LEE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A man and a woman are accused of orchestrating a large-scale fraud scheme involving dozens of victims and thousands of dollars in losses.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) announced on Thursday that early this year, Community Service Officers responded to a fraud report on Woodridge Circle. The victim reported unauthorized transactions, which detectives later discovered were linked to inmate accounts at the Lee County Jail. The case was assigned to the Economic Crimes Unit, who uncovered a far-reaching scam.
For several months, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) said that Veronica Reyes and Darnell Morgan were the primary suspects. Morgan, currently an inmate at the jail, allegedly conspired with Reyes to funnel stolen funds into inmate accounts. Detectives revealed that Reyes accessed victims’ credit card information through her former workplace, then used the data to create profiles on Oasis Management, a platform for inmate deposits…