{"id":400503,"date":"2026-09-15T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400503\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:38:10","slug":"miami-lakes-bank-teller-accused-of-18k-fraud-scheme-report-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400503\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Lakes bank teller accused of $18K fraud scheme, report says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An employee accused of stealing money from his bank in Miami Lakes was arrested on Monday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Escobar, 36, was charged with third-degree grand theft and organized fraud.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, Escobar has been a bank teller at First Horizon Bank since June.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest report said that during an audit of Escobar&#8217;s cash drawer on Friday, it was discovered that he had a shortage of $7,657.80.<\/p>\n<p>Another audit revealed that Escobar also cashed 11 Western Union money orders that had a cash value of $10 each against an unsuspecting account holder for $1,000 each, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the report said, the bank lost $18,657.80 in the alleged scheme.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Escobar attended an interview with human resources and a bank investigator, and before the interview, it was discovered that he had six other money orders that had a value of $10, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Escobar was then arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An employee accused of stealing money from his bank in Miami Lakes was arrested on Monday, authorities said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1219,225,227,226],"class_list":["post-400503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400503","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=400503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}