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PRIMETIME JUSTICE WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD

Search Continues for Four Missing Pennsylvania Men; Actor Goes Berserk, Cusses Out Officer; Mom, Three Children Vanish Without a Trace. Aired 8-9p ET

Aired July 11, 2017 - 20:00   ET

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[20:00:00] MATTHEW WEINTRAUB, BUCKS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: We have not recovered any human remains.

JEAN CASAREZ, HLN HOST (voice-over): The desperate search tonight for four missing young men.

WEINTRAUB: Keep those tips coming.

CASAREZ: At this hour, police scouring a farm just miles from where at least two of them were last seen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have four families literally keeping a vigil at the scene.

CASAREZ: Praying that all four will be found safe.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And we`re still trying. We`re still hopeful. We maintain hope that we will ascertain their whereabouts.

CASAREZ: Actor Shia Labeouf in trouble with the law again.

SHIA LABEOUF, ACTOR: (INAUDIBLE) in my hotel, arresting me in my hotel for doing what, sir?

CASAREZ: This time, busted in Georgia.

LABEOUF: Get off(EXPLETIVE DELETED) off my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) arm.

CASAREZ: For cursing and arguing with officers.

LABEOUF: (INAUDIBLE) trying to be nice, you stupid bitch!

CASAREZ: A mother disappears.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s scary. It makes you panic.

CASAREZ: Along with her three young daughters.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) I just want you to bring them back.

CASAREZ: Her apartment ransacked, but her belongings untouched. And tonight, the mystery deepens as police make a renewed plea for help.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I love you girls. I mean, it`s very, very frustrating!

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CASAREZ: Good evening. I`m Jean Casarez, in for Ashleigh Banfield. Thank you so much for joining us. This is PRIMETIME JUSTICE.

We do have breaking news tonight on the desperate search for four missing young men who disappeared in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Jimi Patrick,

Dean Finocchiaro, both 19 years old, 21-year-old Thomas Meo and 22-year-old Mark Sturgis have not been seen or heard from in days. Search crews,

including police and FBI agents, are focusing on a farm just a short drive from the city. And authorities say it is all hands on deck, and they are

digging and scouring every inch of the 90-acre property.

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MATTHEW WEINTRAUB, BUCKS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: We have not recovered any human remains to this point, but we continue to work very, very hard on

establishing all kinds of investigative leads and confirming those. Montgomery County`s police academy has lent us their cadets, and they are

currently assisting us in scouring the fields for any type of evidence that is usable in this investigation.

And that is just but one example. The U.S. Marshals, the FBI, police forces all across the county and other counties have now taken part in

this. The attorney generals have offered their resources, lab resources. As I said, this is truly an all hands on deck investigation, and I meant

it. And it`s more true now than ever.

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CASAREZ: It is an amazing search in Pennsylvania for these young men. Let`s start tonight with Emma Wright. She is a reporter from CNN affiliate

WFMZ. Emma, what is the latest tonight?

EMMA WRIGHT, WFMZ (via telephone): Well, Jean, we know (INAUDIBLE) this actually came down just a few minutes ago. We know that Cosmo DiNardo --

he is someone that the district attorney`s office says they are interested in. We know he was released from jail. He posted 10 percent cash on

million dollars bond, quite a bit of money. And the district attorney has said that they made that bail so high, a million dollars, because they were

concerned he was a flight risk. But it looks like he came up with that money, and he is -- right now, he is out of the Bucks County jail.

CASAREZ: Now, this is a twist in the whole story. Solomon Jones, morning host from WURD radio, Cosmo DiNardo was actually arrested and charged

yesterday with something that has nothing to do, they are saying at this point, with the four young men that are missing. It was possession of a

firearm when he should not have a firearm.

What do we know about this guy and his bail, a million dollars, and he`s out just minutes ago on bond?

SOLOMON JONES, WURD (via telephone): Yes, we know that he had some mental health issues. We know that he was involuntarily committed to a mental

health facility due to those mental health issues. That was the reason why he was not supposed to have a gun.

He was rearrested from a charge that happened in February. I believe it was a 20-gauge shotgun that was involved. But again, that bail was made

very high. It`s a million dollars bail. Although this is not something that is connected to this particular case, but again, they did think he was

a flight risk and he did have some mental health issues in the past.

CASAREZ: And Emma, isn`t it true that this 90-acre farm that they have been searching with construction equipment, with sifting units, that it`s

actually owned by his parents?

[20:05:00]WRIGHT: It is owned by his parents. (INAUDIBLE) a 90-acre farm. This is a huge property. I actually just looked at some aerial video that

we got, and you can see the investigators there looking -- they`re at several different sites around the property. So they`re looking -- you

know, there`s a house, and then there`s just acres of cornfields. And there also appears to be a burn pile and then some, like, piles of

boulders, or some rocks. And they seem to be looking through both of those.

