Even More Fraud coming out of the State of California

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Speaker 1: And we continue at one five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City. I love seeing this.

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Speaker 2: We're getting so many emails of people that found out about the website that shows if the State of California owes you money, claim it dot ca dot gov thanks to that report from Julie Watts, and it's working for people. Shelley writes in at Johnny Don't like show at gmail dot com. Hi guys, I just found three hundred dollars at this site between me and my dad.

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Speaker 3: Woohoo.

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Speaker 1: You know you'll look at television programs on the streaming services they cost you money. This radio program is free to listen to and we make you money.

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Speaker 2: Find out if the State of California is holding money for you. Put in your name, don't put in your address. Just search for your address among all the other people that have the same name as you and realize that you're not unique. But go to claim it dot CA dot gov. I found three hundred dollars owed to me from my old Burbank residence. You might find some money in there for you. You do what this reminds me of? What's that when I was in high school psychology class. One of our projects was we had to do a budget, where you had to figure out how much money you would make from whatever profession it was that you said you wanted figure out how much your house payment would be, figure out how much your expenses would be, and write it up.

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Speaker 1: And I remember I turned mine in and I got a C on the paper, which didn't happen regularly to me, and so I protested my grade to the woman. I walked up to her desk and I said, Hey, what's the deal with this. You gave me a C. I completed the project as you described, and she said, well, you didn't budget anything for children, and babies cost money. And I go, what are you talking about? Babies cost money, Babies make money, especially the blonde ones.

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Speaker 2: I had a feeling we were going down this road. Can we move on?

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Speaker 1: All right? Go ahead? John?

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Speaker 2: The state of California isn't just allowing fraudulent hospices to run in the state. They're also allowing hundreds and hundreds of other fraudulent businesses that are being open with stolen identities every single year. I now bring you a report from CBSLA and their investigative reporter Ross Palumbo on all of the fraudulent businesses that are being opened up every year in California, mostly in LA.

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Speaker 1: Who was it was it Lonnie Lightner who was on the show, who called Minnesota where he lives at cold California and we asked him why and he said, well, it's because of the left wing politics and all of the stealing going on.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's definitely sweeps week.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like nineteen seventies porno music.

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Speaker 3: What's the first place?

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Speaker 4: More than three million businesses head west officially registering with the state last.

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Speaker 3: Year, Makin elderly care facility.

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Speaker 2: Three million businesses in a year registered with the state of California. That already doesn't pass the smell test.

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Speaker 1: No, especially when you know that the business environment in California is tough to begin with.

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Speaker 4: Last year macin elderly care facility. This is supposed to be a construction company. Now we're heading to a spot, but are all of them really open for business?

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Speaker 3: Definely doesn't look like elder care?

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Speaker 4: Are they real at all?

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Speaker 3: Empty? And if they're not, well, does it look like a construction company.

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Speaker 4: Who's really getting the business?

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Speaker 3: So you don't know this person at all. No, how you doing in the can They don't know what they're doing.

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Speaker 5: They don't know.

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Speaker 3: They're scared.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's going to be a big piece when the news report has its own sizzle reel.

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Speaker 1: There are so many scams going on in the state. Yep.

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Speaker 4: The scare for hundreds upon hundreds of people started here. At the Secretary of State's official website. At bizfile online, anyone can register a business like an LLC or a corporation for a small fee.

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Speaker 6: Registering your business with the Secretary of State's office is the first step.

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Speaker 4: The state says.

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Speaker 2: It's also the is that the website voice because it sounds like Royal is Royal Oaks moonlighting for the state of California.

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Speaker 6: Registering your business with the Secretary of State's office is the.

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Speaker 3: First step, the state.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you're starting a business, you wouldn't need excellent legal advice first.

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Speaker 4: Step, the state says. It's also the first step in security.

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Speaker 7: Stronger protection from business identity theft, in fraud.

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Speaker 4: And on November sixth, twenty twenty three, that is apparently what Thomas andrewsonis signed up for. Taking the first step to incorporate Andrewsna's kitchen and bath by strongly protecting and registering his business to a North Hills address.

