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Uh, I told you, was it yesterday or the day before yesterday, on the phone
we just basically, we like to come back a couple days later,
sometimes you remember more detailed stuff,
so we can get just a... a better formal interview with you.
And get just as detailed as we possibly can, okay?
You said
two guys pushed you in the vehicle.
And the other guys, once Steven got in the vehicle,
all the other guys stood around the vehicle.
And I'm just kind of...
because it's something that...
It's inconsistencies. We... We have to hash it out.
We've been investigating this all week.
We have pulled, oh, if you...
You have any idea how many video cameras are around there?
All of that has been pulled.
Okay?
I'm going to tell you, from the... from the investigation,
you're not being honest with me, okay?
- With what I just told you? - Yes.
I do not believe you. I do not believe you at all.
And I think you're one of those people that's taking away from my true victims.
Did you have sexual intercourse with Steven?
Yes.
Was it wanted? Was it consensual? No.
Okay, did you... did you
fight him off, kick him, tell him no?
Yes.
Watching the video stuff that we have,
um, and it shows you and, I guess, Steven making out,
everything. And...
and I know you got in the vehicle.
Now imagine you're the person that's out there working overtime all week long.
Running around gathering information, talking to people, getting video.
I'm mad because...
Hey, we're... something's gonna be done about this.
I'm so sorry.
Well, if you're sorry, then that makes me feel better.
It is a crime
to file that false report.
It's a crime to...
to lie to us.
And...
I have to arrest you for it.
I just got to get behind your back.
If you would put your hands like you're praying.
- Mmm. - Yep, flat palms to make it...
So just fixing these up for you.
Watching the video stuff that we have
shows you and, I guess, Steven making out.
Are... you get in the vehicle, and you're initially making out or... or what?
I don't remember.
It's Investigator Jones, Investigator Hastings at DCH E.R.
- And I'm speaking with... What's your name? - Megan Rondini.
Are you working? Full-time student here?
No, I was taking summer classes, and I was about to go home on Sunday.
Tell me what happened last night, who all you were with.
Me and my friends went to trivia at Innisfree.
Um... it was like me
and a group of ten of my other friends.
I know of his... I'm...
I'm gonna call him Sweet T, 'cause that's like his nickname or whatever.
I mean, I see him there all the time, but like,
it's not like we talk to each other. Like, I just know who he is.
I'm not even sure he, like, knew who I was.
I was leaving.
Somewhere along the line, he picked me up,
and it was me and another guy named Jason
in the back of his car.
Sweet T took us to his house.
We were in a room
with, like, all the animals he had shot or whatever.
Like, I don't know. He goes hunting a lot.
And he told Jason to go to bed and he told me
to go upstairs to his room.
Did you ever, uh, resist him?
- Uh... Swing at him-- - I was just trying...
I mean, I was... I... I...
I know he's, like, an influential person in Tuscaloosa,
and I was trying to be really nice to him,
and just be like, my friends are waiting on me
and, uh...
I just really need to leave.
I'm gonna go ahead and end the interview right now.
Can you just tell me kind of what happened last night?
Sure. I brought somebody back to my residence with me.
We had consensual sex.
And
after I went to sleep,
apparently she decided to take my money
and take my car key and leave.
And...
uh... Josh Hastings woke me up, ringing my door this morning at 6:45.
Okay. Okay.
- Do you know her name? - I do not.
Alright, man. I appreciate it. Thanks.
Megan, I’m going to let you sit there and you sit there next to her.
Let me get a notebook and I'll be right back.
Ooh! It's chilly in here.
Another thing that worries me, I don't know if my dad told you,
is, like, this guy is kind of, like, an influential--
I'm aware. Yeah.
Do you remember
getting in the car?
No.
Do you remember any stops at all?
No.
So...
If I say
that y'all stopped by your apartment
before you went to TJ's,
or Sweet T's,
before y'all went there.
Okay, 'cause they're getting... You know y'all's... your complex has got video there.
Okay, do you remember?
- I do not remember going there. - Okay.
Do you remember fixin' him a drink?
No. I don't... I don't remember being there at all. Like I don't remember being there.
Okay.
Is any of this bringing back anything?
I feel like I wanna, like, throw up.
Okay.
What we wanna do is just look in your apartment. Okay?
Do you have a problem with us doing that?
Fine. Okay.
- I can't go to your apartment. - That's fine.
Um, is it... I mean, do you want me to hang around here
till you come back or--
- No, I think... I think I'm... I'll be okay. - Are you sure?
While you were in...
back in the bedroom,
did you remember
going through any other things in there?
I went through all the keys, and then
I tried to see if he had any cash that I could pay for a cab with.
Okay.
Did he have any cash?
He had, like, three dollars.
Okay.
So, you got... Did you get the cash?
- Yes. - Okay.
I'm not doubting
- what you're telling me. - I just feel like
he has some advantage over me and they're saying like I...
I don't really understand why.
Do you remember?
I do not remember going there.
Okay.
He didn't hit me, he didn't, like, shove me.
But he held me, like, down.
...had consensual sex, so...
I think he was scared when we showed up,
still probably intoxicated, making some bad decisions.
- Sorry, guys. - No, that's alright.
I'll get y'all outta here.
There we go.
We, uh... We went fishing... What day did we go fishing? Thursday?
Fishing Friday... well, Friday morning.
- Anything biting? - Yep.
It's snapper season in state waters right now,
- so we went out and-- - Made a killing, huh?
Yeah, we caught about 30 minutes in.
- Yeah. - Really? Thirty minutes?
