{"id":41459,"date":"2025-11-10T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/41459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:27:10","slug":"fort-lauderdale-man-arrested-in-505000-walton-county-utility-check-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/41459\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale Man Arrested in $505,000 Walton County Utility Check Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"231\" data-end=\"304\">Investigation Reveals Multiple Stolen Checks and Identity Theft Links<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"663\">WALTON COUNTY, FLA \u2014 A Fort Lauderdale man has been arrested in connection with a $505,400 check fraud scheme targeting a Walton County utility company. Brandon Loud, 32, is currently in custody at the Walton County Jail, with a bond set at $100,000, following an extensive investigation by the Walton County Sheriff\u2019s Office Criminal Investigations Bureau.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"1009\">The investigation began after a utility company in Santa Rosa Beach reported that a check mailed on August 4, 2025, to a legitimate vendor had been stolen and altered. Instead of reaching the intended recipient, a counterfeit version of the check made payable to Loud was deposited into a JPMorgan Chase account in his name on August 5, 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1011\" data-end=\"1250\">\u201cCases like this demonstrate how quickly financial crimes can escalate into six-figure fraud,\u201d said Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson. \u201cWe want our residents and businesses to be vigilant and proactive in protecting their accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigation Reveals Multiple Stolen Checks and Identity Theft Links WALTON COUNTY, FLA \u2014 A Fort Lauderdale man has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-41459","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\/41459","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=41459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}