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Jun 19, 2009 
Yesterday, agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Tallahassee Regional Operations Center, the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Florida Department of Corrections’ Inspector General’s Office charged Jerry G. Batson Jr., 29, for operating a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), identity theft, and grand theft.
The case began in September 2006 when a Calhoun Correctional Institution prison inspector discovered suspicious conversations among several inmates during random telephone monitoring. The Florida Department of Corrections contacted FDLE for investigative assistance.
Investigators allege Batson would obtain personal information from other inmates to complete IRS tax refund forms and then mail the forms to one of his family members. That family member would then mail the completed forms to the IRS. Once the family member received the tax refunds back from the IRS, structured deposits would be made to Batson’s inmate canteen account.
Batson was charged with one count of an organized scheme to defraud more than $50,000, five counts of identify theft and one count of grand theft over $20,000. Batson faces a maximum 120 year prison sentence if convicted on all charges.
Batson remains an inmate of the Florida Department of Corrections. This case will be prosecuted by the State Attorney’s Office, 14th Judicial Circuit.
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