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Woman Faces 50 Years For Stealing From Woman, Defrauding A Veteran
June 17, 2018
A woman is facing up to 50 years in prison after stealing a checkbook and credit cards from a woman and defrauding a veteran in Escambia County.
Javon Lasha Harris, 35, pleaded no contest before the court to two counts of grand theft, four counts of uttering forged bills, three counts of forging bank bills, checks, drafts,or promissory note, three counts of theft of a credit card, and one count of petit theft.
In March, a victim was sitting on her porch when she was approached by Harris. She told a victim that she had just been released from the hospital and needed money to buy her prescription medicine. The victim told Harris that she did not have any money but she had a prescription discount card that she could use. When the victim went inside to retrieve the card, the defendant asked to use the restroom. When Harris returned from the restroom, she stated she needed to turn her car off because she didn’t have much gas. Instead, the defendant drove off. The victim checked her purse and realized the defendant had stolen her checkbook and credit cards.
In April, Harris used the checks to pay for court fees for her boyfriend and dental work. She also defrauded a retired veteran by giving him two checks, totaling $500 and two used $50 gift cards.
Harris faces a maximum of 50 years in state prison when she is sentenced at a later date from Circuit Judge Gary Bergosh.
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6 Responses to “Woman Faces 50 Years For Stealing From Woman, Defrauding A Veteran”
Theft in occurs in march and the fraud occurred in April….but the victim didnt cancel the checks or credit cards when she realized her info was taken?
When did it become a way of life to take what others have worked and paid for? What makes you think that it is ok to to steal from and hurt other people? This comes from generations of passing along this way of thinking/living.
This woman was well rehearsed I’ll bet she has pulled this many times on others.
No stranger is entering my house to use the bathroom, Sorry this isn’t the good old days.
Scrape her off the bottom of society’s shoe and put her away…
GIVE HER ALL 50 SHE NEEDS IT. Some one ties to help you and you steal from them. give her the 50 and she will do less any way.
This is more than a theft or betrayal of trust. This person had intent to subvert the generosity of a veteran into a criminal act. Despite the fact the veteran let her into the home willingly, once the intent began to rob this veteran, it really is a home invasion.
I am sure some lawyer will get up there and tell the Judge that she had a rough childhood and was addicted to painkillers—a victim herself of the opiate epidemic. There may be some judges that have leniency when it comes to this type of thing.
But. She clearly had intent and motive–and it wasn’t a trinket or magnet or five dollar bill off a side table in a hallway. She destroyed this veteran’s sense of safety, created identity theft, hurt the veteran’s credit and created a lasting devastation on a fellow American.
All too often veterans survive military based / combat experiences to be victimized here right at home by other Americans. My hope is that she not only be sentenced to the maximum extent of the law, but that she be made to work in some capacity to benefit veterans—shining shoes of the local National Guard or polishing gravemarkers at the veteran’s cemetery. This predator acted with cunning–with no remorse–and now will want those very qualities she denied the most vulnerable. Odd. Isn’t it.?.