A Georgia woman was arrested Monday in connection with a 2023 scam that cost Lafayette’s Chamber of Commerce and its former executive director over $500,000, and the U.S. Treasury about $343,000. Police say the woman accepted $286,700 as part of the scam and texted with other suspects about the stolen money.
Jazmyne Latreasure Avery, 26, faces charges of cybercrime — scheme or defraud between $100,000 and $1 million; cybercrime — theft between $100,000 and $1 million; money laundering; and theft between $100,000 and $1 million, according to online court records.
Avery was one of several who accepted wire transfers after a scammer fraudulently claimed to be a man named “Danny” from Chase Bank and gained access to both the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce’s bank account and the personal account of the chamber’s then-executive director, Vicki Trumbo, according to an arrest affidavit…