DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — A girl was extradited to Florida on Monday after she was accused of swindling a resident out of $52,000 in a Fb Market scheme.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Workplace posted a video of Sheriff Mike Chitwood confronting Demetria Latimer, a Michigan resident, on the airport.
“We do not wish to have our residents turn into victims of fraud,” Chitwood stated.
“Effectively, I am a sufferer myself,” Latimer replied.
Latimer was accused of stealing $52,000 from an Orange Metropolis resident in a pretend sale of an excavator on Fb Market. VCSO used financial institution information to trace the exercise to Latimer, who resides outdoors Detroit.
“Now we have possible trigger to consider Demetria performed a key function in laundering cash not solely from our sufferer, however probably others throughout the nation,” the sheriff’s workplace wrote in a Facebook post.
VCSO stated monetary crimes detectives have recovered the sufferer’s misplaced cash.
“Welcome to Florida,” Chitwood informed Latimer earlier than turning her over to detectives.
