{"id":369754,"date":"2026-08-12T22:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369754\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:06:12","slug":"miami-fraudster-flew-to-phoenix-to-scam-seniors-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369754\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami fraudster flew to Phoenix to scam seniors, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BSGPNLTMSJGC5AYISHB67II2RI.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Andre Hart (Maricopa County SO\/Pexels) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PHOENIX \u2014 Arizona authorities announced the indictment of a Miami man on Wednesday after they said he flew to Phoenix to scam seniors. He was arrested during his third time traveling there as part of the cross-country con, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/12\/estafador-de-miami-volo-a-phoenix-para-embaucar-a-personas-mayores-dicen-autoridades\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/12\/estafador-de-miami-volo-a-phoenix-para-embaucar-a-personas-mayores-dicen-autoridades\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Maricopa County Attorney\u2019s Office, Andre Hart stole more than $65,000 from \u201cseveral\u201d seniors in metro Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said Hart, 22, was participating in a phone-based scam in which fraudsters posed as bank representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said the victims \u201cwere persuaded to withdraw large sums of money and deliver the funds to someone they were told was an undercover investigator\u201d and \u201cwere then sent an unwitting Uber driver who believed they were performing a package pickup and delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Uber drivers would then hand the \u201cpackage\u201d to Hart, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said his third trip to the Grand Canyon State would be his last before being handcuffed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPolice were in the process of surveilling Hart to arrest him when they saw him receive one of the \u2018packages,\u2019\u201d a news release from the Maricopa County Attorney\u2019s Office states. \u201cAfter taking him into custody, another Uber driver approached police to deliver another \u2018package.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show that Hart was arrested by police in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Arizona on July 30 on four counts of fraudulent schemes and artifacts and three counts of theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jail records show he was being jailed in Maricopa County on a $100,000 bond.<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM Updated:\u00a0August 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandAndre Hart (Maricopa County SO\/Pexels) PHOENIX&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-369754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369754","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=369754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}