SEBRING, Fla. (WFLA) — A Sebring woman faces a whopping 49 charges after her arrest on Monday.
Jessica Ann Manning, 33 was already wanted for 25 counts of illegally using a credit card when police found her in on Monday, running through an orange grove behind a Walmart.
When deputies tried to arrest Manning, she resisted and was taken to the ground.
As a result, the charges stacked up.
Police tacked on additional charges of resisting arrest and trespassing in a citrus grove.
They also found two purses in her possession containing her driver’s license, two syringes and a plastic pen tube with traces of methamphetamine.
Inside one of the purses was a stolen credit card that had been used a number of times in rapid succession. It was charged successfully for $204.49 with a false signature; declined five times at Walmart for amounts under $709.00 and declined once again at a Murphy’s express nearby.
She now faces an additional seven counts of identity theft, as well as grand theft, two counts of theft of a credit card, one count of fraud and one count of forgery.
Manning is up against the following charges:
- 32 counts of identity theft (25 of them against a person over 60)
- 3 counts of theft of a credit card (misdemeanor)
- 2 counts of grand theft
- 2 counts of fraud
- 2 counts of possession of a controlled substance
- 2 counts of resisting arrest without violence (misdemeanor)
- Illegal use of a credit card
- Forgery
- Trespassing in a citrus grove
- Possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor)
- Smuggling contraband into the jail
- Tampering with evidence
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