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This couple just tried to kidnap an innocent child by luring him into their van. And if the police don't capture
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them, dozens of other kids might fall victim to their scheme. But just 15 minutes later, they were surrounded. And
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police had caught them red-handed. PUT YOUR HANDS OUT. DO NOT MOVE. PUT YOUR HAND OUT.
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BUT THERE are more cases of child kidnappers being caught than you'd hope. Like when this man stole a car with a
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child in the back seat, or this man who was found with a group of underageed girls that he claimed were his wives.
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But let's first take a look at these two kidnappers who tried snatching a child right in front of his mother. In
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November 2023, 911 received a call from a distraught woman who claimed a couple tried to snatch her child from the
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street in front of her very eyes. The child's father tried to stop them, but the couple fled. Police quickly arrived
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and immediately began a hunt in an attempt to stop two alleged kidnappers who could strike again at any moment.
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I was driving right here. One bar, white big bar stop right here and a one homeless lady with another man is coming
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outside the van and tried to take the baby the lady and he tried to put the kids inside the van.
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He uses his son. He uses his son. Yes, he has another son and he uses his son. So who came out of the van and grabbed
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physically grabbed the kid? No. Tried to physically The girl. Okay, that was inside the van. There was
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a a male and a female occupying it. Yes. She pops out of the truck. Yes. Grabs your kid.
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Tries to grab [clears throat] my kid. Tries to grab your kid. He say he say literally say, "Listen to
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me. I want to go to the gas station. I'm going to put gas in my truck. I'm going
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to come back to kill everybody in this house." Hey, just calm down, man. Calm down.
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Said a beat up. Is it a beat up van? Is it a new van? No, it's old van. It's old van. Maybe
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you can check the gas station in the street. You live You live inside the truck.
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Believe it or not, incidents like this are terrifyingly common. Over 840,000 children are reported missing every year
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with roughly 16,000 of them reported to be victims of human trafficking. The couple is using their kid as bait to try
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and trick other kids into getting in their van. A disgusting scheme, but one kids will likely fall for. However,
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criminals use white vans on purpose to blend in. And in less than a minute, they're making their first traffic stop.
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Show me your pace forward. Hands up. Stand up. Stop. Stop. Passenger. Passenger state.
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Yeah. Step backwards. Step backwards. Go ahead. Just bring him back here for now.
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Just put him in my car. What? All right. Walk back to me. All right. Stop. You can't blame the police for stopping
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this van, even though it's not the suspects they're looking for. This van is similar to the one the cops are
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looking for, but it's not as beat up as the victims described. But less than 10 minutes later, they think they've
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finally caught their suspect. The reason we pulled you over is cuz there was a description of a van like
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yours. I was trying to pick up two little kids. I just left the office. I'm getting my
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fish sandwich right here. Do you care? Can you just open the door just so we can make sure there's no kids
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or anything? Sorry. It's funny that was my kids. They call it the p of vander. Oh yeah, you're good.
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Luckily for the cops, third time was indeed the charm. As they initiate a traffic stop on a van that's beat up
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enough to be the one they're looking for and with a male and female inside who match the description of the wouldbe
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kidnappers perfectly. Nope. Stay there. Stay in the car. Get back in the car. Where they at?
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I got hit on my lip. All right, driver. Put your hands out the window. Just keep your hands out the window.
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Can you please listen? Nope. I'm not going to listen right now. Drop your phone. Drop your phone.
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Put it down. Put it down, please. I will put it down for you. Drop your phone. Don't listen to my phone.
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That's your son? Yeah, that's my son. Step out. Slow down, puppy. Turn towards the van. Turn towards the
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van. What's up, buddy? You all right? I got the dead as well. [ __ ] Keep your hands
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What's up, buddy? Hey, buddy. How's your day with? Want to step out? Here. Yeah.
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Here. Step out. I got you. Come here. Thankfully, the child with them is their own, but he has been involved in a
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potential kidnapping. It seems the suspect used their own child to try and entice their victim into the back of
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their van, and that could land them with a charge for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. It's a
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first-degree misdemeanor in Florida and comes with a price of one year in jail. But they don't plan to serve a minute of
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that time as they try to manipulate the cops to get off scot-free. Can't use the phone right now.
