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Charge that you were involved in the theft of a pick-up truck and some other items from an ex-boyfriend and some of your pals helped you do it. and that you all got wind of this fencing operation and you brought the stuff there or some of it there and sold it. is that what happened? only the truck. only the truck. tell me how you got your hands on this truck. um, my friend told me that he had pulled a lick at the house. he had pulled a lick? meaning? meaning he had robbed the house. and whose house was this? an ex-friend i would say a boyfriend. and how come you broke up? he told me i was too young. you were too young? uh-huh. and how did you feel about that? it killed me inside. ....
For the sting operation. the reason this is so important is that they need creditth. they need thieves, crooks, out on the streets of las vegas to really buy into the fact that this is a fencing operation. it s not some sort of a police sting. so brad goes out there on the street, and later in jail, and lends the undercover investigators credibility. he goes out and says, look, this is really a fencing operation, and all these other crooks believe it, and so they start bringing in cars that were stolen, guns that were stolen, and several others. coming up, the front is open for business. you just want him to disappear. exactly. we keep them busy. this [ bleep ]. word is out on the street. and you ll meet some of brad s referral, including his girlfriend. i have never had a job in my life. watch raw video, dangerous situations. understand how the criminal mind works. ....
Up to me at the light. where? how did you get it what happened? around here somewhere? yeah, but it wasn t around he didn t even park it in front of the front door. he left it all the way down like a lane, the last lane, so i thought, 250, diesel, hmm. so you went and jumped in it? yeah. how did he catch you? someone else s ride? yeah. the story goes, the owner comes out, grabs him, tosses him away from the car, and gets his car back. and runs up on and wow. [ bleep ]. and so he s put it in park. so levi never gets the stolen car, and obviously he s never able to bring it in to sell it in the fencing operation. and levi won t be making any more trips to the fake storefront. when the cops shut it down, they scoop levi up and put him behind bars. coming up you actually show up in this investigation selling stolen cars. ....
That get up every morning and it s their job to find a criminal opportunity. that s how they make their living. whether it s stealing cars or getting their hands on other hot property like weapons, this is what these people do 9:00 to 5:00 every day, and it s scating. all right, come on. it s not much cooler, but it s a little bit. so what s going on? alicia gets brought into this by her boyfriend, brad. and when brad gets arrested and put in jail on those unrelated charges, she sort of takes over his place in this whole operation. she s now the one who is bringing in the stolen cars and encouraging other car thieves to bring the cars into the fencing operation. you seem pretty stressed out. you are? well, yeah [ bleep ] like i m fine. are you sure? you ve got some [ bleep ]. i never noticed how different i mean i don t know. ....
according to police, one of the ring leaders was this woman, teresa perish. at her peak, investigators say she was banking $9,000 to $10,000 a day in boosted merchandise. i want to read you your rights. okay, you re under arrest. you re not free to leave. we want to get your cooperation. we know about your boost at the flea market and everything else, and we know about all that stuff. for seven months, investigators from the retail giant target helped polk county build their case, watching and documenting the crime ring in action. they can work in the house, cover each other s back and in as little as three minutes could steal as much as $3,000 worth of product. in fact, there was one incident where they were stealing, as a supervisor, as it would be, walked past them on the aisle. that s just how good they were. just moments after the raid, john coburn, the man officials say led the fencing operation, ....