Life lesson - In case you're not aware
I'll relate my recent experience for those of you that are unaware of some "new" policy with credit cards. We made a recent trip from our home in the Dallas area to Carlsbad N.M. These transaction...
Forum Discussion
msmith1199 wrote:
FormerBoater: "My comment that local law enforcement is typically not involved is due to jurisdiction issues. Perhaps a "lone wolf" perpetrator of credit card fraud may fall within the local law enforcement jurisdiction, but typically organized crime is going to cross state lines and fall into federal jurisdiction."
Nope. Just because something crosses state lines doesn't take it out of the hand of local law enforcement. In fact crossing the state lines does bring in the potential for Federal involvement, however, that does not remove any jurisdiction from local law enforcement. And jurisdiction can be established in a lot of ways. Lets say I live in California and somebody compromises my credit card and uses it in Miami. Both California and Florida have jurisdiction on the matter, however, it would normally fall to Florida. There have been cases of people being prosecuted for violating a State law when they never even sat foot in that state. California went have mortgage fraudsters on the east coast who ripped off victims in California. Issued warrants and had them extradited to California to stand trial.
"typically not involved", not never involved.