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Speaker 3: Does that look like a kitchen and bath?

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Speaker 4: But when we went there too, all we found was this home and confused home.

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Speaker 3: Owns is your name andreasnas?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: Definitely no kitchen in bath place here? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: So what they're just stealing addresses and.

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Speaker 2: Identities, yes, and opening businesses and probably with those businesses getting all kinds of loans in credit.

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Speaker 1: Oh no.

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Speaker 4: And when we went searching for Thomas andrewsonis himself.

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Speaker 3: Go to this house where your business is suppose?

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Speaker 4: We found more confusion now coming from half a world away at his real home in the Netherland.

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Speaker 2: Do you wait a second. This is a Dutch guy.

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Speaker 1: So they're scamming California and they're not even in this country.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's not even this guy. This is the victim of the identity theft. A Dutchman in the Netherland.

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Speaker 3: Do you do kitchens and bathrooms? No?

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Speaker 8: I have no business relating to kitchens.

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Speaker 3: You don't do tile, you don't do design, not at all.

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Speaker 2: He's from the Netherlands. He probably specializes in really really really tall sets of stairs, be careful, not at all.

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Speaker 3: And it's not just so we have about ten places we're going to yah.

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Speaker 4: Every registered builder we checked. Okay, so this is a construction company as well. Here to be a bust con construction.

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Speaker 3: It heard of it.

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Speaker 4: Every registered senior center was nowhere to be seen.

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Speaker 3: Crawong.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Between this piece, which is a great piece from Ross Palumbo, who does really good work at CBSLA, and the piece that we played you from the national report on the hospice fraud, why is it up to the television reporters to be uncovering what is going on here? And this is at the local level, the state level, and the federal level. Why is it up to the TV reporters to determine where all this fraud is well? And it shows you what a disgrace Shirley Weber is too. Because you get your business license through the California Secretary of State's website.

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Speaker 1: She's in charge of two things. She's in charge of running our elections, would take a month to figure out how many votes went to who, and then she's allowing all of these fraudulent businesses to get business licenses in California so they can go defraud other people.

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Speaker 4: To be seen.

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Speaker 3: Krawong held her care no relation. No, you don't know anything about that.

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Speaker 2: How about that someone knocks on your door, Hey, I heard this is an eldercare, this is my house.

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine just sitting in front of your TV watching reruns of Judge Judy, and then the news pounds on your door asking you if you're running a hospice facility.

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Speaker 4: Even three companies, here's a lot of businesses for one building, a delivery, a transportation, and a construction company all registered to this one address was nowhere to be found. So your company is hired to verify that these people are real people.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 4: While doing that for banks, fraud investigator David Maymon discovered a new trend fake businesses. He says that are all registered in California. With one new thing in common.

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Speaker 3: We find a lot.

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Speaker 8: Of identities associated with former legal immigrants here in the United States.

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Speaker 2: So here's the scam. If you come to this country legally to go to college and then you go back to your home country, chances are you have some kind of identification that can be stolen and then used to open up a fake business.

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Speaker 1: What is the secretary of State's office doing to prevent these phony businesses from getting licenses from their office. Look at all of the hoops that the State Controller's office was making people jump through to get money that legally belonged to them. They wanted you to give them different forms of IDs, signatures, you name it. Yet when it comes to giving out fraudulent business licenses, they'll just give them to whoever wants them.

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Speaker 8: We find a lot of identity.

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Speaker 2: California very anti business unless you're a fake business. California very hard to get your unemployment check unless it's a fake unemployment check.

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Speaker 1: If you're a con artist. Come one, come all.

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Speaker 8: A lot of identities associated with former legal immigrants here in the.

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Speaker 4: United States, legal immigrants like Thomas, most who came here for school or work temporarily.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess the one thing we have going for us here in California is most of them are here illegally.

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Speaker 4: But then went back to their home countries.

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Speaker 8: You have a real person with a real identity, with a real Social Security number who potentially.

