Mohanned Halaweh, 19, arrested Wednesday after he was pulled over driving the 2012 McLaren coupe
High school basketball player arrested after stealing a credit card to rent a $240,000 McLaren sportscar and a $12million vacation home
Posted on 06/09/2014 12:47:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Northern California teen was arrested on suspicion of credit card fraud and possessing stolen property after he was pulled over in a $240,000 sports car in Sonoma County, authorities said.
A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of using a stolen credit card to rent a 2012 McLaren sports car valued at $240,000, authorities said. (Credit: Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department)
The teen, identified as 19-year-old Mohannad Halaweh of Rohnert Park, was pulled over Wednesday evening by a deputy who spotted the allegedly stolen 2012 McLaren while patrolling the Roseland area near Santa Rosa, according to a news release from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department.
A passenger in the vehicle, 19-year-old Nhimia Kahsay of Santa Rosa, was also arrested, the release stated.
Detectives investigating the incident discovered that a credit card number had been fraudulently obtained to rent the sports car, as well as a $12 million vacation home in Glen Ellen two days prior to the arrest, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
The fraudulent charges were estimated at $13,000 for the vehicle and $27,000 for the rental property, according to the release.
Halaweh was booked into jail on suspicion of possession of stolen property and credit card fraud charges, the release stated. He was being held on $100,000 bail.
Kahsay was booked for outstanding fraud warrants, according to the release. His bail was set at $60,000.
Halaweh was scheduled to appear in court on Monday, the Los Angeles Times reported.
lol. Well ... go big if you’re gonna go.
Do they take credit cards?
/johnny
Yikes, that's where my mother-in-law used to live. She would have HATED that.
“You’re in a heap of trouble, boy...”
Fareed Bueller’s Day Off.
:)
Stealing credit cards for Allah!
That should come in handy while he's in the pokey.
Muslim's are responsible for a disproportionate amount of fraud in the U.S.
Well, Allah is a fraudulent deity.
If you are a Millionaire do you allow your card to be charged at that high amount of money without a phone call?
I need to ck if it’s twenty bucks lol!
Future president. Obama does the same whenever he travels.
Back when the DC Metro was first starting one of the ‘Bookkeepers’ for DC Govt - assigned to Metro - was flying coworkers to Vegas, picking up the tab, spending money like the ‘proverbial drunken sailor’, had an extensive Classic Car collection etc.
He even bought a Strip Club.
Appears he was drawing money to himself and it ‘got out of hand’.
When he was caught ‘they’ asked why he didn’t hide his ill gained assets as they probably NEVER would have caught him if he hadn’t flaunted it.
His answer - What fun is having it if you can’t share it or show it off.
BTW when the Feds took over the Strip Club, it was a successful operation and I think their idea was to make it like a giant ‘sting operation BUT they ended up losing money...
JUST more proof that the Government can’t even run a ‘girly bar’ without losing money.
Hmmmm....19 yr old and he didn’t try to outrun the cops?
Amazing!
Mohanned Halaweh, 19, arrested Wednesday after he was pulled over driving the 2012 McLaren coupe
High school basketball player arrested after stealing a credit card to rent a $240,000 McLaren sportscar and a $12million vacation home
Seriously, what doofus agency lets anyone rent a $240,000 sports car?
Did the reporter even notice that it was reported stolen?
Can we throw grand theft auto on the crime wagon?
When they unwind this joker’s crimes, we will find a long list of other credit card frauds associated with him. He better change his name to Goat because that’s what he will be in prison.
Yes. You are given the red carpet treatment. I would think, however, that the cc had an Arabic name on it, not something like Tim O'Brien.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.