MIAMI – A tussle over a stolen backpack at Casino Miami Monday morning led cops to bust a man with more than two dozen stolen credit, ID and Social Security cards, according to an arrest report.
According to Miami police, the victim went looking for his backpack after it got stolen while he slept on a bus bench at Northwest 27th Avenue and 54th Street.
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Police said he then got a phone notification from Chase Bank: Someone was trying to use his debit card at Casino Miami.
He went to the casino, located at 3500 NW 37th Ave. near the Miami International Airport, to try to track down the culprit, the report states.
There, police said, he spotted Delawrence Anthony Brown, 33, of Liberty City, with his stolen backpack.
Just before 8:15 a.m., a fight ensued over the backpack and a Miami police officer working an off-duty detail at the casino broke the pair up, the arrest report states.
Police said the victim got his backpack back, but his wallet wasn’t inside as expected.
According to the arrest report, officers found the man’s wallet on Brown after a pat-down.
Subsequent searches revealed everything from multiple credit, debit and Social Security cards, to a man’s New York driver’s license, multiple Miami-Dade Transit cards, a Wawa Rewards card and health and dental cards.
Police said they also found various identifications belonging to a Bahamasair worker, who said his luggage had been “mistakenly checked-in by the airline” and then stolen after arriving at MIA.
Officials redacted an alleged confession from the report.
Brown faces 23 counts of unlawful possession of a stolen credit card, nine counts of possession of a stolen or fictitious driver’s license, unlawful possession of five or more identifications and fraudulent use of a credit card.
According to jail records, he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on an $11,500 bond.