PLANTATION, Fla. — A Plantation detective accused a 31-year-old Georgia woman of engaging in a grand theft related to a church, and it took months to find her, but she was behind bars on Monday.
Last year, there was a $25,000 wire transfer from the victim’s Truist Bank to a JPMorgan Chase, and $24,900 in withdrawals, according to an arrest report.
A “senior pastor” told the detective the thefts were probably related to an email “from an impostor acting as their musical director,” the detective wrote, according to a report.
Daneika Murrien-Stewart, of Columbus, told a detective with the Plantation Police Department that the victim had voluntarily surrendered the funds to pay a debt, records show.
Murrien-Stewart “advised she was living in Trinidad with her mother and didn’t know when she would be returning to the United States,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report in her case.
Broward County Circuit Judge Michael I. Rothschild issued a capias for Murrien-Stewart’s arrest on Sept. 10 for second-degree grand theft of $20,000 to $100,000, records show.
Court records show the capias was served on Sunday, and Broward Sheriff’s Office correctional deputies booked her at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, records show.
A judge set Murrien-Stewart’s bond at $50,000 on Monday, but ordered her to surrender her passport and prove that the bail was not going to be paid with criminal proceeds. Rothschild is set to preside over the case.
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