{"id":51698,"date":"2021-12-17T18:47:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T23:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=51698"},"modified":"2021-12-17T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T23:48:37","slug":"employee-of-avis-budget-at-rsw-arrested-for-grand-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/12\/employee-of-avis-budget-at-rsw-arrested-for-grand-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee of Avis\/Budget at RSW arrested for grand theft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alicia Leon, 20, Avis\/Budget employee was arrested on Thursday for grand theft stealing money from her employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/leon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51699\" width=\"256\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/leon.png 425w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/leon-255x300.png 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>According to a Lee County Port Authority report<\/strong>, Alicia Leon was accepting payments for car rentals through Apple Pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money was staying in her bank account instead of being transferred to the Avis\/Budget Group at Southwest Florida International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, a customer attempted to rent a vehicle but did not have a credit card. Authorities said that\u2019s when Leon began taking payments through Apple Pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leon would scan the vehicle as returned. She would then go into the system and modify the rental agreement to show it was extended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least one customer believed the transactions were allowed. But the company attempted to account for a vehicle and reported it stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On one occasion, one renter was pulled over and showed the rental agreement to authorities. The renter also showed text messages to Leon about extending the rental and the payments sent through Apple Pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avis\/Budget suffered a loss of $7,479 in rental fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia Leon, 20, Avis\/Budget employee was arrested on Thursday for grand theft stealing money from her employer. According to a Lee County Port Authority report, Alicia Leon was accepting payments&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51700,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51698\/revisions\/51700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}