here, perez, vega and the driver of the first getaway car, richard menchacca were to begin splittingnters through the door right there. first thing, he looks, he doesn't even look at us, he looks at the money on the table. he just says, "i can't believe it, you know. we got away with it." >> is that what he says? >> yeah. >> is that what he says? >> reporter: they all might have gone scot-free if not for ray vega's king size ego. even in front of the cops, humility is not one of his strong suits. in fact, he's so confident in himself that he -- he's basically begging you to go look for information on him. >> yeah, he's filling holes before we even find them for us. >> reporter: like this. >> if you guys can pull up my phone, you guys can see the history. and you guys can see where it pinged off the cell phone towers wherever the hell i was. >> reporter: they did and he wasn't. his phone was using cell towers 20 miles away when he was supposed to have spent all night at this days inn. >> i do think he believed that he could convince us that his story was true. enough so that we wouldn