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Speaker 2: I'm shocked the guy who's from Amsterdam came to study in Los Angeles and didn't want to stay here.

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Speaker 1: Gee, I wonder what it was, did he have a bad encounter on the MTA.

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Speaker 8: You have a real person with a real identity, with a real Social Security number, who potentially opened a new bank account.

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Speaker 1: You know what it was.

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Speaker 2: He went to get a burger and fries and they offered him catch up, and he was so offended he went back to the Netherlands. Mayonnai's only place.

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Speaker 3: Who's no longer here in the country. So for identity effect, this is really gold, isn't it. It's it's gold.

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Speaker 4: And with those golden eyeds, criminals, he says, created more than eight hundred fraudulent businesses last year alone, all centered here in southern California.

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Speaker 1: Of course, because why.

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Speaker 4: Not allowing them to do big financial damage.

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Speaker 8: Once you have a business under your name, then the limits are way higher and you can definitely aim for bigger loans.

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Speaker 3: So to speaking, for the businesses, now it's gone through the roof.

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Speaker 2: Get that AMEX business card for your fake business.

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Speaker 8: For the businesses, now it's gone through the roof, and now it's going through the roof.

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Speaker 10: It is one's ruined my life.

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Speaker 4: Well, her business spending was going through the roof at what Maman calls a fake construction company registered by the state in Van Ey's.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Van Eyes seems to be the center for all of this. That's where the street is with the three miles of nothing but hospice businesses. We've also got fake construction companies in Van Eyes.

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Speaker 3: Two.

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Speaker 1: Okay, if all of these fraudulent businesses are centered out of one part of the San Fernando Valley, you know where they are. Go clean it up.

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Speaker 4: In Ben Eyes. This former Penn State students credit was going out the window from her home all the way in Thailand. She discovered her credit report was listing thirty accounts with thousands of dollars worth of charges.

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Speaker 9: Before this thing happened, Mike Ris got at least eight hundred.

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Speaker 3: Now what's your credit score? Now?

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Speaker 10: Four hundred and nineteen.

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Speaker 1: So oh no, they think she's a deadbeat, poor lady.

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Speaker 3: So your credit score is almost cut in half?

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Speaker 10: Yes, is it a big deal?

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Speaker 3: It was this belief.

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Speaker 2: Thomas couldn't believe that Bank of America filed suit. Again, that's as emotional as a Dutchman can get.

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Speaker 1: And that's him trying real hard.

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Speaker 3: And this belief.

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Speaker 4: Thomas couldn't believe that Bank of America filed suit against him for more than forty five thousand dollars that he says.

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Speaker 3: He never spent.

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Speaker 5: This was very weird to hear, considering that how easily the bank gave out the loan, how.

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Speaker 3: Easy it was to fake my idea documentation.

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Speaker 1: It's made.

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Speaker 2: At least he's got plenty of stories to tell all of his friends in Amsterdam about these stupid Americans.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they'll find out more about Los Angeles when the Olympics come here.

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Speaker 4: It's made easy, Maymond says because registering these businesses with the state makes the businesses seem real and.

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Speaker 3: You can do it just like that. That's correct, just for a small fee. Yep.

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Speaker 4: We started the process with justification in theory.

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Speaker 2: Shouldn't this be at the top of Bob Bonta's list, Bobby Bob Bonta. Well, he said he was right on top of the hospice fraud and that is still a massive thing.

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Speaker 4: Bob Bonta. We started the process with just a few clicks and seventy bucks so far, no questions asked, no verification required.

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Speaker 2: You have to go through more verification to open up a Netflix account.

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that you have to jump through a million and one different hoops to buy booze in this state. Yet when you vote or when you open up a business and get a license, it's the honor system.

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Speaker 4: California Secretary of State Shirley Weber oversees all of this, but wouldn't sit down with us to talk about her system and these issues.

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Speaker 1: Why because she's a failure.

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Speaker 7: Anybody can do it on their own or go on the internet and pay two or three hundred dollars maybe and set it up and there you have it.

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Speaker 3: Is that part of the problem. Underregulation on a lot of things is a lot of the problem.

