Police: Scammers Swindle Florida City For Nearly $750,000
Ocala police say scammers posing as a local construction company doing business with the city got an employee to change information that sent $742,376 to a fraudulent bank account.
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Ocala police say scammers posing as a local construction company doing business with the city got an employee to change information that sent $742,376 to a fraudulent bank account.
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When the federal government suddenly emptied a South Florida detention center for migrant children in August, it was unclear exactly where more than 1,000 children had gone.
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CBS News Miami speaks to the victim's family members moments before deputies say she died after being shot by an MDSO deputy.
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