They called us saying that you came here with two different IDs, gave a fraudulent ID, you're trying to get a bunch of equipment. He actually did obtain phones from these guys, which is about seven grand in loss on our part. Yeah, so >> Seven Four tablets, three phones? On July 16th, 2025, officers with the Lady Lake Police Department in Florida responded to an Xfinity store after reports of a man allegedly using fake IDs to buy Apple products. But what first looked like a simple fraud call would soon unfold into a multi-state identity scam >> [music] >> with tens of thousands of dollars already stolen in Apple merchandise. Hey, tell me your name and your ID here for this. Yeah. It's a black guy right in there in the He just walked in? No, he's been in there. He's sitting on the second table to the right. Okay, so what's going on with him? He's got a fraudulent ID. He came here with one ID trying to get three three iPhone 16 Pro Maxes and like four iPads. Okay. He came here with one ID and then came back with another one. The black guy on the second table on the That's how you found him? Talk with him. That's why we had him stuck outside. Can I step inside of the traffic lane real quick? Yeah. All right. Hey, little buddy. Pretty good. Pretty good. All right, so they they called us um We don't know you. We don't know them. So they called us saying that you came here with different IDs. Mhm. Um gave a fraudulent ID, you're trying to get a bunch of equipment. So that's why we're here. I don't know my ID. I'm okay. I started service over in Phoenix. Moving down here Arizona. I don't know. Do you have the ID with you? We run it, it's good. I mean, we're ready to help, brother. The man seen here was later identified as 42-year-old Joe Don Philip. And from the moment officers saw him, they knew he wasn't your run-of-the-mill scammer. He was calm, confident, and calculated. But beneath that smooth exterior was a man who'd been playing identity hopscotch across several states. And this time, he'd finally slipped up. You're from Phoenix? Yeah. And um Can you after you search or whatever can you write like a note for Case number? that this happened? Yeah, I'll give you a case number. Lady Lake 358 kind of Arizona deal. You have that everything, they called, who called, um all that. Yeah. I just moved. I definitely moved. Can't swim over here. Where's your home? From Arizona? Yeah. I'm in Orlando right now, but You moving right now or you going to move to No, I should be transferred in like Friday next Friday. Transferred Like the service Hold on. Okay, I got So you had service in Arizona with Xfinity? Yeah. Okay. I'm relocating pretty much everything down here to Florida. As officers dug deeper into Philip's story, they stepped inside to speak with store staff. And what the employees revealed left them stunned. What information did he come in with last time? He solved this. He gave you got it pulled up here. Can I see your week? Can I have that for me? Yeah. Absolutely. So he brought a Maryland license last time, this this time. Did he obtain Did he obtain anything last time or No, we didn't allow him to cuz we have a bolo for him from Leesburg. He's attempting to go to Leesburg as well, which I can provide you that bolo as well. If you could print that out for me. Yeah. I'll be right back. >> Can you look him up in Carol Stream? It's vague. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I can't get nothing. What's his good name? Yeah. Give me the ID. Can you print that up for me? That's all I need. So just just to give you some information cuz I'm on the phone with security. So he actually did obtain phones from Leesburg, which is about seven grand in loss on our part. Yeah, so Let me go ahead and grab that ID and hopefully we can Hey, Lieutenant Green, you want to I mean, what's his name that he said he used? He said Did you get a phone number? No, not yet. Can you bring that out to him? Did you get a phone number? No. All right. Team wise Mhm? What? Can't get a positive ID on him. Yeah. Any of these frauding any fraud obtaining phones by It turned out that it had all begun weeks earlier. Store employees recalled a man matching Philip's description walking in and introducing himself as Nathan Minnick from Maryland. He said he'd just moved, needed mobile service, and wanted to buy three iPhones and four iPads, all top-of-the-line models with maximum storage. The urgency in his tone raised eyebrows, but staff followed company policy and ran his Maryland license. When the system flagged it as invalid, he quickly left the store. Hours later, he returned again, this time calling himself Scott Mantle and providing an Ohio driver's license. That one passed verification. And just like that, he walked out with $6,789 worth of Apple products, all bought under a stolen identity. Fast forward to July 16th, and Philip had clearly run out of luck. All right, boss man. Um I'm going to need your right hand. So right now, you currently are detained, all right? Just letting you know. Can I ask you a question? Um right now, false information and um false IDs. So you're saying false ID. You can put your hand out for a second. I'm going to need your right index finger and your right middle finger. All right, show us your right hand now. Huh? The bigger one? It's on my arms. You can get a second pair. We'll get you a second pair. Stretch it out more. Do you want to give your real name now or do you want to keep playing the game? And they've already seen a Maryland driver's license for you. An Ohio driver's license? An Ohio driver's license that you used. Leesburg has a bolo put out because you $7,000? $7,000 of phones from their store. That's today's. Seven net, four tablets, three phones? What's your offer? While some officers searched Philip and discovered multiple fake IDs and credit cards in his wallet, others worked with store staff to gather evidence and piece together the growing fraud case. Oh, definitely. All right, so did y'all's Leesburg store report it to the police? Did the Leesburg store report it to the police you guys asked? The officer No, they did not. Are they going to? Are they going to report it to the police? They weren't cuz they said an ID, the guy so they didn't know if it was him for sure. So they said he hasn't he hasn't they haven't done it yet, but he's Yeah, you definitely got proof now. Yeah, yeah. So I would definitely have them Did he produce a Florida license there? No, this we're not sure if that's the same. But that definitely is. >> Yeah, that's the first red flag, 96. >> Oh, yeah, 100% that's what my rep said. My rep said 96, that guy does not look like that. That is him? Perfect. So this is him. There you go, print that one out for me. Oh, with an Ohio license. All right, yeah. Can you print that out for Um yeah, they need to get that fixed. They need to call Leesburg like now and tell them Lady Lake's out with the guy And to to go ahead and So they need to call Leesburg police right now and tell them Lady Lake's out with the guy Okay, so he's doing the same thing here. Officer's saying that they they they need to you guys need to contact uh Leesburg Police Department and say that we got the gentleman that took that seven grand from that store. And he's Okay. So it's two dudes at the Leesburg I don't Yeah. Okay. And there it is. Other name is blurred out. They do it on the I don't know. All right, yeah, if y'all they need to call Leesburg like right now and tell them that Lady Lake Police is out with the subject >> Okay, cool. trying to do the same thing here. So seven grand in Leesburg, he hasn't got nothing from y'all, but he's tried twice. >> tried he was trying to get four tablets and three phones. It's a red flag, too. >> Yeah. All needed numbers, no transfers Yeah, everything was new. Did you did you know what colors they were? I wanted to get you the best model that you had. Of course, resale. Yeah. What was that again? All right, we're going to get his real ID here in just a minute. Okay, no problem. Um plus my my lieutenant's about to pull in. Okay, cool. Um one of our detectives is about to be here. >> Okay, yeah, I'm out there now. I'll be out on the floor. Okay. Yeah, I hang out here cuz I get stopped by customers every All right. Leesburg police should be getting a call from the Xfinity store in their city for this the same subject where he produced an Ohio license there obtaining $7,000 worth of product. So far, we have three different out-of-state licenses for this guy, all different names. In the end, Philip was charged with two counts of fraudulent use of personal identification information, two counts of unauthorized possession of a driver's license, dealing in credit cards of another, and providing a false ID to a law enforcement officer. His bond was set at $11,000.