{"id":353172,"date":"2026-07-26T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353172\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:28:08","slug":"fbis-most-wanted-fraud-suspect-captured-after-fleeing-to-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353172\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI\u2019s most wanted fraud suspect captured after fleeing to Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 26, 2026 at 6:11 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/08\/south-florida-woman-makes-fbis-most-wanted-fraudster-list\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/08\/south-florida-woman-makes-fbis-most-wanted-fraudster-list\/\">FBI\u2019s most wanted fraud suspects<\/a> is behind bars after escaping the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Agents had been looking for Elaine Escoe for nearly two months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They accuse her of submitting more than 90 fake applications for COVID relief funds through the Paycheck Protection Program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The applications totaled $32 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Escoe was arrested back in May, but agents said she never showed up for her June court appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Agents said they got a tip that she flew to Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities there helped with her arrest before she was brought back to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 26, 2026 at 6:11 PM MIAMI \u2014 One of the FBI\u2019s most wanted fraud suspects is behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-353172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353172","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=353172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}