TILDEN LAWrepresents clients throughout Florida who desire to have been arrested for Seminole County Retail Theft and Seminole County Shoplifting criminal charges. If you have a Seminole County criminal theft charge or Seminole County Retail Theft charge and are needing representation, please contact TILDEN LAW for a free case evaluation, 407 599-1234.
It is increasingly common for our office to be contacted by clients who are charged with retail theft charges and petit theft charges in both Orange Count and Seminole County. What most people don not realize is that many times Seminole County Theft charges can be dismissed by careful and skillful negotiations. Many of our clients are charged with first time Seminole County theft charges. First time Seminole County shoplifting cases may qualify for deferred prosecution programs that will qualify the participant for a sealing or expungement of their criminal record.
If you have been charged with a theft or shoplifting crime in the Orange County, Seminole County or Orlando, Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at TILDEN LAW today for a free initial consultation, 407-599-1234.
Developer John Boback, Sr. of Flagler Beach is accused of taking $410,000 from a Marco Island man to build a condominium on property at located on North Oceanshore Blvd. The 51-year-old Flagler County developer was arrested this week and accused of grand theft in what authorities called a fraudulent real-estate purchase.
The buyer said he was told the condo was to be part of a larger professional complex. But investigators say it was never built. Buyer Patrick Lyons, 55, told investigators all he ever received was a deed. Now the property is in foreclosure. Lyons tried but couldn’t get Boback to refund his money.
Boback was booked into the Flagler County Inmate Facility and was released after posting $50,000 bond.
An Orlando International Airport tollbooth operator has been arrested Friday for allegedly stealing money from airport customers who parked at the airport. Susanna Harutyunyan, 43, of Orlando, faces three fraud charges, including swindling people to obtain property, possessing the identification of another person without consent and fraudulent use of a pay card scanning device.
Harutyunyan worked at the airport as an employee of Ampco, a parking-management company as a tollbooth operator. An investigation started when a CitiBank investigator notified Orlando police that he believed there to be 17 separate acts of fraud on customer’s charge cards that all used the Orlando International Airport parking.
According to the investigation, it is alleged that the employee was using a credit-card scanning device to skim money from unsuspecting customers. When police initially spoke to Harutyunyan, she told them her boyfriend, Artavazd Grigoryan, had sent the device to her and told her to use it to charge her cell phone earpiece, according to the arrest affidavit. Ultimately, Harutyunyan admitted that she was swiping the credit cards and writing information about them for her boyfriend, according to the affidavit. She told police that she knew her actions were wrong, but did them for her boyfriend because she was in love.
The CitiBank investigator told deputies that the bank has reimbursed the credit-card holders’ account $2,926.73. The investigator also said he expects to press charges.
Latoria Pickett, 28, of Orlando was arrested on felony charges of conspiracy to commit organized fraud and fraudulently using personal-identification information and was being held in the Orange County Jail on $50,000 bond.
Pickett, who worked as a customer service repreentative for a company (Affiliated Copmuter Services) that processes payments for E-PASS was arrested on February 3, 2010, after allegations that she photocopied customer checks and sold them to people who stole money from their accounts. According to a spokeswoman for the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, about three dozen customers were victimized. Pickett was fired shortly after the allegations came to light.
The investigation began in September 2008 when the Orange County Sheriffs Office conducted a traffic stop and found copies of Expressway Authority customer checks on a woman named Tonya Wells, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. Wells and several others were arrested that year on charges of cashing counterfeit checks throughout Florida. Investigators found dozens of checks, drivers licenses and bank-account numbers for people who were not E-PASS customers, they said.
The Expressway Authority and ACS hired auditors and changed procedures to make sure a similar scheme could not happen again. Hodges would not be more specific.
If you have been arrested or charged with Fraud or Theft in Orlando and are facing criminal prosecution in either Orange County, Seminole County, Florida, contact the attorneys at Tilden Law for an initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.
Orlando Police departments are warning people to be on the lookout for a scam group that has recently arrived in the city. Law enforcement officials say that gangs are moving into the area and are preying on people using a 3-card Monte game. Among the areas hit by these indivicuals are Daytona during Bike Week and the Daytona 500 along with Orange County tourist areas.
In 3-card Monte, a dealer shows the audience a card, shifts that card with two others and asks someone in the audience to guess which card was shown. One person in the audience is in on the game and works with the dealer to convince others to bet large amounts – and lose them.
