She getting this from somewhere cuz this guy this got sent to her.

[00:14:59]Yeah, San Francisco.

[00:15:01]>> You cannot you cannot be in possession of them type of items, man. They come from this that come from the state. You got seven phones that are on seven phones.

[00:15:12]>> Six.

[00:15:14]>> So, I have five. You sure?

[00:15:18]>> No. No.

[00:15:20]Had two in there.

[00:15:23]>> Yeah. She just did this transaction posted on 22. Check them out. 38250.

[00:15:28]>> So we got to make sure she didn't drop into somebody's account.

[00:15:31]>> Yeah, that's why I said they got to come out. This is a lot.

[00:15:33]>> He used to work in a unit.

[00:15:35]>> No, I The first issue is the Miranda adisement, the validity of the waiver, and the scope of the questioning that followed. Under the Supreme Court's 1966 decision in Miranda versus Arizona, custodial interrogation requires advisement of the right to silence and the right to counsel. The officer delivered that advisement on camera in plain language, and the subject's verbal yes constitutes a knowing and voluntary waiver. The 1984 ruling in Burkimer versus McCarti confirms the advisement must precede substantive custodial questioning, not the initial detention or routine contact. The second issue is the consent search of the luggage and the closed containers found within it.

[00:16:12]>> I went to the fraud training and all that. I I remember I was doing a fraud with the gang members. You see, the thing is, she got a $10,000 check. We don't know where that came from. I looked up the company. It's a company from Montana. She gave me the name of Ken Goldman, which is a agent that work at the company, but she say that's my business. But when I pull up all that stuff, when it pop up, she should pop up first as the owner. But she telling me uh Ken Gmer, which is a agent that worked there. That's what I seen on that site. What she doing? Nah, this car ain't going with her. This car, she was going to go back, resell it at a high value, have the documents. They were never going to be able to track that car. That car going to be long gone.

[00:16:51]That car probably getting shipped overseas. That's why she That's why she go register the car in California. She already have this stuff. She'll type it up on this and then probably go back and rest in California.

[00:17:01]>> She was getting in the container.

[00:17:03]>> Bingo. So you got to have this document to say >> to the people to the shipping company and it get shipped overseas.

[00:17:08]>> So she probably buy this car.

[00:17:11]>> Yeah. Or where she originally from.

[00:17:14]>> I don't know these in Japan. They got their own car. They do, but it's cheaper.

[00:17:18]>> They ain't got no pistol.

[00:17:19]>> They got a better one to test over there.

[00:17:22]>> The crazy part is remember this. The prices dropped on these. Remember all these sunk or whatever it is, she going to get some big money for her as a as a kid to get it picked. Take her to the dirty work.

[00:17:33]>> She living that life. She got her nails done. You can tell.

[00:17:35]>> Why you taking for her?

[00:17:36]>> I'm not. No, no. I'm not >> taking off for her. It was >> No, no, no, no, no. You said she being used. I said I don't think she being used. That's all I'm saying. I'm not letting her off the hook like you let off the hook. That's what I'm saying.

[00:17:47]>> You don't need to be used to think she she behind somebody.

[00:17:51]>> She enjoying the fruit of her. She part of the brain.

[00:17:55]>> That's all I'm trying to say. They using her to do it.

[00:17:58]>> She get paid to do it.

[00:18:00]>> She might be being traffic.

[00:18:03]>> That's what the car cost.

[00:18:05]>> Yeah.

[00:18:06]>> 1,000.

[00:18:08]This she getting charged with this the attempt. Even though she didn't go all the way through with it, she still get the charge with the fake ID and whatever they track this back to because I'm pretty sure she getting these she using she using some form of fake checks or something to deposit that money.

[00:18:22]Somebody wiring her that or whatever however she did it cuz that company is based out of Montana baby you live in California. Why? I asked her did you travel to Montana? She said no.

[00:18:31]>> Yeah. Yeah, like our last mission and when we send her the all the information like we have an email thread with them and they they said like she was like part of like a network of individual that goes around like to different Tesla location.

[00:18:41]>> Okay. It's some something not based out of Montana but she lives in California but she's actually from China.

[00:18:47]>> Yes.

[00:18:48]>> And they're not just doing Tesla. I think that she's in possession of Hey, how you doing? Good. Good.

[00:18:53]>> She's in possession of a bunch of titles.

[00:18:55]>> Well, you can come in here. Yeah.

[00:18:56]>> Yeah.

[00:18:57]>> We saw you with it. She's got the titles, right?

[00:18:59]>> Yeah, she got a lot of titles. She's trying to take it to the port.

[00:19:02]>> Bingo. So, so what they're doing is they're they're purchasing these cars.

[00:19:05][ __ ] y'all loan. Whatever y'all give her, they they're redoing them.

[00:19:09]>> And at the port, you need those uh renew. And that's that's where she >> um and then that's why the 10,000 check is legit, but it's from >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, prior to that, on the second she went to the bank, she had um like almost 40,000 wired to her.

[00:19:26]That's why it took so long because for the bank to clear it take like 5 6 days 30 days once they figure out it's fraudulent. So that's why she was moving like >> she wanted to get it quick. Yeah. She put the order in Saturday night. Tried to get it yesterday and then walk out.

