no I'm getting arrested take a seat why for that take a seat I'm trying on April 12th 20123 Bloomington police officers were dispatched to a residence with an arrest warrant from Michelle a transgender woman who was accused of sexually assaulting her 99-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son Michelle earlier identified as James but she had changed her name legally hi there heard somebody out there so we stopped my son yeah we stopped somebody that we thought was coming from this area yeah he came from here he was just going to Miller Park to meet some friends from
whatever he would told me well there's been some issues in the area with some stolen vehicles and some burglaries and some other stuff okay so that's why he just got home from school he's been here and he literally just left like maybe 5 minutes ago to go upar park okay so all right are you Michelle I am okay also you go by Michelle or do you go by okay all right Michelle I need to let you know that you have a warrant for your arrest okay okay why don't you step down here for me we'll
get you some uh shoes okay what do I have a warrant for you have a warrant for predatory criminal sexual assault is anybody in the house here my son's going to be here what time is it can you guys call my please and let her know that because my she needs come home and get my sign yep what's what's her number I can get it for you right there let me double lock these step forward for me just a second there you go yep B one we going to have one in custody I'm just cracking
my Knuckles I'm sorry dude here I don't know how um just swipe up on it and then you hit the middle piece right there right there no no no you were on it right there and then hit my love look for my oh that one yep and then call put it on speaker speaker do you need shoes we get him some shoes answer right now hi hi come one more time you want to bring my car around yeah James's daughter had accused him of sexually assaulting her regularly over the several years that she had lived
with him she stopped living with him in 2022 when the last incident had happened the 9-year-old boy also revealed that his father had abused him regularly since he was four years old so was it really break-ins or is that story no that's a story yeah I figured so go and just take a seat for me okay let me call you right no I'm getting arrested take a seat why for that sh take a seat I'm trying what you're on speaker okay this is Sergeant shely with the blina police department hi so Michelle Michelle has a
warrant for criminal sexual assault so W she's she's going to be going to the county jail why is she getting arrested there's been like nothing okay I'm just letting you know listen for me okay I'm letting you know that there was a warrant issued today we are the middle we are the middl man I don't know anything about the case we just go ahead and serve the warrants okay so I'm letting you know that she's going to be going to the county jail okay where do I need need to go well you need to get
Braden he's going to be home Michael needs to come home now where's Michael at he he was going to Miller Park that's who you guys ran into okay so do you have Michael's phone number yeah why don't you call why don't you make that your first priority call Michael and go pick him up unless how old is Michael Michael's 15 Michael's Michael's 15 okay so can Michael just come back back to the house and be by himself yeah he can watch them he can watch them both okay so why don't you just call Michael and
tell Michael to come back home and then that way you know where he's at okay okay you have any I mean I know you got a lot of questions but unfortunately I don't have a lot of answers for you call Dad call Brian and and and um um okay so I need to get you some shoes yeah all right so we're going to walk in so we can get you some shoes okay all right okay I'm going to hang up the phone okay ma'am so where do I need to go honestly there's there's no there's
nowhere to go do I have a b at all yeah well your warrant is a million dollars so it'll be probably a million 10% so that's $100,000 so that's why I'm saying you don't need to go anywhere I'm not getting out is what they're saying that's tell Court yeah youall have to go to court and then there'll be some she'll be able to make some phone calls all dad call Brian okay okay all right leaving my phone here okay that way you have the number because I don't think you have Brian's number it's in my
phone okay all right okay okay I'm going to hang up the phone now okay prior to his arrest James had learned of the accusations made against him through his ex-wife he then destroyed his phone which contained pornographic images that he showed his children while abusing them some of those nudes were of his ex-wife who had parted ways with him after he came out as a transgender woman okay so your pants right there I don't know if you knew I didn't yeah okay help me out yeah we'll walk to the door and then we'll just get
whatever's there okay cuz I don't want to dig around anything it's not my intention they're like right there okay well let what are they shoes well do can you describe them for me and I'll just grab them I don't know literally right inside the door here literally right then we'll put your phone inside I'm trying to ask M if he needs the phone hey do you need the phone does not okay never mind dogs are way up in the front porch locked up so which ones you want Roger Dodger um yep okay um can we
just pick like one of these yeah can you put them on just like this yeah I think so just hold on I'll help you where would you like me to keep your phone just right there okay yeah fine dude I'm my lady sorry sorry how do you want us to secure this just shut it just shut it that's secured all right [Applause] am I going this that side Other Side Y I'm not going I know you're not just go and take a seat in the front [Applause] yep I'll L for her and EES real quick
while we wait for the confirmation okay somebody make sure that they wait here till my my oldest gets here is that Michael yeah wait till he gets here that way my my cuz I my other son's going to be S getting here like any minute off the bus cuz it's what 3:30ish cuz he gets here at 3:45 so I don't want him there's a bus right there it's 3:33 yeah cuz my my youngest gets off the bus here any minute I don't want him to be alone okay um so my thing is I'm going to
wait for a little bit okay I mean he should be here any minute he he probably going back how is it you said Michael right Michael yeah okay yeah my oldest the one you guys ran into hold on Manny yeah during interrogation James alleged that he could never abuse his children because he himself was abused by his elder brother when he was a child and knew how it felt the officer told him that in his experience the ones inflicting trauma had often faced a severe form of it in their past in hyperventilate in situation so
I'm trying to just breathe was a zip code out here give me a second I got to secure my Biome then I'll let you out [Music] [Music] I have a seat there unless you want to understand I want to stand yeah uh Michelle is ready James even argued that he could not sustain an erection to even successfully do such a thing because he was on HRT hormones James was indicted on five counts of predatory criminal sexual assault after the indictment he was issued a $1 million Bond warrant