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Speaker 1: In no, no, no, it's not under regulation. It's they're not verifying anything that they're saying. I'm sure the regulations don't allow this to happen. It's the people who are giving out the licenses aren't doing their due diligence to find out if people are being truthful on the forms.

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Speaker 11: Underregulation on a lot of things is a lot of.

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Speaker 4: The problem, County. It's just one part of the twenty five hundred ID theft cases detective saw last year, victimizing thousands more along the way.

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Speaker 2: You think stolen identity means that they've stolen your credit card number, and they're going to run up an Amazon bill. Turns out, stolen identity means they're going to open up a fake business in your name and take out massive loans that somehow are getting through, and.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll find a way to legally tie it to you so that you have to pay it back.

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Speaker 4: In La County. It's just one part of the twenty five hundred ID theft cases detective saw last year, victimizing thousands more.

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Speaker 3: Along the way, you've seen people become suicidal.

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Speaker 12: Become suicidal, Yes, heartbreaking, totally heartbreaking.

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Speaker 4: And heartbreaking to many indirectly, like the woman here we found at this address.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking for YJ. Pharmacy.

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Speaker 4: She's been getting mail for another business Maymon identified as fake for months.

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Speaker 2: So if the bank fraud and guest investor has identified the place as fraudulent, how is the state still allowing the business to operate?

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Speaker 1: Because they're all worried about Trump and none of them are doing their own jobs.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't live there yet and wondering what returning to sender may bring back to her.

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Speaker 3: He's growing your mailbox.

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Speaker 4: She asked, whether these are bad people and what could possibly happen to her and that was one of the victims.

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Speaker 3: Is interesting, definitely.

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Speaker 4: So if we can find about ten in one day, do you think the state should be finding more of these every day, every week, every month, every year.

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Speaker 8: I think the state could find way more than just stand businesses over one day.

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Speaker 9: But until they do, sometimes I feel like I want to scream.

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Speaker 8: I'm not entirely sure who is who to blame the most?

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Speaker 2: Again, that is the most emotional A Dutchman can get beautiful country victims. Worry what other businesses they may find.

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Speaker 3: We have a big problem. Yeah, down, okay, So it's this house right here the road. I think it should be this one.

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Speaker 8: It's bold, it's bold, they have nothing to lose, and the probability of detection is pretty glow.

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Speaker 4: The probability of detection does appear to be low. Again, the Secretary of Statuary Weber, would not speak with us directly. Her office says it's not their job to spot fraud on the front end.

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Speaker 3: Even though her office.

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Speaker 2: How is it not their job to make sure that the people applying for business licenses in the state are real?

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Speaker 1: Then you know what, pull it out of that office if they think that they don't have to verify any information on those licenses, then we need to find someone who will.

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Speaker 2: This is very similar to the ghost students at California community colleges, where no one seemed to care that AI chatbots were getting student loans.

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Speaker 4: Her office says it's not their job to spot fraud on the front end, even though her office also says they do use fraud prevention tools, but they wouldn't elaborate. They say, if you suspect your identity was unlawfully used to create a business, you can submit a form that will be attached to the business record, but that's a long way from having the business record itself removed.

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Speaker 2: So if you're the victim now you have to go through the hell of the baraucracy.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Shirley Webber, the Secretary of State, a Gavin appointee.

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Speaker 4: We did reach out to others like Bank of America and they say, in the wake of our investigation, they're now looking into dropping that forty five thousand dollars case against the man from the Netherlands. On this web page you can see the full interview.

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Speaker 2: That Dutchman just found out that he doesn't have to pay the forty five thousand and he will still have no reaction.

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Speaker 4: On this web page you can see the full interview of victims like him and an in depth interview with lasd and It's fraud for Mention Unit Fraud Investments.

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Speaker 2: Feel like there's gonna be a lot more to this story, but once again, the investigative reporters doing what this state can't do, uncovering massive amounts of fraud centered in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: We should find the person I think it's Don Wagner, a supervisor in Orange County who's running against Shirley Weber, and have him on and talk about this. Oh yeah, because this is a complete disgrace. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. And Randy. The emails keep coming in. People find in money that the state of California.