[00:19:39]>> Speaking of him, he says like a network of them going around hitting Teslas.

[00:19:43]>> Uh so so what we know uh for this individual is there was three other orders >> that our LP team had already caught.

[00:19:53]>> Oh. With her alone. And they well I guess it took similar pattern so they caught those and they had canceled those orders. Right.

[00:20:00]>> Oh so they never shipped the vehicles at all.

[00:20:02]>> Right. We never shipped the vehicle and those three orders just you know it wasn't her on the identification but it was three other Asian individuals. So they figure they're connected. That's all we know.

[00:20:12]>> She follows the same kind of pattern different individual the delivery with the registrations on her different.

[00:20:19]>> So we got the detective to come out cuz at first they like cuz they just thinking about ID. But when I went through the stuff, >> I like, man, she had them in her luggage. So when I we go through that, I'm like, whoa.

[00:20:29]>> Yo, she in possession of some stuff that you you you only could get from the state.

[00:20:33]>> That's right.

[00:20:33]>> So how'd you get that?

[00:20:34]>> I have no idea. But they >> So the crazy part, I looked at the FedEx document and it came from South San Francisco, California. And the company who cut her a check is in Montana, but they service San Francisco, California.

[00:20:47]So I don't know who this can go guy is online. I don't know if he helping him out, whatever.

[00:20:52]>> Yeah. But it's like a a big company that that that uh gives money to a shell company.

[00:20:57]>> So I believe she got some form of a shell company or a fake company.

[00:21:01]>> That's kind of what it made sense.

[00:21:02]>> So now we about to call a W cuz supposedly she was standing at the W.

[00:21:05]That's why she got her bags and she was like, "Oh, it got too expensive." So I was leaving.

[00:21:09]>> I think we we figured something was up with it when we saw the internet. And then when we saw the check, that's when we really knew. We kind of figured she was either going to port or dropping to somebody.

[00:21:19]She was about to take off our flight.

[00:21:21]From what LP has given us, that was the one vehicle they were close to taking possession cuz the other ones they blocked it out.

[00:21:27]>> So, this one was the only one she was close >> that we know of. There's more. I don't know.

[00:21:32]>> It might be more cuz uh she too comfortable doing what she's doing.

[00:21:36]>> Yeah.

[00:21:36]>> Like for her to come in like that, that's comfortable.

[00:21:39]>> Now, we about to go to Bank of America to see how she >> how she got that cash.

[00:21:43]>> Yeah. Okay. cuz cuz the the amount that got sent. I'm like, man, if you send 40,000 unless you did a loan or something like that, >> that's different.

[00:21:52]>> I was going to say we just got it here, but who knows what other dealership >> potentially done similar stuff, >> man. Good catch. Over 30 documents in each one. Like it's thick.

[00:22:01]>> Um they're willing to press charges.

[00:22:03]>> Okay, perfect.

[00:22:04]>> Like right before this came out, I'm like, man, I was getting my car washed.

[00:22:10]>> I was like, oh yeah, yeah, you full of fraud, man.

[00:22:13]Hey man, good job. Good job.

[00:22:17]>> I got the very first time I dealt with it, this had to happen in um 2020. It was at the dealership, man. Cuz one of them used to be Audi if I'm not mistaken.

[00:22:25]>> It was.

[00:22:26]>> Okay. Yeah. A Audi. This dude got them with a fake Audi. It wasn't a fake Audi.

[00:22:31]Let me not say that. He rev ited to a newer model Audi and he just updated a few parts on the car. Bought it in brand new looking car. Whatever. He hit them for 75K.

[00:22:41]They took the car. When the car got to, I guess where the dealers check >> and they went up under the car, they found the actual van and they was like, "Yo, this is a 20 this is a 2018 model.

[00:22:52]Did y'all pay the guy that y'all do?" So they called, they gave me the documents.

[00:22:55]Man, dude was already out the country.

[00:22:57]>> Oh, wow.

[00:22:58]>> And I'm like, damn. How y'all y'all don't know that this was fake?

[00:23:02]>> Well, even like the ID her ID checks out. It runs as a real license.

[00:23:06]>> One of the one of the watermarkers in there, >> she said she paid $100 for it offline.

[00:23:10]No [ __ ] >> No way.

[00:23:12]>> That's why I told you I said no. The detective need to come out, man. Cuz she going she going to spill her gut. She look like, man, I don't want to do no American prison.

[00:23:21]>> For real.

[00:23:22]>> If she would have got in trouble in China, that's worse.

[00:23:24]>> Yeah, that's true. We would see her ever again.

[00:23:26]>> Yeah. They going to hide her, bro. Thank they good catch.

[00:23:31]>> I gave them a police case number.

[00:23:33]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When she came here, it just the ID, it just looks so suspicious.

[00:23:37]>> Yeah. It's clumsy. It's very and and like when I I went back there just telling her, "Oh, I'm just going to go scan it. Like our team needs it." And like when I put her against the light, I can't even see her. She like she has multiple like >> yo >> like a lot >> a lot. And they shipped it to her from San Fran. So she got a lot the state of California.

