Moochie, qui a tué Jill Halliburton? (2023): Season 1, Episode 2 - Episode #1.2 - full transcript
The following programme contains
strong language.
Resiles, as you know,
is 21 years old.
He's approximately five feet ten.
He's 170 pounds.
He has tattoos on both arms.
And he is armed and dangerous.
Let me repeat that,
he is armed and dangerous.
21-year-old old Dayonte Resiles
had been in jail
for almost 22 months.
He went to the courthouse
this morning for a hearing
on whether he could some day
face the death penalty.
But before that could happen,
Resiles somehow got loose
from his handcuffs and bolted from
the fourth floor of the courthouse.
He made another surprising move,
not only ditching his jumpsuit,
but removing his handcuffs.
One of the court deputies actually
was able to grab his pants,
but he was able to break that grab
and continue out the door.
Police would spent hours sweeping
every inch of the courthouse
before finally realising
the accused murderer had made it
out into the streets
of Fort Lauderdale.
Resiles spreading panic
in the courthouse this morning
after bolting during a peak hour.
His escape putting the areas
near the courthouse on alert.
Swarms of officers with guns
blocked off roads
and combed through
possible hideaways.
This was a tremendous embarrassment
for them.
I mean, you lost an inmate.
You just didn't lose an inmate
in transition, you lost him...
He was in the courtroom.
If you embarrass
the Sheriff's Office,
if you embarrass any...
entity of...law,
I mean, there's gonna be
hell to pay.
I don't know what he...
You know, I have no idea.
Like I said, I walked in.
I wasn't even actually
at the courtroom.
I just saw all this commotion
as I walked up
and then people said,
"Your client just escaped."
And at first
I thought it was a joke.
They said,
"Your client just ran away."
"Yeah, OK, sure."
Then I found out it was for real.
I was walking downstairs when
I heard a commotion and I got...
I went outside, and a couple
of minutes later found out
that someone had escaped
from the courtroom.
And in my mind I thought,
they'll just catch him and put him
back in the jail, no big deal.
We've all had clients
that have freaked out in court.
But they are usually quick
to take them down.
When I found out he left,
I thought that was unbelievable.
He will always be known
as the young man that escaped
the Broward County Jailhouse,
for the rest of his life.
He made history.
(LAUGHING) He made history.
So you have several people
coming from the jail,
they're all shackled together
and they're in the courts,
would normally be the jury box,
all these jail inmates, and suddenly
he bounds up, over, out.
He hits the door,
actually meets
a bit of resistance at the door.
I think somebody was
on the other side.
Then pushed again on the door
and he's out the door.
Everybody's kinda like...
what just happened?
Like, the judge went,
"Order in the Court!"
Which you only really see
in the movies,
that never really happens
in real life.
But nobody thinks
he's really gonna get too far
cos the courthouse is
full of deputies
but somehow he had it planned out,
to go down to a certain stairwell
where there's actually an exit
behind the courthouse
that he could leave,
which was pretty strange.
They're evacuating the building
here. So we have...
Sorry, Judge?They're evacuating
our building, we have to leave.
Before anybody can process
what they'd just witnessed,
Dayonte Resiles has escaped
and nobody knows
what to do about it.
Has anybody reviewed the video tape
to determine what ingress
and egress points he chose?
Bravo three. Do you remember
if he was cuffed at the time?
I found a jumpsuit on the ground
so I'm not sure what he's wearing.
Every tactical unit
I have available to me
and all our assets and resources,
our canine, our helicopters,
our marine patrol,
are looking for Mr Resiles.
All of the law enforcement agencies
across the US
have been notified about this guy.
Take a look at him.
That is his photo.
(LAUGHING) I just laughed.
I was just amazed.
I'm just...
I tell you, God,
you got a sense of humour.
You'll find him, you know?
I'm just enjoying the moment.
The reward money for information
leading to Resiles
has jumped significantly,
and possibly most telling is
the Sheriff saying they believe
he had accomplices.
It was a plan that was concocted
by teenagers,
of all the things.
His girlfriend at the time
was only 19,
she was driving a BMW
and she picked him up downstairs.
So, it was well planned.
Everybody was
impressed about this kid.
How a young, black man from the hood
can pull off an escape.
It was very coordinated. It was very
organised. Who would've thought?
Not only was it daring,
I mean, it was downright...
He just... It was perfectionism.
He spent several weeks talking over
the phone, going over everything,
making sure all the T's was crossed
and all the I's was dotted.
The big question that everybody had,
of course, is,
where did he get the key?
They thought possibly
it was brought in
by maybe an attorney,
maybe a friend visiting.
Where he got the key wasn't clear.
What we do know is that Dayonte got
one of his fellow inmates
to loosen his shackles beforehand
so he could slip out of them
once he got into the courtroom.
We also know that he asked
one of his friends
to do a dry-run
ten days before his escape,
so he knew exactly which way to go
after he fled the courtroom.
Now, he also planned another detail.
Might not seem like
nothing to me and you,
but it was perfect for his escape.
Dayonte made slits
in his prison jumpsuit
so he could easily slip out of it,
just in case any of the deputies
grabbed him
as he was fleeing the courtroom.
The inmate made a run for the door.
The bailiff who was directly
right behind him
tried to grab his jumpsuit,
but I think he got out of his
jumpsuit and just kept running.
So Dayonte's planned escape was
to exit the courthouse
on a side building,
travel down this sidewalk
to this street right here.
His waiting vehicle was parked
right here
where they actually were able
to escape
down the driveway and get away.
So the first place Dayonte goes
after he flees the jail
is his uncle's house to get money,
because if you're out on the run,
you need cash.
Second, they drove Dayonte
to this parking lot
in this apartment complex
off Oakland Park Boulevard.
This is where they dropped him off.
They dropped him off
about right over here somewhere.
She picked him up wearing some,
like, Hooter shorts, just casual.
Just picked him up
like nothing had even happened.
Meanwhile, they still looking for
Dayonte in the courthouse.
All units be advised,
we now have him on camera.
He left the building at 9.34
through stairwell one.
OK, have somebody
in the control room
print me out some colour photos
of him
so I can distribute throughout the
perimeter points to Fort Lauderdale.
The escape was, like,
all over the news
and it was very hugely published
because of course he was on the run,
there was a manhunt for him.
It's interesting,
I don't recall it being as if,
oh, my goodness, there is a murderer
on the loose, you know,
there's some... I mean
like a serial killer or something.
It was just...it was more like,
what? Huh?
OK, let's see what's next.
Are they gonna catch him? What?
You know, it almost...
I think people almost treated it
a little bit like...like a movie.
Like, OK, or a mini-series.
OK, what's next?
The Sheriff's Office needed to
gather intelligence, and fast.
They had two options.
Interview his fellow inmates and
listen to his jailhouse calls.
We switched phones.
He wanted to stare out the window.
Why was that? Was that unusual?
He just says it's his last day,
just wanted to get a good view.
That's all he said.
OK.
So switched phones
because it was his last day?
It was his last day
and I put in my radio
and that was it.
Investigators found out
that Dayonte was using
somebody else that was
locked up with him's PIN number
so the calls couldn't be
traced back to him.
So what he would do was, he would
call that inmate's girlfriend
and she would hook him up
with all his accomplices
and that's how they mastered it out.
Did you ever hear anybody either
on the three-ways or anybody...?
No-one else, I just...
Hold on, I have to
ask you the question first.
The name of Winston?
I heard that name last night,
but I didn't know who it was.
I just remember him saying
something about don't say...
You know, I'm not gonna
say too much on the phone.
Who was that, Moochie?
Moochie. Yeah, he was like, I'm not
gonna say too much on the phone.
You know, what you gotta do.
Something like that.
Who was he talking to?
He was talking to
his girlfriend, LaQuay.
So when the police went through all
the text messages and jail calls,
they figure out LaQuay and Winston
picked him up from the courthouse.
They arrested them
the very next morning.
All right, like I said,
I know you understand
how serious the situation is.
And we've had 200 cops
looking for him all day.
Mm-hm.It's been almost 24 hours.
We still have 15 detectives.
You saw your house,
US Marshals were there?
We wanna take care of this.
I know.We know him.
And I can prove that you know
a lot more than you're leading on.
So, after the investigators threaten
them with long jail sentences,
they went ahead and caved.
They gave 'em everything
and told 'em everything they knew
about the escape.
I picked up at the fence.
OK.
After I picked up Dayonte,
we was in traffic till we got
to the courthouse.
Who are the twins?
It's his cousins.
OK, so the twins are
Moochie's cousins.
What did they do up in the courtroom
to help this out?
Called.
When they called, I knew
that he was...he was there.
OK.
My day in the tank?
You're being arrested.
I'm being arrested?Yeah.
What's the charges?
Um, accessory to murder
and accessory to escape.
Is any of this shit worth it?
Y'all just be doing dumb shit
all day, man.
I tell you all the time.
I always (INDISTINCT)
y'all correct me.
It'll affect your future, bro.
I can't even go home?No.
Not even if I cooperated?
Well, you had that opportunity.
You decided you didn't wanna talk.
Are you changing your mind?
Will you...will you let me go home?
Do you know where he is now?
No, sir.I'm not, then.
How come?
Because that's what we want.
A CBS News safety alert
is still in place
because the accused killer
who escaped
from Broward County Courthouse
last Friday is still on the loose.
The Broward Sheriff's Office
has arrested four people
suspected of helping him get away.
