FORT LAUDERDALE — A guy was in custody in Pennsylvania on charges that he allegedly impersonated deputies from the Broward County Sheriff’s Place of work over the mobile phone and managed to steal tens of hundreds of dollars from a number of victims.
Raquan Hardy, 25, was remaining held at the county jail in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, immediately after he was arrested there for a related scheme, the sheriff’s office environment explained in a prepared statement.
Investigators reported Hardy faces a full of 21 counts in Broward County that are related to the cell phone scam.
According to the assertion, the prices incorporate organized plan to defraud, grand theft, impersonating a legislation enforcement officer, extortion and criminal use of private identification facts. The whole bond for the Broward County rates is $900,000, authorities said.
Officers introduced an investigation after discovering about the cell phone fraud in early September, the statement said.
Utilizing a spoofed cellphone variety from the Broward courthouse, Hardy known as victims and instructed his victims he was a sheriff’s deputy.
The person explained to his victims that there were lively warrants for their arrest and they required to pay out a surety bond in dollars through a bail bond organization to avoid their arrest on outstanding prices, in accordance to investigators.
The arrest warrants did not exist but the person managed to persuade at least 4 persons that he was legit and they gave him above $50,000 among Sept. 7 and Sept. 10, investigators reported.
The sheriff’s business office claimed detectives obtained more than 20 stories from multiple people, generally woman medical gurus, who ended up contacted by the scammer in early September.
Investigators tracked the suspect to Dallas, the place he was arrested all through a traffic halt and extradited to Pennsylvania to deal with fees there for a equivalent scheme.
The sheriff’s warned that they would in no way phone individuals inquiring for cash or own facts and that any one who receives these a phone really should right away report it to legislation enforcement.
