FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A member of a South Florida gang was arrested at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday after he was identified as the suspect in a bank scam, authorities said.
Investigators said it cost a Florida Keys senior nearly $20,000.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, Sheldon Vandyke, a member of Miami’s “Any Body Killer” ― or ABK ― gang, called an 84-year-old Lower Keys man in October claiming to be a Bank of America representative.
Investigators said Vandyke, 26, told the man there were “issues with his account” and ultimately got him to provide his banking information, swindling the senior out of $19,800.
MCSO spokesperson Adam Linhardt said that detectives worked with multiple banking fraud departments to pin Vandyke as the suspect. Surveillance video, he said, “accessing ATMs in Miami attempting to withdraw money” from accounts set up with stolen money.
Linhardt said investigators with the Miami Police Department “confirmed Vandyke is a known criminal gang member with no known legitimate source of income.”
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Vandyke at FLL on Monday after he returned from a trip to Belize.
As of Tuesday, he was being held in the BSO Main Jail awaiting extradition to the Keys, where he’ll face a charge of scheme to defraud a person over 65.
Officials said MCSO is “working with banking officials to recover the victim’s money.”
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