Broward Sheriff's Office,
again very embarrassed.
They want people to know we're doing
things. The arrest forms come out,
and details of how they believed
these people
helped Resiles came out.
Deputies said that Resiles'
girlfriend, LaQuay Stern,
was waiting outside in a silver BMW
while their friend, Winston Russell,
had his hand on the steering wheel
of the getaway car.
There's an undercurrent
among those who know Resiles
and know about this case,
there's an undercurrent of
he was being hung up, rung up
on that, kind of as an excuse.
OK, here's somebody
who we can railroad.
That's... There's an undercurrent
of that feeling
because...there's evidence of this.
This is not, you know,
it's not like...
that hasn't happened before.
Well, tonight he's trending
on Twitter and Facebook
with some users actually encouraging
the accused killer's
run from the law.
This Facebook live video titled,
"They said Moochie hiding
in this hotel"
is just the latest
in the social media frenzy
over Dayonte Resiles' escape
from the Broward County Courthouse
on Friday.
Resiles, whose nickname is Moochie,
was not at this
Fort Lauderdale motel.
The manager says
someone called in a tip,
so deputies had to check it out.
Meanwhile, the hashtag
run Moochie run has gained attention
as people jokingly refer to him
as "El Moochie"
after the legendary drug lord,
El Chapo.
(RAP MUSIC PLAYING)
(RAPPING)
Don't try to run, I got a gun
It'll crack a slab
Or you better had
Or better yet, just run
Run, Moochie, run
Run, Moochie, run...
I made the song, like,
right on the spot, you know,
as soon as I heard about it.
Put it out and it immediately
received
a lot of feedback,
positive feedback.
People were on Twitter
tweeting about it.
I had people already making videos,
you know, saying, "Run Moochie run."
That kinda went viral
when he escaped the courtroom.
I think that that just speaks
to a larger issue
that we have here locally,
when it comes down to
police and lying
and covering up crimes,
um, and really incriminating
black people
for crimes they didn't commit.
I just feel like that's a sense,
I guess, of loyalty
and you're down for the cause,
I guess.
Cos they're probably tired
of police brutality,
cos around that time, people were
getting shot by the police.
A man has been committed
over a brutal murder
and yet his whole community
stands behind him
and supports him.
They could very well just delete him
and just say, you know what?
But they support him.
So far, so good, you know?
They didn't catch him yet,
so I dunno.
I don't really know
exactly what he's going through
and why he's on the run,
but, you know, I hope he...
..everything works out for the best,
you know?
And tonight we are learning that the
reward has now doubled from $10,000.
After a donation, it is now
at $20,000.
If you have any information,
call Broward Crime Stoppers
on 954-493-TIPS.
The first tips received by
the Sheriff's Office were from
Dayonte's own supporters, designed
to throw off the investigators.
But as time went on, the Sheriff's
Office increased the reward money
and put more pressure on the
potential informants to talk,
and the tips got more specific.
I was supposed to be in that hotel.
Uh-huh. And what were you gonna do?
Why was he gonna contact you
at the motel?
Cos Moochie said a lotta shit to a
lotta people and they'd follow suit.
So, go ahead and tell me why,
why was he gonna meet you
at the motel
and why, after he's on the run,
is he gonna hook back up with you?
He was supposed to get some money.
OK.
One of his cousins asked me,
can I take her to go drop him off
a couple of items,
and she just said,
can I please take her?
So I took her, we dropped him off
a wig and some contacts.
I obviously saw the residence
where he was located at.
And how certain are you
that the person who you met with
there was Moochie?
100%.
Did you have any conversation
with him?Yes, he was in my car.
How close would you say
you came face-to-face with Moochie?
Close enough to kiss.
OK. Why do you think that was?
Why would he need those clothes?
They was gonna get ready
to leave for Orlando.
OK.
And do you know the cousin's name?
Yes. Francine.
Be very, very careful.
You understand how big
your situation is.
You're here in handcuffs,
in shackles,
about to go to jail on very, very
serious charges.Please, sir.
No, on a very serious charge.
Give me a chance, sir.
I gave you 16 minutes' worth
of chances.
(DIALOGUE INDISTINCT)
Please! Listen to me.
Tell me where Moochie is.
More than a half dozen
co-conspirators
are friends and family members
who have all since been arrested
for their roles
in the elaborate escape.
So, five days after
Dayonte's escape,
the Broward County
Sheriff's Office
had seven people in custody
but they still had no clue
as to where Dayonte was hiding.
This was tremendously embarrassing
for them.
I remember the reward
for information was
$20,000 right out of the gate,
or something like that.
You could...you have murderers...
..where the initial reward
is $3,000.
So, the fact that they put $20,000
out there, right off the bat,
told you they wanted this kid badly
and they were very embarrassed
by it.
My advice to him would be
voluntarily surrender right now.
I don't want anything
happening to him,
and I don't want anything happening
to any innocent third person.
A wanted man is on the run today,
the reward for help in finding him
has been raised.
$50,000 is now being offered
for anyone who can help police
find Dayonte Resiles.
The police are really hoping
this extra cash will lead
to his recapture.
This is America, money talks,
people have a price.
Resiles himself later said,
it was an uncle who led police
to him...for the reward.
Unit two moving to position.
Units three and four,
maintain cover to sector seven.
Unit five, set up a perimeter
with unit six.
Every day I was only sleeping for
30 minutes to a hour at the most.
You know, when you was there,
you're so nervous,
you're nervous like,
every time something...
that door shut, door snap,
you're nervous, you're trying to see
what's going on in there.
And this was the scariest thing.
(INDISTINCT RADIO MESSAGES)
Clear, we have a visual.
Repeat, we have a visual.
I had so many red dots on me, you'd
have thought I had chicken pox.
I thought they was gonna kill me.
I stood there, like, waiting for it
to happen, but it never happened.
Cos I thought I was gonna die.
Before I walked out,
I prayed and I said,
if I'm gonna die, Lord,
don't let it be that long
and don't allow me to suffer
that long, just that it be quick.
Cos I thought I was gonna die. I
didn't think I'd make it back here,
I didn't believe that. I thought
they was gonna kill me.
He came out of the room,
he surrendered without incident,
he laid on the ground.
He allowed us to handcuff him.
No force was necessary.
Have you shared any words with him?
I just looked at him,
and he said, er...
"Sheriff's here."
A murder suspect who escaped from
the Broward County Courthouse
is back behind bars after deputies
caught 21-year-old Dayonte Resiles
hiding out at a Days Inn
in West Palm Beach.
Yeah, when I came back,
for the first time,
I was able to get
a good night's sleep
because I never sleep past the hour,
I had 30 minutes only.
When they finally caught me
and I came in here,
I was able to sleep for hours,
hours, hours.
I was able to sleep at night.
I was all right.
But because I didn't have to worry
no more about the police coming
or me being shot, or me doing this.
I was all right.
Because they don't have anything,
they was hoping
that was gonna happen.
That he would be killed out there,
case over, case solved,
and the real murderer
still out free.
But God had another plan.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, my goodness!
I thought he was already gone
far away,
so I'm like, oh yeah,
they may not ever find him.
I thought he was
out of the country.
But he only made it to West Palm
Beach, and I'm like, ugh!
I thought he had, like,
a greater plan, like...
..he already had everything in place
to go far away.
I thought he was in Haiti somewhere.
I don't know.
Dayonte Resiles may be
the most closely guarded inmate
in Broward County,
but he still has a right to pen
and paper, and that's what he used
to write this letter
to Judge Raag Singhal.
"I want to apologise for escaping
from your courtroom,"
Resiles writes. "I hope you don't
take it personal.
"I felt I was at a dead end
with nowhere to turn to.
"I tried to appeal to everyone
to prove to them I was innocent,
"but my voice went unheard.
"When I escaped, my whole reason was
to gather enough info on my case
"to prove my innocence," he writes.
Now he's gonna be charged
with escape,
and escape in Florida is punishable
by a maximum sentence of 15 years.
So the bottom line is, yeah,
he has no defence
to the escape charge.
I mean, it's not like he didn't
do it. He did it, it's on video,
him running out.
Now he's apprehended,
so, er...he's gotta be concerned
that any judge is gonna give him
the maximum sentence for escaping,
which is 15 years.
What was a stronger case for us,
because of our client's desperation,
became a weaker case for us,
with him trying to escape.
Any time that you try to flee
from police or flee prosecution,
they're able to use that against you
at trial as consciousness of guilt,
even though it happened
way after the crime,
they can tell the jury, you know,
innocent people don't run away,
innocent people don't flee,
innocent people don't try
to escape prosecution.
They try to show that
they didn't do anything wrong.
The value I saw in the escape is the
lengths he went to to organise it.
Someone who is capable
of organising, even though
he knows that he's gonna, you know,
involve people who will potentially
get in trouble for helping him,
and doesn't care,
just goes ahead and does it,
that's someone who's capable
of doing anything for themselves.
And I think that that relates to
someone who's capable
of killing somebody
because they're about to get caught.
A murder suspect who escaped from
the Broward County Courthouse
faced a judge in the same courtroom
where he broke out of his handcuffs
and took off.
This time, 21-year-old
Dayonte Resiles was guarded
by a team of armed deputies.
Resiles' brother, family and friends
packed the courtroom
wearing shirts,
"Innocent until proven guilty".
He mouthed a message to his family
in the courtroom
that didn't sit well with the many
deputies guarding the door.
Let's go.