We actually saw them sifting through dirt, you know, almost like they were panning for gold, like, picking up containers of dirt and sifting through

it, looking for evidence that the district attorney believes is somewhere on that property.

CASAREZ: But yet at the very same time, the district attorney of Bucks County is saying that he hopes and prays that these four young men can be

found alive.

I want to really look at these young men, and let`s see what we know about them, what we can discern of them. First of all, Jimi Tar Patrick. He is

19 years old. He`s on the far lefthand side of your screen. He went missing, never to be seen again last Wednesday -- last Wednesday. Nothing

happened on Thursday.

And then on Friday, Dean Finocchiaro, 19 years old, of Bucks County, went missing, as well as Tom Meo went missing. And we confirmed with Tom Meo

that he was a graduate of Ben (ph) Salem High School in Pennsylvania in 2014.

And then also on Friday, Mark Sturgis, 22, of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, also went missing.

I want to ask Emma, what do we know about these young men? They are older than high school age, conceivably, 19, 21, 22. Did they work? Do they

work? What do we know about them?

WRIGHT: Yes, you know, Jean, I actually just talked to three of Jimi`s friends. They were hanging out just outside of the farm area where they`re

searching. They say they were so worried about him, they decided to come down and kind of see for themselves what was going on.

They tell me that he is a college student. He graduated from high school last year. A few of them had graduated in the same class, and others just

knew each other, you know, a year below and a year ahead of him.

But they say he is a good kid. They say they were all just actually hanging out on the 4th of July, just kind of having a normal kind of

teenage party. And they say they couldn`t believe when they started getting some texts on Wednesday that he had gone missing. They say it`s

totally out of character for him. He is, you know, a nice kid, hard- working, had recently graduated from a prep school in the area. And they say this is, you know, just -- just completely shocking to them.

CASAREZ: You know, Emma, investigators and the district attorney said in the press conferences today that they are trying to confirm if all of them

knew each other. He said, At this moment, we are working on this. They could not confirm that. Have you heard, as you have talked to people, if

they all knew each other, or if some knew each other and some didn`t know each other?

WRIGHT: No, these friends say that they had not heard of all of those names, you know, all of those men that were reported missing. They say

they had not heard of all of them. They said that Jimi was friends with one of the men, but as for the other two, they had no idea. So again, they

said that was just adding to the shock that he might have, you know, known these people, you know, and as good friends, they essentially knew nothing

about them.

CASAREZ: And that`s one thing that just makes this so mysterious. Now, as I told you, there were two actual press conferences today by the district

attorney of Bucks County, Matthew Weintraub. Let`s listen to a little bit of what he had to say.

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WEINTRAUB: We are still gradually sifting through the property. It`s 90- some acres, and we`re going through it with the equivalent of a fine- toothed comb. It`s going to take us a very long time to get through it.

We`re considering the whole thing a place of interest. I can`t say that the whole entire property is a crime scene, but we`re certainly -- we`ve

been going through the entire property with our cadets and all of our investigators and our scene-processing people.

We`re using anything from major construction equipment all the way down to the finest sifting equipment that you can imagine because some of it is

just heavy, bulky work, construction work, and others is, we want to be careful not to miss the tiniest piece of evidence. And I suspect that we

will find both types.

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CASAREZ: I want to bring in right now James Gagliano. He is a retired FBI supervisory special agent. Thank you so much for joining us.

What do you make of this? Because this is a missing persons case that was a criminal case from the very beginning. And now they`re at this 90-acre

property with construction, major construction equipment in the search.

JAMES GAGLIANO, RETIRED FBI SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Jean, I think you hit the nail right on the head. The fact that

the district attorney was -- he didn`t couch the terms when he said that there was suspected foul play. Now, they have not released a lot of

information to the public, and I think there`s some purpose behind that.

[20:10:12]Maybe they`re trying to determine what a motive would have possibly been, or they`re afraid of somebody possibly destroying evidence,

or maybe a perpetrator or potential perpetrators that they might feel might slip out of the net.

Now, understand the crime scene and what they have to deal with right now. Now, the FBI is providing material support. This still belongs in the

state or the local realm as far as the law goes. But the FBI is providing material support on a farm that ostensibly has 90 acres. That`s four

million square feet.

So you bring in some backhoes, you bring in some sifting equipment, you bring in the cadets and you put folks out there and you line them up. But

that is going to take days, if not weeks to comb through that entire area. It`s a big forensic harvest job in front of them.

CASAREZ: And it`s a cornfield. We understand that a lot of this land is a cornfield, but yet they have major construction equipment right there. I

mean, when I look at that, it doesn`t add up to me. I mean, could this be cement at all that they`re looking at, or through, to have that major

equipment out there?

