One License Plate Alert Changed Everything

[00:00:00]Second, 2026, around 7:01 a.m., Westfield police were alerted by a Flock license plate reader about a stolen gray 2021 Dodge Challenger entering the area near East South Avenue and Windsor Avenue. Officer Donald Picciano soon spotted the vehicle parked outside a Walgreens on East North Avenue and immediately made contact with the driver, 28-year-old Deara Davis. Davis was ordered out of the car and claimed she had no idea the vehicle was stolen.

[00:00:31]>> What is she?

[00:00:32]Is that a rental?

[00:00:36]>> Step out of the car, ma'am.

[00:00:39]>> Got it, what?

[00:00:40]>> Just put your hands on the car.

[00:00:42]Reason I'm doing this car is coming back stolen, okay?

[00:00:44]>> This car?

[00:00:45]>> Yes.

[00:00:46]>> I don't understand how.

[00:00:47]>> Yeah, it's coming back stolen right now.

[00:00:49]>> Okay.

[00:00:49]>> All right, keep your hands on the car.

[00:00:52]All right, I'm going to put you in handcuffs, doesn't mean you're under arrest, all right?

[00:00:55]>> Okay.

[00:00:56]>> We're just going to sort this out.

[00:00:58]Any reason why you think it would be stolen?

[00:01:01]>> No.

[00:01:02]>> No? Okay, all right.

[00:01:03]I don't want to touch your hair.

[00:01:10]All right, two of them code four, I got one detained, sorting this out.

[00:01:16]All right, did you Is this a rental?

[00:01:19]>> No, this is my >> This is your car?

[00:01:21]>> This is my my worker's car.

[00:01:25]>> I'm sorry. One more time?

[00:01:27]>> This is my worker's car.

[00:01:28]>> Worker's car? Okay, all right, no problem. So, you have no reason why it's coming back stolen?

[00:01:32]>> Mhm.

[00:01:33]>> Huh. Yeah, it's coming Just call out the plate, just confirm everything.

[00:01:37]Okay.

[00:01:38]All right, so like I said, you came into town, it hit on our license plate readers that this car is coming back stolen with your license plate. Um, so we'll sort this out and if it's a big misunderstanding, you'll be free to go.

[00:01:48]>> Okay.

[00:01:48]>> All right.

[00:01:52]I don't want to break your All right.

[00:01:57]No weapons in the vehicle, man?

[00:01:59]>> No.

[00:01:59]>> No.

[00:02:00]>> All right.

[00:02:00]>> No problem.

[00:02:02]Just come right over here.

[00:02:06]>> The way she looking, she looking like um in a way she she looking like she know something but you know she don't want to say nothing. I mean, you can't really say nothing in a situation like that, but but I don't know, just her facial expression, just what she the way she talking, the way she looking, uh she looks like like she's thinking about something.

[00:02:37]Like she knows something.

[00:02:39]Kind of curious to see um how this whole thing plays out.

[00:02:44]>> Ma'am, you got any drugs on you? Just put that down.

[00:02:47]All right, my dear. Uh you have no weapons, nothing sharp, nothing that's going to stick me, stab me, nothing like that?

[00:02:51]>> No.

[00:02:52]>> All right. In terms of your sweatshirt, is there any pockets in your sweatshirt?

[00:02:55]>> They're just official sweatpants. This pocket right here.

[00:02:57]>> Is there a pocket there? Okay.

[00:02:59]All right. So, I'm just going to pat you down with the back of my hand, okay?

[00:03:07]What's in this pocket right here? Is that your phone?

[00:03:08]>> Yeah.

[00:03:09]>> Okay.

[00:03:11]And then it's up top, you said?

[00:03:13]Can you reach the other one?

[00:03:15]Can you reach this pocket at all?

[00:03:16]Nothing in there? Okay.

[00:03:18]>> Is this your client's car and you're just driving it?

[00:03:20]>> Yeah, this is my client's car that I got to go I'm going back over there.

[00:03:24]>> Okay.

[00:03:24]>> I'm going back over Thanks a lot.

[00:03:25]>> What do you do for work?

[00:03:26]>> Home health aid.

[00:03:27]>> Home health aid? Okay. All right. No problem.

[00:03:36]Hey.

[00:03:38]Excuse me. So, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney.

[00:03:44]If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed for you.

[00:03:46]Do you understand these rights?

[00:03:47]>> Yeah. I have my phone here.

