{"id":292971,"date":"2026-06-02T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292971\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:33:10","slug":"taiwanese-national-jailed-in-226k-gold-cash-investment-scam-targeting-elderly-woman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292971\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese national jailed in $226K gold, cash investment scam targeting elderly woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A Taiwanese national is in jail after allegedly defrauding an elderly woman out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in an investment scam.<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjso.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> the St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office,<\/a> on May 20, detectives began investigating a fraud tied to an elderly St. Johns County resident who was interacting with individuals on a communications app.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/south-florida-teacher-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-minor-student-crisis-in-the-classroom-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Florida teacher accused of inappropriate relationship with minor student<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputies said the victim initially invested $20,000 in the scheme and later provided an additional $75,000 in cash between February and May 2026 toward a larger alleged payment, which was collected in person by an individual who traveled to meet the victim.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said the victim believed the investment was growing, but instead was falling deeper into the scam. Further investigation in May revealed that a Taiwanese national, identified as suspect Youwei Hsu, traveled to the victim\u2019s home and accepted $226,000 worth of gold bars and coins that the victim believed she owned.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies determined Hsu later traveled to Miami-Dade County, where he was located by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Hsu is being held at the St. Lucie County Jail on a $750,000 bond. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Taiwanese national is in jail after allegedly defrauding an elderly woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-292971","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\/292971","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=292971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}