Man on run from fraud charges arrested after officer spots him at Disney World

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/06/florida-disney-world-fugutive-fraud-case

Man on run from fraud charges arrested after officer spots him at Disney World

Fugitive Quashon Burton apprehended at Florida vacation park by federal agent who was on holiday at the time

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Sun 6 Nov 2022 03.00 EST

On the run from charges that he scammed his way into nearly $150,000 worth of coronavirus relief loans, Quashon Burton went on vacation last month to Disney World’s Animal Kingdom theme park, where he crossed paths with another most unfortunate tourist for him.

That tourist was a federal agent who had been investigating Burton’s case, before going on vacation and taking time out of his Florida holiday to help catch him, according to authorities handling the bizarre circumstances surrounding the arrest.

The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) agent in question, Jeff Andre, was on holiday on 20 October at the amusement park in Orlando when he spotted Burton there, federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing.

Burton, 32, had been charged in November of last year with stealing at least four people’s identities to acquire $149,800 in funds from Covid relief loans administered by the federal government. USPIS agents building the case against Burton tried to arrest him at his home in Brooklyn, New York, last December, but he was not there at the time and had ever since eluded investigators, the court filing said.

He then went to the Animal Kingdom theme park on the same day as Andre, who notified Disney World’s security force that Burton was a fugitive wanted by the USPIS. Disney’s security in turn alerted the Orange county sheriff’s office, whose deputies approached Burton after he left the park.

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(Happiest place on earth oops.)

[Fritz Walter]

1. Should've just fed his dumb ass to the lions there

Yeah, I know: that’d be cruelty to the critters.