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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Housekeeper who ripped off Liberty Park client sentenced in second credit card theft case

Betsy Juanita Felske

A housecleaner who ripped off a Village of Liberty Park woman has been sentenced after stealing a credit card for the second time.

Betsy Juanita Felske, 33, of Eustis, was sentenced June 18 in Sumter County Court to 359 days in jail.

She was arrested after taking a Mastercard from a 64-year-old Villager and purchasing $921.43 in merchandise on March 6 at Ross Dress for Less in Apopka. A second purchase at Babies-R-Us in Altamonte Springs was declined, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.

Video obtained from Ross Dress for Less showed two women making the purchase. A detective phoned Felske and told her that there was probable cause for her arrest. Felske offered the name of her accomplice, if it “would help her stay out of jail,” the arrest report said. Felske later surrendered at the sheriff’s Public Safety Center on Powell Road in Wildwood.

She was already on three years probation in a Lake County case.

In that case, which occurred in 2017, she stole the credit card of a Lady Lake client who was described by law enforcement as “frail” and “elderly.”

Felske allegedly ran up a total of $982.12 in charges, including ordering a Samsung Galaxy cell phone and two cases from Amazon.

She had been arrested a month earlier after she allegedly stole jewelry from another client and pawned it.

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