A 46-year-old man from Big Pine Key, Florida, was apprehended this week in Miami-Dade County after a Sheriff’s Office investigation into a series of unfulfilled fishing charters.
Brandon Ray Henley now faces charges of grand theft, multiple counts of petit theft, and organized fraud. Several victims reported booking fishing trips with Henley in the Florida Keys, only to be left high and dry when he failed to show up for the charters.
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The Sheriff’s Office collaborated with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the U.S. Marshals Service to track down Henley, who was found on a derelict vessel in Miami-Dade County.
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