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Speaker 2: Owes them, and it is over and over again. Steve from Long Beach just made two dollars and twenty seven cents, almost a half a gallon of gas and then he just found three hundred and thirty one dollars for his ex wife.

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Speaker 1: Well, can he have access to that?

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Speaker 2: It might be an uncomfortable conversation.

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Speaker 1: Is Shirley Weber in charge of validating the signatures.

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Speaker 2: Even if she is? Don't go fortune on anyone's signature, kids, And if.

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Speaker 1: You want to listen to us in Fresno tomorrow, Randy, that's easy to do. You know.

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom is always saying we need high speed rail because people don't care about the Central Valley. People ignore the Central Valley and that's why we need high speed rail because the Central Valley needs some love. Well, you know what, we give the Central Valley love every single day. It is called the most promoted best of in radio history, The Fixed California. Our replay, a one hour best of of this show that airs Saturdays at noon on our sister station KMJ, serve the entire Central Valley. So Gavin, don't say we didn't do nothing for the Central Valley.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Joseph in La Joseph. Hello.

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Speaker 6: Yes, you know we get this huge organization called the IRS that comes after us NonStop, and yet they can't detect the people with the fraud. And if you think about the people with the fraud, they got all this revenue coming in and they've got no write off, so they should get taxed enormously. You'd think the IRS would go after them because they've got fake deductions as well. So why do they spend so much money coming after the average everyday person, but yet they can't go after themselves in all the fraud they're causing.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's like, why do they allow the homeless to do anything that they want to do. If the homeless decides they're going to in an encampment, they're going to let's say, camp publicly, which is against the law, the cops are told to look the other way. If they're going to do drugs in public, the cops are told to look the other way. A bunch of stolen bikes in the encampment, the cops are told to look the other way. But you go ten miles an hour over the speed limit, and guess what the State of California does to you. They light you up because they know they can go after you. They know that you're good for it, so that's why they target you.

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Speaker 6: Very true, they love to do that.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, Sir and Randy. It's now time to open up the California cry bladder.

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Speaker 4: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 1: Nice see.

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Speaker 4: Time for the California crime bludder.

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Speaker 1: And the first one takes us to a city that doesn't make the blodder often, El Segundo.

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Speaker 2: Then, what makes it different from our usual blotder stories is it's about an arrest, not just a crime.

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Speaker 1: Well that doesn't normally happen in La County.

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Speaker 2: But in El Segundo an investigation turned into a big burglary ring bust where a group was stealing millions and millions of dollars worth of things like handbags. For more, here is nbcla new tonight.

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Speaker 12: El Segundo police say two suspected burglars, believed to be part of an organized theft ring, are now in custody after a week's long investigation. NBC fours Darshah Phillips joins us Live now from El Segundo with a story behind this multi million dollar bust.

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Speaker 7: Darsha, Yeah, Carolyn. Police say that this was an organized burglary ring, and police here in El Segundo say these thieves would case Holmes and here in El Segundo. They kicked down the door of a home while the victims were out and they managed.

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Speaker 2: To And if you're wondering why the neighbors didn't notice, it's because all you can hear is el Segundos planes taking off.

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Speaker 1: Well, sometimes you can hear them landing too.

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Speaker 7: And they managed to steal a number of high end items in just a matter of minutes. Elsigundel police helped capture two thieves in an organized crime ring. Detectives say Jonathan Calkins and Christopher Welker burglarized at least ten homes, including one in Elsagundo, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in items from that home near California and East Sycamore Avenue.

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Speaker 5: The items that were taking from our victim were high end burken bag purses.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, approximate value for.

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Speaker 5: All of them to combine was about six hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of bags.

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Speaker 1: You know what, though, good on Elsagundo for catching them.

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Speaker 7: That burglary took place in January. El Segundol police worked quickly, sending surveillance images of the burglars to other police departments.

