A 46-year-old Tallahassee man is behind bars after a trail of stolen bank info, and a very specific choice of wardrobe led Monroe County detectives straight to him. Daniel Balan’s run ended Friday when he was booked on a laundry list of charges, including grand theft and the fraudulent use of personal identification, following a multi-county investigation that felt more like a game of high-stakes hide-and-seek.
The trouble started back in January 2025, when seven different people in the Florida Keys realized their bank accounts had been raided. It wasn’t just a few bucks, either; the group reported a combined loss of over $5,200.
When the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office started digging, they found a pattern of cloned credit cards and compromised PIN numbers. But the real break in the case didn’t come from a computer screen—it came from bank security footage…