Facial recognition technology and a tattoo helped Flagler County Sheriff’s Office detectives track down a New York woman accused of stealing more than $10,000 from a Palm Coast resident, according to a charging affidavit.
Nzinga Parcella Walker, 41, of the Bronx, was charged by the State Attorney’s Office with fraudulent use of personal identification and grand theft, $10,000 to $20,000, according to court documents. The former is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison and the latter a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Walker was extradited from North Carolina on Feb. 25 following the signing of a governor’s warrant. She was booked into the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility on March 19.
The investigation began Aug. 6, 2025, when a Palm Coast woman called the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office to say she had received a call from a person identifying themselves as an employee at a Fifth Third Bank telling her that cash been withdrawn from her account at two bank branches in Ohio, the affidavit stated.
The woman had made two withdrawals of $2,150 and $8,500 and cashed a check for $2,850 at two branches in Ohio, according to an affidavit.
This bank security video shows a woman the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office identified as Nzinga Parcella Walker, who has been accused of making fraudulent transactions.
The bank later sent security camera images of a woman making the transaction.
Facial recognition, tattoo leads to arrest in Palm Coast case
The Sheriff’s Office Real Time Crime Center used the photos and facial recognition technology to find an image of Walker from an arrest in Lexington, South Carolina, the affidavit stated. The photo from the bank showed that Walker had a tattoo on her right bicep. Detectives also found a photo of Walker on Facebook.
A detective called Walker who denied having been in Ohio or knowing anything about the withdrawals. When the detective asked if she had a tattoo in the areas of her right bicep she hung up.
But detectives obtained information showing that Walker’s cellphone traveled from New York Aug. 5, 2025, along the Interstate 70 corridor and arrived in Ohio the next day. The cellphone was in the area of the bank branches in Columbus and Whitehall, Ohio, according to the affidavit.
Walker was arrested Dec. 1, 2025, by the Cary Police Department in North Carolina, on a Flagler County fugitive warrant.
“This fugitive thought this was the movie ‘Catch Me if You Can.’ She thought she could forge documents, steal people’s identities, and steal people’s money and get away with it,” stated Sheriff Rick Staly in a press release. “With the assistance of our partners across the country, we caught her, and now we are bringing her to justice in Flagler County.”
The sheriff’s office stated Walker’s criminal history covers five states and includes prior charges such as drug possession, grand theft, forgery and identity theft.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Flagler Sheriff’s Office uses facial recognition in fraud case arrest