Valuetainment - April 11, 2026


＂Who's R. Kelly？＂ - Florida Sheriff DETAILS The Day He Arrested R. Kelly

Topics
R. Kelly arrest
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
R. Kelly Tiger Woods Grady Judd Jake Erick Vagitamin Mario
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Length

9 minutes

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194.25

Word count

1,825

Sentence count

167

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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Polk County Sheriff Mike Grisham is a man of many talents. He s served as a police officer, a prosecutor, a state legislator, and a state senator, and now he s a sheriff. In this episode, he talks about his career, his approach to law enforcement, and what it takes to keep the community safe.

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00:00:00.000 Fifty-four years means if I'm 30, you know, when you were coming up,
00:00:05.120 you could have met me at five years old, and I'm a cop working for you, right?
00:00:08.180 You said you have 1,900 or 2,000.
00:00:10.020 The number was 2,000.
00:00:11.540 How aggressively do you recruit cops?
00:00:14.160 And in Polk County, how many kids grow up because of you saying,
00:00:17.640 I want to be a cop one day, I want to be a sheriff one day?
00:00:19.360 A lot.
00:00:20.500 I can only imagine.
00:00:21.340 I've got to tell you a funny story.
00:00:22.640 So we are swearing in a group of deputies, and then we have their wife,
00:00:28.260 their sister their mother their father pin on their badge right so a mother comes up and she's
00:00:33.900 pinning on the badge of her her son who is now a brand new deputy and I look at him while she's
00:00:40.320 pinning the badge on and I said you know I worked for the sheriff's office before you were born
00:00:44.820 and he said sheriff you worked for the sheriff's office before my mama was born
00:00:49.380 I thought that was a telling moment in life so I had worked for the sheriff's office much longer
00:00:58.160 and here he's old enough.
00:01:00.840 I started work at the sheriff's office when I was 18.
00:01:04.360 It's a God thing.
00:01:06.180 I believe this is my mission filled in life.
00:01:09.360 And I worked my way through the ranks.
00:01:11.680 I didn't run against the incumbent sheriff.
00:01:14.520 He was a dear friend of mine, still is.
00:01:17.340 When he retired, I ran for office.
00:01:21.320 My dream from the time I was, as far back in as I can remember,
00:01:26.060 is to be the sheriff of the county.
00:01:28.160 And I've been offered to run for governor, House of Representatives, Senate.
00:01:34.740 You know, I've had political groups come really, really recruit me.
00:01:41.780 That's a blessing.
00:01:43.540 I appreciate that.
00:01:45.520 But I'm just a sheriff.
00:01:46.640 I'm just a sheriff.
00:01:48.320 I just keep the place safe.
00:01:50.360 So cops.
00:01:51.340 Kids wanted to grow up to be cops, right, in the area.
00:01:54.080 Question for you on the opposite side.
00:01:55.520 You sound like you're big on making examples of people that do dumb things, so they stop doing it.
00:02:00.760 Have you ever had bad cops, and how do you treat bad cops?
00:02:04.020 The same way.
00:02:05.580 Is it worse, or is it same standard?
00:02:07.460 Same standard, same exact standard.
00:02:10.860 We investigate.
00:02:12.120 If we have a cop who violates the law, we investigate them.
00:02:18.540 We get a warrant for their arrest.
00:02:20.460 We arrest them.
00:02:21.640 I do a press release, and then I do a press conference.
00:02:24.480 Oh, seriously?
00:02:25.520 oh, you can go online and see where I've held pictures of deputies that we've arrested
00:02:31.620 because I'll make it abundantly clear.
00:02:35.460 We all go by the rules, and if you don't, then I'm going to use that public record.
00:02:41.200 That public record is there so the community knows who is being arrested.
00:02:47.460 Give me an example.
00:02:48.380 What is this?
00:02:48.980 Did you find one?
00:02:50.380 I'm looking right now.
00:02:51.260 Is there an example of one?
00:02:52.780 And what did they do?
00:02:53.920 Just an example of see how you make it, because this makes me as a voter in your county to say this guy's fair.
00:03:00.040 He treats everybody the same with the same standards.
00:03:02.800 Sure. You know, fortunately, I've got twelve hundred deputies and it's a rare, rare, rare event.
00:03:09.140 But occasionally, well, here's one that they've brought up for us.
00:03:13.320 He he falsified documents.
00:03:16.120 Twenty one year old Jake Erick was booked in Polk County Jail and charged with forgery,
00:03:19.760 uttering a false instrument, use of ID of another person without consent,
00:03:23.480 and public servant altering official document.
00:03:26.920 He resigned at the time of his arrest.
00:03:28.780 Had he not resigned, his employment would have been terminated by PSA.
00:03:32.100 Public servant must be held to a higher standard.
00:03:34.440 Dishonesty will not be tolerated.
00:03:35.820 Human conduct was unethical and criminal,
00:03:37.580 and we are making sure he will be held responsible.
00:03:39.980 Yes, I'd do a press release and put his picture out there.
00:03:45.560 There's his picture.
00:03:46.400 Is that a – do you think making examples of people publicly is effective?
00:03:53.320 Is that one of your philosophies?
00:03:54.680 I believe in that.
00:03:55.560 I believe in using the public record of the state of Florida.
00:03:58.840 And I truly believe that we hold law enforcement officers to a higher standard
00:04:03.540 because law enforcement officers are supposed to be the positive example for the community, and they are.
00:04:10.280 When you go throughout my community and you see a deputy,
