She could have been lying. I don't think so. At first she tried to pass the arrest off casually. The cops asked her where she was from, where she lived. The fa ade cracked and she started crying.
Tears are normal female manipulative behavior and the cops are used to it.
About sixty dollars a day. Drugs eat the guts out of this country. The girls trick for drugs, in this case at least three disagreeable strangers a day. Other women shoplift day after day. Men burglarize homes, mug, rob convenience stores, steal anything they can carry, sell drugs themselves.