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Speaker 5: We received some back from GLENDELPD as well as San Diego PD that they believe had the same suspects burglarized people in their community as well. The same kind of cars were used, the same kind of modes of entry were used. Usually it was involved kicking down a door, same suspect appearances for both and all the cases throughout.

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Speaker 7: Police tracked down the thieves to a home into Mecula, where they found a stockpile upwards of six million dollars in stolen items, including high end purses, weapons, watches, gold coins, and eight hundred thousand dollars in cash.

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Speaker 1: WHOA, that's a lot of loot.

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Speaker 7: All from burglaries across California, including the one in El Segundo, and police believe more victims may come forward tonight. People who live in El Segundo thankful the thieves are behind bars.

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Speaker 1: I never heard something like that, especially in the residential area.

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Speaker 2: Now, the millions and millions and millions of dollars at burglaries that this organized ring is committed, is that count as a nonviolent crime?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure, Bob Bonta, you have something to say about that, Bob Bonta.

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Speaker 2: It's in the running for my favorite drop of the year, Bob Bonta.

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Speaker 3: This is the first time you heard that, But I mean, it's not very often that happens here. We've been very fortunate, you know. But the police torments.

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Speaker 7: But police are urging folks to not let their guards down, warning that they've seen a rise in organized burglary rings in the South Bay. Police recommend installing cameras outside your home and be mindful of what you post on social media.

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Speaker 1: Yep. I never post that I'm out of town on social media, because what you're doing is telling every crook in your network that you're not home. I actually post things so delayed now that if you're seeing posts of me and Santa Fe, it's from like three weeks ago, because I don't want anyone to actually know where I am.

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Speaker 7: And be mindful of what you post on social media.

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Speaker 5: We are seeing a lot of people being targeted on social media based on the things are posting, whether it be high in bags or rolexes, things like that.

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Speaker 2: If you have good look through your own social media feed and if you see a lot of vanity on there and your bread bagging about your jewelry or your handbags, you're a target also stop doing that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, have a little discretion.

00:27:08
Speaker 7: And we reached out to the attorneys of the men who were arrested. Christopher Welkins attorney got back to a saint in part that his client looks forward to fighting these allegations the old fashioned way in court.

00:27:19
Speaker 2: Fighting these allegations. How exactly are you not guilty when they tracked you to a massive warehouse of stolen goods?

00:27:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not looking too good for that defense.

00:27:31
Speaker 7: Reporting live tonight from El Segundo, I'm Darshah Phillips, NBC four News.

00:27:35
Speaker 2: There you go, an organized burglar ring busted in El Segundo. Well, El Segundo didn't create this criminal, but they sure as hell caught him, so good job, El Segundo. A little slice of Orange County, right in the heart of La eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. And right now it's time to reopen the California crime blodder.

00:28:04
Speaker 4: It's happened yet again.

00:28:05
Speaker 1: This wow, wow, what's not weird?

00:28:08
Speaker 3: Dun Dun dun, dun, dun, dun dunk reached the Califonia crime bladder with John.

00:28:17
Speaker 1: And Randy. This one takes us to the city of Arcadia.

00:28:22
Speaker 2: This is a weird one, but there was a social media live streamer who is doing a shopping spree event streamed to his followers that ended up getting swatted by probably one of his followers at the Arcadia Mall. God for more on this and the insane situation that happened at the Arcadia Mall. Here is CBSLA.

00:28:51
Speaker 13: Swat officers swarm a San Gabriel Valley mall with our guns drawn, handcuffing shoppers.

00:28:57
Speaker 12: A dangerous swatting situation, leaving people stunned and afraid.

00:29:01
Speaker 13: And our Nicole Comstock is live at the Arcadia Mall with what led up to this terrifying moment theicle.

00:29:09
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, one live stream where we spoke with said he never expected something like this to happen, especially when he was with one of his young fans and your mom. But live streams like this can draw large audiences, and in this case, he thinks one of those people watching wanted to mess with him.

00:29:26
Speaker 1: That's how you ruin a fun event. Someone's watching it online. They go, you know how we could spice this up even more?

