Palm Coast, FL - Flagler County Sheriff's detectives say 31-year-old Kyle George used the personal ID information listed to a husband and wife, both over 60 years of age, while they were out of town for several weeks. The couple's cards were missing but it's not clear whether George had them in his possession.
The victims contacted FCSO on September 15 and told investigators they were gone from August 16 through September 8. When they reviewed their mail, they found a credit card statement with numerous fraudulent charges totalingin excess of $2,900. A few days later, the victim told an investigator that he suspected George of taking several credit cards from the china closet drawer where he kept them.
The victim then showed detectives a brown box with his name on it had been delivered to his home by UPS. The box also had George's address on it. The box contained parts for a Chevy truck. The address was run and the detective reports that a red Chevy truck was registered to George at that address.
Detectives followed the trail of charges and gathered surveillance video from a number of businesses and even the Bunnell Division of Motor Vehicles, where he registered a vehicle. The victims identified George and his truck shown at different places during their time out of town. The victim told investigators that he'd found over $11,000 in fraudulent charges on a Home Depot card.
“Our detectives did a great job in piecing this puzzle together,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “This is a guy who thinks he is above the law and shouldn’t have to work for his money like the rest of us. He takes the term ‘bad neighbor’ to a whole new level.”
George will likely face additional fraud charges and a Grand Theft charge of over $10,000. The charges right now are five counts of Fraudulent Use of Personal Identification Information of a Person over 60 Years of Age and
Fraudulent Use of a Credit Card.
Bond was set at $15,000. George posted bail and has been released but Staly said that the investigation is not over as there could be more fraudulent credit card charges .
