FLORIDA—Attorney General Ashley Moody has announced the arrest of six people charged with stealing over $250,00 from senior citizens in Florida through grandparent scams.
According to Ms Moody’s Office of Statewide Prosecution (OSP), the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Vice Intelligence Squad alleged that the defendants contacted seniors posing as lawyers or legal representatives of one of the victim’s grandchildren. The fraudsters reportedly told the targets that the grandchildren were arrested after hitting a pregnant woman with a vehicle and needed bail money, then arranged for the victim to send payment.
All six defendants, Jairo Izquierdo, Gennesis Castro, Wendy Angelina Ortiz, Ada Tido, Wandy Castro and Olfa Cornielle, face multiple first-degree felonies, including organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, criminal use of personal identification, and more…