00:29:34
Speaker 2: Call the swat Team Big Good.

00:29:38
Speaker 9: They were lime streaming a shopping spree with them.

00:29:40
Speaker 2: By the way, if you've ever been to the Arcadia Mall, you'll notice there are a lot of live shopping by themselves because the husbands are all losing money. Next door at Santa Anita.

00:29:52
Speaker 9: They were lime streaming a shopping spree with a four year old fan at the mall in Arcadia. When these two social media personalities got wind of a danger and illegal prank that was pointed at them, they had unknowingly become victims of a swatting.

00:30:07
Speaker 11: Could I get trolled a lot?

00:30:11
Speaker 2: It's got to be really tough because this happens all the time. But what are the police supposed to do? Not respond when someone says there's an active shooter at the.

00:30:19
Speaker 1: Mall in Arcadia. No, but what you have to do is you have to treat it like when people joke about having a bomb at the airport. In the old days, you could get away with it and it wasn't that big of a deal. But now if you do it, they're all over you, like white on rices.

00:30:40
Speaker 11: I get trolled a lot.

00:30:41
Speaker 9: Diego Zavalda Pinalosa has one hundred and eighty one thousand followers on the streaming platform Kick.

00:30:47
Speaker 2: Never even heard of Kick either of I guess I'm getting old.

00:30:52
Speaker 9: Where he's known as Zavola himself different Zavala.

00:30:58
Speaker 2: Don't think there's any relations And to Ashley, she got all kinds of love from Dan Walters.

00:31:04
Speaker 1: Did you see that?

00:31:05
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, she's the best.

00:31:06
Speaker 9: And post day in the lifestyle videos for fun.

00:31:09
Speaker 11: My Families, they come up to me and they say a bunch of just like jokes. So I thought I was just another one of those jokes.

00:31:14
Speaker 9: But the police response was no joke. They rolled up heavily armed with an armored truck and a dozen squad cars, bolted into the store and got everyone on the ground.

00:31:24
Speaker 11: He told them that there was a guy in the mall with a rifle that wanted to kill people. And he described me a police temporary.

00:31:32
Speaker 1: That is nuts. Okay, you should have to go to prison for years if you do something like that because people could be killed.

00:31:41
Speaker 2: And he described me a police temporarily.

00:31:43
Speaker 9: Put them all on lockdown until they confirmed it it was all a hoax.

00:31:47
Speaker 11: They have to treat it like a serious situation. So yeah, they came to the mall. You know, swat all the guns. I got really scared.

00:31:56
Speaker 9: Diego and his girlfriend did their best to calm their young fan, who got down on the ground with her hands up too.

00:32:02
Speaker 2: Her mom was also the four year old who is going on the streamers shopping spree gets traumatized.

00:32:10
Speaker 9: God, her mom was also there put off camera.

00:32:14
Speaker 11: When she fell down and she started, like, you know, crying a little bit. So yeah, I felt really better.

00:32:19
Speaker 9: So they took her to the makeup store afterward and let her paint their faces.

00:32:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll do it.

00:32:26
Speaker 1: But she paid a bull.

00:32:28
Speaker 2: Nothing turns a frown upside down like a trip to Sephora.

00:32:33
Speaker 9: Diego says he's seen other streamers get swatted recently and it needs to stop.

00:32:38
Speaker 11: Just some donuts on the internet have nothing better to do. Please stop sweating us streamers. We just want to stream.

00:32:48
Speaker 9: Arcadia police are actively investigating to try to get to the bottom of who placed that initial swatting call.

00:32:54
Speaker 2: It can well, don't you when it's nine one one, don't you see who's calling you?

00:32:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd see if they's a kid with a phone giggling at the Orange Julia's.

00:33:03
Speaker 9: It can be charged as a felony here in California.

00:33:06
Speaker 2: If you have nonviolent felony though.

00:33:08
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sure if you have.

00:33:10
Speaker 9: Any information, police would love to hear from you. Reporting live in Arcadia, Nicole Comstock, CBSLA.

