Providing false information to law enforcement during a traffic stop can escalate a routine check into serious criminal charges, including possession of controlled substances and obstruction of justice, as demonstrated when a woman was arrested for lying about her name and possessing prescription narcotics belonging to others.
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Call the supervisor. Call the supervisor. STOP RESISTING. I'M NOT RESISTING. I'M CALM. THEN LET GO. Let's go. Was she just sleeping or hiding something? Jennifer, Amber, what's your name? Jennifer. Jennifer, the issue is that you have two different people's prescription narcotics in your car, okay? So, right now you're being arrested for providing false name. One lie led straight to handcuffs.
A young woman was found asleep in a car late at night. But just minutes later, police noticed unusual details that made the whole situation seem suspicious.
Hi. Hi. How you doing? What's going on?
Um I'm traveling um and I stopped to just take a nap because I was stopped.
Too tired and I didn't want to fall asleep at the wheel. Okay. That's all.
Where are the pills in the back there?
Are those prescribed to you or no?
Um yeah, they are. Can I see them?
Which I'm sorry, what? The orange ones on the ground.
Do you not see that orange bottle of pills on the ground? Oh, the red one?
This one?
Oh, sorry.
This one? Yeah.
Actually, this one's my stepdad's.
Sorry. It's your stepdad's? Yes. Do you have a pen?
Okay.
Let's get a pen.
Have you taken any of that today? No, I haven't. Is he traveling with you?
Um not right now, no. Um he lives in Charleston, South Carolina. Okay. Um but he just like I live in Orlando and um he just moved back down to Charleston.
So, uh I travel back and forth from Charleston to uh Orlando.
Basically every single weekend.
>> What's that? So, your name Amber?
Hey, what's your name? I'm sorry. What's your name?
Jennifer. Jennifer, what's that?
Walgreens prescription bag right here for Amber.
>> you please do me a favor and hop out of the car while we're talking? Yes.
Are those prescription bottles yours? No. No?
Those are my sister's. What's her name?
Isabella. Isabella?
Okay.
Did you pick them up for her?
Is that how that works?
Where are you coming from?
Um Orlando. Orlando? That's where I live, yeah. Okay.
So, you're headed to Orlando? I'm headed to Charleston. Charleston?
Okay. For what?
Um so, that's where my entire family lives. The issue with is A simple wrong answer about her name quickly turned a routine roadside check into a tense situation spiraling out of control. Jennifer, Amber, what's your name? Jennifer. Jennifer, the issue is is that you have two different people's prescription narcotics in your car, okay? So, this deputy is going to search your car. I don't mind.
>> Okay.
Who's this car registered to? Um my stepfather. So, I was just telling him I'm a co-signed owner Okay. of the financing, but I think whenever the finance company did the registration, I believe it's just under his name. So, when you grab, just grab the dog and the leash, but don't grab anything else from the car, okay?
J E N N I F E R? That's correct. You have a driver's license out of Florida?
Um I do.
Okay. But, to be completely honest with you, um it is suspended.
Okay. Wait, she say her name is Jennifer or Yeah.
I'm sorry. I was Just to clarify, my first name is Amber.
Your first name is Amber? That's correct. I said Jennifer because of the license being suspended. I didn't want you guys to find me.
So, is your name Amber or Jennifer?
Jennifer, yes. Ashworth is my maiden name. Is it still your date of birth?
Yes, that is my date, yes.
I'm wondering if she's got warrants because A M B E R She's like a 10-65 name and date of birth out of Florida.
I have my Florida license I just I just said my license is suspended.
I'm working with a lawyer trying to fix it and she's got First name's Amber.
Hey, her first name's Amber. Yeah, she just gave that to me, too.
Hello.
What's your name? Yeah, Amber.
Yeah. So, when we ask you are those your prescriptions They are.
Yeah. So, why'd you tell me your name was Jennifer?
Um I was just telling this officer that my license out of Florida is suspended and I'm working with a lawyer trying to get it fixed.
>> So, you just committed a crime right now. Just avoid You weren't even driving a car. You just committed a crime. You just provided a false ID to law enforcement. The more the police investigated, the more inconsistencies they uncovered while the woman desperately kept trying to explain herself to avoid the worst possible outcome.
You already gave me the wrong information. You told all three of us that your name was Jennifer. Is Jennifer your sister? I have Yeah, she is. Okay.
