‘There’s cameras in here’ Nissan worker gets confronted over shady register activity. Her explanation makes things worse

A woman working at a car dealership in Florida got arrested after police caught her swapping fake money for real cash at work. The whole thing was recorded on body cameras and the TikTok video has been watched more than 710,000 times online.

Police officers from Leesburg showed up at Jenkins Nissan dealership on October 23, 2024, after the managers found some fake bills in the cash register. As per the TikTok video, they checked the security cameras and saw 24-year-old Nykeria Latanya Rene Sims doing something strange. She was taking money out of her green backpack and switching it with the real money in the register.

When the cops walked up to her desk, Officer Navarro asked her a simple question: “Do you know there’s cameras in here?” Sims told them she had no clue why they were there. The officers put her in handcuffs and told her what they saw on the video. They explained that she was caught putting money from her bag into the register and then taking the dealership’s money out.

She tried to explain but it backfired

Sims told the officers she was just getting change for a $100 bill her brother gave her before he left town. She said she did this kind of thing regularly and didn’t think it was a problem. The officer asked her if she really thought it was okay to use the company’s cash register like her own personal bank.

Things got a lot worse when the officers told her what was really going on. The money she put in the register wasn’t real. The officer told her straight up that the bills were fake and she basically stole $260 from Nissan by replacing their real money with counterfeit bills.

The fake bills had big letters on them that said “For Motion Picture Purposes” right at the top. The police report said all the bills had the same serial numbers and didn’t even feel like real money. When officers looked through her backpack, they found seven more fake bills with the exact same markings.

Sims kept saying her brother gave her the money and she didn’t know it was fake. But the officer wasn’t buying it. He told her, “I think you’re old enough to know that doesn’t even make sense. This is your place of employment. This isn’t your bank.” In another case of workplace misconduct, an employee at a different store was arrested after stealing thousands to help pay bills.

Police found that Sims had 12 fake bills in total. She already used five of them to swap out real money from the cash register. They arrested her right there and charged her with theft and having more than 10 counterfeit bills. The court records show she was later found guilty on both charges. While some people make desperate financial decisions that lead to regret, using fake money can get you up to 20 years in federal prison.