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Why? Being Cuz you're being detained. How am I being detained for what? Cuz you're being detained. Cuz you fit
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cuz you fit the description. That doesn't matter. That's against the law, bro. That's against the law.
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Y'all didn't even read me my rights. Y didn't tell me nothing. What's the first thing?
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For what? You match the description of what? Of a crime. Of a crime. Somebody that hit my baby
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mama in front of my son. You guys are stealing your son. I'm not stealing your son.
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So, why did you guys put him in that car over there? Your foot back in to answer my question. All right.
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This is This looks nice. You like it? This is how it looks when you're in jail in the backseat of the cop car.
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Sup? I got to take a photo. Oh, you want to check? Didn't even remotely. Y'all violated my rights.
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My camera's literally inside. Y'all violated my rights, bro. Despite the seriousness of the situation,
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neither suspect seems to accept they're in trouble and even claim to be the victim in this whole thing. The boy's
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father hasn't been seen since the incident, and it's believed he's out on the street looking for the suspects
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himself. But when he returns, he's finally able to paint a clearer picture of what went down.
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They already had told me a month ago my daughter felt uncomfortable that that lady was trying to talk to her
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and [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. But when she drove off, the lady comes out and starts you mother. Don't worry,
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I'mma get you. I'm going to get her. I'm going to give it to you. I don't know. Just out loud.
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Oh. So I I'm right here and I'm like like what's going on? Were you all right? Then she came running and just ran up to
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me and I told her, "Yo, back up. Back up." And she just kept coming back. Kept coming back to the point that I wanted
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to hit her but I didn't. I grabbed I was grabbed dirt. I th her but she swung at
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me and then spit at me as a reaction. Yeah. And as a reaction I just I hit her in the mouth.
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Your daughter saying that the lady was like, "Come here. Come here." as that's what I was figuring cuz I
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remember a month ago that she felt like you know that she was trying to she was trying to take
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and then he's saying the same thing the stories combined that this the lady both
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of them were like trying to get your daughter to come to his van after talking to the father the cops
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realized that he only tried to defend himself and his child confirming that the kidnapper's claims of being the
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victim in this situation were completely unjustified without the dad's interference one can only speculate what
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these two could have done with the kidnapped child as well as the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a
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minor. The couple were also charged with enticing a child, which comes with a sentence of a year in jail and a $1,000
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fine. The cops were able to bring this couple to justice using good old-fashioned police work. But this next
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kidnapper was caught when technology did all the work and led police to his exact
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location. Some of you [screaming] get in April 2022, a terrified woman watched as a man stole her car while she was
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trying to park at a Goodwill. The real horror, though, was that she had her 9-year-old son in the back seat, and the
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suspect has fled the scene. This is one of those occasions where it shows it's smart for children to use cell phones,
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as her son has in the car. And she was able to use the Find My iPhone tracker to locate him. But still, police are
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going to have to work fast so they can start an immediate search of the area, including aerial support.
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Radio, they're tracking the car to South Gordon. And hold on, stand by. area location.
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It's right there. I'm going to go look. You're up. Look around and Evans Street.
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I got the car. Peoples and RDA. It isn't long before the vehicle is spotted. And now the race is on to find
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the missing boy and bring him back home safely. Go, go, go, go. Give me the air. People's northbound
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towards Oak Street. GSP is behind him. GSP pit. GSB pit. Another patrol vehicle manages to
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perform a precision immobilization technique or pit maneuver where the fleeing vehicle is nudged by a pursuing
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cop car and made to do a 180 in the middle of the road, bringing the pursuit to an end. It works perfectly here, and
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in seconds, the cops are swarming around the stolen vehicle with the suspect and
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his victim still inside. Show me YOUR DOOR. OPEN DOOR. YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL US. YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL US.
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OH MY GOSH. YES. You trying to kill us? Oh my gosh. YOU TRYING TO KILL ME? WHY WOULD Y'ALL DO THAT, MAN?
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Please don't. Please don't. Don't beat me up, man. Listen. Don't get on. Y'all better kill me. Don't Don't FIGHT
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ME THERE. DON'T FIGHT ME. DON'T fight me. Don't fight me. [screaming] Please. Please.
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YOUR HANDS. I'm under arrest. As always, the main concern is the child, who in this case was brave enough
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to climb out the back of the window while the suspect was being arrested. She come here. I can show you what she
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want. I can show you. [screaming] Yes. [screaming] You did a good job. You did a good job.
