Crime Wire Weekly 4/30/26 | Foot Fetish Felon, Home Depot Fraud, Bride’s DUI Dilemma

0:16 Hey, everyone, welcome back. We have a jam packed show for you today. We're going to start out in Baton Ridge, Louisiana. The mayor has outlined a youth violence prevention plan for obviously the youth of Baton Ridge, Louisiana. This comes after the Mall, Louisiana shootings. Very interesting. We're going to talk about that. In Covington, Louisiana, a podcast has literally cracked open a cold case leading to the arrest of four individuals. So podcasts do you hold great value? They do? And if you're listening to this, you probably don't debate that a man with a foot fat ish targeted over one hundred victims in the way that he did it is the most interesting part of this story.

1:03 You're gonna hear all about that. That's definitely not the fetish I would choose. Well, he would argue with you. There. A Taco Bell employee loses it over a soda filled water cup. That's going to be our foolish felon segment. A home depot manager is accused in four million dollars in unauthorized discounts, a major fraud at the major home supplier. A home building material supplier in the country. Definitely not a well, I don't know. It's kind of like he thought he was Robin Hood. We'll get into it, but in a way, that's actually a pretty good comparison. There, a bride sues the Phoenix Police Department after a wrongful DUI arrest. We're going to break this down. You're going to be surprised what happened here.

1:52 A shocking update in the Lover's Lane murder case that we covered just a few weeks ago, regarding the suspect in that. This is great too, this is good for the people. Yeah, sex offender known as the Cooking Monster has been arrested in Nebraska. Scary situation there, Thank goodness he was arrested. We're gonna go on the true crime time machine once again today. We're gonna also take you to Texas where Chick fil A worker there had a refund scheme on mac and cheese eighty thousand dollars worth. Wait till you hear this one. Mac and cheese should never be returned to refunded. That is God's meal right there. Well, I think the problem was it wasn't returned. We're gonna get into that, of course, we'll have overtime after we cover the regular episodes on the Patreon page, so you're gonna want to check that out, but we'll get into it for today. Kelly, is that okay?

2:50 I'm great, I'm ready to go. You're supposed to say, I'm Jim Chapman. I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jenny. I think they know us by now. It doesn't assume we would think, But. Well, any thoughts before we start this episode? You look like you want to say something. No, I don't, I don't. I'm just I don't know. Whenever I ask her thoughts, her own mind goes blank. So we're not gonna ask her she has any starting thoughts. Yes, no starting thoughts. All right, let's start off in Baton Ridge, Louisiana, and Mayor President sid Edward Says outlined a new anti violence initiative. This came on Wednesday. He said that several data driven prevention programs focused on youth education and workforce training, just one or two weeks from the launch as the city grapples with last week's shooting at the Mall Louisiana. Now, this announcement came just five days after that shooting that erupted in the mall's food court on April twenty thirty, killed seventeen year old Martha Odom of Lafayette and injured five other people. There's been one of rust in the case.

3:56 That's a seventeen year old by the name of markel Lee. We covered all that for you, but Edwards address the ongoing investigation and prevention efforts after wrapping up a meeting aimed at bolstering intervention programs ahead of the summer. He emphasized that while immediate law enforcement action is critical, that his office prevention program will be working with data driven approaches that have worked in cities around the country. Now, one thing that I know Mayor, said Edwards has done, is go to other areas of the country, actually visit those locations and see what they're doing to combat you violence.

4:36 There are some areas of the country where they have taken a major problem in their city, such as youth violence, and really reversed it. And he's real good about Hey, look, I don't want to reinvent the wheel. If this is working somewhere else, maybe it'll work here. And that's what he aims to do. I got no problem with outreach pro and looking for solutions to what's obviously become a problem in Baton rrage. But i'd like to get your thoughts on at Kelly, and then I got a few thoughts on all. Right, so I'm okay. So obviously any step towards trying to improve what's going on is something that's to be applauded.

5:19 Right, We need to do something. Something has to happen. And I hate to be a Debbie Downer here, but you know, I know they're looking to get grants and pay for all of these programs and things, and I think grants are great, but when it's all said and done, I just don't see how these anti violence programs are going to outweigh the daily influence of what is going on in their lives. You know, you have a captive audience, let's say, for an hour to do this anti prevention strategy, which is wonderful. We do need to do something, but I just think that we have a culture of drug and violent, permissive families where these kids may be a captive audience one hour, but then they're going to go home to these same environments, these same influences, and when it's all said and done, those major influences, I think are going to be the ones that are going to continue to take hold.

6:13 Yeah, and I think you have two different responses when you're dealing with any crime, but especially youth crime, you have a reactive response and you have a proactive response. Now, the reactive response in this situation would be something like the pay raises that they're giving to BRPD that have just been approved. Those are important, those matter because those raise the numbers. One of the major glaring problems with BRPD in particular is that they don't have enough officers or one hundred and fifty officers short. So your officers you do have are absolutely exhausted. They're not only working the streets and trying to prevent crime in just the general street crime, they're also working a lot of extra duty.

7:02 You've got things like look, LSU football hasn't even started yet. I don't know how many officers work that, but I would imagine it's significant. And these officers from they're from all over absolutely. Everything, right, So these officers are flat worn out. They're tired because the ore one hundred and fifty officers short. So that's the reactive response. And then you have the proactive response, and that is getting at your youth. Now, nothing has changed in the last fifty years as it relates to the best ways to get at youth. Athletics. Involved them in athletics. Why it's a time occupier. It's also something that builds their confidence. It's also something that teaches teamwork, all those sort of things. And they have mentors.

7:49 These coaches become mentors to these kids who keep them out of trouble. Maybe you're saying, well, my kid is not athletic. You know, they can't run and chew bubblegum at the same time. But there's other options there. You have talent related extracurricular activities such as band, such as choir. You know, there's all kinds of things they can do that don't involve running a football or throwing a ball through the hoop. You've got church. Get them active in their church if you're if you're a believer, and that's something that certainly would help kids. Youth groups these days have a lot of programs that really help and it would be hard for me to imagine as a Christian something better than getting your kids involved in church. Also, and this is where a lot of people miss the boat work. Have them get a job at fifteen years old at a grocery store bagging groceries or maybe working at yard work or something like that on a weekend.

8:46 These employers love this because they can pay a minimum wage, and these kids are building character, they're learning the value of hard work. They're doing things where they're earning money and then they don't feel like they have to go out on the streets and get that money through selling drugs and other things. So and I think there's a great I think one of the things that's missed here though, and this is just from experience in school, okay, with a lot of teenagers, is that's assuming that these kids have active involved parents that are wanting to improve their lives. And I've come, and again I don't want to sound like a Debbie Downer, but. I've come in the face.

9:29 I've seen so many kids that you know, you love these kids, but you're staring them in the face that no matter what you tell them, they don't see value in themselves. They don't come with a whole lot of worth in the things that they can do, because when they go home, they go home to houses where there's not a lot of love, there's not a lot of encouragement, there's very minimal interaction. It's not a two parent household. It's maybe a mom, you know, that's working making minimum wage something like that. And then you just flat out have some parents that just don't parent, that don't think that it's a problem that their kid is late or doesn't want to go to school or doesn't want and you know, they are permissive in that they aren't reactive to their kids not doing what they're supposed to be doing, if that makes any sense, And those are the ones I think that we're going to have the biggest trouble with.

