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…
A volunteer firefighter with the Columbia County Fire Department was arrested on March 7 for allegedly using an agency fuel credit card to pay for more than $7,500 worth of gas for his personal vehicle and his friends’ vehicles. The 19-year-old Lake City, Florida man was charged with grand theft…
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…
Federal authorities arrested and charged a 35-year-old Jacksonville, Florida man for allegedly hacking into more than 50 celebrities e-mail accounts, as well as breaking into Hollywood starlet Scarlett Johansson’s phone and leaking nude pictures of her to the Internet. He was charged on Wednesday morning with 26 counts of accessing…