This just in from TJ Hart, and special thanks to WJXT-TV for permission to use their video – Simon
Video just released from the St John’s County Sheriff’s Office shows Ronald Cummings, the father of missing 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings, and Misty Croslin, the last person to see the child before she vanished a year ago, selling drugs to undercover police officers.
Here is some of the video as presented by WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, FL.:
VIDEO: Undercover Drug Bust/SJCO Sherrif’s Office/WJXT-TV
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Wondering if the UC ever asked them about HaLeigh? And also, who is Misty referring to when she says he has a job?
I thought Misty said she was in Tina’s car when she got busted and left her purse, phone and camera in there?
Wow…that changes my opinion. I was feeling kinda sorry for Misty. Thinking she was just along for the ride. She does seem to be running the deals. She also explains the ends and outs of being inconspicuous. I still feel she is a minor though, and for drug dealing she needs to be treated as a minor. Young people like her, think they are being cool. I feel like she has learned a lesson since being in jail. I still believe she does not know where Haleigh is. I further believe Ron does not believe she does either, because he would not have been talking like that about Haleigh in front of Misty. She did something wrong as a teen and she should not live in jail until she is old and gray.
You can see she has her purse in the UN car just before the bust.. So, I guess police have her things and not Tina.
Hi, cent! Have you tried raising the volume on the video itself? At the bottom of the box where the video plays there are symbols on the right side. One looks like a bull horn or loudspeaker. Click on that and a bar appears that you can click on to raise or lower the volume.
You can also try to raise the volume on your own computer but you probably know that already.
Considering what R says on this video to the UC about not wanting anyone to find out about this, I am more inclined to believe that he does not know what happened to Haleigh and he still wants to find her. Because what he does NOT want is for LE or the public to go back to thinking some drug connection of his took her.
He knows that’s not right and doesn’t want anyone wasting more time following that road.
(The following is a very personal – my opinion only – comment. I hope it does not offend anyone) I just go totally ballistic, clear to the moon, when I see criminals and people breaking the law while flaunting a crucifix. It makes me ill. I just want to rip it right off of them.
Oh, and considering how often we see this all over TV and newspapers, you can imagine that I blast off to the moon fairly frequently! LOL!
M2C – LOL – I’m with ya! I’m the same way and that is why Misty’s comments in jail about God and religion really push me over the edge as well. GIVE ME A BREAK! Only God knows what is truly in her heart but her actions, body language and words SCREAM ME ME ME, I did nothing wrong, I shouldn’t be in jail and NOT…I’m sorry for what I did, I’m repenting and changing my ways! Actions speak louder than words! IMO
AMEN!! m2c and JB. If LP is going to continue with trying to get Misty out he needs to let her sit in jail until she is ready to do things on his terms not hers. Misty needs to understand she does not have the upper hand.
First of all, I do not believe that Misty requested LP to leave her alone, she was too desperate in the jail tapes to get her mother to make sure to tell him to get her out. The lawyer sent the cease and desist letter without her knowledge, Secondly please note Misty’s demeanour on the drug bust tapes, we see a person very sure of herself and in control, totally opposite of her usual “POOR LITTLE ME” act.This girl is very street savvy and a master manipulator.
I totally agree with the police that all of them should be in prison for the pressure cooker to blow up.With all of them locked up and with no contact with each other, their desperation will reach megalithic proportions.
Keep all your fingers crossed!
LFJ – that is what gets me about these people…they all think they are above the law and that the world OWES them something. They have NO concept of working for a living….everything is about a quick buck, a handout, a scam and illegal activity…ANYTHING but actually working a fulltime LEGAL job! Makes me NUTS! I hope LP doesn’t get taken for a ride with these folks but I fear he will…once again….be used. Not that I’m a LP fan….but DANG, I just don’t want these people to be handed cars, houses, be relocated, given cash, etc., and we STILL have no idea where Haleigh is! They’ll take LP for every dime they can get and give NOTHING but BULL in return!
SALUKI – AMEN! Keep the pressure on and see what unfolds!
Hi, SALUKI! I found M’s total turn-around on LP unbelievable too. But if the lawyer wrote that letter without M’s consent, he could probably be disbarred. There are quotes from it on the BNN article before this one – The Update “Oh, My” article.
In the FEb 17 letter the lawyer states:
“We have been informed that you have purchased a vehicle, cellular phones and other items for Hank and Lisa Croslin. Misty considers this action an unwanted, third-party contact intended to influence her parents to convince her to work with you.”
