{"id":245539,"date":"2026-04-25T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245539\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:49:08","slug":"23-year-old-woman-accused-of-posing-as-fbi-agent-in-over-5k-elderly-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245539\/","title":{"rendered":"23-year-old woman accused of posing as FBI agent in over $5K elderly fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 23-year-old woman was arrested after deputies say she posed as an FBI agent to scam an elderly victim in St. Lucie County out of money.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the St. Lucie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and deputies with the Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office teamed up Friday to make a fraud arrest in North Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, detectives say they uncovered a scheme in which JerQuasha Josephine-De&#8217;Ma Brown was deceiving the elderly victim by claiming to work with the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>In the scheme, detectives say Brown would say she was investigating bank tellers and managers who were stealing money from their personal bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/florida\/officials-plead-for-tips-as-2-usf-students-missing-considered-endangered-florida-news-university-of-south-florida-police-department-missing-tampa-missing-persons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Remains found identified as one of the missing USF students, roommate in custody: HCSO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspect(s) asked the victim to withdraw money from their personal bank accounts, claiming it would help the FBI catch the bank tellers and managers involved.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities found probable cause to book Brown on multiple counts, including: <\/p>\n<p>Two counts of an organized scheme to defraudOne count of grand theft over $5,000 under $10,000Two counts of unlawful use of a two-way communication deviceOne count of resisting arrest without violenceComment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have been affected or has information is urged to contact the Criminal Investigations Division at the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 772-462-3230.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 23-year-old woman was arrested after deputies say she posed as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-245539","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\/245539","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=245539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}