An Atlanta woman was arrested in Florida and charged with participating in a fraud scheme run by prison inmates.
D’Zyre Youngblood, 28, was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on Tuesday, March 3.
She is accused of participating with a Georgia prison ring to steal $79,000 from a Deltona, Florida woman in a telephone scam.
Youngblood, led by the prison gang, impersonated law enforcement officers who threatened jail time if victims didn’t pay thousands of dollars via Bitcoin ATMs.
Youngblood was caught when she transferred the stolen cash through Bitcoin wallets.
Sheriff Mike Chitwood confronted Youngblood outside the jail as she arrived handcuffed at the wrists and ankles.
“D’Zyre, you didn’t think this one through enough,” he told her. Chitwood introduced Youngblood to the sergeant who tracked her down. He also introduced her to a captain who prison inmates impersonated on the phone.
“This is the real guy that you guys are calling and saying collect money,” he told her.
“So you can tell your homeboys that when you f–k around in Volusia County, you’re getting locked up. So I don’t know if it was worth it or not.”
In a press release, Chitwood said Youngblood played a role “in one of those fraud rings that calls your phone posing as law enforcement.”
He continued, “They threaten you with jail if you don’t pay thousands.’
D'Zyre Youngblood (28) of Atlanta was arrested in Florida for being apart of a fraud rings that calls your phone posing as law enforcement. They threaten you with jail if you don't pay thousands. They tracked her down through Bitcoin wallet transfers after a local woman lost… pic.twitter.com/qZOz5ySptE
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X.com user @FrankumAngelia wrote in a post: “Good! Again, I hope Georgia uses some of that DHS funding we got for the ICE facilities, to upgrade our prison and jails in Georgia. There is SO much corruption in Georgia, from politicians to the actual inmates.”
X user @LittleTinoATL wrote: “Got one of these calls s week ago. Made it about a minute in out of curiosity before I hung up.”
X user @_DNP91 commented: “Good! I got a call like this from a fake ICE agent with an Indian accent. Had me pull up the ICE website and the picture was a white lady (I knew then) … She claimed someone bought a drug house in Texas in my name and was mailing drugs. FAKE!”