[00:23:55]>> They titled the vehicle >> titles, vehicle titles, everything.

[00:23:58]>> They were telling me our laws tell me they like they have like a whole network cuz this was in the and it's mostly like out of like China. These are all like like Chinese like they were showing us like a bunch of like pictures like even in the email thread but even out of the email thread like I was comparing the picture. Yeah. They were like this was another one that we dealt with.

[00:24:17]>> They're like yeah like yeah like here this is like another one here and it's just been getting like wild like they they literally take the customer's information place the face.

[00:24:25]>> Wow. That's what they So what what we do, we try to do a due diligence by doing a DMV check, >> right?

[00:24:30]>> But it's obviously going to show up as still valid. You know, people don't know their information has been stolen. So what they do is just they're very good at just replacing the picture, >> right, >> bro? When I seen the car, man, I'm like 101,000. Like she's >> Yeah. Okay. Her ID.

[00:24:44]>> Yeah. Yeah. We got her real ID. She's from California.

[00:24:47]>> Also from China.

[00:24:48]>> And also from China. She got a uh passport from China. She probably flew from China.

[00:24:53]>> Yeah.

[00:24:54]got situated in California. You know, they networking out of California cuz California is worse than us with fraud.

[00:25:00]>> I told my call when you got sent the email, I said, "This has got to be a whole ring of people."

[00:25:04]>> Yeah, it is. And y'all have sold her that car. Y'all sold her that car, that car going to be gone tonight. That car was going to already That car was going to be already in uh Titan >> over there. Already reven going to probably be on the commercial.

[00:25:20]>> All right, man. What business do you >> rental?

[00:25:28]All right.

[00:25:36]>> You said he's not here, but he's in China and he's helping you do that.

[00:25:40]>> So, where did y'all get the money from?

[00:25:42]Cuz cuz the account got opened in Nevada. So, who's in Nevada?

[00:25:49]So you fly all these different places.

[00:25:53]>> You like to travel. So you go all these places and you do this stuff.

[00:25:57]>> Okay. Cuz it's a lot. They got a lot of people that just did them and they that attempted you. You was just almost successful doing it. But it's No. Okay.

[00:26:06]All right.

[00:26:10]>> So your person is a real person. Yeah.

[00:26:15]>> I don't know about 15.

[00:26:21]>> Mommy, how long you was there for?

[00:26:23]>> How long you were staying for?

[00:26:25]>> Maybe few more days.

[00:26:27]>> You going to give a few more days.

[00:26:29]>> Under the 1973 holding in Schneckloth versus Bamante consent is a valid Fourth Amendment exception when voluntary under the totality of the surrounding circumstances. The state is not required to prove the subject knew of the right to refuse, only that the consent itself was uncoerced. The court extended that doctrine in 1991 in Florida versus Himeo holding that consent reaches closed containers inside the searched area.

[00:26:54]Once the subject agreed on camera to open the luggage, the documents inside fell within the scope of that consent and were lawfully seized. The third issue is whether probable cause supported the arrest at the moment officers made the decision. Under the 1964 ruling in Beck versus Ohio, probable cause is judged on the facts known to the officer at the moment of decision not in hindsight. A confirmed counterfeit license, a genuine identification bearing a different name, and inconsistent statements about the document's origin clear that threshold comfortably. The fourth issue is the charging theory under Florida law and the statutory tiers that determine the severity of each count. Florida statute section 817.034 034 defines organized fraud as a systematic ongoing course of conduct undertaken with intent to defraud where property is obtained.

[00:27:41]Property valued at $50,000 or more is a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in state prison. The targeted vehicle alone exceeded $100,000 and the recovered titles point to a pattern of conduct rather than an isolated single transaction. Florida statute section 817.568 criminalizes the willful unauthorized fraudulent use of another person's identifying information without consent.

[00:28:05]Possession of 10 or more pieces of identifying information triggers a statutory enhancement with additional thresholds at higher pecuniary benefit values. Florida statute section 3 19.33 reaches the possession and transfer of vehicle titles with intent to defraud with each blank document independently chargeable. Florida Statute Section 812.014 governs grand theft and property of $100,000 or more is elevated to a first-degree felony. Grading the encounter under the framework. The responding officers receive an A minus.

[00:28:38]Miranda was delivered cleanly. The consent search was clean and the case was preserved for detectives without any use of force. The subject receives a D as a strictly legal grade, not a moral judgment on the underlying conduct itself. She waved silence, consented to the search, and made post-advisement admissions on intent on the Shell company and on the overseas partner.

[00:28:58]Tesla loss prevention receives an A for the manual inspection of physical security features that defeated the forgery. Three practical lessons emerge from this encounter for officers and for the private sector. First, automated identity verification fails against photo substitution forgery built on stolen but real data. Human inspection of physical security features remains essential. Second, a verbal Miranda waiver in a non-native language carries the same legal weight as one given in English. Clarity and delivery protects everyone. Third, consent to search once given on camera is difficult to retract after the fact. The right to refuse exists only if affirmatively exercised.

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