A Marathon woman was arrested for paying money into a jail inmate’s commissary account using a stolen credit card number.
In January of 2017, a couple from Illinois was staying at the Kingsail Motel in Marathon. They were notified by one of their credit card companies of possible fraudulent activity on one of their cards. They called the Sheriff’s Office to report it.
The victims said on Jan. 16, they had left the cards inside a wallet in a drawer in their motel room while they went to the beach. They said that was the only time they left the credit cards anywhere.
Investigations revealed one of the cards had been used on Jan. 16 to deposit money into a jail inmate’s account. That jail inmate was Mary Ann Scott, 27. A woman working at the Kingsail Motel – Jeanne Sawyer, 27, of Marathon – had used Scott on her employment application as a reference. According to motel records, Sawyer was also the person assigned to clean the victim’s room on Jan. 16, the day the card had been used to deposit to Scott’s inmate account.
Sheriff’s Detective Rosary Ponce was the investigating detective on the case. Following her investigation, a warrant was issue for Sawyer and she was Monday arrested on that warrant, charging her with grand theft, fraud and fraudulent use of a credit card.
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