GAGLIANO: Quite possibly. And I think one of the things that the investigators have in their favor right now is this is not a cold case. So

these gentlemen, the four kids went missing Wednesday last week and Friday. So if there was any potential dirt disturbed or moved or any excavation or

any fresh concrete poured, investigators are going to be able to determine that pretty quickly and pretty easily.

CASAREZ: You know, Danny Cevallos, defense attorney, I`ve got a very non- legal question I want to ask you because you`re from Pennsylvania.

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DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN/HLN LEGAL ANALYST: ... in Bucks County.

CASAREZ: You do.

CEVALLOS: I know this country. Yes, I do. And you and I have covered...

CASAREZ: Well, that`s what I want to ask you.

CEVALLOS: ... many cases in Pennsylvania.

CASAREZ: I know. I know. But I want to ask you about Bucks County. Just tell us, what is it like there?

CEVALLOS: Well, you`re seeing it from the aerial shot. It`s a lot of farm land. It`s somewhat rural, somewhat suburban. It`s got very affluent

areas. Some of the best public schools you can find are in that county. It`s a -- it`s got -- it`s very affluent areas. As you get a little closer

to Philadelphia, it gets very working class.

But you`re seeing something that is very typical for Bucks County in the shot right there, beautiful rolling meadows, fields, farms, just a bucolic

vision of beauty normally. This, of course, is a little less than lovely.

CASAREZ: But it butts next to Philadelphia, right? Philadelphia`s not that far away.

CEVALLOS: It`s not that far away. But Bucks County is gigantic. And when you get to the distal parts of Bucks County, you`re really getting into

some rural areas. And yes, it does abut Philadelphia County. But the sheer size of it gives you a lot of open spaces. As the district attorney

said, we`re looking at -- it`s not hard to find 90 acres somewhere in Bucks County in those fields.

CASAREZ: Yes. You know, I think we have a map we want to show everyone because what Danny is talking about is all the land that is involved in

Bucks County. Just to show you where these young men went missing, they were about 15 miles away from each other when they went missing. I mean,

look at this right here. There you see the areas where these young men were last seen. They`re not that far away from each other. But yet it`s

different days, one is Wednesday, three of them are Friday. It`s not believed that they all knew each other.

One of the cars, one of the vehicles I believe of Jimi was seen actually at a parking little center, parking center. So there`s just so much involved

here and so much mystery. Do we still have Emma Wright with us?

WRIGHT: Yes, we do.

CASAREZ: Emma, what I want to ask you, back to this person that`s been arrested on what they say are not charges having to do with this case, but

whose family`s land is being searched -- what do we know about him?

WRIGHT: Well, I mean, you know, that`s still a picture that I think is currently being painted. We know he`s 20 years old. We know that he`s

from about 30 miles from where the family farm that`s all being searched is. And like we talked about a little bit earlier, we know he has a little

bit of trouble with the law, had a history of mental illness.

But other than that, you know, we`re still trying to figure it out. As I mentioned before, we just talked to Jimi Patrick`s friends, and they say

that they had heard of Cosmo DiNardo. They say that he was a grade above - - they believe he was a grade above Jimi at school. They say they had heard the name before, but it wasn`t someone that they hung out with,

wasn`t someone that they thought Jimi hung out with.

CASAREZ: Here`s what I want to know, Emma. Do you know what his family does? Because he`s a young man and he was on a million-dollar bail. He

had to pay $100,000 to get out tonight, right before the show began. Do we know what his family does? Do they have a local business in the area?

WRIGHT: That`s not something I know. But like we just said, Bucks County is a very affluent area. There`s -- you know, some would call them estates

that butt up right to that farm`s property. So you know, I think it probably wouldn`t be out of the question that he could come up with that

kind of money.

[20:15:15]CASAREZ: All right. Well, we`ve got a lot more on this, and we`ll keep going on this story. But as authorities dig up a big farm,

police are trying to figure out what these four men had in common, what set them apart, and where they could possibly be tonight.

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CASAREZ: And we do continue to follow the breaking news tonight in the urgent search for these four young men disappeared in Philadelphia suburbs.

Jimi Patrick, Dean Finocchiaro both 19 years old, 21-year-old Thomas Meo and 22-year-old Mark Sturgis still have not been seen or heard from in

days.

[20:20:09]My panel is back with me. And going first to Solomon Jones, who is the morning host out there of WURD radio. So Cosmo got out tonight.

This is the young man that was charged with possessing a firearm, whose family does own the land that`s being searched. So he`s out. Million-

dollar bail set, didn`t stop him, got out on $100,000.

Do we know where he`s going to go? Because his family`s land is the land that`s being searched at this point.