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Good job. Excuse me. You okay? You okay? [screaming] Yes. Yeah. We're going to take We're going to
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take it to your mom. You're okay. You're okay. My mom. Yeah. Yeah, she did. Okay. Excuse me.
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Excuse me. That's messed up. The driver, Darius White, was charged with kidnapping, cruelty to children,
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and theft. He was out on a $20,000 bond last we heard. But with charges like those, he could be expecting a lengthy
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spell behind bars. But this 2-year-old boy was thrown into even more of a nightmare and was saved in one of the
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most dramatic police rescues we've ever seen. Police, come out. HEY, POLICE. In March
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2024, a man parked up outside a store in Akran, Ohio, and left the engine running
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while he quickly popped inside for groceries. But that's when 54year-old Larry Spence jumped in his vehicle and
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drove it away. In the back seat was the man's 2-year-old son, and police needed to find the vehicle and bring the boy
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home safely. They Nobody walked down there, right? Listen, here's Don't walk down there. He might
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Here's the deal. Here's the deal. That guy just kidnapped his daughter. Okay, the daughter's in the car, so this is
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kind of a big deal. That's why everybody's here. I put it on my kid's life. No, nobody walked. Where'd he go though?
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I had to have been that way. I wasn't paying attention. I was talking to my grandma. I bet you.
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Let's get the Hey, LET'S GET PERIMETER ON THE TAP. Police tracked Spence's vehicle to this
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local bar using the Flock camera system, which uses license plate recognition technology to help locate wanted
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vehicles. The Flock camera system was installed in 2022 and has helped assist in various crimes ever since, becoming
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an ever useful tool in the fight against crime. police come out. Hey, police come
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outside. Come out. Someone come. Hey, HEY, HEY. ANYONE [screaming] INSIDE? COME OUT NOW
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WITH YOUR HANDS UP. HANDS UP NOW. Already got mail coming out to your right. How many people are in here still?
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Any white males in there? No. Does anybody know what's going on there? Noone else inside.
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Hey Jason, they got him. The vehicle was found on East Street and Florida Avenue, and the boy was still
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strapped in his car seat, unaware of the danger he was in. It's okay, buddy. It's okay.
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You're all right. You like Check this out. You like flashlights? Oh, it's okay. You want to hold this?
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No. No. It's okay. Here. I'm going to take you out. Okay. It's okay. Let's get you out
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of here. It's okay. Your jammy's wet. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
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It seems like the excitement has finally gotten the better of the young child, but this cop tries his best to make him
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feel safe until his parents can arrive and try to distract him from the man who's just kidnapped him as he's being
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placed into the back of a patrol car, ready to await his fate. Come here. I'll hold you.
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You're all right. You're a brave boy. You're you're a big brave boy. We're going to get you home to your
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daddy. Think this is going to work? You're the father here. Just wrap it around.
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Yeah, we could just We don't want you to get cold. I just uncle part time and every now and then
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babysit. [laughter] All right. Have a seat bus. Spence was charged with grand theft auto
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of a motor vehicle and is still waiting to go to trial as of May 2024. But he could be facing a long time behind bars
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as a kidnapping charge alone can come with a 10-year sentence to life. But none of these cases have been quite as
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horrifying as this next one when a driver was pulled over hiding not just a truckload of underage girls, but what
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could only be described as a polygamist cult. What are the hands? I see the hands.
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Let's get that other door open. There was hands sticking out of the top of the trailer.
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Motorists in Flagstaff, Arizona became concerned after witnessing something wrong with a pickup truck driving
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through town. There appeared to be fingers poking out of the trailer the pickup was towing. When caught up with
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the vehicle, they found self-proclaimed prophet Samuel Baitman behind the wheel,
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and he had several young girls with him, raising a lot of eyebrows. Even though some of these girls were minors, it's
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suspected that they are among his 20 wives. No one in the bed truck. There's no one in the trailer.
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Let's get everyone out of the car. Come on out. Everyone out of the car. Let's start
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taking them back to the cars. have IDs? No. Come back. Start heading back there.
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Come with me. I'll come. Baitman has several young girls with him in the pickup, and police suspect
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there's even more in the back of his trailer, but police aren't prepared for what they find when they open the door.