Resiles' brother was escorted
out of the hearing
and Resiles' family left court
defending his choice to run,
saying he's been wrongly accused
of killing Jill Su
in her Davie home back in 2014.
Well, I'm not saying, like, y'all do
know he escaped from the courthouse,
but he's not a murderer.
I think he's innocent, and I believe
he deserve a fair trial.
They just wanna close the case
so they pin that on him.
I believe he was framed.
Do you know how many black boys,
you know, sitting in jail like that?
You don't get support like,
you know, like this,
especially like, where he come from,
and you don't get a outpour
of support like that.
He got his auntie that, you know,
they sticking with what they want.
That got to be gone.
Khari said, "Hey, my brother would
never do something like that.
"Me and him break into houses before
and if the house is occupied,
"we run to hell outta there,
you know?
We're not gonna go attack somebody."
I mean, which burglar you know
walks in there
and attack somebody like that?
They wanna lock this black kid up
because they know that
that woman's son killed her.
They know it's the boy.
Yeah, when the first detective
was on the scene,
he was willing to say
he'd put his whole career on it
if it's not the son.Exactly.
He said, "I bet the son did it."
But it just didn't make
any sense to me.
Just this one black boy,
you gonna...
If any white person come over here,
you stand out, we gonna see you.
Everybody gonna see you.
I don't care who you is.
Now, one black boy go in this whole
big community and nobody see him?
He go in there and leave,
and nobody see him.Uh-oh!
(SIRENS WAIL)
Oh, they hear us
talking about Dayonte.
Me and my mom was sitting
at the dinner table
and his mugshot popped up.
She said, "Oh, I remember this kid
from 2014, you know,
this lady got murdered.
It was such a gruesome murder,
and I don't... You know, he didn't
do it. I don't think he did it.
She followed up the story
because there was a lot of other,
you know, information on the story
and a lot of it was coming from
Dayonte's family.
And they invited her
to the court hearing,
which she attended
and that's the first time
she saw him.
And it was a really good connection
that I made with his aunt
and his brother, and then one day,
his cousin called and said, "Hey...
"Moochie says he wants to see you.
"He wants you to come to the jail."
So we met up and then we end up
going to see Dayonte.
So I was watching him
the whole time,
like, every move that he...
..everything that he did.
Like, the way he held the phone,
everything. I was watching,
like, analysing him, you know,
see if I could kinda read him.
One visit turned into, like,
every other week,
once a week and then twice a week.
So I spent a lotta time talking to
him on the phone and I visited him.
She didn't waste any time, like,
the first day she says, like,
"I have something." I think I have
something I need to tell you."
So when she said that, you are,
like, being a man,
you already know what that means.
It only means one of two things.
It's something bad
or something good.
But being that I don't know her,
I didn't know her,
it couldn't have been nothing bad.
So I know what's coming afterwards.
She told me, um,
"I think I like you."
(LAUGHING)
And from there, she just became
my lady and then, like,
the loyalty that she gave me, the
love and affection she showered me
with,
like. I lost my sister before, she's
like, I just fell for her or
whatever, it was crazy, but she's a
wonderful woman. She's a wonderful--
she's actually,
if I'm gonna be honest, like,
I don't deserve her
because she's so good for me.
And then they would write letters,
she'd send him a lot of pretty cards
and she sent him love cards
and you know, nice things to
emotionally get him, you know...
..away from all the difficulty he
was struggling with in there,
because jail is not an easy life.
She did that
to make him feel better,
to help him...emotionally.
Like, she gave me a purpose.
My daughter gives me a purpose of
living and breathing and fighting,
but Crystal has the purpose,
like, chose me and motivated me
and like, in so many ways
she can't be grounded or whatever.
Cos it's one thing of having that
person here that's repeatedly,
like, you need to get yourself
together. I'm here with you.
Why do you keep pushing me away?
Cos in the beginning of
our relationship, there was
a power struggle. I'm, like, always
constantly pushing her away.
I'm just not prone
to trust with people like that
because I've been betrayed.
Or I'm not, like...
She's trying to give me love
but I'm refusing.
Like, I'm all right, because it's
just the stuff I've been through.
But she never gave up. She always,
"I'm here, I'm not going anywhere.
I love Dayonte. There's nothing
that I wouldn't do...for him.
I wouldn't do anything...
There's nothing that I wouldn't do.
And people say, they all say,
"Oh, you don't even know him.
"You never touched him. So how can
you fall in love with him?"
I don't know.
To me it's a spiritual thing.
It's more spiritual
than anything else.
She never known me, like, we never
touched each other's hands,
we never kissed each other.
Like, we never shared a kiss,
but we shared the emotions,
we share the conversations
and we share the connection.
You don't have to necessarily
touch a person.
All you have to do is share a sense
of affection or words with a person.
Like, love doesn't has a set time
where you falling in love
or how you fall in love.
Like, people are... A lot of people
fall in love in mysterious ways.
Like, it's not no set standard
of how you fall in love
and who you fall in love with.
It just sorta happens organically.
This is not normal behaviour,
I'm aware of that.
People don't just meet somebody
and just will do anything for 'em.
I'm aware. And it might be kinda
crazy to some people.
Maybe I am crazy, I don't know.
Only God knows why I became
a part of his life.
Shall I do a live on his phone?
I mean... (INDISTINCT)
Billboard will be definitely punchy.
(DIALOGUE INDISTINCT)
The billboard posted outside Broward
Sheriff's Headquarters claims
there are two victims.
Obviously Jill Halliburton Su,
found slashed to death
in her Davie home in 2014.
But also, they argue,
the then 19-year-old man
who police say left his DNA
on the murder weapon
and inside the victim's house.
The Broward Sheriff's Office
is the one county agency,
the one city agency, that can say,
you know, we have the power
to stop this.
We have the power to show
somebody else committed this crime.
His supporters wanted the Sheriff
to see it.
Felix, do you want us on
the sidewalk or straight to you?
Straight to him, pretend he's not
there, just walk right past him,
don't stop in front or we'll have to
do this again.OK, got you.Sorry.
Me too.
Um...what got you so interested
in this cause?
Tony, it's been so many people,
so many of our people,
that have just been railroaded
through the justice system,
it's just not fair.
And it continues to happen
day after day.
It's a lot of court cases, a lot
of people just in jail right now.
A lot of people of colour,
black people that's in jail
for crimes they didn't commit.
But prosecutors will also point to
his daring escape
from the courthouse
as evidence of
consciousness of guilt.
If he was innocent, why escape?
Let's be honest about our
public defence system, it sucks.
That's everywhere
around the country.
It's horrible, really horrible.
These public defence lawyers,
they got probably 20 cases that...
They just can't get to everybody,
just can't do a job
effective enough.
He doesn't have the financial means
to hire his own personal attorney,
so, when you going through
those factors
and they trying to give you
the death penalty and everything,
I mean...he has a fighting soul.
He has the spirit of our ancestors.
He's gonna fight.
So, let me get out of here,
fight and prove my own innocence
cos I don't believe my defence
attorneys are doing the best job
I believe that they can do.
Thank you for coming here, I know it
was hard for you to get out.
I appreciate you giving us this
opportunity, I really appreciate it.
I wanna get all sides
of every story.Exactly.
I'm glad you were able to come.
What do you do for living?
I drive trucks.
They're having an event
at this park, on this day.
So if you can come out
it'll be good,
but if you cannot make it
and have Instagram and Facebook,
you can go to Justice for Moochie
and like the page.
DAYONTE:I just spoke
to Kea and Chris.
They told me it was on the news
on NBC6.
I didn't get to see it,
but on social media
everybody was going crazy about it.
They saying, oh, you know,
Moochie got a billboard
and everybody just talks about it,
but it's a good thing, man.
They don't have enough evidence,
so they can't convict him for that.
It's all a set-up. All they care
about is a conviction rate.
If you look into the case,
you'll see yourself.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist
to figure it out. It's all a set-up.
DAYONTE:It's a good thing.
You know, like,
just not having your voice heard for
so long and not able to tell people,
like, tell 'em how you feel
and from your standpoint.
It's not no easy experience.
Yeah, thumbs up
for that boy Moochie.
Here boy, come out and support, OK?
Come out and support.
Come out and support.
I gotta explain, at that time...
(INDISTINCT)
All I ask is for them to believe
the facts. The facts stand alone.
There's no way they should go around
and manipulated and twisted and turn
or whatever. The facts stand firm.
But I have faith and I have belief
in good coming from it all.
It's good to have a voice that
people speaking out on your behalf
and speaking about the truth
of who you are,
what you stand for,
and stuff like that.
I mean, everybody's just, you know,
justice for Moochie, you know?
Free Moochie. Justice for Moochie.
Justice for Moochie. Free Moochie.
(LAUGHING)
I was...I was angry.
I was very, very shocked.
I was very angry.
How dare they put...
my wife's and his...
..her murderer's face
right next to each other
and claim his innocence?
How dare?
I really miss her a lot...a lot.
We lived for more than 34, 35
years together.
We all have the same mantra,
we kinda know what the other people
feel and think.
No matter what,
love them, be kind to them.
If you can help, help them.
That's really her model.
Always volunteer something
to help people.
So the first one she did is
in
Cambodia.
She was working at the, er...
refugee camp
for United Nations High Commission
for refugees,
helping the Cambodian refugees
escaping the Khmer Rouge genocide.
And after, that she come back
to San Francisco.
