‘Taken for a fool’: Arrest made after woman, 83, says she was scammed by someone impersonating son

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‘He should get a job,’ she says

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – An 83-year-old pistillate says she was duped by a scammer who made her deliberation her lad was successful trouble.

“I was taken for a fool,” the victim, who Local 10 News is not identifying, said. “I privation to nonstop him the connection that this is not the close mode to get money. He should get a job.”

On Thursday, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrested Jason Cruceta, 40, of downtown Miami, who deputies said was progressive successful the scam. He is accused of fraud and stealing from the elderly.

In tribunal Friday, Miami-Dade authoritative Nessa Eth called the lawsuit “pretty awful.”

The pistillate said she received a telephone telephone past period from idiosyncratic pretending to beryllium her big son, claiming helium had been successful a car wreck and was enactment successful jail.

The caller instructed her to interaction a circumstantial attorney, who turned retired to beryllium a phony.

“The ‘attorney’ was precise nonrecreational and adjuvant and helium was gonna speech to the DA, precise helpful,” the unfortunate said.

The idiosyncratic connected the telephone told her to instrumentality retired $8,600 and springiness it to a courier who would get astatine her Westchester-area home. The courier was a Lyft operator who had nary thought what was truly going on.

“They sent this feline and helium picked up the $8,600 and distant helium went,” the unfortunate said.

Investigators accidental the Lyft driver’s conveyance had cameras, which filmed the transportation of the currency to an code successful northwest Miami-Dade. They said the video helped deputies place Cruceta.

“The suspect does person a beauteous important transgression history. He did 3 years, it looks like, for cause trafficking,” Eth noted successful court.

The unfortunate aboriginal called her lad and realized helium was fine.

“I was blessed connected 1 broadside but I was huffy and sick and furious,” she said.

Investigators judge determination whitethorn beryllium much radical progressive and perchance much victims.

“They are bully actors. They operated precise good. They should beryllium successful Hollywood oregon Broadway,” the unfortunate said.

Cruceta ended up astatine the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center instead, wherever helium was acceptable to beryllium released Friday connected a $7,500 bond.

The unfortunate took contented with that enslaved amount, noting that it was little wealth than helium was accused of stealing from her.

Experts accidental to ever beryllium skeptical if you get a akin call.

The unfortunate said she wishes she had conscionable called her lad herself earlier sending the money.