July 7, 2025 • 11 mins
Tamara Parker did nothing wrong. She went to an auto parts store a car parts store looking for a part and days later was arrested, humiliated, and nearly erased — all because someone lied and the system didn’t care. She was never at the scene. The forensics proved it. Her life still shattered.
🔥 Arrested after shopping at Advance Auto Parts
🔥 Wrongfully ID’d. No evidence. Phone forensics cleared her
🔥 She was at a graduation the whole time
🔥 Lost her job, her home, and her ability to work
🔥 “Sometimes being Black in America is the only crime you committed.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, falls, welcome back to Rollard Martin Unfiltered here
on the Black Star Network. You know what we there
are so many different cases that we cover on this
show that sometimes just lead you perplexed and you're like,
what the hell is going on? Well, this story out
of North Carolina is one of those. Tony Harry Daniels
(00:25):
is representing the system in this and it's sort of strange,
if you will, what transpired here? And so let me
walk you through this story. Okay, Tamba Parker was wrongfully arrested. Okay,
Now she loses everything, being falsely accused of a crime,
(00:52):
no criminal record, She spends months trying to clear her name,
loses her job, loses her home as the police claim
she matched the description of a suspect and the description
was a black woman.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Now charles have been dropped against her.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Her mug shot though online people can pull it up.
It's everywhere, and so imagine now you're trying to have
to rebuild your life. T having her attorney Hair Daniel
Joness right now, glad to have both of you on
the show. This So what what what the hell? First
of all, what if they accuse you of doing and
(01:36):
what was the description, and was that person actually ever
apprehended and they in any way resemble you?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I have no idea. So what they said happened with
someone took someone's credit card information about two Apple apples
and sent them to an advanced out of our store.
I had no idea, you know, what was going on.
I don't think that they ever got a suspect. I'm
not too sure, but not to my knowledge, I think.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I so, how do they how do they get around
to you?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
What what happened?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, like what happened?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So I went into the store, the advanced auto parts store.
I went in on May the sixteenth of last year.
I was looking for a part. I actually had the
part in my hand, and they didn't have it. I
got assistance from the store associate, and then a little
over a week later, the police came to my house
and had a search for rance and searched my home.
(02:37):
I had no idea why they were, you know, there,
But that was the only time I ever went into
that store.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
So the first time you ever go to this auto
parts store, you looking for a part, Then all of
a sudden, a week later, they're showing up at your house.
And when they show up at your house, what do
they say?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
The I let them in because they were something that
happened in my daughter school earlier that week, so I
just thought a teacher was arrested. So I start thinking
about that, Like I thought they were coming in my
house to tell me something.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Happened to my child.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So I let them inside to like see what they
had to say. And the guy just started like yelling
like I just want to know if this is a
one time thing or if you're a part of a ring.
And I had no idea what he was talking about,
so then he just kind.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Of start going off. So then he told me, like
what happened?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, he said, first, did you go into an advanced
at off part store? And I said yes, I went
there last Thursday to look for a part and I
had to part with me. So that's what he told me.
That's when he told me what I was accused of.
And at first I thought it was a joke because
who would do something like that. That was like the
craziest thing I've ever heard of. So then like I
(03:50):
opened up my wallet, I'm like, hey, you can look
and see, Like I don't have anyone's information like, I
own my home, I have like a good credit score,
equity stuff from my home. I had reason to do
something like this. This is like the most ridiculous thing.
