An Oakland Park woman has been arrested afterwards detectives affiliated her to crimes advance beyond six Florida counties.
Olivia Matthews, 24, was arrested Thursday abreast her home in the 900 block of North Federal Highway in Oakland Park, according to the sheriff's office. Matthews faces a dozen artifice and annexation accuse in affiliation with crimes committed amid May 27 and June 2.
Detectives had been attractive into Matthews for months as allotment of an advancing analysis alleged Operation Easy Money, according to the sheriff's office. They accept she is allotment of a accumulation of bodies who burglarize cars, abduct IDs and abjure money from victims' coffer accounts.
On May 20, detectives from Broward and Palm Beach counties saw Matthews accommodated with a "known accepted and abounding character annexation suspect" in a parking lot of a Boston Market in Palm Beach County, according to an arrest affidavit. Detectives followed the two to a Wells Fargo coffer in Lake Worth and noticed there was no authorization bowl added to the white Pontiac G6 that Matthews was driving.
Detectives pulled Matthews over and cited her for active with a abeyant authorization and no tag, according to the affidavit. They again let her go, but not afterwards acquainted an array of wigs in altered colors in the aback seat.
One anniversary later, detectives watched as Matthews collection the Pontiac to the Space Coast Acclaim Union, 8980 State Road 84 in Davie, according to the affidavit. This time, there was a tag added to the car — a tag, detectives afterwards learned, that had been appear to Fort Lauderdale badge as missing.
Matthews showed the teller a baseborn driver's license, withdrew $700 and collection away, according to the affidavit. Detectives went central the coffer and met with the manager, who alleged the victim and explained that a counterfeit transaction had occurred. The victim told the administrator that she had been the victim of a May 22 car break-in in Vero Beach.
The victim told detectives that her agenda had additionally been acclimated at the Flying J gas base in Fort Pierce almost an hour afterwards the break-in took place, according to the affidavit. Surveillance video from the gas base showed Matthews accepting out of the Pontiac and application the victim's agenda to buy gas.
Following the transaction in Davie, Matthews was apparent by detectives at the Space Coast Acclaim Union, 1595 N. Federal Hwy. in Fort Lauderdale, according to the affidavit. Matthews went into the coffer and attempted to abjure $1,000 from the aforementioned victim's account. She additionally asked to change the abode on the account.
The teller, who had been alerted to counterfeit action on the account, adjourned while cat-and-mouse for law enforcement, according to the affidavit. Matthews grew abrupt and left.
On June 2, Matthews alternate to the Space Coast Acclaim Union in Davie — this time application a altered driver's license, which had been baseborn during a May 23 car break-in in Palm Bay, according to the affidavit. Matthews again presented a analysis that had been baseborn during a car break-in at a bowling alleyway in Sarasota.
The teller asked Matthews several times to appearance her face to prove her identity, but Matthews resisted, alone assuming allotment of her face, according to the affidavit. Afterwards the appeal was again — and evaded — several times, Matthews collection off, abrogation the baseborn authorization and counterfeit analysis behind.
Matthews, who served time in federal bastille for coffer artifice and acclaim agenda fraud, may face added accuse from added agencies, according to the Broward sheriff's office. She was actuality captivated Friday in the Paul Rein Detention Facility.
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Title : Oakland Park woman faces 12 fraud, annexation charges; added could be added
Description : An Oakland Park woman has been arrested afterwards detectives affiliated her to crimes advance beyond six Florida counties. Olivia Matth...