[0:00]But he'll testify about what she told him.
[0:06]Please raise your right hand.
[0:08]If you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give today will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so let me go.
[0:16]Please have a seat.
[0:17]Good morning.
[0:18]Good morning.
[0:19]Could you introduce yourself, please?
[0:21]My name is Detective ******, the Palm Beach Police Department.
[0:24]Okay. What is your position now?
[0:26]I am a detective in the Special Investigations Unit.
[0:29]What do you investigate in Special Investigations?
[0:32]Long-term investigations, financial crimes, white-collar crimes, just about any kind of crimes.
[0:40]Okay. Ones that are going on for a long period of time, though, usually?
[0:43]Correct. Long period.
[0:44]Not a murder that happened last night?
[0:46]Right.
[0:46]Okay.
[0:48]Did you become involved in an investigation under case number 0500368?
[0:54]That is correct.
[0:54]When did you become involved in that?
[0:57]In September of 2008.
[0:59]2005.
[0:59]Okay. Was there another detective investigating this case before then?
[1:03]That is correct. Her name was Michelle Pagan.
[1:05]Okay. And she, at some point, turned it over to you.
[1:09]Correct.
[1:10]Have you familiarized yourself, either speaking with Detective Pagan or going through her reports, as to what was done when she was the detective on the case?
[1:17]Yes, I have.
[1:18]Okay. How did this case come to the attention of the Palm Beach Police Department?
[1:23]On March 14, 2005, a phone call was received.
[1:29]A phone call was received from Ms. ******, who felt that there was some sexual activity that had occurred with her daughter.
[1:41]And Ms. ******, and who is her daughter?
[1:47]Her stepdaughter is ******.
[1:51]What did Ms. ****** think was going on?
[1:57]What had occurred was that ****** had gotten into a fight.
[2:02]She was in ****** High School.
[2:05]And subsequent, after the fight, they discovered $300 in her purse.
[2:11]When questioning the $300, she had told them that she had received it from a man in Palm Beach.
[2:23]Did Ms. ****** hear a conversation where they were talking about the fact that ****** might have accepted money for having sex with a man?
[2:32]Yes, that is correct.
[2:33]She had some kind of sexual activity with a man in Palm Beach.
[2:38]And was paid for it?
[2:39]Correct.
[2:40]Okay.
[2:42]Was Detective ****** able to find out the circumstances about why the fight occurred?
[2:49]It was rumored that she had slept with a man in Palm Beach at ****** High School.
[2:57]She being ******?
[2:58]Correct.
[2:59]And she heard the rumor that she was a prostitute, and that's what started the fight?
[3:02]Correct.
[3:03]Correct.
[3:03]Who did she have the fight with?
[3:04]A girl by the name of ******.
[3:10]Okay.
[3:12]The fight occurred at school?
[3:15]Yes.
[3:15]Who actually found the money in ******'s purse?
[3:18]The freshman assistant principal.
[3:21]Okay.
[3:22]How much money was in the purse?
[3:23]$300.
[3:25]Was Detective ****** able to interview ******?
[3:30]Yes.
[3:32]Where did that occur?
[3:33]That occurred at the Palm Beach Police Department.
[3:36]Okay.
[3:36]Um, did ****** actually, was ****** really honest with Detective ******?
[3:45]Um, originally she did not tell everything that occurred.
[3:51]Um, it was through a subsequent interview that the further information was developed.
[3:58]What did ****** tell Detective ******?
[4:00]****** told ****** initially that she had gone to the house with a girl by the name of ******.
[4:07]Uh, to pick up monies that were owed to her.
[4:13]Um, when she, Detective ****** questioned her, she explained that, um, that she was taken to the house to provide a massage, uh, to a wealthy man in Palm Beach.
[4:30]Okay.
[4:31]She initially denied that, though, and said there was no act on her part between this man and herself?
[4:36]Correct.
[4:37]Okay.
[4:37]But she ultimately told them that she went for a massage?
[4:40]Correct.
[4:40]Correct.
[4:41]To give him a massage?
[4:42]Correct.
[4:46]Did ****** discuss with Detective ****** that what ****** was her about going to the house?
[4:55]Like, did you know ****** was here to do a massage and that you were going to get money?
[4:59]Okay.
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