10:14 Yeah, that's certainly an issue as well. Of course, the parent's got to be on board for any of those activities to work. And I think something that they are doing, or they're starting to look at, is parents being held responsible in some cases for things that their kids are doing. You know, they're doing that with gun violence right now. Relative to you see it like a school shooting and that gun came from the house and a parent did not have that gun secured properly, and that kid ended up getting a hold of that gun, they hold the parent responsible now that it didn't used to be that way. Well, and if you know for a fact, and like in this case, that shooter had a juvenile record, you can't tell me that the family did not. And I'm not blaming the family, Okay, I'm just looking at this in totality of circumstance. But if that kid has been going to court for juvenile related issues, you can't tell me someone in the family didn't already know that. So how did it even get to the point that he's now in possession of a weapon, not at school, in the food court, shooting at people.

11:16 Well, it looks like a lack of supervision, it. You would think that. Now you know the grandmothers who turned him in. I do his own grandmother, I did. I don't think he was raised by his parents. I think it was his grandmother. So you're probably talking a woman in her seventies or eighties who certainly has no fault in this. And this boy was seventeen. We're not talking about a thirteen year old kid. So in this situation, no, I do not think she needs to be held responsible for any of that. I think she did everything she was supposed to do when she found out he was involved. You can only you can't surveil your kids twenty four to seven. It just cannot happen. And guess what if you do when they turn eighteen nineteen years old, they go crazy. You need to be in their business, certainly, But when they start getting seventeen years old, you can join the military, you can do all those things. At that point, they need to be at the point where they're not going to take a gun to a mall and shoot up a mall. That's common sense.

12:15 And then when you have grandparents raising kids, which is an epidemic in this country, what happens too is we have an age gap. We have an issue where we have, like you said, to your point, sixty seventy year old now trying to raise a seventeen year old. And there is two big think of the technology gaps, think of the line, think about so much is different that they can't keep up. They're not designed to be raising kids that age. That's not the way of the world, that's not how it's supposed to work, right, you know, And it makes it very difficult for these people. Yeah, it really does. So hopefully some of these new programs that sit Edwards is putting together will work and we'll see a difference in that. I did find it interesting that overall nationally, I looked up this stat when I saw this story. Nationally overall, Oh, you would be surprised to know that youth crime is actually down pretty significantly. However, youth crime involving guns is way up. So your your simple breaking and enterings and you're you know, these kids going around getting in cars may be down, but youth violence involving guns is way up, and that is obviously something that's got to change. Hopefully the Baton Ridge mayor will come up with some plans to do that. But I do like to see that this appears to finally have gotten to a head with the political realm in the city. That's going to make a difference. Very good.

13:38 All right, well let's move on to we're gonna stay in Louisiana. We're gonna go to Covington, Louisiana. But how do you feel whenever a long standing case where someone has been killed or whatever gets solved? Do you like that? Like does that? Does that? Does that do anything for you? Even though justice delayed kind of feels like justice denied. But finally it's any. Any solved case makes me feel good, but a cold case, especially even veterans, those are the ones typically given up on. There you got well. Four men have been charged with the nineteen eighty two rape and murder of sixteen year old rock Sand Sharp, after a cold case that baffled detectives for more than four decades was finally cracked open by a locally produced podcast that generated new witnesses and fresh leads. So Sharp's body was found on February twelfth, nineteen eighty two. And just for perspective, that's two years before I was born.

14:28 That's how long got no, But like golly, that's that's a long time, right. And so she was found in a wooded area on the outskirts of Saint Tammany Parish, the fairgrounds. She had been reported missing for three days and at the point that she was found, and investigators after their investigation, saw that she had been raped and that she had been murdered, and that her body had then been drug into those woods. But that teenager was an acquaintance of several men in the neighborhood where she hung out. But the issue was that there was very little physical evidence, and then not many people were to cooperate in terms of being witnesses at the time, and so it quickly went cold. So forty years goes by, and the Covington Police Department and the Louisiana State Police, you know, they're going to go back and forth and revisit files, even those old ones that have been sitting there a long time, and re examine evidence, chase down new leads, things of that nature. Well, in twenty twenty three, the Louisiana State Police Covington Field Office, they officially took over this investigation. And two years later, which would have been twenty twenty five, the LSP Public Affairs Department, they approached the local radio host. His name is Charles Dowdy of North Shore Media Group, and they wanted to start a six part podcast titled Who Killed Roxam. So the series aired later that year, and the goal was just to try to jog memories of people and to try to encourage anyone with all this time that's passed to come forward. Well, the strategy worked, which is super impressive.

15:57 People are listening to podcasts now more than ever, and Dowdy said that the public response surprised even their production team, and this is a direct quote. When we started the podcast, we kind of thought nobody cared, but we were quickly corrected. A lot of people stepped up. They said that they knew Roxanne, they remembered her, they were friends with her. So the podcast generated previously unknown information, new leads, and witness cooperation that investigators said helped them reconstruct Roxanne's final days. So that, combined with advances in investigative technology, the new tips allowed detectives to obtain warrants for four different men. Then, on April twenty first of twenty twenty six, a multi agency team including the Louisiana State Police SWAT Troop L and Covington Police, they executed a search warrant and arrest warrants at the home of Billy Williams Junior, who was sixty two of Covington. He was charged with aggravated rape and second degree murder, and then in the following days, three more men from Covington were arrested and charged with the same offenses. Perry Taylor, sixty four, Darryl Dean Spell He's also sixty four, but he was arrested all the way in Dayton, Ohio, and Carlos Cooper, also sixty four, who was guess what, already incarcerated on unrelated charges. So all four are facing those identical charges, and Louisiana State Police spokesperson Mark Grimion credited the podcast with breaking the long standing impasse. It was a very large help with getting the message out to the public and then the witnesses were getting back with us.

17:31 He said. It helped our investigation piece together where Roxanne was before, all the way up to the time that she died, and now here we are being able to handle this. So Covington Police Chief Michael Farrell called the breakthrough a testament to what happens when dedicated law enforcement officers refuse to let a victim be forgotten. Cold cases don't close themselves. They closed because people show up year after year and they refuse to quit. And so the district Attorney, Colin Sims echoed that same sentiment, saying that these arrests reflect the unwavering commitment to pursue justice no matter how much time has passed. And thank god, Sharp's family, who has now waited more than forty four years for answers, may start getting those answers. They haven't made a public statement yet, but they you know, they've got to be thrilled that there's going to be some closure to this.

18:21 Yeah, and I'm familiar with north Shore Media Group, very good, very well run podcast media company over there, obviously in the same realm of work that I'm in. And look, crowdsourcing works, attention works, especially as it relates to cold cases. I know three just off the top of my head that we're solved right here in Luisi and a Freeze Frame, a very popular podcast guy put together. I believe it was his grandmother or might have even been his mother was killed and they actually got the suspect based off of Freeze Frame podcasts, which went global worldwide real life for a crime, what do you Everton obviously solved the case.

