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Come back here and stand by the back side of the car. You'll be detained right now. Okay.
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Do you have anything illegal in the car? Okay. Sometimes a simple stop can lead to some
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of the most shocking discoveries ever made. Jesus. 4 kilos. From busting $500,000 worth of illegal
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substances to discovering a missing body in a car, here are four of the craziest
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unexpected police busts of all time. Starting with a stop that ended up saving multiple lives. There's a [ __ ]
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bomb in the back of my car. On January 24th, 2022, a Walmart employee notified cops that a woman had stolen $300 worth
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of Legos from their store. Initially, there was nothing out of the ordinary about this, just a regular shoplifting
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call. And that's how the cops approached it when they spotted her vehicle and pulled it over. But just minutes later,
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the cops would discover something that would turn things from simple to one of the most strange and terrifying stops
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we've ever covered. Hey, I'm Officer Johnson. Hi. Hey. Hey, you got your license insurance
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on you? So, the reason we stopped you is today cuz Walmart called and they're could you suspect of possibly ringing up
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some items? I bought. You bought items? Yeah. Okay. Again, things started out quite simple.
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Obviously, she denies the allegations of stealing. So, the cops check her ID and
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decide how they want to approach the situation. But when the second cop comes back to ask her some questions, that's
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when things get crazy. So, what were you doing at Walmart? Is that? Yeah. Buying.
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Okay. Cuz we're going to call you stole Legos earlier. As he's talking with the girl who
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identified as 20-year-old Mariah, he noticed the stolen Legos in the back seat next to something that was much
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more concerning. Will you roll down your back window for me? Thank you. [groaning]
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What is all that? All right, go ahead and hop out real quick. You're going to be detained right now.
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Okay, bro. Yeah, go ahead and secure her. There's a [ __ ] bomb in the back of that car.
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Like bunch of fireworks strapped together with like metal and [ __ ] and wrapped around.
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Explain to me what that device is in the back of your car that looks like a bomb.
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Uh, I didn't. My boyfriend made that. Okay, sit tight. As the cop said, he spotted what
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appeared to be an explosive device in the backseat of the car, right next to the stolen Legos. Things just went from
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0 to 100 instantly, especially as the girl says she's been arrested multiple times before, and that her boyfriend is
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allegedly involved in this as well. And things only become more concerning when they look more closely at the device and
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see exactly how it's constructed. Can you start a supervisor out here? It looks like there's some sort of
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explosive device in the back of the car that someone has built. It's got like four big ass fireworks,
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big old screws and [ __ ] all within that. And then it's wrapped got like a bunch
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of stuff wrapped around it. It's definitely made to cause some damage when it goes off. Even though the cops
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are fairly certain it's not set to explode remotely, they still have to take every precaution to protect the
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public and so shut off the roads around the vehicle as quickly as possible. Then
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it's on to the next most important task, finding out exactly who made it and what
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they were planning to do with it. She just all she said is that uh her boyfriend made it.
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Um, so we probably want to figure out who boyfriend is and uh if there's any more at his house maybe.
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So what what's the deal in the back of your car? You said your boyfriend built it?
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I honestly have no I don't know nothing about fireworks except fireworks. Okay. What's your boyfriend's name?
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Zayn. Zayn. Yeah. Okay. When did he make that? or like um yes couple days ago. Okay. Do you know why he made it or
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anything? He just made it. She was then asked to call her boyfriend who arrived on foot soon later. If you
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think things are strange already, just wait until you see how he behaves. What's up, bud?
