Okay, so we have an update on Carlee Russell.
The Russell Hustle.
I'm very excited because this is crazy.
This is real crazy.
I mean, I'm pleased with what just occurred.
Agreed.
I think that this, but in my opinion, I think that, okay, so let me just back up.
So they had just had a press conference at one o'clock today.
It's Friday and Friday, July 28th.
And they are saying that she, that district attorney or I'm sorry, the Hoover Police Department
got a warrant for her arrest today.
And then Carly turned herself in with her attorney, which was probably all planned so
that she could get out right when she got in.
She probably didn't even go in.
Just like put her on handcuffs.
Processed her and yeah.
So she got arrested and it was only a $2,000 bond for the two charges.
So it was false reporting to law enforcement authorities, which is a Class A misdemeanor
$1,000 bond.
Falsely reporting an incident Class A misdemeanor for a $1,000 bond.
And both charges, you can get up to a year in jail and $6,000 in like fees, I guess, or
fines.
Did you look up the misdemeanors?
It's what you just said, basically.
But the one year in prison and it just says it's the most extreme offense below a felony.
Oh, okay.
So that's good.
That's interesting.
Like why would it only if it's the most extreme, why is it only a thousand dollars bond for
this?
And I wonder if it's well, is Class A different than is Class A higher than okay, that's the
highest one.
Yeah, it's the highest one.
Class B is prison up to six months and up to a $3,000 fine.
Class C is up to three months and $500 in fines and a violation.
I don't know if it's a violation misdemeanor or whatever is up to 30 days and $200 in fines.
Interesting.
Okay.
I mean, I just feel like $2,000 bond.
I mean, it is a lot of money for somebody that doesn't have any money.
And maybe this isn't like that.
Yeah, that bond doesn't mean that's what you pay though.
Typically you have to pay only a percentage of whatever the bond is.
Right.
Exactly.
Well, yeah, we're talking.
I'm not, I can't math good, but what are we talking?
200 bucks?
Yeah, not a lot.
That's if you get a bondsman or whatever.
Right.
Yeah.
If you don't have the cash to put up.
Right.
But I mean, yeah.
So really that's nothing.
And no, I would have liked to see her sit in jail for a little bit longer.
Well, I mean, it's up to one year for both those charges.
If she's convicted, she's convicted, but like, I don't know.
It just seems like, I mean, I feel like this is not well, I know, but based on what, um,
and you know, you haven't really covered this yet, but based on what the police chief was
saying, you know, about getting the government and more involved in the representatives for
the state of Alabama to make some changes to these laws that are in place, maybe they
will in, if you will, you know, quote unquote, throw the book at her and convict her and
sentence her to jail.
She may not quite serve one or two years, but you know, it's something it's better than
a slap on the wrist for all the nonsense that she caused.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, it's a lot.
Um, I feel like, so for instance, okay.
So when I think about this, it's like, this was a big deal in my opinion, this falsifying
of whatever and lying, you know, falsely reporting an incident and false reporting to law enforcement.
Um, though you, there are different levels of that.
I feel like, like you could just say, Hey, you know, you fake something, but this is
like way bigger.
This is a bigger fake than some other fakes could be.
Absolutely.
So that's where I'm like, and I believe that you, because the timeframe, the 49 hours,
that is what it wasn't like a couple of hours to like, you know, scare some people or whatever
her goal was with that.
It was 49 hours, manhunt money, all of that lied.
Yeah.
Afterwards.
Yeah.
I mean, she tried to ride, ride the lie for as long as she could.
And then she figured out I'm this angle fly.
Yeah.
No, she was like, I mean, I probably, I like, I tried to put myself in her shoes.
I would never have done that.
I mean, never say never, but like, I'm pretty sure I would never have done that.
I'd have been like bored for 49 hours without real food and a phone.
Yeah.
She, all she has is cheese.
I mean, that sounds delicious, but like a whole box for two days, I would have eaten
in one sitting if I was bored.
Yeah.
I mean, talk about rationing.
Why would she leave the cheese?
She's not rational, but she knew how to ration her cheese.
Yeah, right.
Exactly.
Apparently.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
I just like that.
Like even like she have just like lied and said, my boyfriend hurt me or something like
that, you know, called the police domestic violence.
And I was being dramatic.
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
And like she was like, she was like, you know, like, you know, like pretending that
there's a baby on the side of the road.
Right?
Yeah.
I mean it was scary for the community, you know, not just her family because she was missing,
but like, is there some random kidnapper that if you, you know, blow a tire and you're stuck
on the interstate that you're going to get snatched?
Right.
That's scary.
Yeah.
Very scary.
So it sounded like the chief of police, the chief of the Hoover police department kind
of wants to talk to the legislature or whoever and try to see what they can do to make this
not as like, make it not as like low of a charge, I guess, or make it more of a charge
because this is a bigger deal than, you know, $6,000.
Absolutely.
I mean, it was a waste of tons of resources.
I'm sure there was overtime paid for police officers and I mean, there were some officers
that were suspended without pay because things were being leaked and you know, none of that
needed to happen.
She affected their jobs.
Yeah.
And you know, it's some, you know, a lot of times when you get convicted of something
and they, there's like two charges and you get convicted of both, you can, you can spend
that time in jail at the same time.
It's consecutive.
So it's like they could do, and she could get two years like total, or she could just
get one consecutive for both of the terms.
Right.
And you know, maybe they will make it, make it two years if she gets convicted of it.
I mean, she will, she's already, she's got to plead guilty at some point, but maybe they'll
enter into like a plea, like a deal.
I would be very surprised if she didn't take a plea deal, if she tried to take this to
court and you know, claim some, which I do think that she needs some mental help, but
if you know, she just tries to claim that, you know, she was, you know, just a little
crazy at the moment or whatever, that's not okay.
Because if you had a breakdown and you came back, you would have just said, I'm sorry,
I had a breakdown.
I need some help, whatever.
She tried to ride the lie.
And that's where I lose sympathy for the mental illness situation.
I don't know.
I think that I still think that if you have that mental illness, like, and I think I try
to put my, like, I was trying to say earlier that if I were to put myself in her shoes
and I had lied like that and I knew that I would probably be like telling all the lies
to make it sound right.
I mean, when I was younger, maybe.
Yeah.
I mean, I definitely think that that is probably safe to say and you know, we're not in that
situation.
So, you know, it's hard to tell, you know, exactly what your reaction and or, you know,
the path you would choose if you were in those shoes.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
This is crazy to me.
I don't really have much more to say.
Do you?
No, I don't either.
No, I think it's justified at maybe not justice enough, but we'll see how it plays out.
Yeah.
And if she goes to court, you better believe that we'll be watching it and we will be reporting
back.
Oh, yes.
All right.
Well, that's your update.
We're moving into a true crime podcast.
Alabama criminals.
Yeah.
I don't know.
All right.
Oh, man.
Thank you.
Have a good weekend, y'all.
Bye.
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I have to go.
I don't know why it's so good.