- [police radio chatter]
- A female apparently was walking down the street.
And a guy ran up and grabbed her cell phone out her hand
and took off running.
We were advised he was wearing a red baseball
cap, white t-shirt.
And he's a white male.
[car door dinging]
- Hey, how are you doing today?
- Good, sir. How are you?
- Not too bad.
Oh, I recognize you, buddy.
Do you still have the traffic warrant?
- May. - Yeah?
- But officer, will you give me a break, though?
I mean-- - I'll give you a break.
Do you have anything on you're not supposed to have?
- No, sir. - Can I check you real quick?
- Yes, sir-- absolutely. All right.
- K9 101, I just advise.
There's going to be no permanent number on file.
- What do you have right here?
- Oh, it's a phone.
I found the phone [inaudible].
- Why do you have it in your--
underneath your arm?
- Oh, just cuz I didn't want to drop it again.
- Why not carry it in your head or in your pocket?
Do you have the phone number to that--
that phone?
- 10-4.
Could you call it real quick?
- Right.
- What's up with the phone?
Did somebody take it or something, or--
- I'll speak to you right now about it, OK?
- I found it.
[cell phone ring tone]
- 10-4.
- Yeah, this is going to be it.
- Sean, you have a stolen phone.
- Yeah, uh, it's more than welcome to be--
I mean, I found it, you know?
- You found it?
- I swear to god, yes.
Found it in a parking lot.
- So if I have that person come over right now,
they're not going to say you took it out of their hand?
- I wouldn't know why somebody would say I
took a phone out of their hand.
I would not do that.
- Would they be lying if they said that?
- Sir, they could be maybe assuming
or mistaking me for somebody.
But I would have not done something like that,
absolutely not, sir.
[bleep] because I found the phone, I kept it.
- All right.
- So be it.
How is finding a phone--
it's stolen when I found it.
- Yeah, but--
- I didn't know it was [bleep] stolen.
- But it's not yours, Sean.
- OK.
But I don't know who's it is.
- So just leave it be.
- So I find $1 on the ground, you going
to charge me for theft of $1?
How do you know that $1 didn't fall out
of someone's pocket or somebody leave it?
It's the same thing.
- It's not your $1.
You don't work for it, right?
We work for our money.
We work for our items. - Yeah.
I see where you're going with this as well.
Look, I'm in compliance.
You know, you said you'd let make
[inaudible] these warrants.
When this woman gets here, I'm going to tell her.
She'll know it's not me.
And then this will be over with.
She should be thankful she was able to find
her phone and that I [inaudible] on the ground?
- Why?
- That's a big blessing.
- She should be thankful we stopped
you and we found the phone.
Because you didn't take it to a police station.
If someone reports this stolen, you're the person in possession
of stolen property.
- Please.
- Let's walk forward so they can see you, OK?
- [police radio chatter]
- Stop.
- 10-4.
- 10-4 to my unit.
[police radio chatter]
- That's fine.
- All right.
Let's go back to my car and place your hands
back on the front of the car.
OK?
- What's that's fine mean?
- She's saying that she can't identify him at all,
that she was looking down.
And he was wearing a white shirt.
And he had a red hat on him.
- Mhm.
- Ma'am, I didn't steal your phone.
- But she can't identify him positively
as him being the guy.
- Ah, it is what it is.
I'll get you her phone.
- OK.
- And then I'll give--
do you want full ID5 of this guy?
- Yeah.
Do the full ID5.
I'll take it down.
- He's still in possession of the phone, which
is a criminal act in itself.
But for right now, I think what we're
going to do is we're just going to return the lady
her cell phone.
We're going to take down all of his information.
And we're going to do up a report as a possible offender
for this case.
And then we'll send him on his way right now.
- Hey, man, good idea-- whenever you come into property
that's not yours, maybe go report
it and drop it off somewhere.
Because someone might be looking for it, right?
- That's a lucky woman, though, really.
I mean, I've lost a lot of phones.
Man, I wish I had found one.
I wish somebody [bleep] found it on somebody.
- We have full ID5 of him?
OK.
- I'm out.
- Take care, Sean.
- Thank you, Sean.
- We weren't able to identify he was
the person that took the phone.
However, he was still in possession of stolen property.
So we advised him that next time he finds something that
does not belong to him, he should just
walk it straight to a police station,
turn it in, or just not pick it up.