Woman arrested for fraud

 A Marathon woman was arrested for paying money into a jail inmate’s commissary account using a stolen credit card number.

 In January of 2017, a couple from Illinois was staying at the Kingsail Motel in Marathon. They were notified by one of their credit card companies of possible fraudulent activity on one of their cards. They called the Sheriff’s Office to report it.

 The victims said on January 16th, they had left the cards inside a wallet, in a drawer in their motel room while they went to the beach. They said that was the only time they left the credit cards anywhere.

 Investigations revealed one of the cards had been used on January 16th to deposit money into a jail inmate’s account. That jail inmate was 27 year old Mary Ann Scott. A woman working at the Kingsail Motel – 27 year old Jeanne Sawyer of Marathon – had used Scott on her employment application as a reference. According to motel records, Sawyer was also the person assigned to clean the victim’s room on January 16th, the day the card had been used to deposit to Scott’s inmate account.

 Sheriff’s Detective Rosary Ponce was the investigating detective on the case. Following her investigation, a warrant was issue for Sawyer and today she was arrested on that warrant, charging her with grand theft, fraud and fraudulent use of a credit card.

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