Law&Crime Sidebar - Florida ‘Karen’ Writes Fake Ticket During Walmart Parking Spot Fight

Episode Date: July 4, 2025

Alexis Rosati, 41, reportedly flashed a police badge toward a man during a dispute over a Walmart parking spot typically reserved for members of law enforcement. She also left a handwritten ticket on his vehicle, noting that he had been warned about his conduct. Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber walks us through the video of the argument and her eventual arrest with trial attorney Alexis Rosenberg.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: Plaud NotePin (10% OFF with the code "JESSE"): https://bit.ly/4nhgenbPlaud Amazon: https://amzn.to/4lG76aOHOST:Jesse Weber: https://twitter.com/jessecordweberLAW&CRIME SIDEBAR PRODUCTION:YouTube Management - Bobby SzokeVideo Editing - Michael Deininger, Christina O'Shea & Jay CruzScript Writing & Producing - Savannah Williamson & Juliana BattagliaGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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at a Florida Walmart store that escalated into a woman's arrest for allegedly impersonating an officer. Okay? I'm going to talk about it. I'm going to show you clips from all this. So I want to bring in trial attorney and federal litigator Alexis Rosenberg, not only because she's such a great guest, but is it also because the suspect in this case is also names Alexis? No relation, not the same Alexis. Does this do a disservice to all Alexis across the country when I tell a story like this? That's funny, Jesse. I can say that I have never like had an altercation in a parking lot of Walmart. So. I don't know.

There you go. There you go. But not, but a parking lot in Target. That's a different story. But Walmart, no. Generally speaking, do you see cases of people accused or convicted or pleading guilty to impersonating an officer? I mean, how prevalent is this?

How easy is it to do? I know there's laws on the books about it. We'll talk about what she's facing. Well, I think your first question is how prevalent it is in Florida for this sort of altercations to be happening in Walmart parking lots and there's a reason that we have the tagline Florida man this is definitely a Florida woman yeah it's pretty prevalent for people to get in arguments in parking lots in Florida so that's not unusual I think that it was unusual in this case is the fact that she was impersonating a police officer and is that an everyday occurrence no but it does

happen obviously that we have laws on the books about it so it does happen. I don't know. I'm not one for the whole Florida man thing. It just happens, yeah. We get a lot of cases from there, but I feel like, you know, it's unfair. It's unfair to Florida, but I hear you. I understand. I understand your perspective, but let's talk about what happened here. Okay. So this all started back in May at a Walmart neighborhood market store in Port Orange, Florida. 41-year-old Alexis Rosati had allegedly written out a citation on a random scrap of paper and left it on a vehicle, and this was a spot that Walmart offers to law enforcement partners as a courtesy, okay? So when the driver of the vehicle saw her, as well as the

fake ticket, he confronted her. And recorded portions of that argument are on his cell phone. Take a look. There's no statute. No, there's not. Show me the statute. You're the police officer. Why don't you look it up? But why don't you look it up? But why don't you look it up. But you should already know it. It's good. Tell me what the statute. Tell me what the statute is. Does it say anything about the car would be towed? You're not a police officer. No, you're not. Not with the, not with teeth like that. Not with teeth like that. Man, you're not a police officer, ma'am. You're flashing a badge around. It's, it says Bellevue. She's just

just flasca dies. Excuse me. Excuse me, ma'am. She's flashing a badge around like she's a police officer, and she's not. She's not a police officer. Can you leave it alone, sir? Yeah. But you guys are going to tow my car? No.

Thank you. You heard what she said. The cars can't be towed. You're not a police officer. Why are you flashing a badge at me telling me you're a police officer and you're not? You're going to be in trouble for that. Where would I get a badge from? You buy it off a car.

Do you just carry your badge? badger around when you're off duty? I'm not off duty. How do you know what I'm doing? You're on duty with crocs on? Do you know what I'm doing right now? I don't care what you're doing. I don't care what you're doing.

