The purchases included dozens of gift cards, according to the affidavit, and were shipped to at least eight different addresses over a two-year period.<\/p>\n
LARGO, Fla. \u2014 A Pinellas County man is facing felony charges after investigators say he used a stolen credit card and personal information to create an Amazon account and make more than $22,000 in fraudulent purchases.<\/p>\n
According to arrest affidavits from the Largo Police Department, 35-year-old Trevor Don Hayworth was arrested on charges of scheme to defraud between $20,000 and $50,000 and fraudulent use of personal identification information.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Hayworth obtained a victim’s Capital One credit card information and used it to open an Amazon account in the victim’s name. Records obtained through a subpoena reportedly showed the account was used throughout 2024 and 2025 to purchase 784 items totaling $22,715.89.<\/p>\n
The purchases included dozens of gift cards, according to the affidavit, and were shipped to at least eight different addresses over a two-year period.<\/p>\n
Police said the victim was unaware of the fraudulent activity because a certified public accountant handled the victim’s monthly bills and taxes for several years. The case remains pending in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The purchases included dozens of gift cards, according to the affidavit, and were shipped to at least eight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-433335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433335","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=433335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}