She's got someone else's DL on her purse, too. Just be up front. I know. I know. I know. And and that's why I I know We can We can work We can work with a suspended license. We can't work with lying.
She's got a bunch of to Jennifer.
Is it There you go. Uh-huh.
And that's the one to Jennifer.
I haven't even finished searching back here, but I mean, I think it is. If it's the same as like Suboxone. It is in my sister's, Jennifer.
Okay.
It doesn't mean you can just have it in your car though without her being in You know what I mean?
She actually left it in my car yesterday.
>> know about Yeah. I Yeah, I It just doesn't look good for you, you know?
I mean, like I get it, right? Like, I pick up my wife's prescriptions and everything, but they're usually still in the prescription bag when I do that.
So, I don't know.
Do you still have your cigarette package on you, or did you take that?
>> Yeah, I took it. Can I just check that real quick?
>> Yeah, sure. Can you just put it on the ground for now, for my safety?
Um but yeah, no, the ones that I just picked up were mine.
The ones that were out of the bag in my purse, those those are mine.
And uh yeah, the other ones Yeah, my sister called me, she left her box in my car yesterday, cuz we were traveling yesterday all the way to South Carolina. Basically, traveling and driving for like 3 days. Mhm.
And uh And who has the front top? That's my stepfather. Okay, and what's his name again? He's the one that registered me and her both on his car's registration. When the handcuffs click shut, she finally realized this was no longer a small mistake, but something that could change her entire life.
I'm not getting arrested. You are.
Can I make a call?
Yeah, you're welcome. Yes, you can.
Do you have anyone to come get your dog, or no?
I mean Who's the closest person that can get that dog? My boyfriend. Where is he at? He's at Okay. So, I'm going to take the dogs to the Humane Society. You don't go hold it. You can call the Humane Society and come grab it, okay?
It's going to be the Humane Society of Orange of Orange County for a pound keeper.
Um what am I being arrested for?
So, right now you're being arrested for providing false name to Leo.
Okay.
The gabapentin, that's not yours, and the marijuana Yeah.
Well, you can't tell me your name is Jennifer, and it's you know, I mean, come on.
>> And like I said, I I I lied at first cuz of the license thing, and I shouldn't have, you know, I I absolutely I you know, I take full responsibility for that. If there's any way at all that you guys Once the cuffs go on, they don't come off, okay? So, I What do you want me to do with that dog? You want me to leave like a phone number that they can call? Like do you have your boyfriend's phone number or what? Um yeah.
Do you not have it memorized?
Okay.
All right, let's walk over to my car over here.
And then what happens? They're going to take it as evidence. Do they have to like Uh it's going to go to evidence.
And do they have to take it out of my purse? No, it's obviously cuz it's evidence against you, so it's going to be marked as evidence until you go to court. So, they're not going to be able to get it back until you complete your court court case.
Right.
Um What else? What's in your pockets and stuff? Um just my cigarettes and my lighter. And is it possible that I could take just a couple drags before you depart?
Um No.
So, I'm going to take this out of your back pocket, okay?
All right. You said the lighters are in here? Yeah.
Where? Right there.
All right, so we don't have a female deputy. So, what I'm going to do, I have to pat you down before I get in the patrol car or get in my car. That's fine. Um I'm going to use the back of my hand. Okay. Just stand up to the car.
All right. Anything on you or in you that's Before we get to the jail, now's your chance cuz if we get to the jail, it's an extra charge. Do you understand?
Yeah, I understand.
Um all this stuff just can't go with you. Like those the lighters and the cigarettes. Do you want to have this go back in the car? Like your change and your airpod case? Yeah, that's fine. Um like I said, the only thing that I would like to have with me would be just my purse with my medications in it and my airpods.
The jail's going to have medications.
If you need to take them like daily or every 12 hours or something like that?
>> Um They don't provide those medications.
Is it Are they narcotics like the One of them is, yeah. They're probably not going to take those into the jail.
Well >> Um I mean, they'll put them in with my stuff.
Yeah, but they won't let you have >> Yeah, no, they won't let me have them. I just wanted it that way once I'm out, I have them. Okay.
All right, take a seat. Yeah.
She was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance >> [music] >> and one count of providing false information to the police.
Next, what seemed like an ordinary traffic violation, but just seconds later the conversation between the woman and the police began spiraling out of control.