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What's your name? Zane. Vinnie. Okay, Zay, come over here and hang out for a second. Yes,
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sir. Do you have any ID on you? Uh my girlfriend had it all her. Okay. Notice that the very first thing
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Zayn asks is if he can get his car back. He wasn't told why he had to come to the
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scene, but it's obvious he's aware of exactly what's in that back seat and is desperate to figure out a way out of
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this. Where'd you come from? My friend had brought it up here. So, you're not an arrest, but I'm going
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to detain real quick cuz we got some things we got to talk about. So, man, I I'll just I'll just cut to
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the chase and I'll tell you why we have like all this shut down and everything. Is is it has to do with the little
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device you've made. It looks like some fireworks tied together, some nolan buds to it. So, so that's why we have this
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all shut down because it's kind of our protocol is is it it looks like an explosive device, you know,
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do you is it like active? Is it like volatile to where if it falls, breaks, is it going to go off?
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It's literally just fireworks. Like like if you take it apart, it's a bunch of little fireworks.
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With Zayn in the back seat being questioned, tensions were high as they tried to figure out exactly what he was
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going to do with the weapon. But strangely, the only person who didn't seem nervous was Zayn himself. And the
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reason why is even more perplexing than anything else in the whole case. So yeah, he he said he's just out doing
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he was going to do some redneck stuff today and he was going to take it out and blow up some watermelons with it. He
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said it's a couple of fireworks tied together. You have to light it like a normal firework. And he said I just
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wanted to see what the stuff I taped to it on the outside would do if I lit it by watermelon.
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All the screws and everything. Yeah. I said I said were you trying to use it as a weapon? were you going to,
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you know, go do anything today? He goes, "No, I was just going to blow up some watermelons." And I said, "Okay." I was
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like, "All right, cool." So, he didn't even seem really nervous at all about it. As insane as Zayn's story sounded,
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it turned out to be true. And a few hours later, the bomb squad determined the device to be safe, constructed out
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of fish hooks, bolts, and fireworks. Nevertheless, Zayn was charged with illegally manufacturing an explosive
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device and Mariah with petty lararseny for stealing the Legos. But not every case like this has such a happy ending.
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Just like the cops found out when they made the biggest bust of their careers while on a completely routine traffic
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stop. I'm a criminal. I'm not a crook. I was not going to get in my car. I swear to you.
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But as the cops would find out, this man was much more than a criminal. He'd been
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hiding a deadly secret for almost 28 years. On the 16th of August 2022, officers from the Okone County Sheriff's
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Office were conducting random registrations on random vehicles when a Mazda flagged up as having no insurance
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and a suspended license. The driver identified himself as Rise Sack and immediately seemed not just anxious, but
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terrified. What's your What's your last name? Mr. Kim. Mr. Kim. Okay. All right. I'm going to have you go and
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step out the vehicle for me. All right. So, here here's what's going to happen, sim. Okay.
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Um, unfortunately, I'm going to have to place you into custody today. Okay. You're going have to go down to jail.
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Oh, no. You got to get booked in. They're going to take your fingerprints and picture
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and you'll get a bond. But because you're driving on suspended license, you got to go down to jail.
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Sir, I did not know. I have children. I have a sick uncle and I run the household.
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I unfortunately we don't have a choice at this time. So, place an arrest. Go ahead, turn around. Put your hands money
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back, please. Please put your hands money back. Sim was all but ready to leave before
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the deputies notified him that he was being detained for having no valid insurance. Something that seemed to
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immediately set him off. From this point on, watch how Seekum acts around the cops. It's understandable to be nervous
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and uncomfortable in this situation, but something about the extent of Seekum's anxiety seems odd to the cops.
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Set your phone up on the car. They're putting me under arrest right now. Dave, I don't know. But driving was suspended
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license. Driver was suspended license. I didn't know. And this and it's not even showing. Unfortunately, the law is
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different here in Georgia than it is in South Carolina. You have a suspended license, you have to go down to the jail
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and get booked in. But but sir, can you speak to my aunt? She We're on speaker phone right now.
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No, please speak to her. Please speak to her. I'm the only one that can help with
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my uncle that's sick and I can use right now. Please. Sorry about that. Push some of the
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stuff. Please, sir. Please, sir. Yes, sir. We're going to walk you through my bar.
