OFFICER LANE: If you don't
start coming truthful, I'm gonna hammer you. You understand? I'm gonna give you everything
that you've got coming to you. You need to start being honest. [MUSIC - INNER CIRCLE, "BAD
BOYS"] (SINGING) Bad boys,
what you want? What you want? What you gonna do when Sheriff
John Brown come for you? OFFICER LOPEZ: We're
at the red light. We're stopped. I observed a dark SUV. I pointed out to my
partner, Officer Lane, that the vehicle had
extensive damage. I noticed by the front
bumper there was dragging, it was making noise. It sort of got my
attention, as well. OFFICER LANE: We
decided to follow it to see where it was going,
and it led us back here to a residence. And eventually, after
awhile, we found out it was involved
with an accident. What did you hit? [CRYING] OFFICER LANE: Look at this. Look, look, look sweetie. What is that? SUSPECT: It's been
like that [INAUDIBLE] OFFICER LANE: I guess
the situation was, she's had some past
history, and she was involved with the accident. She was emotionally distraught,
which caused her to, I guess to be upset. She was crying from
the loss of her friend and also being involved
with the accident. She was very scared
and she just didn't know what to think
when, you know, two officers approached
her very rapidly and ask her what's going on? How'd you get the
damage to your vehicle? OFFICER LOPEZ: She
didn't seem, I mean, she's saying her friend died. She seemed real emotional. The way she was
acting, it seemed like she was like
nervous or scared, so she's crying
at the same time. So we were trying
to help her out. We had a feeling
she was lying to us. So that's why we we're trying
to, you know, work with her. Get the whole accident
taken care of. OFFICER LANE: So let's
talk cordial and find out what's going on so we can try
to work things out easily. SUSPECT: Right. OFFICER LANE: OK, what happened? OFFICER LOPEZ: She
hit something red, Ty. OFFICER LANE: Did you hit a car? Did you hit a pole? Did you hit a tree? Did you hit a plane? SUSPECT: I just hit a pole. OFFICER LANE: You hit a pole? Why didn't you just say that
when I asked youse that? OFFICER LOPEZ: When we first
saw her and saw the damage when we got up here, she was
telling us she hit a pole, but, you know, with the
damage and the paint transfer, I knew she hit something else. Poles here are generally
not painted red, so I knew that's
possibly a vehicle. That's why we want
to look for it. OFFICER LANE: The
whole situation could have been rectified
a whole lot earlier if she would have just came forward. We could have done the
exchange of the information. She'd have probably got
out of one of the tickets. Maybe we'd have let her
off for, you know, leaving the scene of an accident. But in this situation, she lied
to us at first and sometimes-- I hate to do it. But a lot of us officers
will talk to them gruffly which kind of
either makes them angered or they'll turn
around and finally give in to say, yeah,
I did this and that just brings a conclusion
to the situation at hand. I'm not gonna sit here
and play games all night. You either come forward
and tell me the truth, and we might not
take you to jail. SUSPECT: You can ask my
friend where I just left from. OFFICER LANE: But yeah,
I don't know what-- SUSPECT: I'm sitting
here telling you. OFFICER LANE: OK,
listen, listen. Be quiet. You're going to listen. I'm gonna talk and we're
going to communicate, and you're gonna answer
my questions yes or no. And I mean verbally answer
them, you understand? I drove that alleyway. You didn't hit a pole in
that alleyway, am I correct, yes or no? It's on the tip of your tongue. I know you wanna to tell me. Just tell me what you hit so
we can go take care of it. That's it. I'm gonna go take the vehicle
and she's going to jail. OFFICER LOPEZ: Then Officer
Lane is getting tired of, you know, of her
lying, so, you know, he had a little, you
know, speech with her. You know, talk with
her, and eventually she came out told us what she did. OFFICER LANE: In the
end it wrapped up. We were able to-- after
she came forward and told us the truth about
her hitting a car, we was able to locate
the car by following her and another officer
to the location. Upon arrival, we
finally met the owner of the vehicle that said
that they had just concluded doing a hit and run vehicle
accident on the vehicle that was hit in the street in
front of their residence. OFFICER LOPEZ: When did
you guys actually find out about this car
being hit earlier? This is your vehicle, correct? MAN: Correct. OFFICER LOPEZ: OK. When did you find out? How long ago? MAN: We found out
about an hour ago. OFFICER LOPEZ:
About an hour ago? MAN: An hour and 20 minutes ago. OFFICER LOPEZ: OK. So you guys already made
a police report on this? MAN: We did. OFFICER LOPEZ: OK. Did you guys know who-- did you
guys get any kind of, you know, witnesses? MAN: We did. We heard it. We heard the crash, and my
neighbors came to the door and said somebody
just hit your truck. Their daughter saw it all. Saw the vehicle hit the truck,
back up, and take off again. OFFICER LOPEZ: OK. Did he give a description
of the vehicle? MAN: Black SUV. And the bumper had just--
didn't completely fall off, but they were dragging-- OFFICER LOPEZ:
Dragging the bumper? OK. We got the red paint
from your vehicle. There's a red transfer paint
on her vehicle as well. OFFICER LANE: We were able to
exchange information with him and she was issued
a couple citations for leaving the
scene of an accident and also fail to control speed. And so later on she'll
appear in court, or she'll actually take care
of the citations herself.
