Monroe County sheriff’s deputies arrested three individuals at a Key Largo motel on July 6 after they were reportedly found with a large number of stolen credit cards, IDs and checks and other items in what appeared to be a large criminal enterprise.
According to the sheriff’s office, deputies descended upon Sunset Cove Beach Resort around 2:30 p.m. to assist a bail bondsman. He stated that Katie Campbell, 42, of Islamorada, had an arrest warrant and was at the hotel along with two other people. Deputies say they discovered evidence of stolen mail and illegal narcotics while taking all three people into custody.
Criminal investigations detectives then executed a search warrant and found passports, more than 100 credit cards that did not belong to any of the suspects, burglary tools, forged checks and more than 20 different identification cards/paperwork from different states/countries that did not belong to the suspects. Detectives also discovered hundreds of items of mail that did not belong to the suspects and a scanner used to make illegal credit cards.
Fentanyl, marijuana, hallucinogenic mushrooms and drug paraphernalia were also found during the search. Deputies also arrested Jacob Michael Majewski, 27, of Miami; and Michael George Harvey, 30, of Miami.
Sheriff Rick Ramsay said the sheriff’s office is working alongside other law enforcement agencies in the Keys and South Florida in the ongoing investigation.
“Detectives are alerting banks, credit card companies and the U.S. Post Office of this incident. To have an investigation of this magnitude in our area is significant,” Ramsay said. “It is so important for law enforcement, financial institutions, the U.S. Post Office, and our citizens to be vigilant and work together.”
Campbell, Majewski and Harvey were charged with 125 counts of criminal use of personal identification information; 100 counts of traffic in or possessing counterfeit credit cards; 100 counts of theft/obtaining credit card through fraudulent means; 25 counts of unauthorized possession of, and other unlawful acts concerning a driver’s license or ID card. They were also charged with possession of burglary tools; grand theft of more than $10,000; possession of fentanyl (under 2 grams); possession of mushrooms (under 1 gram); possession of marijuana (less than 20 grams; and six counts of possession of drug paraphernalia.