You broke a rule. That's not a rule. There's a difference between rules and laws, ma'am. That's why we did not get a ticket. You can't give me a ticket. Give me a ticket. I'm going to stay. I'll be right out here.

Please give me a ticket. I'm asking you, please. Assault you not. Assaulting an officer? Nobody saw me assault her. By the way, I got to ask you, have you ever been in a meeting and you're like, what did we just talk about for the last hour? Maybe you're part of a conversation and you're like, what was their name? What were they talking about?

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Alexis, where do you want to begin? The Crocs comment, the teeth comment. following her back inside, her saying she's not on duty, off duty, you know, you don't know what I'm doing. One of the things I captured that said to me is people have cell phone videos, right? It becomes evidence in all of these cases. You can't escape what's going on here. And you look at a video like that. You wonder what piece of evidence this is going to provide and maybe an upcoming case.

Well, the first thing is I love the crox statement. You can't be a police officer if you got crox. I love that, or you're wearing crocks. So I wanted to start with that statement. So I think I actually had a situation and got a call where somebody was parked in someone's spot that they bought at like a charity auction. And they got very upset and blocked them. And the police were called and they were being threatened with false imprisonment. So I mean, he is the individual was correct in the sense there's a difference between there being a statute.

for instance, like a handicap spot where you could get a ticket for parking in that and then a courtesy reserved spot, which is what we had in this situation. So even if he was parking there and a police officer came, he wouldn't get a ticket for being parked there. Now, should you be parked there? No, but, you know, it isn't against the law. As well as though, I'm not sure it was so smart for him to follow her back in there. I think he made his point and got on the record, you know, with the recording, with the badge and all of that situation without having to follow her in there. And I did find a humorist that he went up to the Walmart worker like she was going to do something about the situation in the video.

Yeah, so Jason thought this whole thing was pretty sketchy. So what did he do? He took the video to the Port Orange Police Department. I parked where it says reserve for law enforcement. Okay. Partners. Do they have that at the neighborhood Walmart? Yeah. Okay. I know they had that. I parked there sometimes. I have a bum foot today. So I was like, I'm just going to run. I literally had to run and get that's just a courtesy. There's no law against it. Well, thank you. Yeah. And you're telling me that somebody said so. So this is the. Here, I'll hold it. This is the note that I came out. Somebody left this on your car? Well, I've had her, I have her on camera too. Okay.

She's flashed a badge at me. And she, so I went into Walmart to ask them about the note and about the parking. Yeah. Can I get towed for parking there? absolutely not I guess the person who wrote this note overheard so I was walking I was like whatever I'm walking back out to my car to go home and I found this well I found that first and when I was walking back from Walmart the second time she comes out flashes her badge she's wearing I think white shorts crocs and a tank top seem like I'll show you a I can show him or was it like professional wear like was no like she was working at the time right no she claimed that she was

she was on the clock in walmart working on something in walmart asked the managers because she was talking to the managers yeah asked the manager she says we don't know what she's doing she may be working is what they said yeah okay well whatever so i called you guys to see if y'all can come up with a name you see where she signed it and printed it That's hard to read. It looks like barbell or barn bell. It's hard to tell. But anyway, she flashed the badge.

And then I got, of course, I started video. I started recording. Okay. So I have that. Hopefully I should be able to see who it is. Yes. It's one of our people. Okay.

Now, there is a Bellevue, Florida. It's nearly two hours away from Port Orange. So the investigating officer makes a call to that department to double check that this wasn't, you know, some sort of huge misunderstanding. Good afternoon, Bellevue. Department. Hey, how you doing? My name is Sergeant Fischetti, and I'm with the Port Orange Police Department over in Volusia County. This might seem weird, but I'm trying to find out if you have a certain officer that works there to kind of give you a quick heads up. So there is a kind of a, not even an altercation, but some words were exchanged between some people here at the Walmart, and one of them tried to identify themselves as a potential Bellevue police officer. no way yeah i mean i don't know why they would be way over here they even said well

they or they showed a bellevue badge or something but said they work here in port orange it i'm not sure exactly what it's going to turn out to be but one of the leads i just want to see if this is potentially somebody works there because they left a note on their car they wrote that their name was officer they put a first initial j but then the last name of like barbell or bascal or something with a What's that? Butcher? No, it's not Butcher.

