{"id":58107,"date":"2025-09-11T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=58107"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:13:25","slug":"lakeland-woman-charged-in-eden-prairie-payroll-swindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/09\/11\/lakeland-woman-charged-in-eden-prairie-payroll-swindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland woman charged in Eden Prairie payroll swindle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Lakeland woman has been charged with swindling more than $5,000 from an Eden Prairie business by diverting an employee\u2019s paycheck into her own bank account, according to a criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"8c9798\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"712\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/police-logo-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58108 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #8c9798; width:372px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/police-logo-1.webp 600w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/police-logo-1-253x300.webp 253w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inisha Tameria Stacy, 42, of Lakeland, Florida, is charged with one felony count of theft by swindling. The offense carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case stems from an April 19 email to the owner of a business on Cimarron Lane that appeared to come from an employee, the complaint said. The email asked the owner to change the worker\u2019s direct deposit information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Believing the request was legitimate, the owner made the change around April 20 or 21. On May 10, the employee\u2019s paycheck of $5,056 was deposited into the new account. The employee later told the owner she had not requested the change and had not received her pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators obtained bank records showing the account was registered to Stacy. Police said attempts to contact her at her Lakeland address were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police also said whether the employee was reimbursed by the business owner was not part of the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stacy\u2019s first court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 22 in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lakeland woman has been charged with swindling more than $5,000 from an Eden Prairie business by diverting an employee\u2019s paycheck into her own bank account, according to a criminal&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDlcL3BvbGljZS1sb2dvLTEud2VicD9maXQ9NjAwJTJDNzEyJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiTGFrZWxhbmQgd29tYW4gY2hhcmdlZCBpbiBFZGVuIFByYWlyaWUgcGF5cm9sbCBzd2luZGxlIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.y4JmLXUCW__pLtP48A_Zi1SZeWMWcA2XHwnaSHgNNgoMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":58108,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/police-logo-1.webp","type":"image\/webp"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[12267],"class_list":["post-58107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lakeland-woman-charged-in-eden-prairie-payroll-swindle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58109,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58107\/revisions\/58109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}