Miramar man arrested with fake credit cards and numerous victims’ personal information

MONROE COUNTY, FL. – A 29-year-old Miramar man was arrested Thursday by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office following a traffic stop in Marathon in which several counterfeit credit cards were found, along with coins. identity, phones, computers and personal information of others, authorities said.

According to MCSO spokesperson Adam Linhardt, Jackie Webster was arrested on a warrant following a fraud investigation stemming from an October 2023 traffic stop on a Volkswagen sedan in which Webster was a passenger.

Linhardt said the car was not registered and the tag on it was not assigned to the vehicle.

According to the warrant, the driver, who had her 3-month-old baby with her, received a criminal citation for operating the unregistered motor vehicle.

The warrant says a deputy told the woman her vehicle was going to be inventoried and towed, then asked her what she wanted removed from the vehicle.

Authorities said the woman said she wanted all of her belongings removed from the car, so the deputy began helping her get her belongings out.

“A search revealed numerous fake credit cards and IDs as well as a printer used to create fake cards. Phones, tablets and computers were also found, including a computer labeled ‘scam’,” Linhardt wrote in an email to Local 10 News.

According to Linhardt, Webster was also in possession of hundreds of sets of personally identifiable information “such as names, social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, bank account numbers and login numbers banking”.

The warrant states Webster told the deputy all items inside the vehicle were.

Webster was jailed Thursday on charges of fraud, forgery, theft and forgery.