19:10 A guy's in prison for the rest of his life based off of Woody's work with that particular Casetney Jortney Cocoa case, you know. So it became so big that that Dayline NBC came down and did a two hour special on that particular case. So that stuff works, and that's why it's so important. There are people, there are podcasts that specialize in cold cases. They really do a good job of just covering cold cases, and you don't have to work them necessarily. You can. You can just bring attention in awareness and then mention a tip line maybe crime stoppers something like that, and say, if you know any information, reach out, or if they don't want to reach out to the police, reach out to the podcast host and and you know, just that right there will help for sure.

20:04 Look these quality productions. I know I've recently you and I were together somewhere in a court of law where podcasts were being kind of poo pooed by some people in some powerful positions. But the reality is that if you are looking at quality production and people who take it seriously and who are doing the research and all of the things required of this, it doesn't take a badge to be able to, like you said, get crowdsourcing to get people thinking, to get people talking, And sometimes you just have to have the right person in the right place with the right crowd reach. And in this case, it. Worked, there's no doubt about it. And you know, sometimes egos will get involved, and I think, I think when you have a cold case that's ten years old, fifteen years old or longer and there's just no leads, it's gotten so cold. They're not even technically working in anymore.

20:55 It's just kind of in a file. You need all the help you can get. I don't. I think has to go completely out of the door. And if you've got a podcast interested in featuring that case, and you are a law enforcement entity, I think you take that and you say hell yeah, and we'll sit down and talk to you about the case and we'll be glad to share the information that we have. What do you have to lose? Every year that that case goes unsolved, it increases the likelihood it will never be solved. So take all the help you can get from law enforcement perspective. And some sheriffs and other law enforcement professionals are really good about that. Some let their ego totally get in the way and say no, I'm going to solve this, and I'll feel like it was egg on my face.

21:42 If a podcast or comes in there features a story and the case gets solved's not the case. Tips matter And sometimes people decide, you know what, I'm ready to talk and the only thing that took that was featuring that particular case on a podcast. And time changes everything. So the more time that passes, people get older, they start having their own kids. Let's say they were teenagers when something went you know, went bad. They get older and they realize, oh my god, this was somebody's kid. You know, I'm saying, perspectives change, so time can be the difference. Right, that's awesome. All right, Let's go to Hillsboro, Oregon, and I'm gonna tell you about a twenty three year old man from Washington County in Oregon who is accused of praying on more than one hundred women and teenage girls over five years.

22:26 So when he started this, y'all, he was eighteen. Okay. He basically had kind of a scheme going on, and if I still had a kinky crime segment of it, this would definitely be part of it. But he would approach these women and his name, incidentally was Cedric Valdez. He would approach these women and teenage girls and he would say, look, I am from a massage or I'm going to massage school and I want to practice massage your feet. You can't make that shit up. So he would do this in different shopping centers. When he got arrested, it was actually in January of twenty twenty six, and he was arrested inside of a target, approaching women and telling them he was a student and he needed some help with his work assignment at school or in school assignment.

23:19 So once alone with the victims, he would actually ask them, okay, can we go to your vehicle? And they would go to the vehicle and they would remove their shoes, they would remove their socks or maybe they had heels on. They'd take their heels off, and he would just give them a foot massage. But he took it a little further. Okay, that's one thing that's strange in and of itself, but he would take it further. He would then start smelling, kissing, and licking their feet without their consent. Yeah, they didn't tell him you can get a little toasuck in there. He would just do it in your face. You licked my foot? Yes. Prosecutors also said he photographed and videotaped many of the encounters under the presumption that hey, they're not you know, this is for a school assignment, and I got to show proof that I was sucking your toes for school.

24:07 So more laughing. I'm just like shocked. So more than one hundred victims have come forward. Now they range in age from fourteen to forty seven. So you know, it's a little more serious than we're making it out to be. I mean, some of these were obviously kids. Thirteen of them, as a matter of fact, were at least miners, and court records indicate that he admitted to investigators that he had a sexual attraction defeat and carried out the scheme for approximately five years. He pretended now to be a miner himself. And if you're watching the video version of this, he does kind of look like a kid. Dude, dude's got some hair. He looks like a mushrooming curly like mine, a bald headed man.

24:49 I'm like, damn, he's got a good head of hair. He may not style it the way I would, but anyway. He's currently facing forty one criminal charges, including multiple counts of third degree se abuse, sex harassment, and practicing massage therapy without a license. That seems like the minor charge in this case. He also has an active warrant in Fresno, California related to the same alleged conduct. So he's got a problem. He's a serial foot massage ye. A Washington County judge has set the bail at ten thousand dollars, which is nothing. You only have to pay twelve percent of that, and that includes house arrested and GPS monitoring. But he does remain in custody as a mid April after failing to postpond, so he's having trouble coming up.

25:35 His parents must have said, you staying in jail foot fetish man. Yeah, this is yeah. But to me, the whole cusp of this thing is it's almost unbelievable that over one hundred people would allow this cat to massage their feet inside their car. I would, you know, if I'm him, I'd be scared to approach one person, and I certainly wouldn't think they'd be like, hell, yeah, you can massage my feet. But they was, yeah, Well. This is the thing that is an absolute rapist in the making. You can't convince me otherwise. First of all, the predatory behavior of actively going in public places and seeking out victims, that behavior cannot be overlooked. You're going out with the with the absolute premise of finding someone that you can con into something that you were looking at as sexual and they don't have a clue, which is part of that predatory.

26:27 Well started licking their feet. Yeah, and I'm gonna tell you this assignment. No, and look the shock. Okay, we're in the South. I know everybody listen is not in the South, but I have I tell my well, when I was teaching, I always told my girls this, my students, we have been raised, at least in the South, to be kind and to be nice and to be polite. However, there is a time and a place, and what happens is we get put in positions where we can't believe sometimes that that something is happening, and we don't want to be rude, even when it's something like this. But there's a psychology behind it, because what happens is the predator in this case, this guy. The psychology behind it is that he has gotten them to agree in the initial phase of it, to let the footbe massage. So in part of this, it makes the victim feel bad because they're like, oh my god.

27:17 I agree to this. I wanted this. Obviously they did not want what happened, but that's that's kind of how it gets played out, and it played it messes. With the person's head. So there's also when he's willing to pretend to be younger than he is to get his victims. That's part of the grooming process in and of itself. So off the top, and know we're laughing and making light of it, but this is actually much more dangerous in the beginning steps than I think a lot of people would would would realize. Well, first of all, they weren't in the South, they were in org No. But I'm saying. Apparently that trust him too, and and you didn't know what to say.

27:58 Yeah, But I'm just saying from I perspected down here, like I wouldn't want to be rude to somebody because I've been raised that way, but there's a time you need to be rude, and that would have been Yeah. I'm thinking you're not gonna say, yeah, he can massage mine. I'm not. No, but Son Bell are not you know. But I've had a kid come up to my house before this pissed me off. To kid came up to my house and said he was selling stuff for school, and he was kind of disheveled and all that. But I gave him the benefit of the doubt because he said he was just trying to raise money for his football team. And I bought some baseball caps off of him, and it turned out he wasn't even affiliated with the school, So I know it's a little different. It's not a massage. But people do things in dupe, will do people. And because you have a heart and you're wanting to try to help someone, maybe he doesn't have good social skills.

