{"id":381012,"date":"2026-10-23T19:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381012\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T19:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:12:53","slug":"bronx-man-accused-in-st-lucie-county-check-fraud-scheme-arrested-at-canadian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381012\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx man accused in St. Lucie County check fraud scheme arrested at Canadian border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 20-year-old Bronx, New York, man was extradited to St. Lucie County after Canadian border authorities arrested him while he was trying to enter <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canada<\/a>, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Gibrill Diallo faces charges of money laundering, a scheme to defraud of $50,000 or more and grand theft in connection with an investigation into a check stolen from a Port St. Lucie real estate company, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/St.%20Lucie%20County%20Sheriff&#039;s%20Office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the check was altered and deposited into a bank account opened using a stolen identity. Detectives traced the funds through multiple bank accounts and <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Zelle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zelle <\/a>transfers before they were deposited into Diallo\u2019s personal bank account, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities arrested Diallo on Oct. 14. He was held at the Niagara County Jail in New York before being extradited to St. Lucie County on Oct. 21, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/crime\/boynton-woman-held-on-20m-bond-accused-of-selling-high-thc-products-money-laundering-not-your-bakery-delray-beach-controlled-substance-drug-activity-conspiracy-communication-device-facilitate-felony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boynton woman held on $20M bond, accused of selling high-THC products, money laundering<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Richard Del Toro said detectives followed the money and pursued leads across jurisdictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 20-year-old Bronx, New York, man was extradited to St. Lucie County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-381012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}