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Crime
Murder Victim’s Body Found In Vacant Home
Men Plead Guilty To $1M Unemployment Fraud, ID Theft Scam
Detectives are currently at- tempting to identify the body of a woman found in a vacant house. The death has been ruled a murder.
According to police, shortly before 8 a.m., Monday, JVS Contracting arrived at a home in the 1800 block of E. Sligh Avenue. The home was slated to be torn down.
Prior to beginning the dem- olition process, crew members walked through the empty structure. While walking through the building, they dis- covered the body of an uniden- tified Black woman. The woman, who is estimated be- tween the age of 28 and 40 years, was partially clothed and there was trauma to the
The body of an unidentified Black woman was found inside a house in the 1800 E. Sligh Avenue, set for demolition Monday morning.
upper body.
A spokesperson said it was
undetermined how long the
body had been in the home. Police had not released any ad- ditional information.
KARY STEVENSON
Last week, two Tampa men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Kary Stevenson, 47, and Corey Quinn, 35, are facing up to five years in federal prison on the access device fraud and a consecutive two years’ imprisonment for the aggravated identity count.
According to the plea agree- ments, from approximately May 2020 and continuing until August 12, 2020, Stevenson and Quinn ob- tained the personal identifying information of others and used that information to sub- mit, or caused to be submit- ted, false and fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to various state work- force agencies to obtain bene- fits. These unemployment insurance benefits were then transferred to bank accounts or loaded onto debits cards is- sued in the names of other persons. Stevenson and Quinn then used, and at- tempted to use, the fraudu- lently obtained debit cards to withdraw money from ATMs and to purchase items from retail establishments.
The U. S. Department of Labor calculated the total in- tended loss from Stevenson and Quinn’s fraudulent UI
COREY QUINN
claims was approximately $1,010,353.
In March 2020, the Presi- dent signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which expanded states’ ability to provide UI for many work- ers impacted by COVID-19, in- cluding for workers who were not ordinarily eligible for ben- efits.
On May 17, 2021, the Attor- ney General established the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force to marshal the re- sources of the Department of Justice in partnership with agencies across government to enhance efforts to combat and prevent pandemic-related fraud.
For more information on the Department’s response to the pandemic, visit https://www.justice.gov/coro navirus
Anyone with information about allegations of attempted fraud involving COVID-19 can report it by calling the Depart- ment of Justice’s National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) Hotline at 866-720- 5721 or via the NCDF Web Complaint Form at: https://www.justice.gov/dis- aster-fraud/ncdf-disaster- complaint-form.
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