{"id":332301,"date":"2026-07-07T21:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332301\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:13:24","slug":"ex-fort-lauderdale-lgbt-chamber-of-commerce-director-arrested-for-grand-theft-cops-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332301\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce director arrested for grand theft, cops say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former director of the Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the organization, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Nunez, 43, was arrested Monday on a grand theft charge, Broward jail records showed.<\/p>\n<p>Wilton Manors Police said while Nunez was director of the organization he used his business credit card to spend money on himself.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation found Nunez spent upwards of $11,000 on Uber rides, gas and haircuts, along with cash withdrawals, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives said the theft started in October 2025 and went until January of this year, when Nunez resigned from the position.<\/p>\n<p>A police report said Nunez was using the chamber credit card daily, sometimes multiple times a day during the month of December.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Miami-Dade LGBTQ+ Allied Chamber of Commerce website, Nunez is employed with the organization as the director of programs and communications.<\/p>\n<p>NBC6 reached out to both chambers for comment on Nunez&#8217;s arrest and were told no comment for now.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez bonded out of jail on Tuesday, records showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former director of the Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce is accused of stealing thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-332301","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\/332301","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=332301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}