She was working for
the Southeast-Asian refugee
resettlement programme.
So she was always volunteering
something.
At the time of her death,
she was volunteering
for an organisation called
Insight For The Blind.
Which is to read the newspaper
or articles,
newspaper and magazine
type of thing,
er, we call it,
to visibly impaired people
to be able to access those news.
As a matter of fact, that afternoon
of the day she was killed,
she was supposed to go there.
The police came and talked to me and
wanted to question me
about how he got a handcuff key.
So I sat down and talked to 'em.
I said, you know,
"Are you kidding me?
"I'm gonna give up
30 years of practice
£to give a client a handcuff key."
I said, "You'd better start looking
within the jail,
"because that's gotta be
where it came from."
How do you steal a handcuff key
when you're always cuffed?
How do you...how do you steal it?
Wait till one of the deputies go to
sleep, then you do it the other way
or you take a bone and you tie
it to the end of a string
and you want the dog
to bring you the keys
and that's the way you do it.
That's how we doing now
to get the jail cuff key?
Broward Sheriff's Office quickly
initiated an investigation
as to how this happened.
Where did he get the key?
That was never determined.
You know? Was it that a deputy
who was in corrections had lost
her key a few months before?
The Sheriff's Office believes
Dayonte found
a handcuff key on the ground
and that's how
he undid his handcuffs and got out.
That seems totally unrealistic
to me.
It just don't, "Oh, I lost my key.
"I'll order another key."
That don't happen like that.
It doesn't happen like that.
Especially on the floor he's on.
That's the lock-down floor.
That's where all the murderers
and all the terrible people are
who have committed crimes,
are on that floor.
You not gonna lose a cuff key
up there, just let it go.
No, that ain't gonna happen.
And now, nearly obtained search
warrant records indicate
Resiles used his Facebook account
while in jail
to help coordinate the escape.
Detective Timothy Metts wrote
in the warrant application
that during multiple jail calls,
Resiles informs people
he is speaking with
that he occasionally
accesses Facebook
by using a BSO employee's cell phone
to do so.
Now, I spoke with Resiles' attorney,
Dohn Williams, today.
He said he didn't know if a BSO cell
phone was used during the escape.
As for Resiles, he remains in the
Broward County Jail without bond.
There were only two deputies, by the
way, that were disciplined on this
and one of them is...
..was a guy named Darnell Harper,
he was a long time deputy.
They disciplined him for not calling
out Resiles on the ripped pants.
Now, his punishment for this was...
I believe he was dinged
eight hours without pay.
And then there was another
long-time deputy
who apparently did not search
Resiles at the other side properly.
There were not
more people disciplined.
I mean, there was only
those two deputies.
At the end of the day,
the big investigation
for what went wrong says,
oh, all these things went wrong,
but no-one's actually responsible.
We all gotta just take this ale.
He escaped and he got away,
leave it at that,
let's just charge him.
As far as the internal investigation
is, let's just leave that alone.
And they don't work like that there.
They don't work like that at all.
The SO will come after their own.
They will come after their own.
I've seen it several times.
And why they haven't
come after their own on this one?
Mm...
..maybe its politics.
Sheriff Scott Israel pointed
part of the blame
at the Broward County Commission,
claiming a lack of funds prevented
him from manning the courthouse
with as many armed deputies
as he would have liked.
He says only 15 deputies
were on duty
to protect the courthouse
at the time of the escape.
I've been battling with Broward
County for three years now,
asking for adequate staffing
for a courthouse
that was understaffed from the day
I became Sheriff of Broward County.
This is while
people are looking for someone
they believe is armed and dangerous.
This is after that
traumatic courthouse event.
And that's what you hear
from your Sheriff.
It is, "They should've given me
more money."
Friction continues
with a battle brewing
between Sheriff Scott Israel
and the County Commission.
Today, Israel demanded more money
for his agency
even before addressing the manhunt.
He actually said that you and the
commission care more about money
than you do about lives.
It's a blatant, outright...
It's an insult, but it's a lie too.
It doesn't bother me in the least,
it shows how weak he is.
Why talk about money?
It's about saving lives
and getting the suspect
back under supervision.
The theory is, that they need it
and they wanted
more deputies at the courthouse.
The courthouse told them no.
So in theory, if someone was
to escape or attempt an escape,
then it would show
they did need more deputies.
That's all I can say about it,
that's just my theory.
I mean, why would you help him?
Why would you do it?
You gotta have something
to gain from it.
I'm telling you, man.
I was just helping, doing a favour
for a favour, man. I mean...
For who? Who's the favour to?
They say they need to help the guy
get the money for the courthouse.
I was helping 'em out, man.
All right.
Are we done?Yeah, we're done.
I wanna talk to Scott, man.
That's who I wanna talk to.
Scott likes to talk to people
who talk the truth.
Maybe I'll try to read the seventh
and talk to the big guy, man.
A lotta that... (INDISTINCT)Yeah.
All right.
When you get a chance,
you tell him, man.
Tell him I said I would love
to speak with him, man.
Politic with him a little bit, man.
Even if I can get five out of his
time, I just like to talk to him.
I doubt it.
Do I believe that?
I would be sceptical.
I would want to know more.
I would... I mean, I think that...
..you should always be sceptical
in these situations.
Is it true? We don't know.
There's a lot to that story
or whatever,
because a lot of people
don't understand the full story
and everything behind it
or whatever.
But it's a lot to the case
and a lot to the matter,
but when it's time for trial,
everything that the people don't
know about the whole escape,
the case and then everything,
it'll be out for everybody to have
a understanding about that.
Did Dayonte explain to you
how he escaped?
I can't...I can't discuss that
with you.
That'd be attorney-client privilege.
OK.
Put it over that way.
(MUSIC PLAYING OVER PA)
So, what you doin' now?
Honestly?
Me and my old girl, we bumping heads
so I been out on the street
trying to find her something.
Yo.Stay positive,
keep your head up.
Oh, yeah, I got to, got to.
There's an old saying, everything
you to a time and a season.
Absolutely.And when your new season
come in,
you gotta be ready to walk through
the door.Long time said.
They be playin' with it.Yeah.
How it happened was,
I got arrested in, like, August.
Then I got transferred
to the main jail
and I ended up being his room-mate.
So I spent four months with him
and during the four months,
he escaped.
Oh, everybody know he ain't do it.
Everybody. That's the word. He...
We grew up...breaking into houses
and stuff.
Killing, we don't kill,
we just, we strictly...
We just want money
and material things.
We didn't...
We not looking for any violence.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
How y'all lovely people doing today?
All right.
I'm Dada, better known as Richard,
Moochie's big brother,
Shasha's older son.
Y'all applause for this lady here.
Even though everything was going on,
she did her best to raise
all four of her kids.
Yeah. Um...Let that be known.
Yeah, let that be known.
Cos they make it seem like
people don't got control
of their households. So this momma
did everything she needed to do.
We have to let them know
we know how to stand up,
not lean, sit down,
being over squirt,
do whatever they think that's all
we good for, black or white.
You know what I'm saying?
We can't change
the colour of our skin.
Can my skin speak for me?
I gotta speak for my skin.Right.
You come to TV, it's the same story,
just another face.
Another name...
..and another victim.
And we shouldn't wait for Netflix
or whoever to tell the story
before we get serious
about this situation.
Cos after Moochie,
it's gonna be another Moochie
and another Moochie
and another Moochie.
That's why I tell
all my black brothers,
you gotta stand up.
You gotta stand up. You gotta
fight for what you believe.
You gotta tell them people,
all them dead niggas, they dead.
All those dead niggas, they dead.
That's from back in the day.
We is a whole new generation.
You're not a generation of black
men, we ain't fallin' for all this.
We ain't standing for nothing
like that. Our black women,
we gotta protect them all,
we gotta protect our kids.
Cos when they put you like that,
when somebody touch your family,
you got nothing to lose.
It is what it is.
That's why I say, all my young
black brothers, anybody,
you gotta stand up.
You gotta stand up for your family.
You be his judge.
You be his lawyer, oh, Lord.
You come, and you talk and agree
with everybody, oh, Lord,
that you free him.
You bring justice, oh, Lord...
(DIALOGUE INDISTINCT)
..in the name of Jesus.
I touch and agree
with everybody here.
We don't all know the facts
of this case,
and it's not our job and we here for
one purpose, because God touched
each and every one of our hearts
that volunteers today.
In the name of the Father, Son
and the Holy Spirit,
we hold this thing out
and we turnin' out in peace.
In the name of Jesus.
Amen.ALL:Amen.
(WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE)
One, two, three.
ALL:Free Moochie!
(LAUGHTER)
Natalya, that rally just wrapped up
here behind me a few moments ago.
Several supporters of Dayonte
Resiles say they were here
to bring attention to his case
because they cannot believe
he would do something like this.
Dayonte Resiles' tangled web
of alleged accomplices
grew early this morning
with the arrests of eight people.
He used eight different people
to help him escape.
Fast-forward another year,
he used eight additional people
to help him formulate
this criminal enterprise.
33-year-old Crystal Isaacs
of Fort Lauderdale
had never met Resiles
before his escape.
She began writing him letters and
visiting him in jail in August 2016.
She's accused of acting as
a go-between for Resiles and others
of passing bribe money on
to a Deputy
and of manipulating
Resiles' Facebook page.
The murder case against him
was clearly strengthened
by the investigation
that our Public Corruptions Unit
and the State Attorney's Office
has done over the past year
and we look forward to today,
when prosecution begins.
strong language.