It looks like it ends in E-L, maybe starts with a B. So somewhere between like B, and it's going to be a female. Female brown hair, maybe late 30s, maybe 40. I'm not sure how many options you have there if you would know basically everybody that works there. Yes, oh, no, I trust me. I know them all. We don't have so many. Okay.

And this was recently, right? This was just, you know, within the last hour or so probably, last couple hours. It was earlier today. Okay, we have Sergeant Escobel, who she has dark hair. She's in her early 30s, though. Real skinny? No, so this is a little bit heavier, sat. So, no, definitely wouldn't be considered real skinny.

Let's see, we did have one. She's no longer here. Okay. Hold on a second. Sergeant was point. Apparently, somebody was at Walmart posing as a Bellevue officer. Yeah. And point, yeah, same thing.

Yeah. Hold on. Okay. That's Chief Allen. Hey, Chief. It's Sergeant Fischetti over with Port Orange Police Department here in Volusia County. So, just kind of a wild shot here. I don't have much information on here.

A gentleman came to our lobby. He was over at the Walmart here. and R. Walmer, they have like this courtesy, like law enforcement parking spot, and he's not law enforcement, but he had parked there because he's not disabled, but likes to be close. Anyway, so he's in that spot and somebody kind of confronted him on like, hey, you can't park there. And he's like, you know, basically like says who. And this person says, well, I'm a police officer, Bellevue police may not even be Bellevue, Florida. It may, you know, it could be there's plenty of Bellevues all around the country, didn't get an actual. spelling, nothing like that, but then she says, well, I'm working over here in Port Orange,

because he's like, well, you're in Port and she's like, well, I work over here. So it doesn't make sense that you're a Bellevue police, but you work over here. But she actually ended up leaving a note on his car, like, you know, Port Orange Police has been notified, things like that, and she signs the officer first initial J, but then like Barbell or Basque, you can't really read the last name, but it definitely looks like a B, and then it's an E-L-L. I have said no females like that. Okay, yeah. He actually recorded her. So, I mean, if you don't have anything, there's probably no reason to even go through and even watch the videos and stuff like that.

But she, like from watching it, she doesn't give me the vibes of being a police officer. She kind of seemed maybe it might be a mentally ill person just claiming to be, I don't know. Yeah, so I was thinking that route out also. I just wanted to double check with you guys before I start maybe looking some other things. and maybe even somebody impersonating officer, I don't know. But, I mean, I've got one female officer she's accounted for here. Yep. Okay, yeah, so definitely can't be over here.

Yeah. Yeah, okay, sounds good. Well, I appreciate you taking a couple minutes to talk to me, and I just wanted to make sure. Can follow up on these things, yeah. Yeah, all right, sounds good. All right, thank you. Have a good day. And the officer also takes a look at surveillance video from inside the Walmart store,

and it apparently shows Rosati walking up to that Walmart employee that was seen in Jason's video. And the employee provided a sworn statement to police saying that Rosati identified herself as a police officer and held up a metal object, which could have been the same police badge, but the employee wasn't sure. So, Alexis, a couple things here. First of all, you know, the fact that Jason actually went to police, doubled down on this, the officer then contacts the police department in Bellevue. A lot of steps to try to confirm what's going on here. Well, the police do take it seriously if somebody is trying to impersonate a police officer. This can be extremely dangerous. I mean, you could have somebody that's pulling people over,

faking and putting other people in danger. So they do take that very serious. But the fact that Jason went up there and took it that far, that, you know, that says a lot that he was obviously very disturbed by it as well. And I mean, come on, the arts and craft ticket. I mean, it took a little time for her to write that out. I got to say, which is also interesting. Yeah, but people get so fumed. They get so angry when it comes to parking spots or road rage. Unfortunately, you see these kinds of things blowing up, maybe not in this fashion, but you see a lot of this, whatever reason, people are on edge like this. Well, I think driving is stressful. And then I also think that people go and they can't find a parking place and they think somebody's being rude

because they're taking up two spots. So I agree with you. It is something. And a lot of just minor fender benders and arguments do happen in parking lots. That's not unusual. Now here's what happened. Okay. As it turns out, a different officer had been dispatched to Rosati's home that same day for something entirely different.