But yeah, he was very aggressive.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That is so Harry.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What's crazy to me is if you're the store, you
have surveillance video. If she didn't like the video should
show if a card was taken, used or whatever the heck, Like,
what the hell is this?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Thanks Roland for heaven. Roland.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
First of all, you know, we do a lot of cases,
a lot of cases, usually dealing with serious injury, deaths
related law enforcement. But this was a case that we
could not pass up based on the extraordinary and a
disbelief of what happened to this. This Tamarra no surveyance cameras,
no outside cameras or surveillance cameras in the store an
(04:53):
advanced autopart in Dallas, North Carolina. She simply went to
the store in May sixteenth to pick up apart for
a HUSB. She went to Advanced Parts the next the
next door. They didn't have the party either. What transpired
was that, like she said, somebody sent these falls to
the store and subsequently one of us told the sales
(05:13):
associates at the store said that the person had came
back in the store after the police went to the
store to pick up the phones and came back into
the store and they took a picture of the person's
license plate. Well, that day was May twentieth. On May twentieth,
Tamara was nowhere around the store. In fact, she was
at her kids can pre pre k graduation, her other
(05:36):
kids graduation, elementary school graduation, out with family, nowhere near
the store. And law enforcement knew it because when they
took the phones and she freely gave the pass code
to the phones. Once they had the search warrant and
they did forensics on the phones a rolling and at
the forensics they found that she was not at the
store on the date that that sales associate unless that
(05:59):
she was there, they knew that she did not commit
this crime. Nevertheless, they pursued it. They got a warrant
for her arrest. She is arrested. She lost everything, a job,
great job, her good reputation, mugshot.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Home is now for a closure for sale.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
She's multiple months, several months behind, and she's currently under
the care of a doctor.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know this is and she's unemployable at the.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Time because she was an insurance agent, and nobody wants
to hire anybody who's been accused of stealing identity, fraud,
or any sthuff, especially when you have public trust and
you deal with a public identity on a day, day
day out basis, day.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And day our basis.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
But these one of the cases that law enforcement overzealous
law enforcement a clerk that we will get to the
bottom of what happened here because she clearly gave false
information to the police that the miss Parker was in
the story she was not.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We're gonna find out where they come from.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And not just that law enforcement completely ignoring innocence, exculpatory evidence,
and pushing forced agenda that left this family upside down
literally with finances and in a place that anybody could
have been in, especially the Parkers family, where she was
a law body, citizen, hard working tax payer, no criminal record,
(07:25):
making money on her own home, equity, saving his accounts,
good credit, and all of a sudden, all that was
taken from her as a blink of an eye.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So we got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
We're gonna pursue this case and we're going to make
sure we get some justice from this Parker.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Camera, How long did you spend in jail?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It was only a few hours. On paper it said
like fifteen minutes. When I went in, of course, I
was talking like, hey, you guys have the wrong person.
And they were just like, well, this is the tective.
He doesn't make mistakes. He's the best, and he wouldn't
be doing this unless he has solid evidence. And I'm like,
he doesn't. So when it took me in, I just
kept saying, like, you guys.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Have the wrong person. But they did like the intake.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I went and talked to the magister, and the magist
said I can leave, like, gave me the paperwork, you know,
said he'd unsecure vond. He even made a joke like this, Parker,
do you have a ticket or any speeding tickets? And
I'm like when I was like nineteen or twenty, and
so he basically told me I was leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I didn't leave.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
They put me in a hold and see after the
magistrate unsecure in my bond and told me I could leave.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, well and just add this this is and the
evidence and what I just told you in the facts
of this case. It's not speculative. This is what is
in the discovery, the criminal discovery. I'm not making up.
This is what the DA had and once a DA
reviewed this discovery, and it a lot of times DA
don't review discovers until you're an indicted case. He immediately
(08:54):
dismissed this case with insufficient evidence, dismissed it. We have
the dismissal, we have the evidence to show, and we
look forward to pursuing this case.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And this just.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Goes to show that even when you're doing right, when you're.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Doing good, you're doing everything good. You're not breaking law.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You've been lawed by the citizen, and sometimes it's being
black in America is the only crime you committed. And
this woman, her family has did nothing wrong and they
are in a position where they need help obviously, and
we're here to help them and get some retress.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
For all right, and we'll surely we hope you were
able to do that, because again, this is the last
thing a lot of people would ever want to have
to deal with.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Thanks a lot, Take care roller.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
This is the GoFundMe page for Tamra Parker if you
are interested in donata. She tried to put her life
back together and so this is it right here. So
far less than fourteen hundred dollars has been raised. And
so again you see it right here. And so go
to GoFundMe typing her name or typing wrongfully accused, trying
(09:59):
to rebuild my life, and there you go.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Hello, I'm Isaacat's the third founder and CEO of fan Base.
Listen to what I'm about to tell you. The window
to invest in Fanbase is closing. We've raised over ten
point six million of our seventeen million dollar goal. That
means there's room for less than six thousand, three hundred
and seventy people to invest in Fanbase for the average amount.
The minimum to invest in fan Base right now is
(10:24):
three hundred and ninety nine dollars. That makes you an
owner in fan Base today. Go to start engine, dot
com slash fan base to invest. Why because current social
apps have taken advantage of users for far too long
with content suppression, shadow banning, homeful, racist content, and no
real tools for monetization and equity. Fan Base has over
one point four million users in counting, allowing anyone to
(10:46):
reach all their following and monetize their content from day one.