JONES: Yes, we do know that he has a home in the unit (ph) block of Wayland Circle in Ben Salem (ph). And that was actually one of multiple

locations being searched by authorities yesterday. So he could very well go back to the home where he was living prior to all of this taking place.

CASAREZ: All right. But he is out, which is his right. Even though a million-dollars bail was set, he was able to make it.

You know, as part of the press conference today, Matthew Weintraub, the district attorney, took a question-and-answer portion. And sometimes that

can be more interesting than the official statement, sometimes what they don`t say. He was asked a lot of questions. Listen closely to some of the

questions and some of the answers.

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QUESTION: What led you there and why?

WEINTRAUB: I cannot tell you that. I cannot tell you that.

QUESTION: It`s my understanding that there was a bonfire at the DiNardo property last week that caught the attention of police. Can you confirm

that? And is that part of this investigation?

WEINTRAUB: I cannot confirm that.

QUESTION: Why are you convinced that this is apparently a crime scene?

WEINTRAUB: That`s information that I know that I cannot share with you.

QUESTION: Do you have any physical evidence found of the four men on the property yet?

WEINTRAUB: I can`t comment on that.

QUESTION: Several friends have said that they knew that Cosmo was seen with some of these men. Has he admitted anything at all to you?

WEINTRAUB: I`m sorry, I can`t comment on that.

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CASAREZ: All right, James Gagliano, former FBI, you heard some of the questions and answers. And obviously, the district attorney would not

confirm a lot of things. But a bonfire -- he wouldn`t comment, may not have happened. But would that explain a sifter on the property?

GAGLIANO: Sure. It possibly could. And I think part of that forensic evidence harvesting is going on right now. You talked about the equipment

that was out there. I think just as important is the link (ph) analysis. So right now, there are now intelligence analysts back at FBI headquarters

or in the Philadelphia division that are working closely with the locals and with the state folks. And what they`re doing is they`re doing a

cellular phone analysis of all four of the missing men, as well as some other folks they might have come in contact with.

They`re also going around not just on the property itself, but anything leading to where the young men were last seen. They`re probably pulling

camera footage, surveillance camera footage from restaurants or homes in the area. They`re also doing EZ-pass analysis in the area to find out

where the cars were before.

QUESTION: And there is a lot of work ahead. I think the DA is right to kind of at some point in time just say, We`re not going to be prepared to

comment on any more of this, but to make sure they push out that the public can help out. And I think it`s good for your viewers to know, call the tip

line, anything that might have related to this that you might have seen, help out.

CASAREZ: You know, they said in these press conferences that they are relying on the public tips. They need that information. That is what is

keeping this investigation going.

QUESTION: Solomon Jones, just very quickly, video surveillance -- it`s so important. And James brings it up. It`s a rural area, but one of the cars

was left at a shopping center mall area. Do we know if there`s any video surveillance that they are able to comb through at this point?

JONES: I`m not aware of that at this point. But I do know that, apparently, two of the cars were found in close proximity, which led to one

of the searches that took place on yesterday, one of those cars (ph), of course, in that shopping area, and then another one fairly nearby of two

the of the men that went missing.

CASAREZ: Right. And if that can be of value, you know that they re looking at that, such extremely important evidence it can be. Sara Azari,

a defense attorney joining us tonight from Los Angeles -- Cosmo DiNardo, his right to post bail. But the million-dollar bail that was set for

really a -- I don`t want to say a minor offense, but it was possessing a firearm when you are not allowed to possess one. The district attorney

said that there was a flight risk potentiality here. They didn`t want him to get out, but he did. Are they still watching him tonight?

SARA AZARI, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Absolutely, Jean. And you know, I think this happens -- this happens a lot in my world, in that the DA often has a

hunch that somebody might be connected to something. In this case, it`s case just a missing person case at this point. And they then arrest them

for something unrelated and set the bail very high so that they can`t get out while they go on and investigate.

[20:25:06]And this is what happened here because a million-dollar bail is - - is completely unjustified, unwarranted for a charge of somebody who shouldn`t possess a gun who possessed a gun. And remember that this charge

actually got dismissed by a judge in May. So the DA has now come back and refiled it. And we don`t know what new evidence may have supported this

refiling now, but nonetheless, a million dollars for that type of crime is excessive.

Bail is set by schedule. And the schedule is based on how severe or serious or whatnot that the crime is. And that`s just not -- like you

said, not that it`s not a big deal, but in the realm of crimes, it`s not a million-dollar bail crime. And bail is not set according to how affluent

or poor the defendant is.