Resiles, as you know,
is 21 years old.
He's approximately five feet ten.
He's 170 pounds.
He has tattoos on both arms.
And he is armed and dangerous.
Let me repeat that,
he is armed and dangerous.
21-year-old old Dayonte Resiles
had been in jail
for almost 22 months.
He went to the courthouse
this morning for a hearing
on whether he could some day
face the death penalty.
But before that could happen,
Resiles somehow got loose
from his handcuffs and bolted from
the fourth floor of the courthouse.
He made another surprising move,
not only ditching his jumpsuit,
but removing his handcuffs.
One of the court deputies actually
was able to grab his pants,
but he was able to break that grab
and continue out the door.
Police would spent hours sweeping
every inch of the courthouse
before finally realising
the accused murderer had made it
out into the streets
of Fort Lauderdale.
Resiles spreading panic
in the courthouse this morning
after bolting during a peak hour.
His escape putting the areas
near the courthouse on alert.
Swarms of officers with guns
blocked off roads
and combed through
possible hideaways.
This was a tremendous embarrassment
for them.
I mean, you lost an inmate.
You just didn't lose an inmate
in transition, you lost him...
He was in the courtroom.
If you embarrass
the Sheriff's Office,
if you embarrass any...
entity of...law,
I mean, there's gonna be
hell to pay.
I don't know what he...
You know, I have no idea.
Like I said, I walked in.
I wasn't even actually
at the courtroom.
I just saw all this commotion
as I walked up
and then people said,
"Your client just escaped."
And at first
I thought it was a joke.
They said,
"Your client just ran away."
"Yeah, OK, sure."
Then I found out it was for real.
I was walking downstairs when
I heard a commotion and I got...
I went outside, and a couple
of minutes later found out
that someone had escaped
from the courtroom.
And in my mind I thought,
they'll just catch him and put him
back in the jail, no big deal.
We've all had clients
that have freaked out in court.
But they are usually quick
to take them down.
When I found out he left,
I thought that was unbelievable.
He will always be known
as the young man that escaped
the Broward County Jailhouse,
for the rest of his life.
He made history.
(LAUGHING) He made history.
So you have several people
coming from the jail,
they're all shackled together
and they're in the courts,
would normally be the jury box,
all these jail inmates, and suddenly
he bounds up, over, out.
He hits the door,
actually meets
a bit of resistance at the door.
I think somebody was
on the other side.
Then pushed again on the door
and he's out the door.
Everybody's kinda like...
what just happened?
Like, the judge went,
"Order in the Court!"
Which you only really see
in the movies,
that never really happens
in real life.
But nobody thinks
he's really gonna get too far
cos the courthouse is
full of deputies
but somehow he had it planned out,
to go down to a certain stairwell
where there's actually an exit
behind the courthouse
that he could leave,
which was pretty strange.
They're evacuating the building
here. So we have...
Sorry, Judge?They're evacuating
our building, we have to leave.
Before anybody can process
what they'd just witnessed,
Dayonte Resiles has escaped
and nobody knows
what to do about it.
Has anybody reviewed the video tape
to determine what ingress
and egress points he chose?
Bravo three. Do you remember
if he was cuffed at the time?
I found a jumpsuit on the ground
so I'm not sure what he's wearing.
Every tactical unit
I have available to me
and all our assets and resources,
our canine, our helicopters,
our marine patrol,
are looking for Mr Resiles.
All of the law enforcement agencies
across the US
have been notified about this guy.
Take a look at him.
That is his photo.
(LAUGHING) I just laughed.
I was just amazed.
I'm just...
I tell you, God,
you got a sense of humour.
You'll find him, you know?
I'm just enjoying the moment.
The reward money for information
leading to Resiles
has jumped significantly,
and possibly most telling is
the Sheriff saying they believe
he had accomplices.
It was a plan that was concocted
by teenagers,
of all the things.
His girlfriend at the time
was only 19,
she was driving a BMW
and she picked him up downstairs.
So, it was well planned.
Everybody was
impressed about this kid.
How a young, black man from the hood
can pull off an escape.
It was very coordinated. It was very
organised. Who would've thought?
Not only was it daring,
I mean, it was downright...
He just... It was perfectionism.
He spent several weeks talking over
the phone, going over everything,
making sure all the T's was crossed
and all the I's was dotted.
The big question that everybody had,
of course, is,
where did he get the key?
They thought possibly
it was brought in
by maybe an attorney,
maybe a friend visiting.
Where he got the key wasn't clear.
What we do know is that Dayonte got
one of his fellow inmates
to loosen his shackles beforehand
so he could slip out of them
once he got into the courtroom.
We also know that he asked
one of his friends
to do a dry-run
ten days before his escape,
so he knew exactly which way to go
after he fled the courtroom.
Now, he also planned another detail.
Might not seem like
nothing to me and you,
but it was perfect for his escape.
Dayonte made slits
in his prison jumpsuit
so he could easily slip out of it,
just in case any of the deputies
grabbed him
as he was fleeing the courtroom.
The inmate made a run for the door.
The bailiff who was directly
right behind him
tried to grab his jumpsuit,
but I think he got out of his
jumpsuit and just kept running.
So Dayonte's planned escape was
to exit the courthouse
on a side building,
travel down this sidewalk
to this street right here.
His waiting vehicle was parked
right here
where they actually were able
to escape
down the driveway and get away.
So the first place Dayonte goes
after he flees the jail
is his uncle's house to get money,
because if you're out on the run,
you need cash.
Second, they drove Dayonte
to this parking lot
in this apartment complex
off Oakland Park Boulevard.
This is where they dropped him off.
They dropped him off
about right over here somewhere.
She picked him up wearing some,
like, Hooter shorts, just casual.
Just picked him up
like nothing had even happened.
Meanwhile, they still looking for
Dayonte in the courthouse.
All units be advised,
we now have him on camera.
He left the building at 9.34
through stairwell one.
OK, have somebody
in the control room
print me out some colour photos
of him
so I can distribute throughout the
perimeter points to Fort Lauderdale.
The escape was, like,
all over the news
and it was very hugely published
because of course he was on the run,
there was a manhunt for him.
It's interesting,
I don't recall it being as if,
oh, my goodness, there is a murderer
on the loose, you know,
there's some... I mean
like a serial killer or something.
It was just...it was more like,
what? Huh?
OK, let's see what's next.
Are they gonna catch him? What?
You know, it almost...
I think people almost treated it
a little bit like...like a movie.
Like, OK, or a mini-series.
OK, what's next?
The Sheriff's Office needed to
gather intelligence, and fast.
They had two options.
Interview his fellow inmates and
listen to his jailhouse calls.
We switched phones.
He wanted to stare out the window.
Why was that? Was that unusual?
He just says it's his last day,
just wanted to get a good view.
That's all he said.
OK.
So switched phones
because it was his last day?
It was his last day
and I put in my radio
and that was it.
Investigators found out
that Dayonte was using
somebody else that was
locked up with him's PIN number
so the calls couldn't be
traced back to him.
So what he would do was, he would
call that inmate's girlfriend
and she would hook him up
with all his accomplices
and that's how they mastered it out.
Did you ever hear anybody either
on the three-ways or anybody...?
No-one else, I just...
Hold on, I have to
ask you the question first.
The name of Winston?
I heard that name last night,
but I didn't know who it was.
I just remember him saying
something about don't say...
You know, I'm not gonna
say too much on the phone.
Who was that, Moochie?
Moochie. Yeah, he was like, I'm not
gonna say too much on the phone.
You know, what you gotta do.
Something like that.
Who was he talking to?
He was talking to
his girlfriend, LaQuay.
So when the police went through all
the text messages and jail calls,
they figure out LaQuay and Winston
picked him up from the courthouse.
They arrested them
the very next morning.
All right, like I said,
I know you understand
how serious the situation is.
And we've had 200 cops
looking for him all day.
Mm-hm.It's been almost 24 hours.
We still have 15 detectives.
You saw your house,
US Marshals were there?
We wanna take care of this.
I know.We know him.
And I can prove that you know
a lot more than you're leading on.
So, after the investigators threaten
them with long jail sentences,
they went ahead and caved.
They gave 'em everything
and told 'em everything they knew
about the escape.
I picked up at the fence.
OK.
After I picked up Dayonte,
we was in traffic till we got
to the courthouse.
Who are the twins?
It's his cousins.
OK, so the twins are
Moochie's cousins.
What did they do up in the courtroom
to help this out?
Called.
When they called, I knew
that he was...he was there.
OK.
My day in the tank?
You're being arrested.
I'm being arrested?Yeah.
What's the charges?
Um, accessory to murder
and accessory to escape.
Is any of this shit worth it?
Y'all just be doing dumb shit
all day, man.
I tell you all the time.
I always (INDISTINCT)
y'all correct me.
It'll affect your future, bro.
I can't even go home?No.
Not even if I cooperated?
Well, you had that opportunity.
You decided you didn't wanna talk.
Are you changing your mind?
Will you...will you let me go home?
Do you know where he is now?
No, sir.I'm not, then.
How come?
Because that's what we want.
A CBS News safety alert
is still in place
because the accused killer
who escaped
from Broward County Courthouse
last Friday is still on the loose.
The Broward Sheriff's Office
has arrested four people
suspected of helping him get away.
Broward Sheriff's Office,
again very embarrassed.