28:39 I don't know, and they were willing to just do it. But the victims here, right, he must have some pretty good social skills to convince a hundred people to do that. And then are fourteen surprised some are little. Yeah, third, well, thirteen of the victims were minors. Yeah, as young as fourteen. Yeah, I'm just this seems much more dangerous in my mind than and it looks like off the customers just at ten thousand dollars bond. I don't know that's but all you can do is what the law allows. Yeah, so go ahead. Sorry, No, I'm good. I was gonna move on unless you had something. You're allowed to breathe. Breathing is all right, guess what segment it is? I don't know. Foolish felons.

29:20 All right, let's get into today. So we're gonna go to West Palm Beach, Florida. I know why you give me the foolish felons ones because you don't want me to be able to go back at you and go so foolish. Because you hate it when I. That's your segment. Okay. A routine request for water cups at a Taco Bell restaurant spiraled into a gunfight. This was on Monday, when. A twenty year old employee allegedly shot at three female customers after one try to fill a complimentary water cup with soda. Tell me real quick, Jim, does this seem to align with the fact that we have a lot of people with guns that have no concept of conflict resolution? Right? Okay?

30:01 Yeah? Damari Jai Kwan Patterson was arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm following the chaotic confrontation at the Taco Bell. This is all according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. So this all took place at lunchtime when three women went into the restaurant and they asked for cups of water. One of the customers then used her water cup and put a soda fountain drink in it instead of water, which prompted Patterson, who was working behind the counter to confront them, so this verbal argument quickly escalated, and of course people whipped out cell phones and started filming like they do, and it captured Patterson yelling at these women, and then moments later, the sound of a gun being racked is audible in the recording, and then the gunshots start being fired inside the dining area.

30:47 One woman was struck by. A bullet she collapses to the floor, and then a second one suffered a grayz wound, while the third one just hauled ass and ran out the exit. So Patterson allegedly pursued the third woman outside and fired another shot at her, but missed and it shattered the window near the entrance whenever he was chasing her. So all three customers sustained minor injuries and drove themselves to a local hospital for treatment, and they are all expected to fully recover and no one else was seriously hurt. No weapons were found on the victims either, so after the shooting, Patterson called nine one one himself and admitted to firing the weapon. He even told the police where the gun was, that he had it hidden in the restaurant's management office.

31:30 He later then said, well, look this was self defense, and told the investigators that he thought the customers were armed and that one had jumped behind the counter at him. However, the pesky surveillance footage from the business itself would show that that just wasn't the case, that it didn't happen, so Patterson was arrested. He did make his first court appearance Tuesday. He's being held on a total of seventy five thousand dollars bond, according to the jail records, and the case is being reviewed by the State Attorney's office. The Taco Bell location did remain open Tuesday, though the shattered window had been boarded up. A couple thoughts on this one. I can't believe the Taco Bell location remained open after you have three people get you know, three bullets flying and some people getting shot at one getting shot. Hey, people need their chiloopas I guess. But I'm gonna say this number one perfect, perfect article for foolish felons, because how dumb do you have to be to literally do what this guy just did over someone filling up an ice cup full of soda.

32:37 I'm sure that pisses everybody off. You need to pay for your freaking soda and not lying. Say you're getting water, but it's not worth I mean, this guy's got an issue here. I don't know what the charge was. You didn't say the charge. I don't know if it was in the article. But whatever the charge is, it's pretty serious because of the bond amount. So this guy has practically ruined his life over this, at least, you know, momentarily, and it's all over. Well, No, he was given the three the three counts of aggravated assault. I can't believe he didn't get an attempted murder. He shot a woman, right, but three three counts of aggravated assault.

33:21 Didn't actually shoot the woman. Yet, said it struck her and she fell to the floor. Okay, well then unless that's unless that's misinformation. I mean, this is what we have at the time of you. Know, misinformation. It's it is what it is. But yeah, I don't understand those charges because if you shoot me, you tried to kill me as far as I'm concerned. So aggravated assault with firearms seems kind of kind of low, I would think. But you know, because they could have played they could have lowered those charges or pulled them down but this is the deal. When it's all when it's all said done, thankfully, all three women are okay. So again here we go an absolute another case of somebody that's got anger issue that they do not have any conflict management whatsoever except to brandish a weapon to try to solve it. And when this is what you're willing to shoot over, When this is what you're willing to shoot over, whether it's disrespect for them, mouthing back off at you, or getting the drink, whatever it was that set him off, then it's only a matter of time before he will kill somebody, you know, because you can't. If that is acceptable behavior for conflict resolution at work, then I would be very fearful. That's why his bond is so high at seventy five thousand dollars.

34:28 I would assume because they don't want they got to mitigate this. I hope that they'll give him sentencing to like anger management programs or something. All right, let's go to Miami, Florida, and a former home Depot store manager Miami Dade County has been arrested after authority say he orchestrated a massive discount scheme. Now this cost home Depot more than four million dollars over nearly two and a half years. A guy by the name of Mauricio Jeminaz, who is forty eight, was taken into custody at the Home Depot store that he managed. He's facing felony charges of organized fraud and first degree grand theft. Now, according to the Miami Dad Police Department, Jeminas issued more than forty five hundred unauthorized discounts and deep marked downs to repeated customers and businesses between December of twenty twenty three and April of twenty twenty six.

35:20 The fraudulent price adjustments involved get this, roughly fifty five million dollars worth of merchandise and this is the part that blew my mind, created a negative sales margin of approximately four point three million dollars for Home Depot. Investigators say the scheme came to light during an internal audit that flagged unusually large, high volume marked downs at the store where Jeminez worked. As a manager. He had the authority to approved price adjustments and access internal sales and in the dory systems. Prosecutors alleged you by offering the steep unauthorized discounts Jeminas artificially in related sales figures, which turned into basically performance bonuses for him. His attorneys told the court that the client did not directly profit or receive any personal kickbacks from the customers who received the discounts.

36:14 He's been released on a man another low bond fifteen thousand dollars, with the condition he have no contact with home Depot properties, and Home Depot has not issued a statement on the arrest. I don't think I can agree with the fact that he didn't profit. I mean, I know it says directly from the customers, but he did through the customer's profit, because the performance bonuses would be the profit. And when I was listening to this, it made me think back when I was a teenager. I had a boss that did this exact same thing. I didn't know what was going on because I didn't understand the system until I got older, but she would do the same thing. She would inflate sales and give a discount on the enrollment fee for what the person was purchasing, and then in essence, that looked like she sold more.

36:57 Thus she got a higher percent on our paycheck. So I mean, I don't know. I guess you know, the customers aren't a fault here. I mean, if he's willing to give it out, then that's all on him. But that's a ton of money to pay back. I don't know how he could ever do that. Yeah, and look, if I have any experience in anything, it's that field I was in. I was a retail regional sales manager for a large paint cutings manufacturer for twenty years of most and I can tell you exactly that this happens. You know, it's interesting. I also had authority to discount things. And it's one thing when you have a friend and I'll use myself as an example, and they're painting their house and they're going to go Searn Williams or they're going to go to home Depot to buy that paint, and I'm like, dude, you need to buy that from me. I can save you money.

