Woman gets stolen truck back, shocked to find what's inside

CRIMES AND WHAT IT TOOK TO GET POLICE TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT. >> BACKPACK DEFINITELY A GIRLS SITTING ON CHRISTIE PENNINGTON'S COUNTER. IT'S NOT HER SAW HER DAUGHTERS IN FACT SHE HAS NO IDEA WHO THE BACK BELONGS TO THAT I WANT TO KEEP THIS STUFF. SHE JUST KNOWS THE ITEMS SHE FOUND IN IT HAVE ARE FEELING AN EASY JUST SCARY TO ME. IT ALL STARTED JUNE 29TH, RIGHT THERE IN THAT PARKING SPOT ON FRONT STREET THAT'S WHERE PENNINGTON'S HAS BEEN PARKED US 2005 RED CHEVY SILVERADO TRUCK MY HUSBAND WENT OUTSIDE TO GET OR CANNED ABOUT AN HOUR LATER POLICE PULLED UP THE ASK QUESTIONS COMB FOR EVIDENCE PUT TOGETHER A REPORT WE GOT WAS COUNT. BUT WEEKS LATER OFFICER SPOTTED THE TRUCK ON MOUNT MORIAH ROAD. >> THEY SAY THE DRIVER THREATENED SOMEWHAT SLIGHT WHEN THEY TRIED TO PULL HIM OVER. >> WE LET THEM ON A CHASE INTO MISSISSIPPI DITCHING PENNINGTON STRUCK BEFORE HE WAS PUT INTO HANDCUFFS WHEN I CALLED TO TELL IS ARE LIKE WOW THAT'S SOMETHING AUGUST 11TH PENNINGTON WAS ABLE TO GET HER TRUCK FROM THE IMPOUND LOT. SHE SHOWED US THESE PICTURES OF WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE RAHM HAD BEEN SLAPPED ON THE BACK OF IT THE BED FULL OF TIRES AND DIRTY TOOLS NONE OF IT BELONGED TO HER. INSIDE WAS EVEN WORSE PILES AND PILES OF STOP PENNINGTON SAID RIGHT AWAY HER HUSBAND STARTED SIFTING THROUGH IT BE FOUND. >> SEVERAL ONE OF THEM WAS JUST LIKE A NOW YOU KNOW GLASSES STUFF LIKE THAT. ANOTHER BAG WAS FULL OF AND SO WE KEPT THAT NOT THINKING ANYTHING YOU KNOW AND THEN GRABBED THIS BAG HAS IN THAT OLD BACKPACK THAT CONTAINED 2 LAPTOPS OF CREDIT CARDS IDS BELONGING TO A MAN AND 2 WOMEN. >> I ALL THESE 2 GIRLS NINES AND I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING ON EITHER ONE OF THEM THEN SHE FOUND THE SOCIAL SECURITY CARD I WHAT THAT DOES >> AND THAT'S WHEN I DISCOVERED THAT HE WAS ONE OF AND THAT WAS ARRESTED IN JANUARY FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING YOU HEARD RIGHT THE NAME ON THE SOCIAL SECURITY CARD TO BOTH SAT WORKS. >> THE SAME NAME AS THIS GUY'S ARRESTED IN JANUARY DURING A HUMAN TRAFFICKING STING. INVESTIGATORS SAY HE HAD METH AND CRACK ON HIM WHEN HE AGREED TO HAVE WITH 2 UNDERCOVER AGENTS, POSING A 16 YEAR-OLD PROSTITUTES AT A HOTEL IN HARBOR TOWN. PENNINGTON THOUGHT POLICE WOULD WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE ITEMS SHE FOUND THAT'S WHEN I THE PLACE AND IT DID TO. REPORT EVERYTHING'S LIGHT. WE ARE INVESTIGATIONS WE DON'T NEED ANYTHING YOU CAN DO WITH WHAT YOU WANT SHE ALSO CALLED THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE BUT SAYS THE WOMAN WHO ANSWERED THE PHONE WASN'T INTERESTED EITHER JUST LIKE OKAY, IT'S WEIRD TO ME THAT OK AND THEN. YOU THINK SOMEONE WOULD WANT TO STOP YOU WITH THAT JUST TAKE A LOOK AT IT, JUST TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT IT IT'S PROBABLY NOTHING. >> I DON'T WANT THAT TO BE MY DAUGHTER IS SOMEBODY DID SOMETHING IN CASE THERE WAS SOMETHING WE REACHED OUT TO THE MPD THE DA'S OFFICE AND THE TBI AND PD TOLD US THEY TAKE CARE OF IT. OFFICERS ASKED PENNINGTON TO BRING THE ITEMS TO THE NORTH MAIN PRECINCTS. WERE THERE SHE CARRIED THE BACKPACK. RIGHT INTO THE STATION I WENT INSIDE WITH PENNINGTON AND WAS THERE WHEN SHE HANDED OVER THE BACKPACK TO AN OFFICER HE WENT THROUGH IT AND FOUND A TINY NEEDLE INSIDE. HE ASSURED HER THAT HE WOULD HAND IT OVER TO CRIME INVESTIGATORS WHO WOULD THEN TAKE A LOOK AT IT TO SEE IF ANY OF IT POSSIBLE EVIDENCE PENNINGTON SAYS SHE'LL CONTINUE TO GO THROUGH THE MASK AND WISHES SHE HADN'T THROWN THINGS AWAY BEFORE REALIZING NOT EVERYTHING IN THE TRUCK IS TRASH. >> MPD SAYS THEIR OFFICERS WENT THROUGH EVERYTHING IN THE TRUCK AND TOOK INVENTORY. THEY SAY THEY FOUND METH AND TECH SAUCE AND TOOLS BELIEVED TO BE STOLEN. THEY TOLD US THEY WON'T REMOVE ITEMS FROM A VEHICLE IN CASE THEY BELONG TO THE OWNER. THEY ASKED THAT PEOPLE CALL THE DETECTIVE BACK IF THEY FIND ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS. BUT THAT'S WHAT PENNINGTON TRIED TO DO WE DON'T KNOW WHY OFFICERS DIDN'T WANT THESE ITEMS AT FIRST. SHE NOW FEELS BETTER POLICE ARE TAKING A SECOND LOOK AND LET THEM DO WITH IT WHAT THEY WANT. I DON'T WANT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OF IT JESSICA GERTLER WRE G CHANNEL 3 OH YEAH WE GET IT AND ACJEHISSNG ICA HA

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Length: 4min 22sec (262 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 01 2022