{"id":20395,"date":"2013-04-01T15:34:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T19:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20395"},"modified":"2013-04-01T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T19:34:43","slug":"bail-bondsman-arrested-for-income-tax-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20395","title":{"rendered":"Bail Bondsman Arrested For Income Tax Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal agents arrested a 39-year-old businessman last Friday on charges of income tax fraud. He was released from the Pinellas County Jail on a $50,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Agents arrested <strong>Freddie Wilson,<\/strong> owner of Against All Odds Bail Bonds, 5006 E. Broadway, Suite #7, on Thursday. He was charged with engaging in the theft of government funds and willfully obstructing a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators,<strong> Wilson<\/strong> opened an account at the Wells Fargo Bank on May 8, 2012, and deposited 18 U. S. Treasury checks, worth $53,061, into the account. All of the checks were payable to third parties and were either payments of income tax refunds or Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecords show the funds were quickly depleted after the U. S. Treasury checks were deposited,\u201d police said in the affidavit. The bank closed the account on October 11, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilson <\/strong>opened a bank account at Hancock Bank on June 22, 2012. He allegedly deposited 376 U. S. Treasury checks, valued at $312,759 into the account. None of the checks were made payable to him, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The checks were in the names of different people who told police they did not authorize anyone to use their personal information.<\/p>\n<p>According to the arresting affidavit, federal agents executed a search warrant at <strong>Wilson\u2019s<\/strong> business and his apartment. During the search warrant, agents seized six boxes of documents. A few weeks later, an attorney representing <strong>Wilson<\/strong> spoke with investigators and told them that <strong>Wilson <\/strong>needed some of the documents seized to continue operating his business.<\/p>\n<p>The agents agreed to allow <strong>Wilson<\/strong> to copy three boxes of the documents at a local FedEx copying center. After about three weeks, on March 14<sup>th<\/sup>, the agent returned to the center to retrieve the documents and learned that someone had taken the copies as well as the original documents.<\/p>\n<p>The agent stated in the affidavit that he contacted one of the attorneys representing <strong>Wilson<\/strong> and was told that <strong>Wilson <\/strong>would return the documents on March 16<sup>th<\/sup>, at 8:30 a.m. However, the agent said <strong>Wilson<\/strong> did not keep the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>When the agent returned to the copy center on March 18<sup>th<\/sup>, to retrieve the documents, half of them (one-and-one-half boxes) were missing and not returned by <strong>Wilson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The agent stated in the affidavit that <strong>\u201cWilson<\/strong> was uncooperative with law enforcement with regard to both the search and seizure warrants and did not want to turn over the Camaro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He purchased the Camaro in September 2012. Agents said he also used the money for personal expenses, to repay loans, and spent more than $30,000 at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino. He also cash checks payable to himself for $110,445, the agent wrote.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Federal agents arrested a 39-year-old businessman last Friday on charges of income tax fraud. He was released from the Pinellas County Jail on a $50,000 bond. Agents arrested Freddie Wilson, owner of Against All Odds Bail Bonds, 5006 E. Broadway, Suite #7, on Thursday. 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