So I`m actually a little disappointed that his defense attorney did not challenge this bail because it can definitely be argued to a court that

there`s insufficient evidence to justify a million dollars. Now, the DA has said that there`s a flight risk. That`s because the offense, the

possession of a gun by a mentally ill person, doesn`t justify a million- dollar bail. So they have to come up with some additional fact that justifies that. And so they`ve made him into a flight risk.

But again, my question is, where`s the evidence to support that he`s a flight risk. We don`t know what -- what crime has -- you know, has

occurred here. It`s just a missing person case right now. He`s arrested on...

CASAREZ: And we don`t know exactly what the attorneys told the judge to get...

AZARI: Exactly.

CASAREZ: ... to get that charge reinstated. But we have been able to get the affidavit of probable cause. And it was yesterday shortly before 1:00

o`clock that an officer saw him, apprehended him, and he did have in his possession a .20-gauge shotgun, a Savage Arms .20-gauge shotgun with the

corresponding ammunition. So right there it tells you that that gave them the probable cause to arrest him on that charge.

I want to go back to this press conference a little bit because the questions were fast and furious from the local media there, and the answers

were not as forthcoming as I`m sure many wanted. But it`s interesting. Listen to this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

QUESTION: Matt, the family owns a concrete company. Are you looking for any concrete on this property here?

WEINTRAUB: We`re taking what we find there. I don`t want to say we`re looking for concrete necessarily. But if that becomes germane to the

investigation, and I can`t say whether it is or it isn`t...

QUESTION: Have any firearms been recovered from the field?

WEINTRAUB: I cannot disclose that at this time.

QUESTION: There are several buildings there. Were they all kind of occupied, or what was their use?

WEINTRAUB: I don`t know the answer. But even if I did, I wouldn`t be able to share it with you at this time.

QUESTION: Did you take guns from the DiNardo home?

WEINTRAUB: I can`t comment on that.

Take the biggest one you`ve seen and multiply it by a million, and that`s what we`re dealing with here. It`s not just this single property. We have

people combing the entire county, trying to work on this case. And the amount of manpower that we`ve employed just at this property is mind-

boggling. But that`s what it`s going to take, apparently, and we`re committed to see this through all the way to the end, regardless of what

that may be.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CASAREZ: You know, Danny, one thing he said was 40 to 50 people were searching the property, crime scene investigators, and then also searchers.

They`ve taken the cadets at the...

CEVALLOS: Montgomery County.

CASAREZ: ... Montgomery County police academy, and they`ve taken them away from their police training. I guess it`s on-the-job, right? And they`re

having them search the property right there. What are your thoughts as you hear this press conference and what you know about the county?

CEVALLOS: What are my thoughts? I mean, DA Weintraub probably shouldn`t have had a press conference because he should have known that these were

going to be the questions. I mean, he can`t comment on anything, which is probably good law enforcement practice, but at the same time, you know,

maybe he was hoping there would be a question that he could answer, like, What`s your name, or something like that, something innocuous.

But in this case, you know, reporters are good at what they do, especially Philadelphia reporters. And they are going to ask him the good questions.

Those were excellent questions that reporters asked at that press conference. He just can`t answer any of them. I bet, you know, if he had

it to do again, he might not hold that press conference because he really couldn`t give any information. And he was right not to do so.

CASAREZ: Right, but didn`t he want the public -- he wants the message to get out there. He said, We`re relying on the public, the tips, that`s what

we`re going through. That`s helping us narrow the focus, he said, of this investigation.

GAGLIANO: I would have -- you know, I agree with Danny in this instance. I would have gone out there, made a statement, and then I would have not

taken any questions. I would have said, When we have some information that we can release, we will do so. We`re going to control the narrative. If

you`re being circumspect about what you`re releasing, why go through that exercise where you`re -- I can`t confirm or deny, not going to answer that

question, you should have just shut it down.

CEVALLOS: Now we`re doing a bit on, you know, his, No comment, no comment, right?

[20:30:00] I mean, that`s not what he wanted his press conference to be.

CASAREZ: Right. Is this really a missing persons investigation?

CEVALLOS: If you read -- As I`m sure, you know, my colleague is a much better face reader than I am, but if you read those facial reactions,

they`re a lot more telling than the no comments. My vibe from those facial comments, and I want to see what you think, is that I don`t think this is a

missing persons case anymore, but I could be wrong.

GAGLIANO: 55 percent of communication, 55 is body language. And reading his body language, I thought he should have just made a statement and then

moved on. Had a tip line there and then moved on with the investigation.

CASAREZ: Criminal investigation from the very beginning, Danny.

CEVALLOS: Absolutely. And a large-scale criminal investigation.

CASAREZ: Yeah.

CEVALLOS: Which shows us that they must know more than we know at this point. And they are definitely committed to finding evidence in that area.

CASAREZ: But it`s not over until it`s over.