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Sir, please. My aunt is old. She's 80 years old. Sir, please sir. You haven't even
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Please check me. Please check everything on you. I'm going to search you in arrest.
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Huh? See, it says emergency 911. Yes. 4 seconds. Separate your feet a little bit. Nothing
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in your pockets, right? Sir, please. What all do you need out of your car? Sir, I have a child at the house that
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they cannot take care of. What all do you need out of your car? Sir, I beg you. I beg of you all. I will not
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touch my car. You will take my keys out. The only crime Sum has committed is driving without the valid insurance and
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license necessary. This is not a major crime by any means and could be punishable solely by a small fine and a
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short ban from driving. It's not the end of the world for a second and the cops are trying to communicate that to him,
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but nothing seems to calm him down and the officers start to get suspicious. Sir, I do for my entire family.
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Okay. Well, you know, I don't have a choice here, man. I'm telling you that. I told you I was not going to get in my
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car. I don't have a choice. I wasn't going to get in my car. Suspended license. You driving a car
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without insurance. You got that taken care of. They're doing it every day. Suspended registration.
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You have to go down to the jail and get booked in. You take your photograph. They're going to take your fingerprints.
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They'll give you a bond amount and you can bond out and then you can get on the way up to the hospital, but you can't
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drive. Sir, I I So, have a seat for me, please. Okay. May I speak after you? Have a seat for me.
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Are you going to sit down and then I'll listen to you? Okay. So, what do you what do you want
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to tell on on everything? My aunt just [clears throat] had a stroke. My uncle just had a stroke two and a half weeks
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ago. I'm here helping my family. I don't even know who can come and bomb me out. I don't even know who can come
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and buy me out. I'm not a criminal. I'm not a crook. I'm If you I look how old I
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am. Did you get a ticket or something? I mean, why would they suspend your license in South Carolina?
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Sim just isn't listening and only gets more anxious. He's continuously pleading with the cops and attempting to seem
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like a respectable family man. But one major thing stands out in this piece of footage. In his attempts to seem
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trustworthy, he's been pretty consistently maintaining eye contact with the officers. But take a look at
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what he's saying during the first moment he breaks eye contact for a significant
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amount of time. I'm not a criminal. I'm not a crook. I'm If you look how old I am.
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That break in eye contact implies heavily that what he's saying isn't the truth. And he subconsciously wants to
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look away in this moment because the bond of trust is broken. Obviously, in the grand scheme of things, this could
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never be used to convict someone or even be used as probable cause to search, but
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it is a pretty brazen sign of what the cops will soon discover. I just found out that maybe when we had
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a car that I had that got repossessed that I didn't take my name off of it. Okay.
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Um, I wouldn't imagine that they'd suspend you for a repossession. But that's what I'm saying. I did I
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don't But but no no information is coming up. I won't drive. I won't I'll have my cousin. Can you slide your legs
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in for us? You're not going to speak to me? No, unfortunately. I told you I've already explained my position.
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Ow, this hurts. I don't have a choice. Look, you can get in and get out. All right.
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I can get in and get out. Yeah. Like they'll book you in. If you have somebody that can bond you out, you
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have a preset bond, so you can bond out of jail. You don't have to wait to see a
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judge. But how much is that? Uh, I'm not quite sure. They'll give it to you when we get there. Okay, we'll
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work with you. All right, we'll try to get you out as quick as possible. The cops are being extremely nice to
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Seekum, trying to put his mind at ease by repeating that it isn't a huge deal and that he'll be out by the end of the
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day. But that wasn't the case at all. Sim was taken back to the police station and processed. But when he was asked to
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scan his fingerprints, a match was found, and the name wasn't the one he'd given. Instead, it was Muhammad Elamin.
