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Keshon Litesha Rivers, 32, was arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (Broward Sheriff’s Office\/Courtesy)<\/p>\nA Broward County business owner was arrested Wednesday after detectives found she stole more than $1 million from another business she frequently worked with, then used the money to rent mansions, fly on a private jet and buy expensive jewelry, the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n
Keshon Litesha Rivers, 32, of Fort Lauderdale, is the owner of Lock and Key Designs LLC, based in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n
Rivers used her professional connection with Event D\u00e9cor Direct in Deerfield Beach\u00a0to take money from the event decoration business over a three-month period in 2025, in part by making dozens of fraudulent transactions and credit card purchases, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a news release Thursday.<\/p>\n
Rivers \u201ccreated a fictitious individual\u201d and blamed the fraudulent charges on the nonexistent person when questioned, according to the news release. Purchases included more than $85,000 worth of gold and diamond jewelry, a $55,000 private jet flight from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles and rentals of mansions in Miami Beach and Los Angeles totaling more than $43,000.<\/p>\n
The alleged fraud spanned from May to August 2025, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said. Florida Department of Corrections records show Rivers was placed on felony probation in April for fraud-related charges in Polk County, scheduled to end in 2030.<\/p>\n
Keshon Litesha Rivers, 32, was arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (Broward Sheriff’s Office\/Courtesy)<\/p>\n
Rivers was arrested on Wednesday and is being held in the Main Jail without bond on charges of organized scheme to defraud, grand theft of more than $100,000 and money laundering.<\/p>\n
Court records and attorney information were not available Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Broward County business owner was arrested Wednesday after detectives found she stole more than $1 million from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,16484,28,249,251,250,114,115,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-145302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-deerfield-beach","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale","13":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","14":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","15":"tag-latest-headlines","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}