37:49 And maybe in order to get their business, I cut them to discount. I have the authority to do that. There's nothing wrong with that. The issue is when you're offering unauthorized discounts. So he had the authority to authorize him, but he was just giving them to inflate his own sales figure. So his bonuses were based off of the amount of building materials that he sold. But he did it to such a frequency that it actually caused Home Depot to go in a deficit. That's crazy, that is insane. So on one end of the spectrum, these powers that be at Home Depot are looking at a sales report and they're seeing, Wow, this guy is just selling the heck out of two by fours, but we're not making any money, and we've got a forty percent margin built into this and we've got a negative four point three percent deficit. And it's because this guy was marking everything down over time to an extent that actually caused them to lose money. He absolutely did profit on it, because your bonus is where the majority of your money is made in that business, and so he was taking into the bank. What they're saying he wasn't doing, his attorney was he wasn't doing what we used to call selling the paint out the side door. So he wasn't taking two by fours and going up to a contractor and saying, look, if you give me fifty dollars cash, i'll give you these two by fours. He wasn't doing that because in

39:19 his mind, I'm sure he justified it as well. That's stealing, but I have the authority to give discounts and said, that's what I'm doing. It's the same thing. It's just a different way of approaching it. Yeah, it's all theft. It's all theft. And that ain't cool. That's huge, Mark, that's a ton of money. That's not you know, one hundred bucks here, that's crazy. It caused him to go into a deficit. That's insane. One man takes down a home depot, that's wild. Yeah, you know, and went four years before. You know, if I was home depot, I would look into some of his higher ups because it took four years to catch that. Yeah, that's wild. Yeah, some people are going to get some some chastise and over that. All right, let's go to Phoenix, Arizona.

40:00 So a Fresno, California bride's dream wedding turned into a legal nightmare when she was arrested for dui the day after her ceremony, despite blowing a perfect zero point zero zero on a breathalyzer and later testing negative for alcohol and drugs in her blood. According to a federal lawsuit, now Brianna Longorio, who was an aspiring nurse, had just gotten married in Arizona. This was on December the twenty eighth of twenty four so her seriously ill father could attend the ceremony. Is why she was getting married at that time. Now, the following evening, December the twenty ninth, she was in a rental card that she was driving with her new husband and they were in Phoenix and she. Got pulled over. So officers claimed that they pulled her over because she ran a red light, but body camera footage obtained by her legal team allegedly shows that the stop was fabricated.

40:50 So Longoria performed a field sobriety test and then blew triple zeros on a preliminary breathalyzer. Bodycam audio captured an officer remarking, quote, triple zeros like I thought before. She was nevertheless handcuffed and arrested in suspicion of dui, reportedly based on suspected marijuana impairment. So blood samples drawn after her arrest were later tested and returned completely negative for alcohol and all drugs. Criminal charges were eventually dropped, but Longoria says that the damage had already been done because her driver's license was suspended, part of her honeymoon was ruined, and then her cancer treatments were delayed, and then her nursing career aspirations suffered lasting setbacks. So she filed a federal lawsuit in December of twenty five against the City of Phoenix and two Phoenix police officers, alleging that the arrest was unconstitutional, and she's saying that it's part of an alleged pattern of manufacturing dui cases to meet unofficial arrest quotas. So BODYCM recordings reportedly include officers discussing pressure to secure dui rests to remain on specialized squads. The City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department have denied the existence of any dui rest quote, and they say that enforcement decisions are based on the observed behavior and the totality of those circumstances. Longoria is seeking millions of dollars in damages, policy reforms within the department, and she wants to have her arrest fully expunged from her record, and the case still remains pending in federal court.

42:19 Yeah, look, this is a situation where EGO definitely got in the way, and I've seen on YouTube some of these stops where someone is completely sober, they're not showing signs of being drunk, but the officer gets pissed and he basically says, well, I need you to do the field sobriety. And if you've ever seen these field sobriety tests, they're not easy to do sober. And part of me believes that that is really just kind of a dog and penny show, and if they think you've been drinking or drugging, it doesn't matter if you're doing perfect or not. They're still going to move on to the next step, which is as well, you're exhibiting signs of because you couldn't count from g to or you couldn't count from twenty seven to twenty four without skipping twenty five or whatever stupid tests that they give. The majority of those.

43:14 I'm sorry, you know, walking a straight line is not easy period. Yeah, but so I kind of differ a bit on this one, but they as far as that part. Because really you could do those test saber. Yeah, all of them. Yeah. The thing please, no, no, no, listen, It's not about getting it perfect though. It's totality of circumstance, like you said, and. So so if you totally of the circumstance, he thought she was drunk, she didn't have a thing. In her, that means that he needs to be reckoned with. I absolutely agree with that. So there's parts of this that I agree with her. Number one, I agree to the damages that you know that she's got to get this taken off of her record, and at minimum to even get a record exponged, even do the application to get the record exponged is a minimum of two hundred and fifty dollars in Louisiana, and it's way more expensive than that.

44:07 That's just for the application. What I this should absolutely just be taken off of her record. And I think that this These officers do need to be talked to, you know, they need to be trained better. As far as you can't be that wrong, you can't be that wrong on this. So let's say she blew all zeros. Okay, well, then maybe they which is what he thought. But yet he made her blow into the. So when he says that's well, when he says that's what I thought, I'm wondering if that was beca because I haven't seen the video, but I'm wondering if that was because Okay, yeah, she's gonna blow zero because. I don't think it's alcohol. I think that it's I think that it's another intoxicant. But she may just work that's wrong, very wrong, very wrong.

44:50 And so the issue here I don't think. I don't find so if the arrest was fabricated or the stop was fabricated, we have a huge issue. If the arrest was made under and they're able to articulate why they thought she was under the influence that I don't think there's going to be an argument with because she gets to have her day in court, and because they're able to prove that that was not the case and she's released. What is going to be a problem. Though, is that I don't think it fair that that stay on her record if it is completely and totally because her nurse, I agree with her on parts of this. I just think that the field sobriety test, if you're drunk drunk, it's very obvious on a field sobriety test when you fail it percent. So I don't think it's about getting it completely accurate. Things like nastagmus and things that your body can't fake. You know, some people can be drunk and you won't know it and they could get away with it.

45:42 But nastagmus, they can't. They can't. Your body can't fight that with your eyes. So I do believe in the field sobriety test, but I don't think it by itself is a conclusive enough thing to hold a conviction on, you know what I mean? Yeah, And the reason I have such an issue with this is this is, you know, I know a lot of great cops, and great cops don't like this shit either, because what this does is it makes all cops look bad, and this is what puts a bad taste in the public's mouth about police officers. She had no drugs in her system, no alcohol, so she was not exhibiting signs. There was no signs because she had nothing in her system.