They want people to know we're doing
things. The arrest forms come out,
and details of how they believed
these people
helped Resiles came out.
Deputies said that Resiles'
girlfriend, LaQuay Stern,
was waiting outside in a silver BMW
while their friend, Winston Russell,
had his hand on the steering wheel
of the getaway car.
There's an undercurrent
among those who know Resiles
and know about this case,
there's an undercurrent of
he was being hung up, rung up
on that, kind of as an excuse.
OK, here's somebody
who we can railroad.
That's... There's an undercurrent
of that feeling
because...there's evidence of this.
This is not, you know,
it's not like...
that hasn't happened before.
Well, tonight he's trending
on Twitter and Facebook
with some users actually encouraging
the accused killer's
run from the law.
This Facebook live video titled,
"They said Moochie hiding
in this hotel"
is just the latest
in the social media frenzy
over Dayonte Resiles' escape
from the Broward County Courthouse
on Friday.
Resiles, whose nickname is Moochie,
was not at this
Fort Lauderdale motel.
The manager says
someone called in a tip,
so deputies had to check it out.
Meanwhile, the hashtag
run Moochie run has gained attention
as people jokingly refer to him
as "El Moochie"
after the legendary drug lord,
El Chapo.
(RAP MUSIC PLAYING)
(RAPPING)
Don't try to run, I got a gun
It'll crack a slab
Or you better had
Or better yet, just run
Run, Moochie, run
Run, Moochie, run...
I made the song, like,
right on the spot, you know,
as soon as I heard about it.
Put it out and it immediately
received
a lot of feedback,
positive feedback.
People were on Twitter
tweeting about it.
I had people already making videos,
you know, saying, "Run Moochie run."
That kinda went viral
when he escaped the courtroom.
I think that that just speaks
to a larger issue
that we have here locally,
when it comes down to
police and lying
and covering up crimes,
um, and really incriminating
black people
for crimes they didn't commit.
I just feel like that's a sense,
I guess, of loyalty
and you're down for the cause,
I guess.
Cos they're probably tired
of police brutality,
cos around that time, people were
getting shot by the police.
A man has been committed
over a brutal murder
and yet his whole community
stands behind him
and supports him.
They could very well just delete him
and just say, you know what?
But they support him.
So far, so good, you know?
They didn't catch him yet,
so I dunno.
I don't really know
exactly what he's going through
and why he's on the run,
but, you know, I hope he...
..everything works out for the best,
you know?
And tonight we are learning that the
reward has now doubled from $10,000.
After a donation, it is now
at $20,000.
If you have any information,
call Broward Crime Stoppers
on 954-493-TIPS.
The first tips received by
the Sheriff's Office were from
Dayonte's own supporters, designed
to throw off the investigators.
But as time went on, the Sheriff's
Office increased the reward money
and put more pressure on the
potential informants to talk,
and the tips got more specific.
I was supposed to be in that hotel.
Uh-huh. And what were you gonna do?
Why was he gonna contact you
at the motel?
Cos Moochie said a lotta shit to a
lotta people and they'd follow suit.
So, go ahead and tell me why,
why was he gonna meet you
at the motel
and why, after he's on the run,
is he gonna hook back up with you?
He was supposed to get some money.
OK.
One of his cousins asked me,
can I take her to go drop him off
a couple of items,
and she just said,
can I please take her?
So I took her, we dropped him off
a wig and some contacts.
I obviously saw the residence
where he was located at.
And how certain are you
that the person who you met with
there was Moochie?
100%.
Did you have any conversation
with him?Yes, he was in my car.
How close would you say
you came face-to-face with Moochie?
Close enough to kiss.
OK. Why do you think that was?
Why would he need those clothes?
They was gonna get ready
to leave for Orlando.
OK.
And do you know the cousin's name?
Yes. Francine.
Be very, very careful.
You understand how big
your situation is.
You're here in handcuffs,
in shackles,
about to go to jail on very, very
serious charges.Please, sir.
No, on a very serious charge.
Give me a chance, sir.
I gave you 16 minutes' worth
of chances.
(DIALOGUE INDISTINCT)
Please! Listen to me.
Tell me where Moochie is.
More than a half dozen
co-conspirators
are friends and family members
who have all since been arrested
for their roles
in the elaborate escape.
So, five days after
Dayonte's escape,
the Broward County
Sheriff's Office
had seven people in custody
but they still had no clue
as to where Dayonte was hiding.
This was tremendously embarrassing
for them.
I remember the reward
for information was
$20,000 right out of the gate,
or something like that.
You could...you have murderers...
..where the initial reward
is $3,000.
So, the fact that they put $20,000
out there, right off the bat,
told you they wanted this kid badly
and they were very embarrassed
by it.
My advice to him would be
voluntarily surrender right now.
I don't want anything
happening to him,
and I don't want anything happening
to any innocent third person.
A wanted man is on the run today,
the reward for help in finding him
has been raised.
$50,000 is now being offered
for anyone who can help police
find Dayonte Resiles.
The police are really hoping
this extra cash will lead
to his recapture.
This is America, money talks,
people have a price.
Resiles himself later said,
it was an uncle who led police
to him...for the reward.
Unit two moving to position.
Units three and four,
maintain cover to sector seven.
Unit five, set up a perimeter
with unit six.
Every day I was only sleeping for
30 minutes to a hour at the most.
You know, when you was there,
you're so nervous,
you're nervous like,
every time something...
that door shut, door snap,
you're nervous, you're trying to see
what's going on in there.
And this was the scariest thing.
(INDISTINCT RADIO MESSAGES)
Clear, we have a visual.
Repeat, we have a visual.
I had so many red dots on me, you'd
have thought I had chicken pox.
I thought they was gonna kill me.
I stood there, like, waiting for it
to happen, but it never happened.
Cos I thought I was gonna die.
Before I walked out,
I prayed and I said,
if I'm gonna die, Lord,
don't let it be that long
and don't allow me to suffer
that long, just that it be quick.
Cos I thought I was gonna die. I
didn't think I'd make it back here,
I didn't believe that. I thought
they was gonna kill me.
He came out of the room,
he surrendered without incident,
he laid on the ground.
He allowed us to handcuff him.
No force was necessary.
Have you shared any words with him?
I just looked at him,
and he said, er...
"Sheriff's here."
A murder suspect who escaped from
the Broward County Courthouse
is back behind bars after deputies
caught 21-year-old Dayonte Resiles
hiding out at a Days Inn
in West Palm Beach.
Yeah, when I came back,
for the first time,
I was able to get
a good night's sleep
because I never sleep past the hour,
I had 30 minutes only.
When they finally caught me
and I came in here,
I was able to sleep for hours,
hours, hours.
I was able to sleep at night.
I was all right.
But because I didn't have to worry
no more about the police coming
or me being shot, or me doing this.
I was all right.
Because they don't have anything,
they was hoping
that was gonna happen.
That he would be killed out there,
case over, case solved,
and the real murderer
still out free.
But God had another plan.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, my goodness!
I thought he was already gone
far away,
so I'm like, oh yeah,
they may not ever find him.
I thought he was
out of the country.
But he only made it to West Palm
Beach, and I'm like, ugh!
I thought he had, like,
a greater plan, like...
..he already had everything in place
to go far away.
I thought he was in Haiti somewhere.
I don't know.
Dayonte Resiles may be
the most closely guarded inmate
in Broward County,
but he still has a right to pen
and paper, and that's what he used
to write this letter
to Judge Raag Singhal.
"I want to apologise for escaping
from your courtroom,"
Resiles writes. "I hope you don't
take it personal.
"I felt I was at a dead end
with nowhere to turn to.
"I tried to appeal to everyone
to prove to them I was innocent,
"but my voice went unheard.
"When I escaped, my whole reason was
to gather enough info on my case
"to prove my innocence," he writes.
Now he's gonna be charged
with escape,
and escape in Florida is punishable
by a maximum sentence of 15 years.
So the bottom line is, yeah,
he has no defence
to the escape charge.
I mean, it's not like he didn't
do it. He did it, it's on video,
him running out.
Now he's apprehended,
so, er...he's gotta be concerned
that any judge is gonna give him
the maximum sentence for escaping,
which is 15 years.
What was a stronger case for us,
because of our client's desperation,
became a weaker case for us,
with him trying to escape.
Any time that you try to flee
from police or flee prosecution,
they're able to use that against you
at trial as consciousness of guilt,
even though it happened
way after the crime,
they can tell the jury, you know,
innocent people don't run away,
innocent people don't flee,
innocent people don't try
to escape prosecution.
They try to show that
they didn't do anything wrong.
The value I saw in the escape is the
lengths he went to to organise it.
Someone who is capable
of organising, even though
he knows that he's gonna, you know,
involve people who will potentially
get in trouble for helping him,
and doesn't care,
just goes ahead and does it,
that's someone who's capable
of doing anything for themselves.
And I think that that relates to
someone who's capable
of killing somebody
because they're about to get caught.
A murder suspect who escaped from
the Broward County Courthouse
faced a judge in the same courtroom
where he broke out of his handcuffs
and took off.
This time, 21-year-old
Dayonte Resiles was guarded
by a team of armed deputies.
Resiles' brother, family and friends
packed the courtroom
wearing shirts,
"Innocent until proven guilty".
He mouthed a message to his family
in the courtroom
that didn't sit well with the many
deputies guarding the door.
Let's go.