GAGLIANO: It`s not. For the FBI to be involved, it moves from a missing persons case to a potential kidnapping case.

CEVALLOS: Definitely.

CASAREZ: Right.

GAGLIANO: We don`t supply resources unless we made a determination from some investigative clue that it quite possibly could be kidnapping.

CASAREZ: And these four young men could be alive. You just don`t know. All right. We will continue to follow this. Now, it is video that you will not

see on the big screen. This is actor Shia LaBeouf. It`s not a new role he`s playing. We`ll see how this real-life encounter with Georgia police

officers plays out. The desperate search for a mother and her three young daughters who just vanished into thin air.

[20:35:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CASAREZ: After Shia LaBeouf was once of Hollywood`s rising stars, he played Harrison Ford`s son in "Indiana Jones" and "The Kingdom of Crystal Skull"

and he he was the hero in the first two transformer movies, just to name a few. But LeBeouf is also known for his bizarre behavior.

And now, he`s in trouble with the law once again. It was about 4:00 a.m. in Savannah, Georgia over the weekend. The actor walked up to a group of

people that included a police officer and asked for a cigarette. Harmless enough, right? When he was told they didn`t have one for him, police say

things took a turn for the worst.

LaBeouf started hurling profanities at the officer, refusing to leave the area, and even told him to shut up because the officer works for him.

Police say he approached the officer in an aggressive manner, so he tried to put him in handcuffs. That`s when officers say LaBeouf ran off. But he

only got as far as a nearby hotel.

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SHIA LABEOUF, ACTOR: What did I do sir? I have rights. I have rights. I`m an American. You`ve got me in my hotel, arresting me in my hotel, for doing

what, sir?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let`s go.

LABEOUF: Yo, you really got these cuffs on me heavy, bro.

Let me out. Can we talk, me and you?

LABEOUF: No, we can`t talk nothing. Take these cuff off. I`m not going to (beep) American. I pay my taxes. Get these shits off my (beep) arms.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, we`re not going to have a conversation?

LABEOUF: No! You gonna put these shits off my arms or you`ll be (beep).

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CASAREZ: So, he`s saying all of this to the police officer, the first officer. And he goes on from there. I want to bring in Alexis Tereszcuk, a

senior reporter for radaronline.com. First of all, why was he in Savannah and what was happening here?

ALEXIS TERESZCUK, SENIOR REPORTER FOR RADARONLINE.COM: He`s actually filming a movie. And as you were saying that he was a very successful young

star. He`s still very successful. He was just in a movie with Brad Pitt. People love Shia LaBeouf. He`s filming a movie. He had a night off from

work. And apparently, he was belligerently bothering these people just because they wouldn`t give him a cigarette.

And he was insane with this police officer. He was hurling racial epithets at him. He was not doing anything respectful. And he nearly physically ran

away from the cops, ran into his hotel, where they grabbed him, tossed him in the back of the car, and he kept screaming. The Hollywood go-to, I`m an

American and you can`t do this to me. I`m surprised he didn`t say, don`t you know who I am?

CASAREZ: Right. And this is someone that, yes, he is a big star. Do people love him? Well, I don`t know at this point. But he`s got a record, all

right, because in January of this year, he was in New York. He was opening an art exhibit. It was about that why can`t we all get along and be nice to

each other? Isn`t that ironic? And he was charged with misdemeanor, assault, and harassment violation charges. Those were dismissed.

But in October 2015, there were public intoxication charges. In 2014, he was formally charged with criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, and

harassment. He pleased guilty to one count of disorderly conduct, conditional dismissal, goes on and on and on. Suspicion of drunk driving in

California. So, Alexis, is he getting special treatment because of who he is? It seems like he just gets away with all this.

TERESZCUK: A 100 percent. He actually said to the police officer which was caught on the dash cam video, he said, I have millionaire lawyers who will

take care of you. And that is the honest to goodness truth. He has such high-powered lawyers who would get him out of everything.

CASAREZ: Right. And will allow him to talk to anybody in any way. Now, here is another. I want you to hear some more of this, okay? Remember, he`s

talking to the police officer in Savannah, Georgia. Listen.

(START VIDEO CLIP)

LABEOUF: Who you fighting for? You got a president that don`t give a shit about you. And you stuck in a police force that don`t give a (beep) about

you. So you want to arrest white people who give a (beep), who ask for cigarettes? I came up to you trying to be nice, you stupid bitch. I came up

to you asking for a cigarette, you damn (beep). Why would I ask for a cigarette if I was racist? You stupid bitch.

[20:40:00] I was asking for a cigarette, you said no. And then I said "word." And then you arrested me, you dumb (beep). They got cameras

everywhere, you dummy. I got more millionaire lawyers than you know what to do with you, stupid bitch. I`m from it, you dummy!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CASAREZ: And you saw the police officer right there, that he was talking to in that way. Okay. I want you to listen to some more of this, okay? Because

it goes on. And he talks about that he needs a vacation. Listen.

