They ultimately found the woman, tonya white, was lying. It hurts the entire system. Reporter white changed her story saying she had sex with a man and was later attacked by someone else in the neighborhood. Shirley whetzel was alarmed. Now she ised in. I cant imagine y i can not believe they are pressing charges against me. I was attacked. Reporter so you didnt lie . No police say they have evidence you lied. I didnt lie. You stand by your story . I do. Thats all i have to say. Reporter police want people to learn a lesson from this. Stories like this one hurt the credibility of actual rape victims. There are a lot of folks who dont report things when they really do happen. A report to Law Enforcement. Small departments such as this one have limited resources. The state has such a massive backlog of rape kits. It is a shame officials had to Waste Resources on this case. What does this mean for tonya white . What is next for her . Reporter state Attorneys Office filed that charge again
Suspect police were searching for. Shaquille oneal crashed following a chase. A veteran offered him a wheelchair. I saw a guy helping another guy out of a car. His leg was broken or something. He fell down in the street. I let him sit on my chair so he could drive up to the and not be laying in the street. Next thing i know im chasing my chair down the street. Reporter instead he tried to roll away to escape. You started running after him the best you could. Trying. I could not catch him. Reporter largo police tried to pull him over near east bay drive. He fled and sideswiped to vehicles, one being a school bus. He continued south on belcher road where he hit two more seen everything. Reporter nina shot this video. I remember seeing trucks everywhere and cars and police everywhere. Reporter one person was critically injured. An officer finally caught up with clements rolling down the street two blocks away. No good deed goes unpunished. Reporter now drew ended up getting his chair back
Four beers before driving. Bar manager admits he was there drinking. When the detectives came in high d and showed me his picture i was shocked. I would have never guessed it. I never seen him drunk. Reporter lewis claim his didnt know what he hit. He later admitted to investigators he knew he was involved in the hitandrun before he was arrested yet he didnt stop and he didnt turn himself in. Even if it was just a trash can okay. It was human lives. Reporter the deputy is expected to be here in the hospital for quite some time. A viewing will be held tonight for jessica. Her funeral will be tomorrow. I understand jessicas family had a message for the deputy. Reporter absolutely. They are praying for him and his recovery. They look forward to meeting him to thank him for helping her. Melissa moreno live in polk woman lied about being raped in broad daylight. Now she is facing a criminal charge. Last year tonya white claimed she was assaulted in the middle of a neighborhood. That started
Machine and clean you out. According to deputies, this woman just wrapped up a wal mart shopping trip using somebody elses debit card. Victims tell us its hard to catch. About wiped out my checking account. Reporter thats what happened to this polk county woman. 4,100 at the credit union. I almost fainted. Reporter last october she fell victim to a similar scam where the crooks told her to put her chip enabled debit card under the phone an she sounded really businesslike calling from mid florida and they had to pick up all the old debit cards in the county and be out late that night. Once they get access, of course, to the debit card and pin number its off to the races. Reporter the scam is popping up its ugly head in pinellas and hillsborough counties, negative news about certain banks having customers on alert. The caller insists the bank must retrieve the debit card and pin and send a new one in seen in several years. Ive never heard of a suspect actually going to the home. Usually
Do you remember the first time you reached into the cabinet and cross the line . Absolutely. I remember it like yesterday. Reporter shes a wife, mother of three and a longtime labor and delivery nurse. I love taking care of patients. Reporter she stole drugs from the hospital where she worked to fehe like so many addiction stories are starts after a surgery. She realized the prescribed drugs made her lifelong battle with anxiety easier to handle. She took advantage of a common hospital practice called wasting where dr. Orders a drug , 4 milliliters but maybe occasionally needs 2 milliliters so the nurse is responsible to get rid of the leftover medication. You forget and go home and empty your pocket at the end of the night and still have the medication. Reporter she visibly remembers the first time she got home and realized she had drugs in her pocket. That that was the hardest journey of my life. Reporter but soon she built up a tolerance in the waste wasnt enough. She moved to die l