[00:03:49]>> Excuse me?

[00:03:50]>> It's fine.

[00:03:51]>> All right, I got you. I pulled you out of the car, and you in handcuffs cuz this car was going back stolen. Okay.

[00:03:56]Whether you not whether you know it or not, doesn't matter. You're in possession of a stolen vehicle right now. All right?

[00:04:01]>> Okay.

[00:04:02]>> Like I said, if it's a big misunderstanding, you're on your way. If not, we'll talk about it.

[00:04:07]>> Okay.

[00:04:08]>> All right?

[00:04:09]So you say you're not going to you want to start tossing?

[00:04:11]>> However, dispatch later confirmed it had been reported stolen just hours earlier by the Martin County Sheriff's Office.

[00:04:18]After backup units arrived, investigators searched the vehicle, verified it was stolen, and placed Davis under arrest.

[00:04:35]>> No. That's why a lot of times that's why a lot of times you don't borrow other people's car. Especially if it's not like your family member or I mean, even if even if it is your family member sometimes.

[00:04:56]You know, you got to really be careful.

[00:04:57]Especially if you don't especially if they if it's someone you know that comes around with different cars, all type of stuff, and then you ask them to borrow it borrow their car, but you know, not everyone is really truthful.

[00:05:11]You know? So a lot of times, you know, I've seen things like this happen all the time. Somebody car I mean, they they steal a car, don't tell nobody anything, and then you jump in that car with them not knowing that they just stole the car.

[00:05:30]The whole time you're thinking maybe it's a rental or something, so you don't really ask questions. I'm not sure if it if that's the same thing that's going on with her, but I I do know a lot of times you know, there's cases like that. There's things that happen exactly that way you jump in a in a car or you go up to a friend's car thinking that they don't say anything to you thinking that it's their car or it's a it's a rental or whatever it is.

[00:06:01]And then you know when you get those lights behind you like, "Okay, what's going on?"

[00:06:08]And the same thing. They're going to put you in a handcuff because that's how they figure out what's going on. But again, I'm not sure if the you know the car was stolen or not, but I do know that times where it's like it happens. You know, you get into the wrong car, especially if you don't know if you don't know if the person isn't really being truthful to you. I've seen it happen where where someone would let someone else borrow a car knowing that car is stolen.

[00:06:41]Don't say anything.

[00:06:43]And then the moment that that that person gets pulled over all of a sudden it's like that's when it comes out that you know the car may be stolen or whatever it is and that person ends up going to jail.

[00:06:57]It's just one of those things that's crazy, man.

[00:07:04]Not sure if that's the situation, but if it is the situation, that's the best part about >> Wait, what did you say these were?

[00:07:26]>> So, I have a um a current a current C on one.

[00:07:31]>> Okay.

[00:07:31]>> It's like an electric one. That's like a like a hot comb.

[00:07:35]>> It's like a hot comb, okay.

[00:07:36]>> And then that one's like a facial or just a facial tool.

[00:07:39]>> Okay.

[00:07:40]All right.

[00:07:51]You see this before?

[00:07:53]No paraphernalia?

[00:07:54]>> It's not a drug >> No, it could be >> Yeah.

[00:07:57]>> You want to look it up?

[00:07:58]>> What are they called exactly?

[00:07:59]>> It's like a hot comb.

[00:08:00]>> Not not a hot comb, it's just a frequency a frequency wand.

[00:08:06]A frequency wand comb.

[00:08:08]>> If I were to unscrew these, no paraphernalia in them? Back here?

[00:08:10]>> No.

[00:08:10]>> Okay.

[00:08:11]>> What is it?

[00:08:12]>> What's it called? What's the correct term?

[00:08:14]>> Frequency comb.

[00:08:15]>> A frequency >> A frequency wand comb.

[00:08:18]>> [snorts] >> Uh I guess we just bring that one in then.

[00:08:35]>> Yeah, yeah, that one >> Check out.

[00:08:36]>> Uh the color is wearing there. Just got to pay for it.

[00:08:39]>> Okay.

[00:08:39]>> Okay.

[00:08:50]>> Yeah, I just got the same pocket knives.

[00:08:52]>> Yeah.

[00:08:53]>> No paraphernalia, just weed [ __ ] Nothing important.

[00:09:02]>> I actually want it.

[00:09:03]>> Okay.

[00:09:04]>> I got to finish what I was doing.

