{"id":734837,"date":"2021-09-09T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734837"},"modified":"2021-09-09T16:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:21:32","slug":"arrests-made-in-alleged-identity-theft-of-surfside-collapse-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arrests-made-in-alleged-identity-theft-of-surfside-collapse-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests Made In Alleged Identity Theft Of Surfside Collapse Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farrests-made-in-alleged-identity-theft-of-surfside-collapse-victims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734837&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/BC490200-970A-45F2-A043-343B74AF4CE7_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Several victims of the tragic Surfside, Florida, condo collapse earlier this year allegedly had their identities stolen by a group of people.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/571444-surfside-condo-victims-allegedly-had-identities-stolen-for-luxury?rl=1\">reported<\/a> by The Hill, three people face several charges connected to identity theft, as announced by authorities on Wednesday. The three face accusations of stealing a minimum of $45,000, which does not include an additional $67,000 that they tried to take.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Hill reported:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19.355670103093\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_NWVdFQa-WY\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>said in a news conference<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>&nbsp;that the actions of the thieves were first identified by a sister of a deceased victim on July 9, roughly 16 days after the building collapsed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The sister told the Surfside Police Department that she had noticed the victim\u2019s mailing address had changed and replacement credit cards were requested&nbsp;after the collapse.&nbsp;There were also multiple wire transfers from the deceased victim\u2019s account, and several fraudulent purchases on the replacement credit cards, authorities said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Rundle said the suspects stole the identities of at least seven victims of the building collapse, two of&nbsp;whom are not deceased. There were also two other victims that were not part of the building collapse.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThese individuals appear to be very skilled identity thieves. They\u2019re professionals,\u201d Fernandez Rundle said. \u201cExcept for their names, almost nothing else about them seems to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe discussed that cyber-grave robbers move quickly after the collapse to grab what they could from deceased victims while families and friends were in emotional turmoil,\u201d Fernandez Rundle also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article254072193.html\"><span class=\"s1\">said<\/span><\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cTheir motto could\u2019ve been, \u2018Your loss is our gain\u2019,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/miami-surfside-victims-identities-stolen-suspect-arrests\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cToday, they got what they deserved,\u201d Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article254072193.html\">said<\/a> about the suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In July, Burkett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/surfside-condo-collapse\/here-come-the-grifters-identity-thieves-preying-on-surfside-victims\/2497442\/\"><span class=\"s1\">said<\/span><\/a> that crooks were looking to take advantage of victims of the tragedy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s the revictimization of the victims that we\u2019re sort of starting to experience right now with these hackers,\u201d Burkett said at the time. \u201cThey\u2019ve seen the names in the paper, they\u2019re going right to that and we\u2019ve had to have discussions with the families and listen to them telling us the stories about all of a sudden credit cards appearing in their names and things being purchased in their name, so we\u2019ve told \u2018em, you\u2019ve got to immediately shut down your credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/miami-surfside-victims-identities-stolen-suspect-arrests\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, the three alleged robbers are set to appear in bond court on Thursday. They were expected to be held Wednesday night at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on various amounts of $1 million, $500,000, and $430,000 bonds.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At the end of July, a final missing person from the partial building collapse was identified, bringing the death toll to 98 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As NBC News previously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/98th-final-missing-person-reportedly-recovered-identified-florida-partial-building-n1274182\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, \u201cOfficials had originally said that as many as 159 people were unaccounted for, but detectives worked for weeks to cross-check reports of missing people that may have been multiples or already accounted for.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe recovery and identification of the last remains do not mark the end of sifting through the debris. Crews are still digging out evidence to be catalogued for the investigation and personal belongings \u2014 including religious items, firearms, photo albums and jewelry \u2014 to hopefully return to the victims\u2019 families,\u201d the outlet noted at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">No final cause has been determined for what led to the building collapsing, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/live-updates-miami-area-condo-collapse\/2021\/06\/30\/1011670548\/as-condo-warnings-mounted-town-officials-demanded-only-minor-changes\"><span class=\"s1\">there may have been prior indications<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;and warnings that the building was unstable. Materials have been taken from the area to a nearby facility close to the Miami International Airport for inspection, per Fox News.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several victims of the tragic Surfside, Florida, condo collapse earlier this year allegedly had their identities stolen by a group of people.\u00a0As reported by The Hill, three people face several &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}