arrested in 2024<\/a> in a similar scheme in which he allegedly swindled multiple victims out of more than $250,000. In the current incident, police said he used the same method to convince a new victim.<\/p>\nAccording to an arrest report, the most recent incidents date back to November 2025, when the victim met Cassina at an auto repair shop in the Fort Lauderdale area.<\/p>\n
During that encounter, the suspect introduced himself as an investor and offered stock-market opportunities, promising high returns.<\/p>\n
The victim handed over a total of $13,000, with the promise of an 18% return paid weekly, the report said. However, the victim received only two partial payments totaling just over $800. After that, the payments stopped.<\/p>\n
Authorities said Cassina continued making excuses and even sent images that allegedly showed investments in progress to keep the victim\u2019s trust.<\/p>\n
Growing suspicious, the victim searched online and found similar allegations linked to the suspect.<\/p>\n
Later, the victim identified Cassina in a photo lineup for Hollywood Police.<\/p>\n
In the earlier case, investigators said Cassina posed as an investor, showed fake accounts, and wrote bad checks, while using the money for personal expenses.<\/p>\n
Police warn there may be more victims connected to the scheme and are asking anyone with information to contact authorities.<\/p>\n
This story was translated from Spanish with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool. An NBC6 editor reviewed the translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida man is once again facing fraud charges after allegedly conning a new victim with false…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1219,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-241378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241378","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=241378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}