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And there was a reason he was on file. 28 years ago in 1994, Muhammad allegedly shot and killed a man with a handgun at
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a train station before fleeing and seemingly disappearing entirely. It took a simple suspended license for the three
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decadel long manhunt to come to an end. And Muhammad is currently awaiting trial. He will almost certainly be
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facing the full charges for his crimes as violent crimes, especially those resulting in death, are exempt from the
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statute of limitations. So many criminals seem to forget about smaller crimes while they're on a big job. And
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that's exactly the mistake this man made that led him to a murder charge. On July
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29th, 2020, a Louisiana cop pulled over a vehicle speeding on the highway. It started just the same as any other
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traffic stop, but a search of the vehicle uncovered something horrifying. Saw there's a dead body in a trunk.
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Not only was Mitchell going almost 20 m an hour over the speed limit, [music] but he didn't even have a driver's
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license. Uh, do you have your driver's license? No, sir. Do you have a driver's license?
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No, sir. This charge alone could net him fines of up to $500 in 6 months in jail. Not to
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mention the fines [music] from the speeding ticket. But unbeknownst to the cop, Mitchell will be going back with
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more than just a speeding ticket. Is there any weed in the car, man? Let's don't stop. Step here. Is there any weed
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in the car? Yes or no? Just a doo be and ash. Like Okay. Other than that, dizzy.
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Anything else? Dizzy. When's the When did you puff last? This was Be honest. Cuz I'm a drug recognition expert.
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About an hour ago. The cop is looking to get Mitchell on more than just a DUI charge. An 18-year-old speeding in a car
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like this that stinks of weed tells the cop that there may be something deeper to this traffic stop than a kid going
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too fast. But before he asks to search the vehicle for any other drugs, Mitchell starts to act increasingly
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suspicious. All right. Where are you headed right now? [music] I was headed to I was headed back home.
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Where's home? What's your address? No. Stop. Stop. Come here. Where do you live? It's easy.
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It's easy to answer this. Where do you live? You You don't know how to drive to your
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house? I was coming from dead. I got lost. So, what's the address? You don't know your address?
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No, sir. Okay. Come back here. Can I take a look at your car? Yes or no? Yes, sir. Mitchell has now consented to
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the search of his vehicle. The cop is realistically only searching for weed and any other drugs possibly in the car,
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but he has no idea what he's actually about to find. A search of the front seats turn up
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nothing, but upon examining the outside of the car, the cop discovered multiple bullet holes across the left side of the
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vehicle. It's becoming more and more obvious to the cop that something is not right at all here. And this suspect was
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likely caught up in something much bigger than he first realized. When did all this happen? When did all
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that happen? That happened. When my brother, he said, "How long ago?" Days. Yeah. Okay. Come back. Just leave
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this here. Come back here. Just stay right here in front of my car. Hey, it's Jesse again. I'm sorry to
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bother you. I got this car speeding 7355. It's a black and orange Camaro and it's got like three bullet holes in
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the left side of it. He said he thinks [music] his brother said his car was in something two nights ago.
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The officer's check of the vehicle returns nothing other than proof [music] Mitchell is lying. his address comes
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back as somewhere completely different to where he's staying and the car is registered to someone with [music] a
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completely different surname. Now, he says he lives in Winsboro, [music] but he's got a Richwood address and the
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car comes back out of Monroe and he's got this uh he's got a GPS thing put in, but he don't even know the address, so
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he's lying about a bunch of junk. Where do you live? Be honest to me, Monroe. Yes.
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Richwood. You don't live in Winsboro. Why would you try to bluff me on that? Why would you lie to me on that? Cuz I
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already knew that before this guy said something. What's up? Talk to me. You better stop lying to me right now or you
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going to be in jail. I'm just going I'm just going to my sisters. To your sisters.
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That's the last freaking lie you better tell me. This whole situation is already
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immensely confusing. But then all of a sudden, something even [music] weirder happens. A completely random man pulls
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up at the scene claiming that his family are looking for him. His family in Monro is looking for him.