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This is the police. We're going to be opening the door. I want your hands empty AND ABOVE YOUR HEAD.
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If you do not, you will suffer the consequences. Where are the hands? I see the hands.
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Let's get that other door open. There was hands sticking out of the top of the trailer.
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I see your hands. There they are. They're in the behind the curtain. Okay. Keep your hands up for me. Go and
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walk out towards me. Okay. Try not to slip. All right. Inside there were makeshift beds and three girls aged
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between 11 and 14. Vateman ran his own church and was rumored to have a nasty temper that he inflicted on anyone who
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didn't do as he asked. He was able to manipulate his followers, even building intimate relationships with minors. This
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could explain why these girls simply refuse to cooperate with police even if they want to.
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How old are you? 14. 14. How old are you? 11. How old are you? 12. follow you. How old are you?
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Like you don't have to say or you just following her. Okay. Does everyone have water? Anyone like
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needing uh water or anything? Okay, we'll do that as soon as our investigation is done here. Okay. Why
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children are being transported in a vehicle? We're getting calls about uh hands sticking out of a vehicle, out of
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the trailer. Um so that is why we're contacting you guys. And they meet with similar resistance
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from Baitman himself, who seems unusually uncomfortable having to give police any information at all.
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How many other people are in the truck? Any information I can get? Well, I just want to know who's inside the truck
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right now. So that way I know who else we're dealing with here or else I call everybody out.
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As you can see, there's a pretty serious deal here. Sir, what's your name? Samuel.
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Samuel. What? Do I have to tell you my name? I'm asking for your name. I don't have to pay,
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sir. Yes, sir. Is she the driver? Yeah. Okay. You have to identify yourself. You
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understand that, right? I don't just want Yeah. Samuel making Samuel I I just got here. Explain to me
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what's going on. Calm down. I am calm. You're being videoed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're being videoed as well.
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Okay. His alleged wives seem more concerned for Baitman than the fact he's placed
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some of them in danger by driving them around in the back of his trailer. It seems no matter what these cops try,
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only one of the girls is willing to speak. And even she remains defiant. Right now, we're just investing.
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We're just investigating. Okay. You're not being charged with anything at the moment. You're not free
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to go because if we are uh conducting an investigation. What about him? At this point, he's detained right now.
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I don't know. Makes me mad. Okay. I understand that. But like he said, once we do our investigation, we
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can figure this out. But we just need you guys to give us your names and stuff. Let him know.
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No, ma'am. You're not going to decide the outcome of this. We will decide and we'll let you know how everything's
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going to happen here. Okay. So do me a favor. When I talk to you, I'll talk to you. When I talk to someone else, don't
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answer for them. They are afraid. Oh, I they have no reason to be afraid of me. The only reason I've had to keep
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addressing you is because you keep stepping in and I need to be able to talk to everyone.
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We are just trying to figure this out right now. What is going on? Okay. It is not normal practice for people to be
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transported in a trailer. A follower of Baitman later revealed how he was taken advantage of by using his deep-seated
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Mormon faith against him. He was so devoted that he allowed scheming Baitman to marry several of his wives and even
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helped fund his lavish lifestyle. Samuel Baitman, what's your date of birth? Let's run them.
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What is your date of birth, sir? Okay. All right, sir. Behind your back. Put your hands behind.
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Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back.
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Let's not do this right now. Huh? You are being detained until you identify yourself.
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Do I have to tell my name? Yes, you have to identify yourself. You are being detained for a crime.
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Daniel, we're still putting you in handcuffs. So, just sit tight. We're just need to
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identify you. Figure out what's going on. We'll go from there. The reason I'm detaining you is because you failed to
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identify yourself when I asked. Okay. I did. I said Yeah. What about date of birth?
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Well, I didn't ask my social security number. That would have worked, too. Oh. Sir, can you bend back so I can lock
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this in? That's kind of hurting. Well, I need you to cooperate. What I'm looking at after discussing
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that with that sort of so Okay. Baitman was arrested and released on bond, but this would only be the start
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of his legal worries as he was arrested again a month later after police discovered he'd told his wives to delete
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messages and incriminating evidence from their phones. Altogether, he racked up 51 felony charges that include the most
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disgusting crimes against children. Baitman is being held without bail in a private prison in Arizona and still
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awaiting trial.