00:33:16
Speaker 2: There you go, the case of the streamer at the Arcadia Mall, all ready to go on a shopping spree when someone watching decides it would be really funny to send in the swat team.

00:33:29
Speaker 1: How many views do you think they got on that video?

00:33:32
Speaker 3: Oh?

00:33:32
Speaker 2: Probably a lot.

00:33:34
Speaker 1: And Randy, it's time to reopen the blotter.

00:33:37
Speaker 3: Is to catch his dummy.

00:33:40
Speaker 1: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.

00:33:43
Speaker 14: I said, hell no, ready, Boyton, let me get up one out of here.

00:33:47
Speaker 4: It's the California Crime Bloader.

00:33:51
Speaker 1: And this one takes us to Riverside.

00:33:54
Speaker 2: Someone broke into a camera shop for mar Here's ABC seven Eyewitness News, but I'll haveven.

00:34:00
Speaker 14: A thief looking to steal high dollar cameras is caught on camera himself after breaking into a Riverside office. Overnight surveillance video shows him smashing right through the front door. Eyewitness DOOS reporter Abigail Vella is live with that video and what the business owner hopes will happen next.

00:34:15
Speaker 1: Abigail well mark.

00:34:18
Speaker 13: That video shows exactly what happened earlier this morning. A mass suspect wearing gloves breaks into a Riverside business, and once he's in it looks like he knows exactly what he's doing. By the end of it, he ended up making off with thousands. The first throw.

00:34:33
Speaker 2: Should don't you worry that glass breaking? That's not violent, No, no, it's very peaceful.

00:34:38
Speaker 13: In fact, the first throw should have been the chance to think twice, but instead they break in. Surveillance video captures a masked person smash.

00:34:49
Speaker 1: You know what Tommy Lasordi used to say to Relief Pictures that he was upset with What's that that guy's fastball couldn't break a plate painted glass.

00:34:57
Speaker 13: Surveillance video captures a masked person's mashing their way into Ray Reynold's Financial Services in Riverside just after twelve twenty am. Once inside, the person moves quickly first toward the entrance camera. The suspect scene tearing it off the wall, leaving it hanging, but other cameras in the office keep recording from another angle. The person can be seen walking into a back room used to record professional videos. They appear to know exactly what they're looking for, removing two high end cameras from their tripods.

00:35:27
Speaker 2: Okay, what is this office?

00:35:29
Speaker 1: Do you think he stole any polaroids?

00:35:33
Speaker 2: Sounds like an OnlyFans studio.

00:35:36
Speaker 13: They appear to know exactly what they're looking for, removing two high end cameras from their tripods. The equipment worth about twenty thousand dollars.

00:35:43
Speaker 2: Business owner, this was definitely a place to shoot feet videos.

00:35:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems a little odd, doesn't it.

00:35:51
Speaker 13: Business owner Fay Reynolds says one camera belonged to an employee and the other was purchased just weeks ago. Reynolds saying, nothing else but the cameras were taken.

00:35:59
Speaker 10: And sad to see that. You work so hard to at least have something built, something in.

00:36:09
Speaker 1: What's with the panting in the background, do you hear that.

00:36:13
Speaker 2: At least have Maybe she has a dog.

00:36:18
Speaker 15: Uh huh, someone that just wants easy money just come and take it because they.

00:36:27
Speaker 10: They don't have the drive to do something for themselves.

00:36:32
Speaker 2: Now, well, the real industrious criminals, they open up fake businesses in California.

00:36:37
Speaker 1: She sounds like she got shot with a tranquilizer gun.

00:36:41
Speaker 13: Now she's hoping the video will help identify the person responsible. Now, if you recognize that person, your urge to contact Riverside Police, who are now investigating this incident. Reporting live Abigail, there you.

00:36:52
Speaker 2: Go, the camera shop question mark that got broken into in Riverside.

00:37:00
Speaker 1: And if you find those cameras, give them back to their rightful owner. Bob Guccioni Junior. Mm hmm, what are you gonna do