When you talked to Tara and say,
well okay, actually I have somebody--
Yeah.
That can do this, what was her reaction?
She immediately started laughing.
Like, oh my God, I love you so much.
Like, I can't wait.
I'm gonna buy you something nice for this.
Awesome, I love you.
(chuckles) Love you.
I remember it one time she said that she was gonna
buy me something really nice
and to get ahold of her as soon as I got ahold of my friend.
So she does come up with a guy.
Well-- We got those.
Her yeah, her-- Undercover police officer.
Her detective comes up with someone, yes.
And how much did you agree to pay this guy?
She thought it was gonna start around 500.
That's pretty cheap.
I think it was supposed to be a down payment.
So who does she tell you you were meeting?
Her buddy.
And when and where did you meet him
and what did you say to him?
I tell her I can't.
Not doing this.
At this point,
had you decided you didn't wanna do this?
Yes.
And I was trying so hard to just not meet
and end these calls that were getting so annoying.
Were you trying to sabotage this?
I was over it, I was--
Now were you trying to sabotage it by not showing up
with enough money, not make it where it's like,
he blows you off?
Yeah, I didn't wanna be mugged after I pissed this guy off
and I had valuable things in my purse.
So I changed out my purse.
And had to stop at an ATM
and I withdrew a hundred dollar bill.
And in that purse from a previous concert, I had $25.
But I was scared to death to actually not show up
with anything, so in my mind, and still to this day,
no one capable of doing what he does
is going to do anything further for a hundred dollars.
Later $125.
And when I left that car,
he said I'll be in touch in a couple weeks.
I had a couple weeks to end this.
And to make sure that this didn't go down.
Target's gonna be at the meet location.
So this gets setup for them to meet.
Okay, so with the police there,
you're talking to her on the phone,
and arrange the time and place to meet,
which is in the parking lot in front of the KFC.
Silver Lexus four door sedan.
Sittin' on the west side of Long Johns and KFC.
I actually didn't get back to her quick enough.
Uh huh.
She actually wrote me over Facebook
and wanted to know when we were gonna meet for lunch,
you know, when I was gonna get ahold of him and...
K, so Tara, she's actually providing the impetus.
She's keeping this moving.
Yeah.
You didn't get back to her fast enough
it's like hey, you know, what what what?
Yeah.
Okay so, because she says,
she thought, you know, this'll just play out,
it'll go away, it'll never really happen.
But she was actually keeping the ball rolling?
Yeah.
Okay.
And so the impetus here was her, not you.
Tara gets back to you text message.
Yes.
Did it seem odd that she was putting this in writing?
Yeah, yeah.
'Cause that was what I said.
That's what I said when I was talking to the detective.
I said something's just, just off about the whole,
just the whole thing.
The way that I felt.
You know, and I had mentioned to them
that I know Tara from high school,
she's a manipulator, she can manipulate you very well.
And I felt like she was writing me over Facebook
so that way maybe if she thought I was gonna help her
and then maybe she had somebody to pin it on
once it was done.