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Just days before the Fourth of July, a fireworks fraud scheme fizzled out when the suspect walked back into the same Hialeah store he’d allegedly ripped off, police said.<\/p>\n

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Santiago Prieto, 20, was arrested Monday on an organized scheme to defraud charge, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the owner of Samurai Fireworks on West 62nd Street said earlier in the month a man had picked up multiple orders of fireworks that were later found to have been purchased with fraudulent credit cards.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, an employee of Samauri Fireworks said Prieto stepped into the store and he recognized him as the man who had picked up the previous orders, the report said.<\/p>\n

When the same payment card was flagged for an additional online order, the employee immediately contacted law enforcement and officers responded to take Prieto into custody, the report said.<\/p>\n

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The store reported a total financial loss of $2,277.60 from Prieto’s actions. <\/p>\n

Prieto was arrested and booked into jail and later bonded out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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