Fast-food workers used customers' money to bail out jail inmates: police

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Oct 11, 2023.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Let's see whose money is being used to bail out criminals. This is your bail system after "reform" by Soros-backed DAs -- plus the use of Securus accounts in prisons (which gets into how the private sector profits off of inmates).

    Fast-food workers used customers' money to bail out jail inmates: police
    Fast-food employees allegedly stole more than $10K from customers to bail inmates out of jail
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/fast-food-workers-used-customers-credit-cards-bail-jail-inmates-police

    Fast-food fraudsters at an Indiana Hardee's secretly stole customers' debit card information in a scheme to bail inmates out of jail, authorities claim.

    A La Porte County jail commander and other employees noticed last month that large sums of money had been funneled from outside the jail into inmates’ communication system accounts, called Securus accounts, from sources outside the jail, according to the sheriff's office. The inmates then allegedly bonded out of the jail and used the remaining funds in their Securus accounts to load onto a jail-issued debit card.

    "The investigation uncovered a complex fraudulent scheme," the sheriff's office told Fox News Digital. "Essentially, the La Porte County Jail and Securus were utilized by the arrestees to launder fraudulent monies – dirty money was deposited into the system and clean money eventually came out on the backside."

    Chief of Detectives Capt. Andy Hynek initiated a formal investigation and found a network that included workers at a Hardee's restaurant in Michigan City, the sheriff's office said.

    Authorities said they uncovered a scheme involving "a few" Hardee’s employees, who in August and September of this year allegedly photographed drive-thru customers’ debit and credit cards. The accounts were then fraudulently used to deposit funds into the Securus accounts for inmates with "low bond amounts," authorities said. The inmates who received the funds would allegedly bond out of jail "almost immediately" after acquiring the funds.

    "After leaving the jail, the former inmates were transported to area ATMs where the remaining balance on the jail issued debit card was withdrawn," the sheriff’s office said, noting that issuing debit cards following a release from jail is "normal procedure."

    The sheriff’s office found the fraudulent charges totaled $14,700.

    Authorities did not release the address of the Hardee's restaurant, but there is only one location in Michigan City on Franklin Street.
     
  2. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    yawn...
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