MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Martin County Sheriff’s Office is on the hunt for a woman who scammed one of its residents out of over $23,000 after she threatened to haul him to jail in front of his friends and family. <\/p>\n
Kenique Bellamy is accused of scamming $23,600 from an unsuspecting victim after posing as a Martin County Sheriff’s Office employee. The sheriff’s office says Bellamy, 31, convinced the victim that he missed federal jury duty and that there was a warrant for his arrest. <\/p>\n
Following Bellamy’s instructions, the victim deposited into a Bitcoin ATM to cover supposed “federal fines.” <\/p>\n
See also: G-Block to Jail Block: ‘Operation Unplugged’ busts Lake Worth fentanyl dealers<\/a><\/p>\n After reviewing the transaction and digital evidence detectives were able to confirm Bellamy’s identity and obtain a warrant for her arrest. <\/p>\n Anyone with information is asked to contact the Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers 1-800-273-8477. <\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Martin County Sheriff’s Office is on the hunt for a woman who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-19703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703","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=19703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}