The letter went on to read: “Misty Croslin has made it clear to me that she does not desire your assistance in this matter. Therefore, she respectfully requests that you cease and desist any further attempts to contact her, either directly or by way of any third party.”
Very interesting indeed! But they are, I believe, clueless as to what happened to Haleigh . I still think Cobra was on to the right person the 1st time.
imvho if these people were clueless, as some seem to believe, then there would be no need for the inconstistancies, therefor there would be no inconsistancies and the evidence discovered at the mobile home (whatever that may be) would match exactly with Misty’s stories and timeline.
I wonder if M is even going to talk to her parents anymore. Other than how much money they are going to put in her jail account it doesn’t look like there’s going to be much to talk about. She’s going to be real suspicious that they’re trying to get info out of her or at the least convince her to talk.
Oh, and I wonder if M will give LP his 100 dollars back?? LOL!
Good morning everyone! m2c, Can I catch a ride to the moon with you,as long as I’m heading that way anyway????LOL yer’ funny!
Hi, a nobody! It’s been a long time and I don’t remember who Cobra was on the first time. Do you mean the RSO? TIA
Yeah JB I agree with you. I am no LP fan either, but he needs to realize these folks are bottom feeders and they will take him for anything they can. He needs to walk away right now apparently Misty has not sat there long enough to realize she no longer calls the shots.
They all might as well get accustomed to their new living arrangements. They are all guilty and they all need to be held accountable for what they have done.
Where I hope this would lead to Haleigh, I am starting to have my doubts.
Tuffstuff, I agree with part of your comment. I think Misty knows exactly what happened, but RON don’t…He doesn’t know…But that MIsty!!ERARRGGGGGGGGG!!!I wanna’ thump it outa’ her!
I’m sorry tuffstuff, Maybe I was responding to anothers comment? I just woke up…I’m alittle groggy! I believe I should be addressing “A nobody”
Misty has already admitted to having some information that she was willing to reveal to LP “IF” he would get her out of jail.
Based on LP’s terms it must be without a doubt something that relates to finding Haleigh Cummings otherwise there would be no agreement.
Misty told her Mother to make the deal with LP on her behalf. Regardless that Misty’s attorney, Mr Fields, has since aired a cease and desist message to LP, Misty has already willingly agreed to give information to LP via her Mother during a taped jail house visit. (Which we all know she has full knowledge that the visits are being taped and in some cases aired on Nancy Grace as she herself has stated during one of those visits at least. Misty has also told someone to kiss her a**.)
This appears to indicate that Misty is now openly admitting to withholding information regarding Haleigh Cumming’s disappearance.
If that is true and correct then what charges may this new information lead to I wonder?
I personally think mama -n- papa croslin ARE trying to help le…and LP. And why not take a car from LP if they are? Maybe it will help, since nothing else has. also if they can get the heck outa’ that area, maybe he can find a job. kinda doubt it but maybe.
Tuffstuff, How interesting is that? good queston…I wonder if they can now bring charges against her for obstruction since she openly admitted that she knows something.
Right methinks, obstruction and/or/also?
Ron is worried that if he gets caught or the UC gets caught that the public and LE will think he is involved in Haleigh being gone?
But he still does the drug deals? Misty must have been refering to Ron working for his Aunts
Landscaping company. Ron seems to trust Misty alot to stick his neck out there, so he has to know if she is or is not involved. Think about it would you trust her if you didnt know for sure? jmo
The $3000 car and few $$ LP has spent on the Croslins was pocket change to him. They aren’t working him. He is in full control and baiting them to see what he can get out of it. Haleigh has been missing for a year. Why such love and concern from LP to do something now?? One thing I am sure of, to LP it is all about LP.
Tuffstuff, maybe even child endangerment?
Possibly that too methinks.
Tobias, YOUR right, I wouldn’t trust her if I didn’t know for sure.It’s either that or he’s that addicted and he don’t care anymore. Drugs will do that. I firmly believes he loves his daughter and doesn’t know himself…but man is he dumb.
Someone once said he was dumb like a fox. I think that someone was correct. jmvho.
Treece, LP is definately all about LP, and he’s got plenty of money to go on this fishing expedition… but one thing he’s not is dumb. He knows from experience now not to let her run the show.
I wonder if the UC asked him after that statement what Ron thought happened and that was redacted from the video? jmo
Tobias, If he did, I wonder what Ron told him? or misty…cuz’ it’s obvious that she was running the show and has been for quite some time….she reminds me of a little casey anthony!
tobias @ 11:51 – I would think R based his trust on the UC, not M, when doing the drug dealing. But I don’t know.