46:24 Either way, this guy, she'd get married the next day. But we're wardless of that. These people took her to jail for that for nothing. Yeah, I agree, ridiculous. I hope she gets a million dollars. I hope that they released the report that was written. I would want to see that, I really would. I would want to see the report of what this officer wrote, were the signs that were being exhibited that would make her think that she was under the influence, because they're either going to be flagrantly off off based on yeah, off of it. But you know, sometimes too, and I'm not given the I am on the side of this woman. She had nothing in her system. But I'm saying, sometimes too, people are I've seen people having medical issues that were thought to be that they were intoxicated, and we were completely wrong. But because of the behaviors they were exhibiting, it looked like intoxication. So I'm saying, mistakes can be made if your heart is in the right place.

47:20 But it does not seem like it's that tell right, it doesn't. Be the officer I got a bad knee. No, no, no, I'm talking about I've seen people in diabetic distress and it absolutely came across as drunk driving. Absolutely, and they're in uh like keto acid or they're in a diabetic state. Right, But that wasn't the cause. That wasn't the case here so well. But I'm saying, if you are a good cop and you have good intentions, you can still make mistakes. But this one looks like they fabricated the stop and then fabricated the evidence based on what we see here. Yeah, and not apparently quote unquote quote is yeah that's crazy. So yeah, not cool at all. All right. I got an update here from a story we covered. It's only been about three four weeks ago, but Floyd William Parrot, who was sixty four, the man charged with the capitol murder with capital murder in one of Houston's most notorious cold cases, which was the nineteen ninety Lover's Lane killings. He was recently arrested while he was found dead Tuesday morning and the Nebraska jail cell while waiting extradition to Texas. Parrot was discovered unresponsive in his cell in Lincoln, Nebraska. According to the Lancaster Sheriff's Office, correctional officer staff performed life saving measures until the paramedics arrived.

48:41 Buddy was pronounced dead on the scene, and the district attorney said his death appears to be a homicide, though no official cause of death has been released, you know penning an autopsy. Parrot was arrested, if you'll remember, March twenty fifth in Lincoln by Houston Police Department officer in the FBI, and he was charged in the capital murder for capital murder and the brutal slayings of Sheryl Henry who was twenty two and Garland Andrew Atkinson, who was twenty one. The couple was lasting live after meeting at by You Mama's nightclub in Houston. So he gets arrested after a DNA breakthrough basically linked him to that particular crime scene. And following that arrest, a lot of other victims came forward, survivors and they were alleging assaults by parent.

49:34 So the district attorney was quoted as saying he thought he could outrun the truth. He thought Tom would erase his past, but prosecutors and investigators never stopped working the lover's laying cold case. He also said that he keeps the memory of Andy and Cheryl at the center of work. And this is a case that proves that cold cases, in those situations you should never give up. But he has apparently committed suicide, and I guess that tells everyone that the right guy was in jail. Yeah, I mean, the DNA don't lie you hear that a bunch, So if they had the DNA, they had him dead.

50:16 To rights. I know they listed as a homicide, but just a reminder that just means unnatural death. So suicide is a cause of death as well on a report or a manner of death. So that's kind of that'll be interesting to see what happened there. But what's poignant here too is that more victims or potential victims came forward after his arrest. And so think of the fear you must have instilled in people that they weren't even willing to come forward until they knew that you were locked down and unable to. Or maybe they didn't know who you were, but they weren' gonize your faith. That's true too, that's true too. But that much time to have passed and then more people are coming forward. God knows how many people this man has affected and then killed, is what it looks.

51:00 It looks like. So you know, I don't have much love lost on that one. What was the family robbed of justice? I guess I would have to leave that thought process up to the family on this one, because he didn't they didn't get their day in court. However, just because he's dead doesn't mean his DNA won't necessarily tie him to these deaths and so hopefully with him dead, they probably won't care about that part, but hopefully there can be an official statement where he is listed finally as the person responsible for their deaths, and I think that would mean a lot to the family, right if the DNA comes back, you know. Yep? All right, So we're going to go to Omaha, Nebraska, where Laverne Scott, sixty five years old, a registered sex offender with a criminal history dating back nearly forty years, was arrested after Omaha police say he broke into an apartment stripped naked, and then he climbed into bed with a sleeping nine year old boy.

52:00 So officers responded. This was about one am to an apartment near thirteenth and Levenworth, and they were originally going on reports of a burglary, but there was also this child abuse element because the residents told the investigators that he entered through an unlocked front door, took off his clothes inside of the home, and then crawled in bed with the child. So the child woke up began screaming, and so Scott allegedly then grabbed the child, pinned him down and wasn't letting him up, but the child's grandfather rushed into the room found Scott standing at the foot of the bed at that point holding a bottle of water and a bottle of lotion which gives me the freaking heavy gebies, but the grandfather then they worded it as escorted him out of the home. Officers later located Scott nearby after he allegedly entered an Airbnb unit and claimed it was his residence. He was arrested, and he was only wearing socks whenever they put the cuffs on him. Now, Scott goes by the nickname Cookie Monster and Cookie x Well.

53:00 He is facing charges including attempted class two felony sexual assault, burglary, and failure to register as a sex offender. The judge set his bond appropriately at one point twenty five million during his first court appearance, which was Monday, and his preliminary hearing is scheduled for June the first Now, court records show that Scott has been on Nebraska's sex offender registry list since nineteen eighty seven, after a conviction for first gree sexual assault, which was in Douglas County. He was convicted again in ninety nine of attempted first degree sexual assault in Madison County, and in the nearly four decades since his initial registration requirements, he's been convicted at least four times for violating sex offender registry requirements, and most recently that was in twenty twenty four. He also has prior convictions for indecent exposure and trespassing. So no more details have been released at this time because they're citing the ongoing investigation and the age of the victim.

53:53 Thank god, the child was not physically hurt during this incident. Yeah, so if you're sixty five years old and you go by the name Cookie Monster, you're probably a sex offender. I would agree. I would say either that or you look like Cookie Monster. Scariest af you know. And also, I hope they never release this guy. He doesn't ever need to be released. Sixty five years old and you're breaking into a house nude and climbing into bed with. A nine year old boy, he's lucky, he's a lot. I hope he never gets released. The first thing that caught my eye here, I'm surprised you didn't say something about it was his name is Laverne Scott, and we have a serial killer in Louisiana.

54:36 That's Scott Laverne. So the name here is kind of was interesting to me that, you know, criminally, but let's talk for a second here. There has got to be some type of law adjustment here that I think that sex offenders of this capacity right here, specifically that there needs to be an element of this under that habitual offender charge that we have because people can sell dope of certain quantities and charge you know, charge values where they go to prison for the rest of their life, no questions asked, and that's over selling dope. We've got a guy. Here who is clearly a predator, a problem, and someone that does not learn from any type of registration here.

55:17 So I looked up the laws because I was curious about how he was able to stay out with that many violations and the penalties as far as Louisiana, I know this was not Louisiana, but I just like to work in Louisiana law. But you know, your first offense on a failure to register is up to one thousand dollars fine and then they could give you two to ten years in prison. The second time you fail to register, oh, up to a three thousand dollars fine. They could give you five to twenty years. If you fail to pay, it's up to a five one hundred dollars fine, and maybe you'll get six months. That's the problem here. I don't play with sex offenders. They're the only ones that, no matter how much research is done, says that they cannot be rehabilitated.