The scam group’s members also have been known to rob participants as they play the game. The men, who all are related by blood, marriage or long-term association, often travel in minivans registered from Ohio and Kentucky. One Marion County man already has reportedly already has been robbed of a $2,600 and a valuable ring while playing the game at a gas station, according to the Marion sheriff’s office.
If you have been arrested or charged with a Fraud or Theft in Orlando and are facing criminal prosecution in either Orange County, Seminole County, Florida, contact the attorneys at Tilden Law for an initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.
A recent TILDEN LAW client was charged with Shoplifting and Petit Theft at an Orlando, Florida area Wal-Mart store, under Fla. Statute 812.014. Our client and her husband were checking out at a self check isle and were stopped by Wal-Mart loss prevention officers as they were leaving the store. Wal-Mart accused our clients of scanning only part of the items in their cart and attempting to leave the store without paying for the balance of their merchandise.
Attorney N. Fleetwood Tilden filed several pre-trial motions to inspect evidence including the in-store video surveillance camera footage. Mr. Tilden also interviewed Wal-Mart store employees and security staff. Based on the information and evidence Mr. Tilden was able to acquire, he was successful in convincing the State Attorney’s Office to dismiss the criminal case against our client.
If you have been charged with a theft or shoplifting crime in the Orange County, Seminole County or Orlando, Florida, please contact the experienced criminal defense attorneys at TILDEN LAW today for a free initial consultation, 407-599-1234.
A Debary, Florida man has been accused of running a prescription drug ring employing as many as 30 people. According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s office, John Davey was arrested and held in jail on a $1 Million bond. Investigators believe Davey forged pprescriptions for Xenix, an anti-anxiety and pain killer drug. People in Davey’s employ would then take the forged prescription to a local pharmacy to get the prescription filled and then pay the employees in either cash or drugs.
According to Deputies, Davey had prescriptions for more than 14,000 pills with an estimated street value of $200,000. Davey was arrested after investigators with the Sheriff’s office followed him and two of his employees to a pharmacy where they allegedly obtained a filled pprescription for oxycodone.
If you have been arrested or charged with a Drug offense in Orlando and are facing criminal drug prosecution in either Orange County or Seminole County, Florida, contact the attorneys at TILDEN LAW for an initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.
While shopping with her infant child recently at an Orlando area department store, a young mother was stopped and accused of shoplifting items by the store’s loss prevention officer. Specifically, store employees identified our client as placing store merchandise into her baby stroller and not paying for the items. Police were called and responded to the scene and a sworn affidavit was filed with the Orange County State Attorney’s office claiming criminal theft.
Attorney N. Fleetwood Tilden of Tilden Law handled the case to a successful conclusion. Upon reviewing the allegations and supporting documents provided by our client, Mr. Tilden contacted the Orange County State Attorney’s office and provided detailed information and defenses to the charges.
Within weeks of being hired, Mr. Tilden was able to inform our client of our success in petitioning the State Attorney to dismiss all criminal charges.
If you have been charged with the crime of theft or shoplifting in the Orange County, Seminole County or the Orlando, Florida area, please contact the experienced theft defense attorneys at Tilden Law for an initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.
A burglar who made off with a Pensacola man’s valuables returned to the home later to take what he couldn’t carry on his first trip: a 100 pound plasma screen TV. A police was on the scene investigating the first burglary when the thief made off with the TV. The man who lived at the house said that the suspect had already stolen his wallet, watch and video game system. Investigators had left the TV in the backyard, where the burglar put it to dust for fingerprints. Police have offered to pay for the TV.
If you have been accused of theft in Seminole County or Orange County, Florida, contact the experienced criminal defense attorney’s at Tilden Law for you free initial consultation. 407-599-1234.
The former president of the Central Florida Eagle Youth Sports organization was sentenced to 2 ½ years prison for her part in a embezzlement and theft scheme. Marsha Helmadollar allegedly had access and control over the bank account of the youth organization and deposited over $58,000 of the organization’s money into her personal account from January 2006 through August 2007. In addition, Helmadollar is also accused of defrauding The Title Team, a title insurance company where she worked.
If you have been accused of a theft related crime and are seeking legal representation to help guide you through the criminal justice system, contact the criminal defense firm Tilden Law for a free initial case evaluation, 407-599-1234.