00:04:14.720 then you can be sure that that deputy's honest, ethical, and moral
00:04:18.140 because if he or she's not, they can't work for me.
00:04:21.480 It's not personal.
00:04:22.540 It's just business.
00:04:23.900 But I can tell you this.
00:04:25.720 When a law enforcement officer, a deputy in my county,
00:04:28.940 sits down to eat lunch at a restaurant,
00:04:31.680 as many times as not when he goes to pay the bill,
00:04:34.600 when he gets up to leave, somebody's picked it up and paid it.
00:04:38.180 Our community wraps their arms around us and supports us.
00:04:42.820 That's so awesome.
00:04:43.780 And we love our community.
00:04:45.160 That is so awesome.
00:04:46.460 That's so awesome.
00:04:47.640 To me, I see it the same way.
00:04:49.780 You know, when you see a guy in a uniform, it's like, hey, thank you for your service.
00:04:53.480 When you see a guy that's keeping your community safe and you've got kids, hey, I want to make sure you're happy.
00:04:58.040 I want to make sure you're taken care of.
00:04:59.300 But it's also important that your standards are equal whether somebody is working for you versus if it's somebody that's criminal as well.
00:05:06.600 By the way, who is the most famous person you've dealt with, you pulled over?
00:05:10.320 For example, just a few days ago, we all saw the mugshot of Tiger Woods.
00:05:14.400 And Tiger Woods, you know, I'm a big fan of, I love the guy on how he is,
00:05:19.340 his fierce competitiveness.
00:05:21.220 And then while he's getting arrested, there's a clip that came viral
00:05:25.140 that he's right, that this is the camera of him calling the president.
00:05:29.220 If I'm not mistaken, Rob, is this the TMZ Sports?
00:05:31.260 Yes.
00:05:31.840 Can we show this or no, Rob?
00:05:33.400 Are we able to show this?
00:05:34.420 Go for it.
00:05:34.940 Go ahead.
00:05:35.180 Or at least he said he was.
00:05:40.320 Is that good?
00:05:41.020 Just keep you down here with us, please.
00:05:43.000 Yeah, I was just talking to the president.
00:05:46.300 At least he said he was.
00:05:48.180 Yeah.
00:05:53.920 Who have you experienced in Polk County?
00:05:55.660 Have you guys, you know, had any incidents where somebody is there coming through?
00:05:59.460 Yeah, I'm trying to think there was a rapper that was hiding out in Davenport several years ago.
00:06:04.720 So he is now in prison in Illinois for sex crimes against children.
00:06:10.220 Help me out.
00:06:10.980 I'm not big on it.
00:06:11.900 R. Kelly?
00:06:12.540 R. Kelly, yes.
00:06:13.680 R. Kelly was in your county.
00:06:14.980 Oh, yeah.
00:06:15.340 We arrested him.
00:06:16.920 And we arrested him.
00:06:17.940 He was hiding out.
00:06:19.120 I think it was Illinois warrants.
00:06:21.360 He was hiding out in Davenport.
00:06:22.740 And we arrested him and put him in the county jail.
00:06:27.280 Interestingly enough, the story behind that is some of the detention deputies,
00:06:31.240 because, as you know, R. Kelly's a pretty big deal,
00:06:33.640 they wanted to pose with him and get pictures with him while he was in jail.
00:06:37.620 And he did.
00:06:38.440 He was a heck of a nice guy.
00:06:40.480 But it cost them a suspension because that's not professional.
00:06:44.280 Stop it.
00:06:44.600 And because of you?
00:06:45.300 Oh, we hammered him.
00:06:46.360 Was his mind telling him no?
00:06:48.180 Or Kelly?
00:06:48.700 Like, was he the stuff that he was doing?
00:06:50.760 No, this was before they knew that he was the deviant he was.
00:06:54.780 He was just a high-profile rapper that was arrested.
00:06:59.140 And I forget what the charge was.
00:07:00.620 Did you speak to him?
00:07:01.380 Did you meet him?
00:07:01.960 Oh, no.
00:07:02.440 No, I didn't.
00:07:03.160 But my guys went out and arrested him, and they said, R. Kelly is downstairs in the jail.
00:07:10.260 And I went, well, who's R. Kelly?
00:07:12.240 I don't know who R. Kelly is.
00:07:14.420 Did they play the song to say, listen, Sheriff Grady Judd, this is R. Kelly.
00:07:19.640 He's a big time.
00:07:20.620 So it's interesting.
00:07:21.320 So he was hiding out.
00:07:22.160 Have you ever had guys that come up to you and say, do you know who I am?
00:07:25.520 Do you know who I am?
00:07:26.600 How do you handle that?
00:07:27.360 Do you know who I am?
00:07:28.160 You know, back in the day when you were a deputy, they tried that kind of thing.
00:07:31.880 And today they try it with my deputies because obviously, you know, I've got a presence.
00:07:37.660 Well, I'm friends of Sheriff Grady Judd and my deputy smiled at him and said, well, I am too.
00:07:42.980 He hired me to arrest you today.
00:07:46.440 Well, what do you do if you have a friend that gets arrested and tries to use your name and says, come on, Grady, you got to take care of me here.
00:07:52.100 What do you tell him?
00:07:52.900 I tell him, you know, I'll give you two pillows and an extra mattress, but you're going to the county jail.
00:07:58.260 has it ever happened like a very very good friend oh yes relatives and you know i tell them lock
00:08:07.020 them up lock them up that's what we do we put bad guys in jail we put people who violate the law in
00:08:13.100 jail so yes i've had i've had friends i've had acquaintances they look at you and say how could
00:08:17.620 you do this grady i have how could you do this oh it's easy what do you tell them makes me smile
00:08:23.180 Warms my heart.
00:08:25.820 A true believer from day one for you.
00:08:28.100 Not even a question.
00:08:29.780 Yes.
00:08:30.520 Now, and I tell you, you know, if they get all sad, you know, I tell them, you know,
00:08:36.340 I'll call your wife to bond you out if that'll help you out some, but you got to go.
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