Social media is the new TV and whoever owns it
app to distribute that content have the opportunity to own
potential billion dollar companies. While big platforms with a certain
futures are failing to serve their users, fan base is
stepping up to fill the gap. Don't wait until it's
too late. Invest now. Invest for yourself and your future.
(11:10):
Go to start engine, dot com, slash fanbase, and own
the next generation of social media.
All right, falls, welcome back to Rollard Martin Unfiltered here
on the Black Star Network. You know what we there
are so many different cases that we cover on this
show that sometimes just lead you perplexed and you're like,
what the hell is going on? Well, this story out
of North Carolina is one of those. Tony Harry Daniels
(00:25):
is representing the system in this and it's sort of strange,
if you will, what transpired here? And so let me
walk you through this story. Okay, Tamba Parker was wrongfully arrested. Okay,
Now she loses everything, being falsely accused of a crime,
(00:52):
no criminal record, She spends months trying to clear her name,
loses her job, loses her home as the police claim
she matched the description of a suspect and the description
was a black woman.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Now charles have been dropped against her.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Her mug shot though online people can pull it up.
It's everywhere, and so imagine now you're trying to have
to rebuild your life. T having her attorney Hair Daniel
Joness right now, glad to have both of you on
the show. This So what what what the hell? First
of all, what if they accuse you of doing and
(01:36):
what was the description, and was that person actually ever
apprehended and they in any way resemble you?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I have no idea. So what they said happened with
someone took someone's credit card information about two Apple apples
and sent them to an advanced out of our store.
I had no idea, you know, what was going on.
I don't think that they ever got a suspect. I'm
not too sure, but not to my knowledge, I think.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I so, how do they how do they get around
to you?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
What what happened?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, like what happened?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So I went into the store, the advanced auto parts store.
I went in on May the sixteenth of last year.
I was looking for a part. I actually had the
part in my hand, and they didn't have it. I
got assistance from the store associate, and then a little
over a week later, the police came to my house
and had a search for rance and searched my home.
(02:37):
I had no idea why they were, you know, there,
But that was the only time I ever went into
that store.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
So the first time you ever go to this auto
parts store, you looking for a part, Then all of
a sudden, a week later, they're showing up at your house.
And when they show up at your house, what do
they say?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
The I let them in because they were something that
happened in my daughter school earlier that week, so I
just thought a teacher was arrested. So I start thinking
about that, Like I thought they were coming in my
house to tell me something.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Happened to my child.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So I let them inside to like see what they
had to say. And the guy just started like yelling
like I just want to know if this is a
one time thing or if you're a part of a ring.
And I had no idea what he was talking about,
so then he just kind.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Of start going off. So then he told me, like
what happened?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, he said, first, did you go into an advanced
at off part store? And I said yes, I went
there last Thursday to look for a part and I
had to part with me. So that's what he told me.
That's when he told me what I was accused of.
And at first I thought it was a joke because
who would do something like that. That was like the
craziest thing I've ever heard of. So then like I
(03:50):
opened up my wallet, I'm like, hey, you can look
and see, Like I don't have anyone's information like, I
own my home, I have like a good credit score,
equity stuff from my home. I had reason to do
something like this. This is like the most ridiculous thing.
But yeah, he was very aggressive.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That is so Harry.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What's crazy to me is if you're the store, you
have surveillance video. If she didn't like the video should
show if a card was taken, used or whatever the heck, Like,
what the hell is this?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Thanks Roland for heaven. Roland.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
First of all, you know, we do a lot of cases,
a lot of cases, usually dealing with serious injury, deaths
related law enforcement. But this was a case that we
could not pass up based on the extraordinary and a
disbelief of what happened to this. This Tamarra no surveyance cameras,
no outside cameras or surveillance cameras in the store an
(04:53):
advanced autopart in Dallas, North Carolina. She simply went to
the store in May sixteenth to pick up apart for
a HUSB. She went to Advanced Parts the next the
next door. They didn't have the party either. What transpired
was that, like she said, somebody sent these falls to
the store and subsequently one of us told the sales
(05:13):
associates at the store said that the person had came
back in the store after the police went to the
store to pick up the phones and came back into
the store and they took a picture of the person's
license plate. Well, that day was May twentieth. On May twentieth,
Tamara was nowhere around the store. In fact, she was
at her kids can pre pre k graduation, her other
(05:36):
kids graduation, elementary school graduation, out with family, nowhere near
the store. And law enforcement knew it because when they
took the phones and she freely gave the pass code
to the phones. Once they had the search warrant and
they did forensics on the phones a rolling and at
the forensics they found that she was not at the
store on the date that that sales associate unless that
(05:59):
