FDR in Hell Sends This In —
TSG–An ex-con is facing felony charges after she used a stolen credit card to bail out a woman locked up in a Florida jail, police charge.
According to court filings, Lakeisha Brisbane, 46, used the victim’s Visa card in three separate transactions–totaling $850–with a Clearwater bail bonds company.
Brisbane, seen at right, used the stolen credit card to bail out Shermaine Arnold, a 21-year-old female acquaintance being held in the Pinellas County lockup, cops allege.
Arnold, records show, was jailed in November for ditching out on a $62.21 Yellow Cab fare. But since she also had an outstanding warrant in connection with a felony battery case in Miami-Dade county, her bond was set at $7500.
Arnold, pictured below, spent a week in custody before Brisbane went into 49th Street Bail Bonds carrying a credit card “issued in the name of elderly male victim,” a criminal complaint charges. Brisbane signed several sales receipts, a “multitude of other paperwork,” and allowed the firm to photocopy her driver’s license.
Court filings do not explain how Brisbane was allowed to make charges on a Visa card in someone else’s name.
Brisbane, who is scheduled for a court appearance today, was arrested Thursday on grand theft and credit card fraud charges, both felonies. She was released on $10,000 bond, which was posted by a second Clearwater firm, P-Freddie Dixon Bail Bonds.
In some court records, Brisbane is identified by one of her aliases, Lakeisha Best.
Like they say, if criminals were smarter, they’d be in another more lucrative, stable line of work. It’s a self-selecting, left-end-of-the-bell-curve population. Now, big grifts on the other hand…
RACISM!
(hey…it works MOST of the time!)
“Brisbane is identified by one of her aliases, Lakeisha Best.”
Yep, the Best at getting caught, the Best at being stupid.
I’ll bet this is pretty common. Small time criminals whose feral relatives/roommates/whoever show up to bail them out. With debit cards that turn out to be stolen from recent victims.
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again. Blacks are not overrepresented in jail due to racism. Blacks are overrepresented in the ranks of the stupidest of all criminals who make their prosecution easy as hell because they seem to have no clue how to be discrete during a crime nor cover their tracks afterward. So many of them are such incredible fucking morons. This story is a perfect example.