It took us 45 minutes to get there and 30 minutes to catch...
So y'all are having consensual sex.
She never said no, never said stop...
- She was completely into it. That right? - Yes, that's correct. If anything,
to be honest, she was extremely flirtatious
- from the time we picked her up. - Okay.
So, it was a willing--
It was a willing participant on both ends.
Y'all did y'all's job, and I appreciate that.
Well, the way I look at it, man,
if it was me on the other side, I'd want to do the same thing for me.
- You know? - Yeah, I do. I appreciate all y'all.
Y'all have done a very thorough job, and I appreciate it.
I... I appreciate it. I appreciate you being cooperative.
I know it's not something easy. And you too, man.
You know? He's always... always been easy to deal with.
I'm telling you, always.
I wish they were all that... that, uh, easy to get a hold of when you need to.
- Y'all give me a sec. I'll be right back. - Okay.
If they can communicate that to her.
That I won't pursue...
I won't pursue her if she don't pursue me.
But I will play hardball if she does.
I'm gonna tell you right now that basically, I got you here
under, basically, a ruse.
- Okay. - Okay. Uh...
- There is no letter. - Okay.
And what we've done is we've allowed the DA's office to review this case...
Okay.
And they've issued a warrant for your arrest.
Okay.
For falsely reporting a police report, or a rape.
It appears that you were using the threat of rape to get what you want.
No, sir.
I just wanna tell you this, and there's no getting around it, um...
the evidence that we have in this case is not jiving with your side of the story.
Our investigation is showing, there is
some things that we believe are untrue coming from your side of the story.
You'll be charged with filing a false report.
You're gonna go to the Douglas County Jail...
- From here? - And you'll be booked in, yes.
The charges will be...
Falsely reporting an incident.
Now you're 20?
- Yes. - And you got a fake ID?
And... And you say that you
had five cups of beer?
Yeah.
So they offered you shots of the Skyy vodka?
- Yes. - Did y'all drink any of it?
This is what I think.
You and Steven started having consensual sex.
You freak out a little bit...
Everything was good? Consensual?
Both you guys are grown adults.
You don't wanna ruin this guy's life, do you?
- You don't wanna see him go to prison. - Deep down he's a good dude.
I mean, you guys just made a mistake.
You go your way. He'll go his way. We're gonna go our way.
What could you tell about his face, if anything?
Nothing. I mean, he didn't even... As soon as I got out of the vehicle,
he told me to turn around and put my hands on my car.
And while he was touching me,
I... All I could say was,
"P... Please think what you're doing."
"What you're about to do. Just, please, think about it."
And he told me to shut up.
I didn't even get to see him.
About how tall compared to you, do you feel like he was?
Taller. Um... At least 6'4".
What kind of car were you in?
A 2020 black Kia Soul.
Kia Soul.
We're taking this serious,
and certainly we don't want anyone out there impersonating a police officer,
and stopping females, and...
...touching their body inappropriately or whatever.
If I pull it up on Google Maps, you think you could show me
- about where you were stopped at? - Yes.
- Alright, thank you very much. - Thank you.
Guy's going to be about 50, 45-50 years old?
You know exactly who I'm thinking, don't you?
- Six foot four. - Dewayne Mullins.
We suspected him years ago for stuff like that,
- wanting to be a police officer. - Dewayne Mullins...
Yes! He's got family--
He's got a Crown Vic! He's got family down this way.
Scott told you earlier that we're trying to get video
from that one house.
We've looked at that video,
and we see you go by.
- Yeah. - But no one else.
Okay.
The last thing I wanna do is stand here and call you a liar.
Yeah.
Okay, but what I see you doing is digging your hole deeper. So...
we just need you to keep it between us.
- But we need you to tell us the truth. - Okay.
Okay?
No stop happened, did it?
Why did you make that up?
I don't know.
What's making you so upset?
I want you to really tell me the truth
because I have this on video.
The evidence that we have in this case is not jiving with your side of the story.
I've got the video. We've got video too.
I believe evidence, so
if you tell me you have video evidence that that didn't happen,
then, like, I guess I have to believe you.
I know he's taken two polygraphs.
Watching the video stuff that we have,
um, and it shows you and, I guess, Steven making out...
Watching the video stuff that we have,
um, and it shows you, and, I guess, Steven making out and everything.
And I... I know you got in the vehicle.
I was hoping to talk to you about an investigation
that happened several years ago--
I can't speak to you about any of our cases.
All right. Well, can we sit down, I'll talk?
And if I can show you I would be very, very grateful.
I'm just not willing to talk about anything at all.
Okay.
My name is Detective Cotto of the Bridgeport Police Department.
Alright, listen. I... I... I'm sorry.
I'm not trying to embarrass you.
- So... - So, you're in the bathroom?
Yeah.
So, they didn't pull you into the bathroom, correct?
No, but they did grab my arm
at first.
Sure? I mean, and... and...
and who wouldn't grab your arm?
Look, you're a pretty young lady.
You... You really are. You're a pretty young lady.
You're a nice young lady.
What if I tell you
I was able to obtain
phone video
that shows you at the wall speaking to them at the party.
Who was the first person that walked out the bathroom?
Cause this is also videotaped.
You didn't get raped in the bathroom. You knew that.
And you know, afterwards you just wanted to distance yourself from it.
- Right? - Mm-hmm.
I'll be right back, okay?
There have been several investigators involved in this,
and we have done a very, very thorough investigation.
I'm Laura Dunn, counsel for defendant.
Why do you care so much?
It was just myself, Steven,
the guy in the blue shirt, and *****.