[00:09:05]>> Okay.

[00:09:08]No.

[00:09:11]>> I think I only got one on there.

[00:09:15]You want the separate?

[00:09:17]>> Yeah.

[00:09:18]>> Keep that separate.

[00:09:20]You want these two just going back in?

[00:09:21]>> Yeah, put them right back in the car.

[00:09:23]It's going to get taken anyway.

[00:09:29]>> Well, he can just When did he get it?

[00:09:35]He had this car for about 2 years >> 2 years ago?

[00:09:38]>> Yeah. When did I get the car?

[00:09:42]I just came up here 2 days ago.

[00:09:45]>> You just came up here 2 days ago?

[00:09:46]>> me 2 days to get down. Not 2 days, but >> [snorts] >> You just said you got up here today, though.

[00:09:52]>> No.

[00:09:53]>> Well, I want to pull my car up.

[00:09:56]>> Is that good?

[00:09:57]>> Yeah. All good. Search. Thank you.

[00:10:01]You You just pulled the car up here?

[00:10:05]>> Pull over.

[00:10:06]>> Yeah.

[00:10:07]It's definitely not warm.

[00:10:09]>> No uh contraband in the car?

[00:10:10]>> Nothing that we saw.

[00:10:12]>> You guys are aware obviously stolen vehicles, no expectation of privacy.

[00:10:16]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:10:18]>> Better make sure there's no weapons, nothing that could fall like a tow truck.

[00:10:21]>> People are bringing all that. That's all that.

[00:10:23]That's all that.

[00:10:24]>> No. Never heard of >> That gets on dry so we assume these vehicles are working or someone could get hurt.

[00:10:28]>> All right.

[00:10:42]>> Put them in here.

[00:10:43]Put them this way.

[00:10:53]>> Pull my car up here.

[00:10:54]>> We don't have You got a buddy?

[00:10:56]We don't have anybody that can full search, right?

[00:11:01]All right. Yeah. Just let her know cuz we She's been pat down, but she's going to have to be full searched inside.

[00:11:05]>> Easiest way to do it is to turn in face me and then just kind of sit sit back and swing your legs in.

[00:11:28]>> She was charged with receiving stolen property and driving with a suspended registration.

[00:11:32]>> Do you have a cell phone or anything you need in the car?

[00:11:35]>> I have a cell phone right here.

[00:11:36]>> You have it on you?

[00:11:37]>> Uh-huh.

[00:11:38]>> Where's it at?

[00:11:39]>> Right here.

[00:11:44]>> Like in your pocket?

[00:11:45]>> Mhm.

[00:11:54]>> Did you get you with your cuffs on or not?

[00:12:05]I'm just going to grab that for you. Do you need anything else in the car, like keys or anything you need?

[00:12:09]>> Um >> Is that that purse there?

[00:12:11]>> my purse and the other bag >> Is that it in the trunk?

[00:12:15]>> Yeah, can you just put my purse and the black book bag?

[00:12:18]>> You said in the >> Can you put my purse in in the black book bag?

[00:12:21]>> All right, and then the other bag.

[00:12:24]>> And that's in the That's in the car.

[00:12:25]>> It's in the car?

[00:12:26]>> Uh-huh.

[00:12:27]And then you can just put the um the silver bag in the trunk.

[00:12:30]>> You want that? The silver bag in the trunk and then the the purse and the black book bag.

[00:12:34]>> Okay, thank you.

[00:12:38]No.

[00:12:40]>> I got one of those like I don't know. I feel like I feel like this video is going somewhere besides the stolen car.

[00:12:51]Cuz it feels like it's more to it than just a stolen car.

[00:12:55]Cuz it's It's like, okay.

[00:12:58]I don't know.

[00:12:59]>> The cell The keys The key You need the key to the car?

[00:13:05]>> Yeah, where's the key to the car?

[00:13:06]>> It's in that bag.

[00:13:07]>> It's in this bag?

[00:13:16]Thank you.

[00:13:17]I'll be stepping out.

[00:13:27]>> Authorities later revealed she had also been arrested again in Florida weeks later in a separate vehicle theft case.

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[00:13:46]>> I guess I don't know why the whole video was kind of scratching at the, you know, there was more to the story than what it Anyways, if y'all like this type of videos, let me know in the comments.

[00:13:59]And also, um, let's keep God first, family second, and everything else third. Catch y'all on the next one.

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