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This is a summary of reporting published by wcjb.com on August 25, 2026. It was not written by Georgia Prisoners’ Speak. GPS tracks coverage of Georgia’s prison system so the record stays in one place. The full article is on wcjb.com’s own site.
A Marion County, Florida, sheriff’s investigation alleges that Patrick Marquelle Turner, 31, used a contraband cellphone while incarcerated at the Wheeler Correctional Facility in Georgia to scam an elderly resident. According to deputies, the victim was contacted via caller ID spoofed as the “Marion County Sheriff’s Office,” told he had missed jury duty, and coerced into depositing $5,600 into a cryptocurrency ATM. Investigators linked eight transactions across multiple accounts to Turner, and he was extradited Monday from the Georgia Department of Corrections to Marion County, where he was booked into the Marion County Jail. He faces charges of grand theft, defrauding a person older than 65, money laundering, using a communication device in a felony, and impersonating an officer.
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