{"id":88225,"date":"2025-12-18T17:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88225\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:46:07","slug":"central-florida-man-stole-checks-worth-thousands-in-elder-fraud-case-authorities-say-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88225\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida man stole checks worth thousands in elder fraud case, authorities say \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Florida officers accused a Cocoa Beach man of cashing thousands of dollars in stolen checks.<\/p>\n<p>Elias Staker, of Cape Canaveral, faces 38 counts of uttering forged checks and one count of scheme to defraud, according to a press release from the Cocoa Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The former is a third-degree felony, and the latter is a second-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they investigated Staker\u2019s activities against an elderly victim for months.<\/p>\n<p>They believe he wrote and cashed numerous stolen checks, resulting in losses of more than $33,000, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, officials arrested and transported him to Brevard County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s being held with no bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Florida officers accused a Cocoa Beach man of cashing thousands of dollars in stolen checks. Elias Staker,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,114,115,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-88225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88225","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=88225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}