And from what R said, I did not get the impression that he was worried about people finding out and thinking HE was involved in Haleigh’s disappearance. That’s not the way he said it. He was concerned people would decide that someone took her BECAUSE of his drug dealings and he does not think that’s what happened. So if LE started looking in that direction, obviously R thinks they’d be on the wrong track. And he does not want them on the wrong track.
That letter from the lawyer is so bogus, no way can there be anything illegal in what LP is doing. He has offered help and Misty is the one looking to get rid of her lawyer not LP.
Maybe Fields should watch his clients videos. lol jmo
LP was there from the beginning when Haleigh first went missing offered to put up a reward for a specific amount of time and then withdraw it in order to get info right from the start. He was asked to leave along with Equusearch. They were not needed is what they were told. After Teresa Neves asked Mark NeJame and Tim Miller for help back in October and Misty flunked the poly and voice stress test LP made Misty another offer in which she refused. I do agree this does bring attention to him, but at least he is using the tools he has to try and find Haleigh.
She appeared to truly enjoy feeling somewhat empowered there and might have felt a sense of being even more “grown up” doing what she was doing in the videos. Sad.
Puzzling to me that Ron would ask the “UC” not to tell anyone what he was doing there considering that both Ron and his Mother were attempting to give the empression that it was some kind of “undercover” activity on his own part and an efort to get Misty arrested. What does that say in regards to Ron’s explanation for the headless rat?
On the video where Misty is apparently authorizing her mother to instruct LP to bail her out, I think she also says something similar to, “make sure he signs the paper so he can’t revoke my bond later on.”
What immediately comes to mind is that she’s planning on getting out, giving him another BS story, and wants to insure that when he figures that out he won’t be able haul her back to jail.
I hope LP keeps his word and doesn’t bond her out until she tells where Haleigh is AND he verifies it first. And if it were me, I’d also put in a condition that she had to finally PASS a polygraph based on her new information.
“Puzzling to me that Ron would ask the “UC” not to tell anyone what he was doing there considering that both Ron and his Mother were attempting to give the empression that it was some kind of “undercover” activity on his own part and an efort to get Misty arrested.”
I found that part of the conversation between Ron’s mother Teresa Neves to be so contrived. That really soured me on “Miss Nancy” Neves.
Oh, both Ron and Grandma Neves need to be pittied for the loss of Haleigh.
I agree m2c…about the cross. I’ve known people who do drugs, and they do not believe they are doing anything wrong. They feel that drugs come from nature, and God provided us with that nature. It’s just an excuse to feel good about doing the drugs.
I wonder, is there a tougher jail sentence for selling to minors than there is to selling to adults? I think it just horrible for a dealer to sell to minors.
Colleen,
I read an article stating that Misty’s lawyer was sending a “cease and desist” (?) letter to anything Leonard Padilla was trying to do, and Misty signed it. I don’t know what’s going on there, but it was something that happened in that court room yesterday.
Colleen, LP’s agreement was clearly stated. Misty in turn was clearly agreeing to his terms when she authorized her Mother to get things going in regards to LP’s terms and agreement offer. Anything else is purely speculative. Where is there any proof of her intent to deceive LP? The agreement as I understood it was that LP would bail Misty out “after” Misty gave LP the information that would lead to finding Haleigh Cummings. Misty has willfully admitted to having information. There is no way to manipulate an explanation as to some new intent to deceive and/or get around it from my perspective.
When it happened, I thought it could have been a stranger abduction. Kids have been stolen from their beds at night and I had to consider that’s what might have happened to Haleigh.
Misty’s interviews those first days made me think she knew more than she was telling. As her stories changed I become more suspicious of her. I even considered she herself might have harmed Haleigh.
Over time I began to believe if she hurt Haleigh, it was probably an accident, she freaked and had to cover.
Viewing some of the jail video conversations, especially those where she talks about how she didn’t do anything wrong (meaning the drug deals) made me think she plays the “I’m innocent in all of this” card just too easily.
A week ago, I believed Misty had not harmed Haleigh but was holding something back, possibly something that might have been helpful to the investigation.
I viewed the UC video several times and my current thoughts are that Misty is capable of anything. She will say whatever serves her, and she appears to me to be fully capable of purposely withholding information that might have helped find a missing child.
