MIAMI – The Broward Sheriff’s Business announced Tuesday the arrest of a veteran worker.
The agency claimed Mickalon Bullard is accused of defrauding several folks out of virtually $19,000 associated to the filing of their tax returns.
The investigation into Bullard began in March 2022, just after acquiring data from an individual who hired Bullard to do her taxes.
“The individual found a discrepancy on her taxes that showed one particular refunded total to be deposited into her account and a second sum to be deposited into an not known account. Detectives determined that Bullard, with no the individual’s permission, experienced split the refund and routed a significant part of money to be deposited into her personalized account,” investigators mentioned.
“BSO’s Community Corruption Unit ongoing investigating and determined very similar incidents involving at least two other people who compensated Bullard to do their taxes involving 2018 and 2022. The investigation unveiled that Bullard applied her accessibility to the victims’ private figuring out information and facts in buy to surreptitiously reroute resources to herself. At no time did the victims give Bullard consent to use their personal info for this objective.”
The investigation uncovered Bullard rerouted $18,993 in her clients’ tax refund revenue to her private accounts.
“BSO’s General public Corruption Unit fully investigated these allegations against a civilian personnel, observed probable trigger and worked to maintain this personal accountable for her steps,” Sheriff Gregory Tony mentioned. “The perform of these investigators proves as soon as yet again that when staff members break the law, they will confront acceptable consequences.”
Bullard has been suspended devoid of shell out.
Investigators imagine there may perhaps be more victims in the group.
Any individual who thinks they could have been victimized in similar incidents involving Bullard must speak to the BSO Public Corruption Device at 954-321-1104.
