Florida Keys resident Alex Bogomolny had an outstanding $1.5 million arrest warrant based on allegations that he conducted multiple counts of fraud, specifically, trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and identity theft. According to reports, he was picked up by the Monroe County Sherriff’s Office Tuesday as he was trying to…
A Homestead, Florida man was charged Friday with several counts of mail, wire and access device fraud after allegedly filing false claims for thousands of dollars with the BP oil spill fund. The man is currently being held without bail. Prosecutors claim the man filed papers with the Gulf Coast…
Two ex-NFL football players and a former high school football star were arrested in an undercover operation set up by FBI agents Monday for allegedly cashing dozens of fraudulently obtained tax-refund checks and seeking a loan, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. FBI agents apparently set up a check-cashing store…
Investigators claim more than a dozen people, possibly more, have been bilked out of thousands of dollars related to an alleged timeshare scam in Ormond Beach. The investigation began in January after the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by the Hillsborough County Consumer Protection Agency, which claims they had…
A 46-year-old former Transportation Security Administration officer pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges of extortion and receipt of a bribe. According to the U.S. attorney’s office, the Palm Beach Gardens resident admitted to accepting cash in exchange for allowing illegal prescription painkillers to pass through airport security without detection. Authorities…
A 36-year-old Tampa resident that appeared on Bravo television’s The Millionaire Matchmaker in 2009 claiming he was worth $400 million and operated a company with business in 36 nations plead guilty Monday in federal court to bank fraud charges. The man apparently confessed that he received a $3 million loan…
A Collier County judge sentenced a 52-year-old woman and wife of a Collier County sheriff’s deputy to eight years in prison Friday for embezzling more than $250,000 from a former employer. The woman was the office manager for a Naples company where she apparently wrote 211 fraudulent checks from the…
Authorities in Palm Beach County filed charges against 22 individuals Wednesday, alleging they stole nearly $1 million. “Operation Leap Fraud,” apparently one of the biggest public assistance fraud roundups ever in Palm Beach County netted suspects from across Palm Beach County Jupiter to Delray Beach, and from Pahokee to West…
A Seminole County contracting firm owner is accused of racketeering and insurance fraud after State Farm Insurance claims the company billed for work that was never done and charged for products that were never used in order to fix homes damaged by sinkholes from Orlando to Tampa Bay. Although the…
A 52-year-old Columbian man was arrested in the Orlando area Saturday morning for having $6,500 in counterfeit U.S. currency in his possession. A Kissimmee police officer pulled the man over Saturday morning driving a dark blue BMW with a tinted front windshield. The officer apparently instructed him to pull over…