{"id":178185,"date":"2026-03-04T19:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:32:06","slug":"georgia-man-gets-two-years-in-prison-after-posing-as-hillsborough-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178185\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia man gets two years in prison after posing as Hillsborough deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A man was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison Wednesday for impersonating a Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s deputy in a phone scam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Tampa said Kimani Brennen Fletcher, 26, of Covington, Georgia, was also ordered to pay more than $40,000 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Court documents show Fletcher called victims as he impersonated a deputy, telling them they had outstanding warrants and needed to pay money to avoid arrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fletcher then posed as a bail bondsman and picked up money from victims in Florida. In total, Fletcher obtained approximately $40,800 in fraud proceeds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fletcher was sentenced to 27 months in prison for wire fraud after pleading guilty in December 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A man was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison Wednesday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4561,18587,1387,629,4428,11176,135,137,136,5499],"class_list":["post-178185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-deputy","tag-fletcher","tag-fraud","tag-hillsborough","tag-phone","tag-scam","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178185","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=178185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}