she was there, they knew that she did not commit
this crime. Nevertheless, they pursued it. They got a warrant
for her arrest. She is arrested. She lost everything, a job,
great job, her good reputation, mugshot.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Home is now for a closure for sale.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
She's multiple months, several months behind, and she's currently under
the care of a doctor.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know this is and she's unemployable at the.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Time because she was an insurance agent, and nobody wants
to hire anybody who's been accused of stealing identity, fraud,
or any sthuff, especially when you have public trust and
you deal with a public identity on a day, day
day out basis, day.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And day our basis.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
But these one of the cases that law enforcement overzealous
law enforcement a clerk that we will get to the
bottom of what happened here because she clearly gave false
information to the police that the miss Parker was in
the story she was not.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We're gonna find out where they come from.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And not just that law enforcement completely ignoring innocence, exculpatory evidence,
and pushing forced agenda that left this family upside down
literally with finances and in a place that anybody could
have been in, especially the Parkers family, where she was
a law body, citizen, hard working tax payer, no criminal record,
(07:25):
making money on her own home, equity, saving his accounts,
good credit, and all of a sudden, all that was
taken from her as a blink of an eye.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So we got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
We're gonna pursue this case and we're going to make
sure we get some justice from this Parker.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Camera, How long did you spend in jail?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It was only a few hours. On paper it said
like fifteen minutes. When I went in, of course, I
was talking like, hey, you guys have the wrong person.
And they were just like, well, this is the tective.
He doesn't make mistakes. He's the best, and he wouldn't
be doing this unless he has solid evidence. And I'm like,
he doesn't. So when it took me in, I just
kept saying, like, you guys.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Have the wrong person. But they did like the intake.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I went and talked to the magister, and the magist
said I can leave, like, gave me the paperwork, you know,
said he'd unsecure vond. He even made a joke like this, Parker,
do you have a ticket or any speeding tickets? And
I'm like when I was like nineteen or twenty, and
so he basically told me I was leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I didn't leave.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
They put me in a hold and see after the
magistrate unsecure in my bond and told me I could leave.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, well and just add this this is and the
evidence and what I just told you in the facts
of this case. It's not speculative. This is what is
in the discovery, the criminal discovery. I'm not making up.
This is what the DA had and once a DA
reviewed this discovery, and it a lot of times DA
don't review discovers until you're an indicted case. He immediately
(08:54):
dismissed this case with insufficient evidence, dismissed it. We have
the dismissal, we have the evidence to show, and we
look forward to pursuing this case.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And this just.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Goes to show that even when you're doing right, when you're.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Doing good, you're doing everything good. You're not breaking law.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You've been lawed by the citizen, and sometimes it's being
black in America is the only crime you committed. And
this woman, her family has did nothing wrong and they
are in a position where they need help obviously, and
we're here to help them and get some retress.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
For all right, and we'll surely we hope you were
able to do that, because again, this is the last
thing a lot of people would ever want to have
to deal with.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Thanks a lot, Take care roller.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
This is the GoFundMe page for Tamra Parker if you
are interested in donata. She tried to put her life
back together and so this is it right here. So
far less than fourteen hundred dollars has been raised. And
so again you see it right here. And so go
to GoFundMe typing her name or typing wrongfully accused, trying
(09:59):
to rebuild my life, and there you go.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Hello, I'm Isaacat's the third founder and CEO of fan Base.
Listen to what I'm about to tell you. The window
to invest in Fanbase is closing. We've raised over ten
point six million of our seventeen million dollar goal. That
means there's room for less than six thousand, three hundred
and seventy people to invest in Fanbase for the average amount.
The minimum to invest in fan Base right now is
(10:24):
three hundred and ninety nine dollars. That makes you an
owner in fan Base today. Go to start engine, dot
com slash fan base to invest. Why because current social
apps have taken advantage of users for far too long
with content suppression, shadow banning, homeful, racist content, and no
real tools for monetization and equity. Fan Base has over
one point four million users in counting, allowing anyone to
(10:46):
reach all their following and monetize their content from day one.
Social media is the new TV and whoever owns it
app to distribute that content have the opportunity to own
potential billion dollar companies. While big platforms with a certain
futures are failing to serve their users, fan base is
stepping up to fill the gap. Don't wait until it's
too late. Invest now. Invest for yourself and your future.
(11:10):
Go to start engine, dot com, slash fanbase, and own
the next generation of social media.
Host
Roland Martin
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