Credit card theft is still very rampant in today's time. Despite the promises of security, there still seems to be so many people with fraudulent intentions. Just recently, a woman from Florida has been accused of credit card theft. The sad part about this was, the credit card belonged to a cancer patient.
Police officers from the Osceola County Sheriff's Department arrested 45-year-old Zenaida Gonzalez along with 26-year-old Jonattan E. Acevedo on Wednesday. They were both arrested for credit card theft and grand theft charges. According to NYPost, the two held cleaning jobs at a Kissimmee motel in December when the incident occurred. While they were cleaning the motel room of a 64-year-old man, they stole his credit card that he had left behind. The man was apparently visiting a nearby hospital so he could get treated for cancer. The couple then used the credit card to make purchases around Kissimmee and Orlando, leaving the original owner with a bill of $850.
This arrest, however, is not the first time Gonzalez was put on the spotlight. Back in 2013, she filed a defamation case against Casey Anthony. Gonzalez claimed that her reputation was tarnished when Anthony alleged a baby sitter who had the same name as her kidnapped her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee in June 2008. Her skeletal remains were later found in a woodland in December of the same year. Shortly after Caylee was reported missing, Gonzalez was interviewed but not arrested for insufficient evidence. Anthony was then arrested by the officers and charged with the murder of her own daughter. In 2011, she was acquitted from the murder case. With her name dragged on the Anthony case, Gonzalez decided to file a defamation lawsuit in 2013. Anthony's lawyers, however, argued that Gonzalez was using the situation to gain profit for herself.
Last year, a judge ruled that Gonzalez's claim had no evidence. The judge explained to Gonzalez that if she would proceed with the lawsuit, she would not get financial compensation since she declared herself to be bankrupt.