You see, there was an investigation uncovered that Rosati is a caregiver for her uncle, a man named James Barkel, talking about the last name, Barkel. So police were concerned that Rosati might be misusing Barkel's money and that Barclay might not be aware of what's going on because of his mental decline. So when the officer went to speak with Rosati about it, he had no idea about the confrontation in the Walmart parking lot. Are you, Alexis? I am. Hi. Do you want to go back inside and talk? You want to talk out here? No, we'll talk out here. My dad's inside.

Is it about the situation that's happening at Walmart? So, yeah, it's something with the DCF. They called us just to come out and do it like an investigating. This guy is a jerk. He complains all the time at Walmart. What he did was he was parked in the law enforcement parking spot. So I left a note on his car that said, you've been warned. This is for law enforcement.

What if there was an emergency? Okay, I don't think that's what I'm here for. What? You're talking about, sorry, to continue, I think he might be explaining a different story, but I... That's the only... What's DCF? Department of Child and...

Oh, I don't know anything. What's that about? So, you work with a... He's a retired police. Yeah, but you help... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So you work with him, right?

Yeah, but my dad was just... You want to go inside my... Yeah, come on in. Because this does have to do with that. I thought this is an asshole at Walmart that I... No, I don't know anything about this. that. If they called, we didn't do anything about it because... Yeah, come on in, Officer Coach. My son's asleep, so...

Yeah, we'll try to keep it down, then. So, when the original investigator, looking into the police impersonation claims, came across a report from the other officer about James Barkel, he realized that Barkel could be the name that scribbled at the bottom of the fake citation. So the police, they go back out to Barkel's home where they find a police badge and ID inside of a black wallet assigned. to the now retired James Barkel of the Belleville Police. Now, Alexis, the pieces are starting to come together. Yeah, this isn't good for her because, you know, he's elderly and she's stealing from him,

allegedly, or it appears to be that, that she's stealing. So at least being investigated for it. So there could be a subsequent charge for exporting an elderly person, and that is a felony. and the state of Florida does take that very seriously as well because we have such an large elderly population in Florida. Yeah, and when police went back to Rosati's home to arrest her, they discovered she had been driving her uncle's car, which had a second police badge inside.

Officers confiscated the badge to return it to Barkel, and according to police, due to her uncle's poor health, it's unlikely he knew that she had had the badge or had been using it or allegedly. using it to impersonate an officer. So after Rosati was placed into handcuffs, the arresting officer notified her father, who also lived at the home of what was going on here. Oh, there he is. Hey, we have an unfortunate situation here, okay? Alexis is going to be placed under arrest, okay? I'm not sure if you know about, did you tell

him about that whole incident at Walmart or anything? Okay. Do you want me to get into it with it? My name is here? So, um, The day Officer Coates came by earlier that day, she had a confrontation with a gentleman over at the Walmart market here. While she had a concern, a fair enough concern about an individual parking in a law enforcement only spot there, while addressing that with them, she identified herself as an officer and actually wrote a note on there. Like, this is a warning from the Port Orange Police. ended up showing them this badge here and saying she's an officer so unfortunately of a serious the incident itself never really turned into anything serious they ended up going their

separate ways things like that but in general something like this could be very serious somebody impersonating officer whether it be with a badge or blue and red lights on their vehicle we have that badge are you keeping it it's going to go into evidence for right now Because that's Jim's bad. Yeah, no, I know. It'll be returned to him. But I'm not just going to leave it here to, you know, I don't know where it ends up. So we'll make sure it gets back to him.

