A couple was arrested for stealing credit cards and making hundreds of dollars in purchases. And one of the suspects will be familiar to Central Floridians.
Zenaida Gonzalez and Jonattan Acevedo were arrested Wednesday in Orlando for credit card theft and grand theft.
Detectives in Osceola County say they got a complaint in December about suspicious credit card transactions.
Detectives say between Dec. 12 and 14, the victim’s credit card was used at Home Depot, Walmart, RaceTrac, Sports Authority and 7-Eleven stores in Kissimmee, totaling $850 in purchases.
Detectives say Gonzalez and Acevedo knew the victim because they all lived and worked at the same motel.
Ties to Casey Anthony case
Zenaida Gonzalez (left) and Casey Anthony.
The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said Gonzalez is the same woman who sued Casey Anthony for defamation in 2008 related to the disappearance and death of Anthony’s daughter, Caylee.
Anthony told investigators that she had left the toddler with a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez, aka “Zanny the Nanny.”
Gonzalez said Anthony’s claim ruined her life. Anthony initially said while a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez took Caylee, Gonzalez was not that woman.
A bankruptcy judge ruled in Sept. 2015 that Gonzalez’s claim that Casey Anthony purposely linked her to Caylee Anthony’s death had no evidence.
That meant Gonzalez would not get any money from Anthony if she moved forward with her defamation lawsuit, because Anthony had declared bankruptcy.