EMS EMS Yes.
If I have to ask you again, if I'm going to have to ask you again, What's your All right.
No, I'm not calling my supervisor.
There's no reason to call the supervisor. Step out of the vehicle.
No, no, no.
Call the supervisor. Call the supervisor.
Call Call the supervisor. I'm not calling nobody.
Call your supervisor. I'm literally being calm, bro.
Step out of the car. What Why can't you guys call the supervisor?
I got her arms. Just got to Why can't you call the supervisor? Stop resisting.
>> I'M NOT RESISTING. I'm calm. Then let go. Let's go. Get off of me.
Step out of the vehicle.
Just call the supervisor. That's all I'm asking, bro.
Step out of the car. Shouting, arguments, and rapid-fire commands echoed through the night. What made the officers lose their patience so quickly?
Call the supervisor.
Call the supervisor.
Call the supervisor.
Get out. Get out. We're not going to ask you again. GO. LET GO. STEP OUT.
GET OUT. STEP OUT THE CAR. STOP MAKING it difficult. Okay. All right, so step out. You're going to get charged WITH A GET OUT.
GET OUT. GET OUT. I'M GOING TO WALK OUT.
GET OUT. GET OUT. RELAX. GO. [ __ ] All right, that's it.
[ __ ] that. I'm not asking you to call your [ __ ] supervisor.
So, so why was that not said?
No, it doesn't matter. We don't need a supervisor.
We don't need a supervisor for this.
You ran the red light. I need your license, your registration, insurance.
How did I run the red light going 20 miles per hour? We're done talking.
We're done talking. What the [ __ ] bro?
Dumbasses, bro.
>> What's your name?
You have a driver's license?
Don't Don't You don't need your driver's license.
You weren't driving.
You're in my car. She's having my [ __ ] I don't want that [ __ ] I'm going to fix my left ear.
What's that? Just fix my left ear.
That's you want us in this whole car? I'm perfectly calm. Like I was willing to step out, but Are you injured at all or not?
Are you okay? I'm not injured.
No, she she's being arrested for obstruction and resisting.
Despite insisting she was innocent, the woman was still handcuffed right on the roadside.
But this was only the beginning of the trouble.
You're driving a car. Like I'm I'm well aware, but you're telling me I did something when I know I didn't. All right, put her in the car. That's my issue.
Can you take this off my hand?
I need you to go. Where's your driver's license?
Where do you get the car from? You don't want to go to hard time.
Call Call my Call my mom.
How old are you?
Okay, you know what? Let me just check for one more time with that 39 if it's valid.
Uh we're going to have a 25 here for obstruction and resisting.
14, I have a BMW 320. No, can you just loosen up the cuffs? Charney Sherrod Haddaway out of Meriden, Connecticut. All valid.
Vehicle color gray.
Thank you.
You're not injured at all?
You don't want to get checked out by EMS?
What began as a simple red light violation ended with a series of legal charges that sparked widespread debate.
So what? Even if that happened, you go to court and you fight it.
But now now what is Y'all just wrong for this. Why why you guys in handcuffs?
They said everything was valid though.
You trying to unlock it?
No, they said it was valid the car.
Yeah? Where's the insurance though of the car? I don't know. She knows where her stuff is. You need the ins- You need to give me the insurance. I don't know where she puts it. This is her car. All right. Cool.
Can you ask her where she puts her license so we can take it and we can do this quickly? Her license and the insurance of the of the vehicle.
I don't know where her insurance is.
We need the insurance of the You good? I'll I'll meet you inside.
No.
No.
I think this is it.
What's your name?
Her name.
No, it doesn't matter, man. We don't need to Does she Does she live here with you?
Does she live with you or I don't live here. I live in Connecticut.
>> Oh, so this is the address she lives, her name? Yeah. Okay. All right.
We're We're going to I'm going to hold on to it and I'll give it to her when she's when we're done. All right.
All right. Good night.
All right. I'll follow you in, Ruby.
Just bring her.
In New Jersey, charges for resisting and obstruction can carry penalties of up to 6 months in jail and fines of up to $1,000. She was charged with resisting and obstructing law enforcement before being released on a court summons. 1 minute of arguing turned into a court date. So, everyone, what do you think about this situation? If you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, subscribe, and support our fundraiser. Thank you so much.
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