Misty is not a minor, she is 18. What I see on the UC video is not a helpless “teen” but a woman who is street savvy and a seasoned drug dealer. She gave the orders; she ran the show. Misty is callous and has no regard for anyone but herself. I thank God Misty never had kids and I hope she goes to prison and stays there until she is too old to reproduce.
Besides I do not believe that it would be in Misty’s best interest for Misty’s attorney to come out swinging with the defense that Misty was intending to deceive and/or is lying.
…Just saying.
I wonder why Ron got out just before you see the trucks pull up in the background? Did he know they were coming?
does anyone else notice the catch 22? if Misty gives info about haleigh to get bailed..the info will get her rearrested on new charges..
conspiracy, hindering, accomplice.. Her lawyer is godawfull!
The thing that jumps out at me the most is that Ronald doesn’t seem as accustomed to doing this sort of thing as Misty is. The other thing is Ron’s statement about drug boys don’t come and get your kids. They just don’t do that kind of thing. This eliminates, pretty much, the drug deal gone bad theory, at least, from my mind.
@ shockwave.
Misty is NOT a minor she is 18-years-old that is not a minor.She is an adult she knew what she was doing this isn’t her first rodeo.She’s been selling and doing drugs for years it was jsut her and Ron’s time to get caught.Misty or Ron are not the victims HALEIGH is.Misrt is where she belongs she is no one special.
I do not feel sorry for Misty or Ron they knew what they were doing.Why do you or anything think Ron was saying ” don’t bring up my name, they will know who iam because of my missing daughter, and i don’t want anyone thinking she was kidnapped because of what im doing”.
It is common knowledge that juries, judges, and prosecutors take into account when a person is cooperative with in an investigation.
Form a moral standpoint, I would like Misty to tell what she knows so that Haleigh might have justice but, from a legal standpoint, Fields is right on in telling his client to keep quiet.
Yes, it is a Catch 22 for Misty, and that is the very reason she should decline LP’s offer. Fields is not against someone posting Misty’s bond; however, he is not in favor of her working with LP, and for good reason.
Bluemoon, WOW, I noticed that too about Ron getting out before the trucks pulled up to make the arrests…maybe he did know they were coming/
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=67545689001#/News/Misty+Croslin+Undercover+/50619441001/50624658001/67545689001
Here’s a better link.
What I find interesting is that when Misty is handed the phone by the UC she is talking to RON and HE instructs her about the bathroom swap!!! Watch my link….It is in full….Ron instructs Misty about the bathroom swap because he is paranoid that UC wanted to change locations. When he gets in the front seat he is looking for cameras because he knows they are TRAFFICKING by buying 200 pills. (2 sacks of 100 each, bagged 10 per baggie inside the small brown paper bags. Ron also talks about only needing a few days to unload that amount.
So here it is, Ron admits he can sell 200 pills in just a few days.
Does that sound like small potatos to you?
He also was resistant to getting into UC car because he didn’t want to be trapped and wanted an opportunity to flee. He didn’t know about the sting, guys….He’s just drug savvy enough to be watching for certain things. His gut instincts told him not to do this drug buy but he did so anyway. Misty is wayyyy messed up and ROnald is somewhat too.
He talks about the SPinners owner smokes crack….LOL! Thanks there Ron. “You don’t have to worry about nuttin, I know this guy who owns this place, he smokes crack….so you don’t have to worry a bit”
He also tells UC when he gets into the car that he’d been rollin a blunt in his truck….LOL!!! Yea, he was in on the sting alright…
Hollys, I believe Misty has been dealing for quite a while, and Ron even longer. Neither one of them is new to this type of activity.
Ron said ” the guy in the truck was rolling a blunt, just letting UC it was cool to be there.
Well, the fat lady has still not begun to sing, so lets wait until she does… I have thought in the past that she was humming, not yet.. not quite yet!!
good morning everyone! Is anyone here?
I’ve been sitting here eading and catching up. There are some interesting posts on the other thread, but theres nobody to talk to…Did everyone stay up too late? I had to go to bed early as I had my two year old grandson “Vinny” visiting and WOW! What energy! Where does he get it from? I would love to tap into that sometime. Might actually get some housework done!!!
that should say “reading” and catching up.
I know Misty is saying me me me but I think she feels like the only reason they targeted her is because of Haleigh and thinks they are trying to get her anyway they can. It looks like that is what they are doing. Usually LE would use people like Misty, Ron, and the rest to rat out the bigger dealers and let them off for the info. They did wrong they have to admit that to theirself but they are looking at LE as just bullying for info and in my opinion they have no more info.
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