55:59 And so. I don't understand how this guy had the ability to do this over and over and over and over again. And his ass was not in prison a long time ago. But why didn't you look up Nebraska since that's where he's from. Oh, because they word things differently, And I just was given an example for Louisiana of how it's screwed up here too. Like the laws, I don't understand, they don't make sense to me that you were given. Why are you even given this many opportunities you are? You are such a red flag to society. We need you to come in and take a picture. We need to know where you live, and we need to sometimes send out mailers to let people know how dangerous you are. Why aren't you being locked up when you keep offending like this?

56:40 Right? You know? I can't I just this here is a failure. It's an sex Like I said, I mean, we're locking people up for more time on drugs, but this guy is going in and getting in bed with a nine year old child. Okay, look, I looked up the Nebraska part because that makes a difference. I mean the state that he was committing. These instances of non registration really matter because it changed from state to state, and Nebraska, feling to comply with sex offender registration is generally a class three felony, which can result in up to three years imprisonment. Subsequent violations or failures to register can escalate it to a class two felony.

57:24 Yeah, and it says can can not shall. So to that point, what if he came here and he offended? Though, what if he traveled across state lines and he came here and offended. I'd be pissed because there's not much that would It doesn't that's not equivalent to what the crime is here. This man was naked and got into bed with a child in a home that was not his. That is the scariest thing I can think of, aside from someone trying to kidnap my kid, you know, or take my child. Well, what are you saying is not equivalent to that. What I'm saying is like habitual offender laws. We have those because we recognize when someone is habitually a problem, we eventually in the state will throw him. We'll lock him up and we'll throw away the key. But when they're a sex offender, and they look how many times he got.

58:11 In trouble, right for not registering? Yeah, failure to register. That's how we keep up with you. And so but if you don't do it, your penalty is nothing. I mean, that's nothing in the big scheme of things. He had a bottle of lotion and a bottle of water at the bed of a nine year old. But these are brain new charges, Kelly. They're not going to charge him for failure to register. They're going to charge him for a completely mid case. He already had those though. My point is that he was not complying with the rules and regulations that allowed him to be free in society. So he's not complying, did we get. I agree with that, But he's getting I mean, technically you're supposed to have ten years.

58:53 In jail, can but he's not getting it right. So the law, my point is the laws of got to be more refined on this one, because he's going to end up raping a child, he's going to end up sexually abusing somebody. He's already done it, and he's breaking into homes and he's getting naked. Why is he free, Well, he's not going to be free now now, but that we're aware of, he hadn't committed a rape prior to this. He hadn't done this prior to this. He went forty years without having any other. Charges that we know of. You think he's just going to know of, But I mean, you can't just assume that we know of. He went in eighty seven and he got that's when he had to register.

59:35 That's correct. In ninety nine he tried to do something to somebody, but he ended up getting stopped. Then he's been convicted at least four more times for violating the registration. Or violating registration. Yes, he was right, and I'm not trusting. I'm not justifying any of that. But I'm saying he wasn't jumping into beds with kids, he was not registering as a sex offender, which I'm not justifying any of that. Let me say it again, I'm not defending this asshole. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, technically, by the law, at least Louisiana's version, he could get ten years just for that. But these charges he's gonna have now are on brand new charges, so he's going to face some pretty serious shit here. He's got over a million dollar bond.

1:00:19 He never should have gotten to this point though he's already raped one, he's tried to do another, and then he's not following for all of these years. He's not following his registration. If I was the grandfather, I. Don't agree that those Yes, I agree, I agree that he should should have been filing. He should we should have never gotten to this point. My overall point is that these this needs to be a much harsher penalty from the jump. These are sexual predators and they're the ones that cannot be rehabilitaiy. Okay, So what should the penalty be. There should be no first offense. You don't follow the rules. Your ass has gone to prison. For how long?

1:00:59 I'd give them fifteen I'd give him fifteen to twenty, but not can. It would be shall you shall go to prison? You shall be locked up? If we are giving you the benefit of the doubt that you can walk these streets after you have a you have sexually assaulted somebody, then you will follow our rules, because if you're going to even meet Tier one, Tier two, or Tier three sex offender registry, you are a felon like you are, you are a problem. This isn't touching somebody's butt in a club. This is carnal knowledge of a juvenile level stuff. It's on the same it's on the same, uh you know scale. So if you have to register, you have done something very serious that this society thinks we need to take your picture. Know where you work, you can't hand out Halloween candy, you can't wear a mask in public.

1:01:45 You know, That's how serious this is. And then we're just gonna let this cat go and do all of these things until he ends up in bed with a nine year old in a home that's not his. Like that should not happen. It should never have gotten to that point. This is a failure in in in a lot of ways, I think. All right, all right, well we're gonna we're going to turn the page here to something. Well, it's a little less serious obviously than that, And We're gonna jump on the true crime time machine. We do we do, we do, we do, we doo doop, and we're gonna go to April thirtieth of nineteen thirty two, and I'm gonna tell y'all a story that you may be familiar with, the the uh, the cusp of who these people are, but you may not realize that what started at all occurred on April thirtieth, nineteen thirty two. And that was after routine after hours visits to a small town filling station in a pawn shop ended in cold blood and murder when a sixty one year old store owner of that pawn shop, John Butcher, was shot and killed during a botched riwbery. Now that crime that first put Clyde Barrow, you may recognize that name on law enforcement's radar as a wanted murderer. It also helped ignite the legendary two year crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde Butcher, who operated the combination grocery, jewelry, and optical store. And that's a

1:03:18 hell of a combination. There you get your bread and your eyes checked out all the same place. Well, he operated that store. This was in Hillsboro in Hill County, Texas. He was closing up for the night with his wife when three men entered the shop. One of the intruders was twenty one year old Clyde Barrow, who had worked briefly with Butcher's son at a local auto shop, and he was familiar with the family. Barrow remained outside as the getaway driver while his accomplices, Raymond Hamilton, and another associate, some people identified as Frank Claus, went inside under the pretense of making a small purchase. The actual said they wanted to buy guitar strings. According to witnesses, the robbers quickly demanded access to the store's safe, and as Butcher opened it and reached for a handgun that he kept inside that safe for protection, one of the men panicked and fired. The bullet struck Butcher and the heart, killing him instantly. The gang fled with roughly forty dollars in cash and some jewelry, escaping before police arrived. His wife, who was present during the hold up and lived with her husband in an apartment above that store, very popular during that time, later viewed police mug shots and identified Clyde Barrow as one of the gunmen, even though multiple accounts placed him outside in the car the whole time.

1:04:41 Her Id May Barrow a wanted man from murder and marked the first time that his name was publicly linked to the killing. The slang of Jay and Butcher in early newspaper accounts was a relatively small score crime by the Depression air standards. I mean back then it was going because of the prohibition period. But it launched the Barrows Gang's deadly reputation for setting the stage for a string of robberies and shootouts across Texas, Oklahoma, and the Midwest. So this guy gets buried in Ridge Park Cemetery. This was in Hillsboro, Texas, and no immediate rest were made that night, but Raymond Hamilton was later connected to the crime.