He's got another one. We actually seen another one at his house while we were over there. But, yeah, obviously it's something that we want him to have. But just back on the fact of just the potential seriousness of the incident itself and its nature, we are going to make an arrest on it today. She is going to go down to the Volus. county jail. She will have a bond if that's something you want to work out so she's not staying there tonight. How severe is this thing? It is a third degree felony, so it's a felony the lowest

level of a felony, but it is a felony charge, yeah. Okay. And what are the bonds? Bonds probably going to be around 3,000 total. Usually through a bondsman, if you go through them, they want 10%, so you're looking at least probably like $300 as up to a bondsman. back to you but that's not the point yeah the point is didn't i say something to you i said hey look you're not an officer i know because i've seen your car parked there and it's like jim was with me well jim was with me probably fine but oh parked at the law enforcement spot yeah the one the far on the left yeah well this was an incident of another guy parking there and she said something to him that you're not you're not law enforcement you can't park there

and which really anybody can it's not, it's not like it's a handicapped spot that's finable, you know, you can't be fine for parking in that spot, it's just something that Walmart puts up for, you know, if an emergency vehicle or something has to go there. Yeah, courtesy. Yeah, but, yeah, she actually

addressed that with him. That's not like a knife, right? You might just send that in the... Okay, you might just put in the bike. You're just standing there with like a... No, I was doing the weeds. No, I know. So, yeah, that's just kind of where, you know, where, you know, So is there any way this thing would be dropped because it's what, like, her offense?

It could be. I mean, that's up to the court, it's going through the system and stuff. She'd say, look, Your Honor, I was used to bring in a police officer with me. I'm not going to give, like, legal advice on what somebody should say or anything. You can hire an attorney, if not, the state provides an attorney also. So if that's up to you if you want to do a private one or go through the state, that's for you guys. I mean, that won't be later down the road anyway. She'll get booked today, but can be out to.

it bonded out if not she'll see judge tomorrow I think at 8 a.m. on the weekend so if you can't get out tonight you'll see you'll that's ready this Friday isn't yeah you have the court appearance at 8 a year tomorrow well it's not really an arraignment it's first appearance there they have to have it within 24 hours an arraignment is more of like when you're formally charged which will come down like a couple months that could be a while before they even get to that so if it even gets that there something can be addressed in between I don't know. I don't know how it will play out.

Our involvement kind of ends here, and now it's up to the state attorney and the prosecutor's office as far as how they're going to handle the case. Okay. All right. Well, obviously, we knew you're here, so we wanted to find you and let you know what was going on. But any questions for me or anything?

She'll be able to call you here in a little bit if you want to finish your work up. Just call me when you're ready and decide if you stay the weekend or no. Or that, yeah. Whatever you guys wanted to decide. All right. Well, I appreciate it. Alexis, what do you think?

I think that that was a very detailed given explanation to him by that police officer is very specific. And I think because the father was also a police officer in the past, you know, it gets down to the fact that now we know what the motivation was. She had been parked in that spot. That was her spot. So she pulled, must have pulled up allegedly. and sees that someone else is there and she gets mad and this is what ultimately

transpires. Now she was charged with impersonating a police officer. She was released on a $3,000 bond. She apparently spoke with local news. Local news outlet WESH claimed that Jason had zipped into the spot so quickly that he almost hit a woman

walking in the parking lot so she felt like she needed to do something needed to intervene. But she admitted that showing Jason her uncle's badge was a step too far. according to Volusia County court records Rosati entered a no contest plea to the impersonation charge at the end of May was given two years of probation she also had to pay nearly $1,000 in court costs and fines Alexis all in all end of the day seems like a reasonable conclusion

I think it's a reasonable conclusion and she might want to change her name to Karen you said it I didn't Alexis Rosenberg good seeing you thanks so much thanks for having me and that's all we have right now here on Sidebar, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. And as always, please subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jesse Weber. I'll speak to you next time. You can binge all episodes of this long crime series ad free right now on Wondery Plus.

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