Resiles' brother was escorted
out of the hearing
and Resiles' family left court
defending his choice to run,
saying he's been wrongly accused
of killing Jill Su
in her Davie home back in 2014.
Well, I'm not saying, like, y'all do
know he escaped from the courthouse,
but he's not a murderer.
I think he's innocent, and I believe
he deserve a fair trial.
They just wanna close the case
so they pin that on him.
I believe he was framed.
Do you know how many black boys,
you know, sitting in jail like that?
You don't get support like,
you know, like this,
especially like, where he come from,
and you don't get a outpour
of support like that.
He got his auntie that, you know,
they sticking with what they want.
That got to be gone.
Khari said, "Hey, my brother would
never do something like that.
"Me and him break into houses before
and if the house is occupied,
"we run to hell outta there,
you know?
We're not gonna go attack somebody."
I mean, which burglar you know
walks in there
and attack somebody like that?
They wanna lock this black kid up
because they know that
that woman's son killed her.
They know it's the boy.
Yeah, when the first detective
was on the scene,
he was willing to say
he'd put his whole career on it
if it's not the son.Exactly.
He said, "I bet the son did it."
But it just didn't make
any sense to me.
Just this one black boy,
you gonna...
If any white person come over here,
you stand out, we gonna see you.
Everybody gonna see you.
I don't care who you is.
Now, one black boy go in this whole
big community and nobody see him?
He go in there and leave,
and nobody see him.Uh-oh!
(SIRENS WAIL)
Oh, they hear us
talking about Dayonte.
Me and my mom was sitting
at the dinner table
and his mugshot popped up.
She said, "Oh, I remember this kid
from 2014, you know,
this lady got murdered.
It was such a gruesome murder,
and I don't... You know, he didn't
do it. I don't think he did it.
She followed up the story
because there was a lot of other,
you know, information on the story
and a lot of it was coming from
Dayonte's family.
And they invited her
to the court hearing,
which she attended
and that's the first time
she saw him.
And it was a really good connection
that I made with his aunt
and his brother, and then one day,
his cousin called and said, "Hey...
"Moochie says he wants to see you.
"He wants you to come to the jail."
So we met up and then we end up
going to see Dayonte.
So I was watching him
the whole time,
like, every move that he...
..everything that he did.
Like, the way he held the phone,
everything. I was watching,
like, analysing him, you know,
see if I could kinda read him.
One visit turned into, like,
every other week,
once a week and then twice a week.
So I spent a lotta time talking to
him on the phone and I visited him.
She didn't waste any time, like,
the first day she says, like,
"I have something." I think I have
something I need to tell you."
So when she said that, you are,
like, being a man,
you already know what that means.
It only means one of two things.
It's something bad
or something good.
But being that I don't know her,
I didn't know her,
it couldn't have been nothing bad.
So I know what's coming afterwards.
She told me, um,
"I think I like you."
(LAUGHING)
And from there, she just became
my lady and then, like,
the loyalty that she gave me, the
love and affection she showered me
with,
like. I lost my sister before, she's
like, I just fell for her or
whatever, it was crazy, but she's a
wonderful woman. She's a wonderful--
she's actually,
if I'm gonna be honest, like,
I don't deserve her
because she's so good for me.
And then they would write letters,
she'd send him a lot of pretty cards
and she sent him love cards
and you know, nice things to
emotionally get him, you know...
..away from all the difficulty he
was struggling with in there,
because jail is not an easy life.
She did that
to make him feel better,
to help him...emotionally.
Like, she gave me a purpose.
My daughter gives me a purpose of
living and breathing and fighting,
but Crystal has the purpose,
like, chose me and motivated me
and like, in so many ways
she can't be grounded or whatever.
Cos it's one thing of having that
person here that's repeatedly,
like, you need to get yourself
together. I'm here with you.
Why do you keep pushing me away?
Cos in the beginning of
our relationship, there was
a power struggle. I'm, like, always
constantly pushing her away.
I'm just not prone
to trust with people like that
because I've been betrayed.
Or I'm not, like...
She's trying to give me love
but I'm refusing.
Like, I'm all right, because it's
just the stuff I've been through.
But she never gave up. She always,
"I'm here, I'm not going anywhere.
I love Dayonte. There's nothing
that I wouldn't do...for him.
I wouldn't do anything...
There's nothing that I wouldn't do.
And people say, they all say,
"Oh, you don't even know him.
"You never touched him. So how can
you fall in love with him?"
I don't know.
To me it's a spiritual thing.
It's more spiritual
than anything else.
She never known me, like, we never
touched each other's hands,
we never kissed each other.
Like, we never shared a kiss,
but we shared the emotions,
we share the conversations
and we share the connection.
You don't have to necessarily
touch a person.
All you have to do is share a sense
of affection or words with a person.
Like, love doesn't has a set time
where you falling in love
or how you fall in love.
Like, people are... A lot of people
fall in love in mysterious ways.
Like, it's not no set standard
of how you fall in love
and who you fall in love with.
It just sorta happens organically.
This is not normal behaviour,
I'm aware of that.
People don't just meet somebody
and just will do anything for 'em.
I'm aware. And it might be kinda
crazy to some people.
Maybe I am crazy, I don't know.
Only God knows why I became
a part of his life.
Shall I do a live on his phone?
I mean... (INDISTINCT)
Billboard will be definitely punchy.
(DIALOGUE INDISTINCT)
The billboard posted outside Broward
Sheriff's Headquarters claims
there are two victims.
Obviously Jill Halliburton Su,
found slashed to death
in her Davie home in 2014.
But also, they argue,
the then 19-year-old man
who police say left his DNA
on the murder weapon
and inside the victim's house.
The Broward Sheriff's Office
is the one county agency,
the one city agency, that can say,
you know, we have the power
to stop this.
We have the power to show
somebody else committed this crime.
His supporters wanted the Sheriff
to see it.
Felix, do you want us on
the sidewalk or straight to you?
Straight to him, pretend he's not
there, just walk right past him,
don't stop in front or we'll have to
do this again.OK, got you.Sorry.
Me too.
Um...what got you so interested
in this cause?
Tony, it's been so many people,
so many of our people,
that have just been railroaded
through the justice system,
it's just not fair.
And it continues to happen
day after day.
It's a lot of court cases, a lot
of people just in jail right now.
A lot of people of colour,
black people that's in jail
for crimes they didn't commit.
But prosecutors will also point to
his daring escape
from the courthouse
as evidence of
consciousness of guilt.
If he was innocent, why escape?
Let's be honest about our
public defence system, it sucks.
That's everywhere
around the country.
It's horrible, really horrible.
These public defence lawyers,
they got probably 20 cases that...
They just can't get to everybody,
just can't do a job
effective enough.
He doesn't have the financial means
to hire his own personal attorney,
so, when you going through
those factors
and they trying to give you
the death penalty and everything,
I mean...he has a fighting soul.
He has the spirit of our ancestors.
He's gonna fight.
So, let me get out of here,
fight and prove my own innocence
cos I don't believe my defence
attorneys are doing the best job
I believe that they can do.
Thank you for coming here, I know it
was hard for you to get out.
I appreciate you giving us this
opportunity, I really appreciate it.
I wanna get all sides
of every story.Exactly.
I'm glad you were able to come.
What do you do for living?
I drive trucks.
They're having an event
at this park, on this day.
So if you can come out
it'll be good,
but if you cannot make it
and have Instagram and Facebook,
you can go to Justice for Moochie
and like the page.
DAYONTE:I just spoke
to Kea and Chris.
They told me it was on the news
on NBC6.
I didn't get to see it,
but on social media
everybody was going crazy about it.
They saying, oh, you know,
Moochie got a billboard
and everybody just talks about it,
but it's a good thing, man.
They don't have enough evidence,
so they can't convict him for that.
It's all a set-up. All they care
about is a conviction rate.
If you look into the case,
you'll see yourself.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist
to figure it out. It's all a set-up.
DAYONTE:It's a good thing.
You know, like,
just not having your voice heard for
so long and not able to tell people,
like, tell 'em how you feel
and from your standpoint.
It's not no easy experience.
Yeah, thumbs up
for that boy Moochie.
Here boy, come out and support, OK?
Come out and support.
Come out and support.
I gotta explain, at that time...
(INDISTINCT)
All I ask is for them to believe
the facts. The facts stand alone.
There's no way they should go around
and manipulated and twisted and turn
or whatever. The facts stand firm.
But I have faith and I have belief
in good coming from it all.
It's good to have a voice that
people speaking out on your behalf
and speaking about the truth
of who you are,
what you stand for,
and stuff like that.
I mean, everybody's just, you know,
justice for Moochie, you know?
Free Moochie. Justice for Moochie.
Justice for Moochie. Free Moochie.
(LAUGHING)
I was...I was angry.
I was very, very shocked.
I was very angry.
How dare they put...
my wife's and his...
..her murderer's face
right next to each other
and claim his innocence?
How dare?
I really miss her a lot...a lot.
We lived for more than 34, 35
years together.
We all have the same mantra,
we kinda know what the other people
feel and think.
No matter what,
love them, be kind to them.
If you can help, help them.
That's really her model.
Always volunteer something
to help people.
So the first one she did is
in
Cambodia.
She was working at the, er...
refugee camp
for United Nations High Commission
for refugees,
helping the Cambodian refugees
escaping the Khmer Rouge genocide.
And after, that she come back
to San Francisco.
She was working for
the Southeast-Asian refugee
resettlement programme.
So she was always volunteering
something.
