Not the sharpest pair of tools in the shed.
Via The Smoking Gun:
An ex-con is facing felony charges after she used a stolen credit card to bail out a woman locked up in a Florida jail, police charge. According to court filings, Lakeisha Brisbane, 46, used the victim’s Visa card in three separate transactions–totaling $850–with a Clearwater bail bonds company.
Brisbane, seen at right, used the stolen credit card to bail out Shermaine Arnold, a 21-year-old female acquaintance being held in the Pinellas County lockup, cops allege.
Arnold, records show, was jailed in November for ditching out on a $62.21 Yellow Cab fare. But since she also had an outstanding warrant in connection with a felony battery case in Miami-Dade county, her bond was set at $7500.
Arnold, pictured left, spent a week in custody before Brisbane went into 49th Street Bail Bonds carrying a credit card “issued in the name of elderly male victim,” a criminal complaint charges. Brisbane signed several sales receipts, a “multitude of other paperwork,” and allowed the firm to photocopy her driver’s license.
Court filings do not explain how Brisbane was allowed to make charges on a Visa card in someone else’s name.
Brisbane, who is scheduled for a court appearance today, was arrested Thursday on grand theft and credit card fraud charges, both felonies. She was released on $10,000 bond, which was posted by a second Clearwater firm, P-Freddie Dixon Bail Bonds.