(START VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shut the (beep) bitch.

LABEOUF: Go die in (beep). Who you work for? Are you an American? You`re a whore. You ain`t about American, you bitch. I need a vacation after this.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CASAREZ: Now, if that`s not worse enough, Alexis, it escalates to the point.

TERESZCUK: The police office can`t even take it.

CASAREZ: Yeah. It escalates to the point where in his own mind, he actually believes he`s reaching for the officer`s gun. Yeah. Let`s watch this.

(START VIDEO CLIP)

LABEOUF: And I can feel your gun in my hand. Why don`t you move away from me? Why don`t you move away from me? That`s a tap, like get away. Yeah. It

is. You stupid bitch. You`re garbage, man. You`re garbage. Because if I really wanted to, I could lift that shit up. But I ain`t going to try, so

get away from me, you stupid bitch.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CASAREZ: All right. Danny. I want to go to Danny Cevallos right here next to me. Danny, if that had been the gun that he was reaching -- you`re a

fan, I can see it in your eyes.

CEVALLOS: No, listen. You are.

CASAREZ: You just love him, don`t you?

CEVALLOS: I know you are a massive transformers fan, Jean.

(LAUGHTER)

CASAREZ: Yeah, but this is. CEVALLOS: But this is the man who ruined the "Indiana Jones" for me, Jean. I won`t get into it.

CASAREZ: He was his son.

CEVALLOS: I was upset thinking it was his son. It was more than enough to damage my childhood. Because those first three movies were just golden. And

then came the "Crystal Skull." But that`s for another show. I can do a whole show about it.

CASAREZ: Yeah, okay.

CEVALLOS: Here`s the thing. Police officers love with the advent of cameras everywhere, they love when this kind of thing happens, because a defense

attorney like me comes in and says, how are you to the police officers, because I need to know for your defense. And then it`s not until discovery

gets disclosed that we find out, oh, no, you didn`t. And it`s all on tape. All on tape.

CASAREZ: It`s all on tape. He`s got three charges, disorderly conduct, obstruction of public intoxication. Sara, I want to give you the last word

tonight on this story.

AZARI: Danny, you know, this is the video that you and I hate because usually, you know, I like video evidence when it`s good for my client. But,

you know, you have to look at his history, his criminal history, and what he`s been arrested for before. It is extensive. It is repeated. But at the

root of it is that he has always been drunk out of his mind. I think it`s clear that he has an alcohol problem.

The crimes that he`s been charged with, and maybe he was cut some slack before, but they`ve been misdemeanors. They`ve been public intoxication.

They`ve been media times crimes of disorderly conduct and even assaults, misdemeanor assaults. But they all are because he`s intoxicated. I think

that, you know, this video is pretty bad, so his celebrity status may not work for him as well as it has in the past this time because it`s all on

video.

People are not just going to look at this and say, oh, the star of such- and-such, they`re going to look at it and see what they see on the video. But the issue here is the publicity that he will gain is going to come from

the fact that he suffers from a disease that he needs to address, not just for his case, but also for his own well-being.

CASAREZ: You know, Sara, the big issue is, he`s becoming a danger to himself, but a danger to others if that actually had been a gun that he was

reaching for at the officer`s side.

AZARI: Absolutely.

CASAREZ: Moving on tonight, new developments tonight in the search for three young girls and their mother, as police renew their pleas for the

public help.

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CASAREZ: The mystery grows in Oklahoma after the disappearance of a young mother and her three small children. Destiny Corsaut was last seen eight

days ago, leaving Dollar General Store in Elgin. She apparently picked up Izzy, Annie, and Mel from a babysitter and made it back to her apartment.

But the four have not been seen since. Police say although Destiny did go to her home, the place was later discovered to be ransacked. But her cell,

her phone, her keys, her wallet, her car, they were all left behind.

(START VIDEO CLIP)

MIKAYLA ROBINSON, GIRLFRIEND OF MISSING GIRLS` DAD: These girls are everything to us. I love you girls. I mean, this is very frustrating.

Sorry. Destiny, I just want you to bring them back. We went there. Nobody was home. We`d seen her car. The door was open. It looked like -- the table

was turned over. We called the cops. We`re not really sure about the safety. We have no idea where they`re at.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CASAREZ: It`s so sad. I want to bring in Scott Mitchell. He is the host of "Mitchell Talks," joining us tonight. What is the latest in this?

SCOTT MITCHELL, HOST OF "MITCHELL TALKS": Well, there`s nothing more than what we`ve heard of all day. These people have basically vanished into thin

air.

