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And now, abcs senior justice correspondent, pierre thomas, brings us the dramatic new video and the story behind this latest incident. Hands up. Hands up. Reporter a terrifying moment. A fullyarmed s. W. A. T. Team, guns drawn, burst into the cabin of a commercial airliner, looking for a male passenger who claimed he wanted to bomb canada. It was turned around over west virginia, by f16 fighter jets when reports came in of an unruly passenger making threats. Heres air Traffic Control warning other flights of a potential emergency. Theres an aircraft coming in from over the lake. Its going to land runway 33 left. And they have a bomb threat. You might see a pair of f16s. Reporter the s. W. A. T. Team was taking no chances, demanding that the suspect raised his hands. The goal to make sure he was not a threat. Unable to detonate any bomb. A passenger described the rant to canadian television. He said, with great expression, using his hands, i just want to bomb canada. Reporter other passengers were stunned. With it was quite scary. There was a clear point when he appeared to be disturbed. We could hear and see him ripping up newspapers and magazines. Reporter police snatched the suspect from the plane and conducted a search. In the aftermath of 9 11, such Police Action is now common. Get down. Reporter theres often an overwhelming response to passengers acting suspiciously. Passengers will take action against other passengers, like this man who was taped to his seat. And this wasnt a week to do anything odd on a plane. Not after Malaysia Flight 17 was shot down over eastern ukraine, with 298 people onboard. Or after an air algeria flight with 114 passengers and crew disappeared in africa. The suspect in the canadian scare now faces a number of charges, including endangering the safety of an aircraft. He was arrested, even though nothing dangerous was discovered. For nightline, pierre thomas, abc news, washington. Thanks, pierre, for that report. Now, to the big business of shoplifting. Its not just a problem for the stores. Its affecting you, too. Tonight, were undercover as police prepare to bring down one highlyorganized shoplifting ring and the woman they believe could be the key to it all. Heres abcs matt gutman. Reporter its a 13 billion epidemic. Shoplifters across america are costing 35 million a day to retailers. And the numbers keep growing. As seen on these youtube flash mob videos, many are brazen enough to steal anything and everything. But while shoplifting out in the open is one way to do it, down in polk county, florida, theres a more sophisticated method. What youre watching investigators say is an organized shoplifting ring in action. In this case, the suspect, melinda ford, is about to hit the dressing room at Bells Department store in florida. Our main target in the store. Reporter last year, we were given access to an unfolding investigation, to a crime that starts with sleight of hand and ends up costing all of us big money. Cops tell us they are the prime suspect. They call her the booster. And they believe she could be the key to bringing down a multilayered florida shoplifting ring. We have one occupant and one suspect. Reporter thats why sergeant jim ostojic from the Polk County Sheriffs Office, has spent a month chasing puffy, as she moves from storetostore. Were in hot pursuit right now. Westbound on i4. Reporter not exactly sure where shes going. But were following. Other the last three years, shoplifting has become a growing national problem. Stores mark up merchandise to offset the losses. And it will cost your household roughly 400 a year. Sounds like theyre headed to adels. Reporter the woman driving puffy around in the yellow beetle they call her peewee. Were blurring her face because shes a Police Informant. She is to enter the fitting room with two of everything. And once inside, conceal one of each item under her street clothes. Peewee tells the cops that puffy hands the items over to a network of men and women she pays to return the goods to the store. We watched as bell security monitored what they say was one of the illegal returns going down. He just returned the stolen stuff. Reporter suspected returners cash the stolen goods in for store credits in the form of gift cards. They believe the gift cards will turn up on Popular Online auction sites. The gift cards are like money, yes . Theyre like gold. Reporter after weeks of following puffy in and out of stores along a 90mile stretch from orlando all the way to tampa, sarge and his team are finally ready to arrest her. Investigators say if they can flip puffy, theyre betting they can round up the returner, and bring down the whole booster ring. Bells Security Team is in place. Theyre inside the store, monitoring puffy and the Police Informant peewee on surveillance cameras. And radioing their movements to officers outside waiting in the parking lot. Suspects are exiting the store. Reporter Unmarked Police car is waiting. As they exit the parking lot, the police pull up behind them. Peewee who has been wearing a wire for weeks, fakes being terrifying. They coming. They coming. Oh. Reporter this particular bells is right across the street from their own sheriff substation. So, they pull over puffy and peewee right into the stations parking lot. Puffy is escorted inside. Directly into an interrogation room. They need to turn puffy because they believe as the head of the ring, shes the only one who can lead them to everyone involved. I want to get one thing straight with you, okay . Understa understand, if youre going to cooperate with us, you have to fully cooperate. If you dont want to do that, you need to tell me now. Reporter the rest of the suspected accomplices likely dont know who each other are. I want to name everyone who could set up a deal today. Reporter after a few hours confronting her, police say puffy finally seems to crack. These guys have flipped puffy. And theyve managed to call everybody in her virtual roll decks. Shes going to talk to them. Reporter over the next 24 hours, puffy works and works well for the police. He would be the only person. But he dont have her phone number. Reporter methodically helping them set up and round up her alleged accomplices. As she sets up to bust them, she seems surprised that what shes been doing is considered a serious crime. I never thought that what i did was this serious. Its very serious. Actually is organized crime. Reporter puffy, who will later receive a twoyear prison term plus ten years of probation, gets to work, helping to round up dozens of suspected returners. Picking