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They saw me out here. Okay. All right. Well, I got somebody pulling up behind me. Scooter. What do
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you mean they were looking for him? They looking for him. The car missing. Hey. Okay. Give me Give me Hey, man. He's not
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giving that name, though. He's He's He's given another name. And when they give yet another different
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name for Mitchell and [music] the owner of the vehicle, the cop rightfully is at
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a loss. This has gone from a traffic stop to a full-on mystery. And the cop is determined to get to the bottom of
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it. There's a kid that's been reported missing and that they took the car from Monroe
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and he lied to me about his last name. I mean his address and where he's from. Random guy pulls up behind me. He said,
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"Hey, this guy's looking for that kid. I need to know if this car has been reported missing, stolen." And I know
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he's BSing to me about where he's going. He says he's going to his sister's house
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down here. If you could Hey, talk to him. See if you can figure out if the sister thing is legit. He said this guy
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gave him the car. He's got the GPS on his phone on the on the back lid. He said that's where he's going. And I
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knew he was lying then. Slowly, things are starting to become more clear. If Mitchell is telling the truth, it seems
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as though his brother is letting him drive a car that he stole from the original owner. But that still doesn't
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explain the bullet holes, why Mitchell lied about his address, or why the random man appeared looking for him
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knowing he was driving that vehicle. But now, on top of all of that, the cop has
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also just been told over the radio that there's a missing person report hidden amongst this mess. What I'm being told
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is that the boy who gave him permission to use the car is missing. So, he's lying his ass off. Go looking
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for the person who owns the car, find out that the the son of the owner of the car is missing. And now we got bullet
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holes all in the car. I got you. So something's bad. The only thing he lied about was
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his address. And when he's if he's knows something about this boy that's missing bullet holes, I'd
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like to at least I guess I'll do as much good contact as I can. A few more calls are made and it turns
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out the missing person is Michael Robinson, the alleged brother of the boy at the scene [music] and the man who
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gave him permission to be driving the car today. However, it's [music] still unclear who owned the car in the first
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place. But the cop decides to forget about that for a moment and examine the vehicle a second time now that backup
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has arrived. Like this looks close like bam bam bam bam. Yeah. in the boat. Okay. See?
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See? Little did he know this is where all his questions would be answered at once in
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the most gruesome way imaginable. I'm going to do the obvious thing I want to do.
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Hey. Yep. Put your hands up. Put your hand behind it behind your back. Put your hands
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behind your back. You have a right to an attorney. Have one present during any questioning. At
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any time you choose not to make any statements or answer any questions. Do you understand? If you cannot afford an
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an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you by the court. Do you understand? Inside the trunk was the
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body of Michael Robinson. And all of a sudden, everything makes sense. 26 is 1253057125
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0357. F39 troop FS. Go ahead. Um, need a supervisor out here. All right. I get the guy out. He's super
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nervous. Uh, he lies to me about his address. He's got no driver's license. [music] He says he's going to his house
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in Winssborough. Well, I find out he lives in Richwood. I pop the trunk. Sorry. There's a dead body in the trunk.
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Okay. So, I'm not We're We blocked We blocked in front of the car and behind the car.
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We've shut the trunk. We've shut the trunk. I have Franklin Parish Sheriff's Office with me. Uh we're at 82.
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Okay, we're not we're we're done. It turns out Michael Robinson wasn't related to Mitchell at all. Instead, he
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was merely an unintentional casualty of an armed robbery Mitchell was part of earlier.
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Who is that? Who is that? Who is who? That's Mike. That's Mike. How did Mike get there?
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Tell me. It wasn't me, man. He wish. I just hit the I just hit him, bro. I didn't
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You just hit him. I just In the mayhem of the robbery, Mitchell shot Robinson multiple [music] times
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with a handgun before loading him into his trunk and driving him away to Winssboro to dump the body. But of
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course, before he could make it, [music] he was pulled over by the officer for speeding. Michael Mitchell is being
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charged for the armed robbery and the secondderee murder of Michael Robinson. Mitchell is currently awaiting his
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trial, but is expected to be sentenced to life behind bars.