At the time of her death,
she was volunteering
for an organisation called
Insight For The Blind.
Which is to read the newspaper
or articles,
newspaper and magazine
type of thing,
er, we call it,
to visibly impaired people
to be able to access those news.
As a matter of fact, that afternoon
of the day she was killed,
she was supposed to go there.
The police came and talked to me and
wanted to question me
about how he got a handcuff key.
So I sat down and talked to 'em.
I said, you know,
"Are you kidding me?
"I'm gonna give up
30 years of practice
£to give a client a handcuff key."
I said, "You'd better start looking
within the jail,
"because that's gotta be
where it came from."
How do you steal a handcuff key
when you're always cuffed?
How do you...how do you steal it?
Wait till one of the deputies go to
sleep, then you do it the other way
or you take a bone and you tie
it to the end of a string
and you want the dog
to bring you the keys
and that's the way you do it.
That's how we doing now
to get the jail cuff key?
Broward Sheriff's Office quickly
initiated an investigation
as to how this happened.
Where did he get the key?
That was never determined.
You know? Was it that a deputy
who was in corrections had lost
her key a few months before?
The Sheriff's Office believes
Dayonte found
a handcuff key on the ground
and that's how
he undid his handcuffs and got out.
That seems totally unrealistic
to me.
It just don't, "Oh, I lost my key.
"I'll order another key."
That don't happen like that.
It doesn't happen like that.
Especially on the floor he's on.
That's the lock-down floor.
That's where all the murderers
and all the terrible people are
who have committed crimes,
are on that floor.
You not gonna lose a cuff key
up there, just let it go.
No, that ain't gonna happen.
And now, nearly obtained search
warrant records indicate
Resiles used his Facebook account
while in jail
to help coordinate the escape.
Detective Timothy Metts wrote
in the warrant application
that during multiple jail calls,
Resiles informs people
he is speaking with
that he occasionally
accesses Facebook
by using a BSO employee's cell phone
to do so.
Now, I spoke with Resiles' attorney,
Dohn Williams, today.
He said he didn't know if a BSO cell
phone was used during the escape.
As for Resiles, he remains in the
Broward County Jail without bond.
There were only two deputies, by the
way, that were disciplined on this
and one of them is...
..was a guy named Darnell Harper,
he was a long time deputy.
They disciplined him for not calling
out Resiles on the ripped pants.
Now, his punishment for this was...
I believe he was dinged
eight hours without pay.
And then there was another
long-time deputy
who apparently did not search
Resiles at the other side properly.
There were not
more people disciplined.
I mean, there was only
those two deputies.
At the end of the day,
the big investigation
for what went wrong says,
oh, all these things went wrong,
but no-one's actually responsible.
We all gotta just take this ale.
He escaped and he got away,
leave it at that,
let's just charge him.
As far as the internal investigation
is, let's just leave that alone.
And they don't work like that there.
They don't work like that at all.
The SO will come after their own.
They will come after their own.
I've seen it several times.
And why they haven't
come after their own on this one?
Mm...
..maybe its politics.
Sheriff Scott Israel pointed
part of the blame
at the Broward County Commission,
claiming a lack of funds prevented
him from manning the courthouse
with as many armed deputies
as he would have liked.
He says only 15 deputies
were on duty
to protect the courthouse
at the time of the escape.
I've been battling with Broward
County for three years now,
asking for adequate staffing
for a courthouse
that was understaffed from the day
I became Sheriff of Broward County.
This is while
people are looking for someone
they believe is armed and dangerous.
This is after that
traumatic courthouse event.
And that's what you hear
from your Sheriff.
It is, "They should've given me
more money."
Friction continues
with a battle brewing
between Sheriff Scott Israel
and the County Commission.
Today, Israel demanded more money
for his agency
even before addressing the manhunt.
He actually said that you and the
commission care more about money
than you do about lives.
It's a blatant, outright...
It's an insult, but it's a lie too.
It doesn't bother me in the least,
it shows how weak he is.
Why talk about money?
It's about saving lives
and getting the suspect
back under supervision.
The theory is, that they need it
and they wanted
more deputies at the courthouse.
The courthouse told them no.
So in theory, if someone was
to escape or attempt an escape,
then it would show
they did need more deputies.
That's all I can say about it,
that's just my theory.
I mean, why would you help him?
Why would you do it?
You gotta have something
to gain from it.
I'm telling you, man.
I was just helping, doing a favour
for a favour, man. I mean...
For who? Who's the favour to?
They say they need to help the guy
get the money for the courthouse.
I was helping 'em out, man.
All right.
Are we done?Yeah, we're done.
I wanna talk to Scott, man.
That's who I wanna talk to.
Scott likes to talk to people
who talk the truth.
Maybe I'll try to read the seventh
and talk to the big guy, man.
A lotta that... (INDISTINCT)Yeah.
All right.
When you get a chance,
you tell him, man.
Tell him I said I would love
to speak with him, man.
Politic with him a little bit, man.
Even if I can get five out of his
time, I just like to talk to him.
I doubt it.
Do I believe that?
I would be sceptical.
I would want to know more.
I would... I mean, I think that...
..you should always be sceptical
in these situations.
Is it true? We don't know.
There's a lot to that story
or whatever,
because a lot of people
don't understand the full story
and everything behind it
or whatever.
But it's a lot to the case
and a lot to the matter,
but when it's time for trial,
everything that the people don't
know about the whole escape,
the case and then everything,
it'll be out for everybody to have
a understanding about that.
Did Dayonte explain to you
how he escaped?
I can't...I can't discuss that
with you.
That'd be attorney-client privilege.
OK.
Put it over that way.
(MUSIC PLAYING OVER PA)
So, what you doin' now?
Honestly?
Me and my old girl, we bumping heads
so I been out on the street
trying to find her something.
Yo.Stay positive,
keep your head up.
Oh, yeah, I got to, got to.
There's an old saying, everything
you to a time and a season.
Absolutely.And when your new season
come in,
you gotta be ready to walk through
the door.Long time said.
They be playin' with it.Yeah.
How it happened was,
I got arrested in, like, August.
Then I got transferred
to the main jail
and I ended up being his room-mate.
So I spent four months with him
and during the four months,
he escaped.
Oh, everybody know he ain't do it.
Everybody. That's the word. He...
We grew up...breaking into houses
and stuff.
Killing, we don't kill,
we just, we strictly...
We just want money
and material things.
We didn't...
We not looking for any violence.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
How y'all lovely people doing today?
All right.
I'm Dada, better known as Richard,
Moochie's big brother,
Shasha's older son.
Y'all applause for this lady here.
Even though everything was going on,
she did her best to raise
all four of her kids.
Yeah. Um...Let that be known.
Yeah, let that be known.
Cos they make it seem like
people don't got control
of their households. So this momma
did everything she needed to do.
We have to let them know
we know how to stand up,
not lean, sit down,
being over squirt,
do whatever they think that's all
we good for, black or white.
You know what I'm saying?
We can't change
the colour of our skin.
Can my skin speak for me?
I gotta speak for my skin.Right.
You come to TV, it's the same story,
just another face.
Another name...
..and another victim.
And we shouldn't wait for Netflix
or whoever to tell the story
before we get serious
about this situation.
Cos after Moochie,
it's gonna be another Moochie
and another Moochie
and another Moochie.
That's why I tell
all my black brothers,
you gotta stand up.
You gotta stand up. You gotta
fight for what you believe.
You gotta tell them people,
all them dead niggas, they dead.
All those dead niggas, they dead.
That's from back in the day.
We is a whole new generation.
You're not a generation of black
men, we ain't fallin' for all this.
We ain't standing for nothing
like that. Our black women,
we gotta protect them all,
we gotta protect our kids.
Cos when they put you like that,
when somebody touch your family,
you got nothing to lose.
It is what it is.
That's why I say, all my young
black brothers, anybody,
you gotta stand up.
You gotta stand up for your family.
You be his judge.
You be his lawyer, oh, Lord.
You come, and you talk and agree
with everybody, oh, Lord,
that you free him.
You bring justice, oh, Lord...
(DIALOGUE INDISTINCT)
..in the name of Jesus.
I touch and agree
with everybody here.
We don't all know the facts
of this case,
and it's not our job and we here for
one purpose, because God touched
each and every one of our hearts
that volunteers today.
In the name of the Father, Son
and the Holy Spirit,
we hold this thing out
and we turnin' out in peace.
In the name of Jesus.
Amen.ALL:Amen.
(WHOOPING AND APPLAUSE)
One, two, three.
ALL:Free Moochie!
(LAUGHTER)
Natalya, that rally just wrapped up
here behind me a few moments ago.
Several supporters of Dayonte
Resiles say they were here
to bring attention to his case
because they cannot believe
he would do something like this.
Dayonte Resiles' tangled web
of alleged accomplices
grew early this morning
with the arrests of eight people.
He used eight different people
to help him escape.
Fast-forward another year,
he used eight additional people
to help him formulate
this criminal enterprise.
33-year-old Crystal Isaacs
of Fort Lauderdale
had never met Resiles
before his escape.
She began writing him letters and
visiting him in jail in August 2016.
She's accused of acting as
a go-between for Resiles and others
of passing bribe money on
to a Deputy
and of manipulating
Resiles' Facebook page.
The murder case against him
was clearly strengthened
by the investigation
that our Public Corruptions Unit
and the State Attorney's Office
has done over the past year
and we look forward to today,
when prosecution begins.