MPD Makes Fraud Arrest, Total Loss $1.8 million
November 30th, 2022 by Joe Burgess
According to MPD Chief Jason Akers, a Monticello woman is facing over 500 criminal charges stemming from a mail and identity investigation that began earlier this year.
Miracle Deshazer, age 23, of Monticello was arrested Friday by MPD on warrants for 202 counts of financial identity fraud, 202 counts of computer fraud and 157 counts of theft of a postal package under Act 340 of 2021.
The investigation into this matter by MPD detectives spanned over a period of 6 months, included the execution of dozens of search warrants in various locations across the United States.
MPD Detectives spent hundreds of man hours collecting and analyzing physical and digital evidence. The estimated dollar amount of checks being investigated in connection to this case as stolen, altered, forged or attempted to be passed was over 1.8 million dollars.
Deshazer was given a bond of $100,000.
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