[20:50:00] We`re getting very little information from the police, because it just looks very worrisome. And they`re nowhere to be found.

CASAREZ: And she worked at the Dollar General Store. And she worked the last night that she was seen alive. You know, let`s show everybody exactly

who these people are. First of all, Destiny Corsaut. She`s your average build, short, blond/brown hair. You can see her face right there. You see

what she looks like. And then her children. Look at these sweet children.

Izabella Corsaut, 5 years old, 3`7" tall, 50 pounds, blond hair, blue eyes, a purple mark on her left cheek, and she wears pink glasses. Then there`s

Anastachiah. She`s 4 years old, 3`2" tall, 30 pounds, brown hair, and blue eyes. And then Melaniey, 2 years old, 2`7", 25 pounds, blond hair, and blue

eyes. As she walks, she`s slightly pigeon-toed.

I want to bring in tonight from Oklahoma the detective on this case, Gillian O`Brien from Chickasha Police Department in Oklahoma. Thank you for

joining us. You know, I want to get the time line here because Destiny worked at the Dollar General Store. And the last night she was seen, and

you tell me, I think it was July 3rd, she worked at that store. What time did she get off work? What did she do then, do you believe?

GILLIAN O`BRIEN, DETECTIVE, CHICKASHA POLICE DEPARTMENT: She left the store at about 11:20 p.m. on July 3rd. And her manager and her left at the same

time. She was seen driving away towards the highway, and best we can assume, she made it back to Chickasha which is where she left her vehicle.

CASAREZ: Right. And where were her children?

O`BRIEN: At this time, we know that they were left with a babysitter. We do not know who that babysitter was.

CASAREZ: Do you know if she picked her children up?

O`BRIEN: We do not have that information at this time.

CASAREZ: So you don`t know if she picked up her children. But yet they`re all missing. Now, do you believe she went back to her apartment that night?

O`BRIEN: Yes, we do. Her vehicle was left in her apartment along with her cell phone, her keys, and personal belongings.

CASAREZ: Everything was there. Everything was left there. Now, her ex- husband, the father of her children, was supposed to pick up the kids for the 4th of July, the next day. Do you think they ever intersected with each

other? Because he went to the home, right?

O`BRIEN: He did go to the home. When he went to the home, he found the door open and contacted police immediately.

CASAREZ: Really? And so the home was ransacked. Can you explain that to us? What do you mean by ransacked?

O`BRIEN: When officers got to the apartment after the ex-husband had called us, her vehicle was parked there, keys were left inside. There were things

turned over in the home to include a coffee table. But it did not appear that there were any signs of an altercation. We don`t have any evidence to

support that they were harmed in any way before -- while they were at the apartment.

CASAREZ: But you can`t confirm that the children went back to the apartment. You don`t know that at this point, correct?

O`BRIEN: No, we cannot confirm that.

CASAREZ: Now, Destiny has a boyfriend. But you spoke with him, and he is cooperating in all of this, right?

O`BRIEN: Yes. Everyone we`ve spoken with, friends and family alike, they`ve all been very cooperative, and very concerned about the four girls.

Unfortunately with no identification and no income, we`re concerned for their well-being.

CASAREZ: Of course. No identification, no communication, no money, no credit cards. Because everything was left at the home. So what do you think

happened, and where do you think they are?

O`BRIEN: Unfortunately, we don`t have much to go on at this point. We`re following leads as we get them in. With the information we have, like I

said, it doesn`t appear that they were injured while they were at the apartment. The family has reported that she`s taken off one time in the

past with her oldest child, and she was eventually located in another state. We know that she has connections to Texas, Illinois, and also

several here in Oklahoma. And unfortunately we don`t have her whereabouts at this time. So we`re just trying to do the best we can to find out where

she went.

CASAREZ: And if people have any information, what number do you want them to call?

O`BRIEN: They can contact the Chickasha Police Department at 405-222-6050.

[20:55:00] And ask that the information be passed on to myself, Detective O`Brien, and me and my team will get to it as quickly as we possibly can.

CASAREZ: Are you checking the bus lines? Because how could she leave with her children? She didn`t have transportation. Her car was left right there

at her home.

O`BRIEN: Right. We have not checked the bus lines yet, but we`re working on getting that taken care of.

CASAREZ: All right. Well, we hope somebody out there has some answers, because these precious little girls, they need stability, they need a home,

and they need to be found. Thank you so much for joining us. We`ll be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CASAREZ: Thank you so much for watching tonight. Thank you to our attorneys, Danny and Sara. I`m Jean Casarez, in for Ashleigh Banfield.

We`ll see you back here tomorrow night at 8:00 for PRIMETIME JUSTICE."\ "FORENSIC FILES" is up next. Good night, everybody.

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