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Pleaded Inocencio

After a traffic collision, Xavier Inocencio Moran, 25, of Royal Palm Beach, Fla., told the investigating sheriff’s deputy that the other driver had cut him off — and he could prove it. Moran has a “dashcam” that always records the scene through his windshield, and he signed a release allowing the deputy to take the camera’s memory chip and download it to see what happened. The deputy reviewed the video from the beginning. Hours before the crash, Moran had parked in front of a beauty supply store and, the deputy says, inadvertently recorded himself using a baseball bat to break the glass front door of the business, and then beat on a safe inside in an attempt to get it open. The deputy arrested Moran for burglary. (RC/Palm Beach Post) ...But did he do the arrest in front of a security camera to record the look on his face when told why?