up one of the other suspects right now. Black shirt on, red pants. Going right for it. Reporter these are the people that puffy claims she paid to return the stolen merchandise. Police say they have evidence that 33yearold erica is also one of them. She would later plead guilty and was given 24 months of probation. I dont want them in my face. Reporter police say erica only made about 5 bucks or 10 bucks for each return. Next, the suspected venters. Theyre the people that puffy tell us buy the gift cards from her for about 50 cents on the dollar. We have a warrant for your arrest. Reporter one of them sells her merchandise at a neighborhood store. They send her in with dresses they secretly marked. Ive been stealing all damn day. Im going to go back to the store. Reporter police have coached puffy to tell bubba, that the items are stolen. All right. Im not going to argue with you. Its stolen. Reporter the next day, the police raid the store. Polk county sheriffs search warrant. Reporter and find most of the merchandise up for sale. I didnt know it was stolen. I want you to remember something, okay. Keep in mind that your store is videoed and audio recorded. Yes. When she told me, i didnt know whats going on. So, its got to be responsible for my actions. Yes, sir. Reporter he was later convicted of dealing in stolen property and sentenced to 36th months in prison. Anytime that you have any idea that we were following you . Nope. Never in a million years. Reporter in the three weeks we followed them, the Polk County Sheriffs Office arrested puffy and 16 of her suspected associates. And were able to stop what they say is one of the largest organized retail crime rings operating in central florida. For nightline, im matt gutman, in lakeland, florida. Next, a child prodigy so young, hes just learning to talk. But hes got the whole golf world talking about his game. Your eyes. Even at a distance of 10 miles. The length of 146 football fields. They can see the light of a single candle. Your eyes are amazing. 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Steve osunsami introduces us to the little guy with the big swing, known as baby james. Reporter hes the small fry with big talent they call baby james. Hes a pintsized pride of southern louisiana. And at just 3 years old, hes surprising everyone with mad skills on the golf links. Just enjoy for a little bit, the pure, natural talent. Whats amazing is how often he connects and how shots like this one are no accident. Oh. Reporter you heard of soccer moms. His mother, nicole, is a selfdescribed golf mom. Make it part of our daily life. Reporter driving her young prodigy to practice at two nearby golf courses at least four times a week. There you go. He would start hitting the ball around the house when he was crawling. We just moved here. He was crawling, hitting it. I called my dad. Hes just hitting the ball, making contact with it when hes crawling. Reporter hitting the ball before hes even walking. Hard to believe, he didnt start walking until very late, after 17 months. Even then, he couldnt get enough of his plastic driving irons. Have fun with it. And he would just do it all the time. He wanted to bring them in restaurants. And wed go out to eat. Clubs and balls in the restaurant. Reporter it wasnt long before they bought him real clubs, as he tried to explain to me himself. This is for chipping. Okay. What happens when you get bigger . You have to get another one of those. Uhhuh. Im going to get more. Reporter parents say they cant help to think of childhood images of a budding superstar, that appeared on the mike douglas show in the 70s. A lot of people compare him to tiger woods. Tiger woods is an amazing golfer. Tiger will be getting baby james autograph. Reporter whats your dream for him when it comes to golf . That would be great if he went to the pga tour. Who knows . Hes so little. Swing as hard as you can. There you go. Reporter his coach thinks its possible. Ive seen kids that can hit balls and have fun. But not at the level he plays at. And i guess what sets him apart is his focus. You know, how he can come out every, single day and practice. Lets go to hole number 1. Reporter we went out with the family one night to see what hes got. I should do what again . Take the flag out. Reporter okay. It was crazy hot. He was hungry. And he is a 3yearold. So, he was feeling playful. Say hi to everyone out there. Hi. Reporter and we just couldnt stop him from hitting the ball. Here it is, right here. Yes. Reporter oh, yeah. This kid is great. We followed them to quincy, illinois, for his first big showing. A tournament for children with his gift. Hell be the youngest there. Most of the kids hell be competing against are at least two years older and several inches taller. Hes 3. How old are you . We have a lot of spectators today. Any questions . All right. If not, james will start us off. Reporter baby james held his own, making a par 4 on the first hole of his second day, despite the stiff competition from the older and bigger kids. With mom as his caddie, james is sitting in third place in the final round. Straight for that flag. Nice. Hows your game today . Good. Making excellent score card. And parents pop them into the car and a pacifier in their mouth. These kids just played in a golf tournament. Reporter at just three years, his concentration isnt always fully there. Thats okay. Thats okay. That was my fault. Reporter on the secondtolast hole, james shoots a 12. Youre not into it. Reporter but he recovers nicely to finish the round. Nice job. Nice job. Reporter and with this last putt focus. Good job. That was great, bud. Reporter james comes in fourth out of eight, and enjoys all the other children, with a medal and a spot on the podium. Dad told us as long as his son keeps having fun, theyll bring him to the links. They know this babys a champion. 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It involved a house across the street and an unexpected encounter with a neighbor that left one of them dead. Now, the question, are the other four to blame . I heard a bang. And then, i heard another bang. This story begins on an afternoon much like any other. And ends with a twist no one saw coming. Five, young friends gather on this porch and make an impulsive decision. In an instant, one of them is dead. I didnt put my mind around what i was about to go through. Reporter theyre facing the possibility of decades in prison, even though there was no intent to kill. Its unjust. It needs to be remedied. Tune in tomorrow for a costly mistake, right here on abc. Thanks for watching abc news. As always, were