{"id":233122,"date":"2026-04-15T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233122\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:10:08","slug":"key-west-chief-celebrates-bso-deputies-arrest-of-21-year-old-man-accused-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233122\/","title":{"rendered":"Key West chief celebrates BSO deputies\u2019 arrest of 21-year-old man accused of fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OD5QOPT2W5DQBGMIEIYBI3J3ZY.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Deputies arrested  Cortlin Baker on Tuesday in Pompano Beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Key West Police Chief Sean Brandenburg released a statement on Wednesday praising the cooperation of the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office in a case involving a 21-year-old suspect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BSO deputies arrested Cortlin Baker on Tuesday, and he was at the Broward County Main Jail on Wednesday, in Fort Lauderdale, with a Monroe County hold, according to inmate records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s another fine example of the great partnerships between law enforcement agencies in South Florida,\u201d Brandenburg said in the statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Key West detectives accused Baker, of Pompano Beach, of changing the value of a check from $15 to $5,000, and the name of the payee to his, according to the KWPD statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Baker is facing charges of grand theft and uttering a forged instrument. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related social media post<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandDeputies arrested Cortlin Baker on Tuesday in Pompano Beach. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-233122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233122","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=233122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}