1:05:25 He would serve time for that, and Clyde would not be captured until his dramatic death alongside Bonnie Parker two years later. This was in nineteen thirty four in a Louisiana ambush. The case obviously remains a grim footnote in the Bonnie and Clyde legend and a reminder that the glamorous outlaw life began with a senseless shooting of an ordinary small business owner who simply reached for his gun to protect what was his. So you may not know this, and I don't want to scare you, Jim, but I have always obviously been a true crime fan. And one Christmas, my mama gave me a framed picture of Clyde, like his mugshots and everything.

1:06:10 And I just kind of looked at her like, Okay, thanks, Mama, and she said, no, you know why? So why? She said, you know you're related to Clyde. Oh, here we go, she did Clyde. Yes, I s Oklahoma. Does that matter? She did that, you know, the where you do, the family tree, the whole thing, all the way back, And I'm related to Clyde. So that's cousin Clyde. But something interesting about him to me is that, you know, he's this big, larger than life guy that had, you know, has his legend. He was only five foot six and one hundred and thirty five pounds and he was tatted up and a lot of people don't know that. But he was a little he was a little bitty dude. But his middle name. Do you know, I'm gonna. Do a little uh little what do you think it would be don't look at my. Favor I wouldn't. I'm not even going to guess.

1:06:52 Clyde something Barrow, guess Warrow Clyde Willbarrow. That was actually pretty good. His middle name was Champion Clyde, Champion Barrow. That's my cousin. That's why name. You're no, no er no. But I came up with some names. I don't know if our listener cousin, Yes, he is, damn it, that's my cousin. Girl, he can't possibly be your cousin. Listen, when two people have sex and then there's more kids are offspring, he becomes your cousin. Well, I don't know what number cousin, but. All right. I was wondering if any of our listeners have ever thought of what would their gang or like, their street name be if they had to, like, you know, pick their street name. I came up with one for us as a dynamic duo, what we would be, And it's based off of our hairstyles.

1:07:42 Slick and frizzy. Okay, you don't like it, No, you're slick, I'm frizzy. What would you be? Kajack? Kojack? Kajack? Do you not know who Kojack is? No? Oh my god, you're young. Everybody out there, if you know who Kojack is, comment slick want you to know Kojack was look it up while I cover this store. My grandpa used to call me Kojack and I never knew why. Actually it's your is a year turn to cover a store? I just did Clive bar. Yeah, an machine? You look up? Kojack? Oh who loves your baby? Is that it? Yeah? The drum? Oh yeah, jack Man. Actually I do know who that is.

1:08:24 Okay, let's do uh, let's do something in Grapevine, Texas. And this is gonna involve food if you're a foodie. So, a former Chick fil A employee has been arrested and charged with stealing more than eighty thousand dollars from the fast food chain and a brazen refund scheme that involved ringing up nearly eight hundred fake orders of macaroni and cheese and then he credited that money straight to his personal credit card. Keyshun Jones, who had been fired from the Grapevine location in October of twenty five, allegedly returned to the restaurant the following month slipped behind the counter without authorization. And this has all been obtained in surveillance footage, but police say that he then used the restaurant's register to process approximately eight hundred trays of the popular mac and cheese side, each priced around one hundred dollars for a large catering style portion, and then he immediately issued refunds to his own credit card.

1:09:21 The elaborate mac and cheese. Scheme netted him more than eighty grand before the restaurant's owner noticed the suspicious transactions you think and alerted the police. So Jones evaded arrest on multiple occasions over the next five months, but he was taken into custody on April the seventeenth of twenty twenty six with the assistants from the Texas AG's Fugitive Task. Force and the Fort Worth Police Department. Now he is facing felony charges including property theft, money laundering, and evading arrest. He's currently in the Tarrent County Jail. Police described the scheme as one of the more creative fraud cases that they've investigated, noting that the sheer volume of fake mac and cheese orders may the theft standout on the restaurant's books.

1:10:04 Look and it may surprise you and the audience out there to know that Keyshawn James is actually my cousin. No he's not. There's no way, no nice. Look a couple of things here. First of all, I've never had the macaroni cheese at Chick fil A of you. No, but people did get back to us real quick about the cookie trays that you we hadn't had. Well, that has nothing to do with the. They were delicious cookie. Oh yeah, I saw people went back they said they were good. Yeah at Donald's though. Yeah, I haven't had the mac and cheese from Uh you have not, it must. Be pretty good. I hear it's very popular. I've not had it either. I don't go to Chick fil A too much. But I'm gonna tell you what, when we cover these scams, these refund scams on here, it never seeks to amaze me how stupid people are. Like, if you're going to try to pull something off, don't credit it to your personal credit card. That creates what we like.

1:11:03 To call a trup paper trail. Yeah, the first freaking thing you're gonna do is say, well, where did the money go? Who are we crediting? Oh, we're crediting this guy eight hundred times over five months, and that leads me to my second question. How the hell did the owner of this not catch it? For fun? You blaming well? November twenty twenty five is when they noticed the transactions, and in April of twenty twenty six he was caught. Yeah, he was on the run for five months. He did all those at once, right, but it. Was obviously Oh I'm sorry, Yes, that's correct. So it was only it was only a one month time period that they noticed an issue, so I could see that happening. Yeah, because you don't really you know, you're closing out your month, so you're seeing so that makes a little more sense, but still all for the same thing. I mean, this guy have one item and the second. Another point I want to make on this. That's a busy ass Chick fil A. When you're selling eight hundred trays of mac and cheese.

1:12:08 How the hell he's snuck behind the counter? Nobody noticed the fired employee work in the register. That's crazy, that's wild. I wouldn't have the audacity. That's such a thing. I just that's no. It's a been pretty brazen, and I mean it's going to be easy to catch pin and trail man. What a dumbass. Are Kelly any final thoughts? Yeah? I want you all to know that I am actually related to Clyde and jim is not taking it. I want it's a genealogist. If you're listening to this, I want you to trace Clyde's face more to today. Moore showed me that. I gotta see proof of that. I think I think your mom might have been pulling him. She wasn't, No, she wasn't. And I'm related to Elvis.

1:12:50 That ain't a lie either. Oh my god, I am y'ah hear this? Oh my god. It is related to Elvis, which means Elvis is related to clade. You ever seen these hips shake? Elvis is related to Clyde. She ain't got no family nowhere in Louisiana. Related to people, all of them. It's two different sides of the family and the tree branches. We don't have a stick, we have branches. It's not a one way shoot, Jimothy, I'm related to. A man that signed a declaration of independence. Beat that. I believe you. I am. Oh sure, okay, sure, you started this country and my people shot it up. Nope, related to James Wilson. He signed the Declaration of Independence and you can look it up. I'm named my mother's maiden name is Wilson, and James Wilson was I don't know, like my freaking triple great grandfather or whatever, but.

1:13:43 Well we have totally related just so you know. In our jail role, I've. Been for freedom since the beginning of time. Well, right now we have one of our former presidents in jail in Livingston Parish because I looked at the roster and John Quincy Adams, Oh, I saw that is incarcerating there. The same guy obviously. All right, well, thank you. Any final thoughts out again? Thought right, just ask him? Damn all right, folks, we want to thank you so much for listening. If you are a member of the patreon, we are going to go straight into overtime, so you can check that out. If you're curious about the Patreon, we've got our links in the description of this podcast.

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