Just days before the Fourth of July, a fireworks fraud scheme fizzled out when the suspect walked back into the same Hialeah store he’d allegedly ripped off, police said.<\/p>\n
Santiago Prieto, 20, was arrested Monday on an organized scheme to defraud charge, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the owner of Samurai Fireworks on West 62nd Street said earlier in the month a man had picked up multiple orders of fireworks that were later found to have been purchased with fraudulent credit cards.<\/p>\n
On Monday, an employee of Samauri Fireworks said Prieto stepped into the store and he recognized him as the man who had picked up the previous orders, the report said.<\/p>\n
When the same payment card was flagged for an additional online order, the employee immediately contacted law enforcement and officers responded to take Prieto into custody, the report said.<\/p>\n
The store reported a total financial loss of $2,277.60 from Prieto’s actions. <\/p>\n
Prieto was arrested and booked into jail and later bonded out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just days before the Fourth of July, a fireworks fraud scheme fizzled out when the suspect walked back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1219,76223,225,227,226],"class_list":["post-325133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325133","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=325133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}