{"id":190192,"date":"2026-03-13T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190192\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:58:07","slug":"miami-man-held-in-st-lucie-co-jail-after-fuel-fraud-at-loves-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190192\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami man held in St. Lucie Co. jail after fuel fraud at Love&#8217;s Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Deputies said they arrested a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami <\/a>man after finding him actively pumping diesel with fraudulently <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/EGift%20Card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">encoded gift cards<\/a> , a scheme that definitely didn&#8217;t pump the brakes on high fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Lucie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said that its deputies were called around 2:30 p.m. on March 12, to the Love\u2019s Truck Stop at 200 S. Kings Highway for a fuel theft in progress. When they arrived, they said the suspect was still at the pump and was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives later determined he was using Walmart gift cards encoded with compromised credit card information to purchase large quantities of diesel. Investigators estimate about $1,200 worth of fuel was obtained.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/fatal-crash-shuts-down-northbound-i-95-near-10th-avenue-north\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Woman killed in hit-and-run on I-95, lanes reopen after several hours<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Denis Daniel Lopez Perez, 29, of Miami, was charged with Grand Theft (Property Value $750\u2013$5,000), Possession of Counterfeited License Plates, and Fraud \u2013 Illegal Use of a Credit Card.<\/p>\n<p>Perez remains held at the St. Lucie County Jail, SLCSO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Deputies said they arrested a Miami man after finding him actively pumping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-190192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190192","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=190192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}