patching...
Update: Worried about your commute? Check out our traffic map. »
Welcome back, Patch Blogger!

Tax Fraud Evidence Found In 6-Year-Old's Backpack at Symmes Elementary

Authorities say the girl had a bag of gift cards similar to those found in tax fraud situations.

 

OUTSIDE TAMPA, FL -- When a 6-year-old girl at Symmes Elementary School in Riverview was asked to take her homework out of her backpack, she removed a bag that contained 52 debit cards, according to a report on TBO.com.

According to the article, the cards are the kind sometimes used by those who use stolen identities to file tax returns and obtain fraudulent tax refunds.

To read more about the incident, read the original article.

More Odd Tampa Bay Area Crime Stories:

Related Topics: Symmes Elementary School and Tax fraud

JACOB

1:44 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013

I knew that kid had too much bling!

Reply

Kaz

6:42 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Wow, what a long article, however will I be able to finish such complexity.

Reply

Peg

7:28 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013

I hope they got the rat baastaad that stole the money I was owed for my 2011 return a month before I even filed! I JUST got my return back after much investigation, but who ultimately pays for this? WE DO! I now have an IRS PIN #. WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE?

Reply
Comment_arrow

Jebbers

9:53 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013

For the same reason my friend, that not everyone had a voter ID. The left screams of discrimination….in this case, I'm sure it'd be turned into some anti-illegal-immigrant (ooops, I mean undocumented worker) rant……yet you and I pay…and pay, and pay...

Jim

7:36 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013

She must be majoring in banking.

Reply
Comment_arrow

hf2hvit

12:10 am on Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Probably not but your lack of intelligence and your racism should be.

Comment_arrow

CJ

12:41 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013

Oh come on, hf2hvit....lighten up a little. Ordinarily I might agree with you to at least ''some'' degree..but not here. There is ''clearly'' a humorous side to this story. Learn to recognize true racism. Mislabeling it simply makes ''you'' the one who is racist...and I suspect you are. Things like this go both ways, ya know...

Stephanie

3:11 am on Wednesday, February 13, 2013

@hf2hvit----If there was as much true racism as you and others like you allege, there would be KKK rallies on every street corner in America. How is his question racist? After all, who is it that is going to have these kinds of cards? As the article said, criminals that steal identities. How many of the 12 million illegals in America have stolen identities? Probably a good percentage of them. So, tell me please, how is the truth racist?

Reply

CJ

12:44 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013

The Patent Leather backpack with the lizard straps and the Gucci zipper pull were the first thing that gave the kid away.

Reply

CJ

12:46 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013

The first tip off should have been at the beginning of the school year when the kid was buying lunch and needing change for a 100 dollar bill every single day.

Reply

gitteric

7:47 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Good job do your thing baling baling

Reply

Leave a comment