GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Detectives in Clay and several other Northeast Florida counties are investigating a St. Augustine man accused of using his cleaning company’s access to businesses, including two golf courses, to steal personal information from their customers.
The owner of Mr. Janitor, Jonathan William Morris II faces multiple felony counts in Clay County alone, including use of ID of another without their consent, fraudulent use of ID and uttering forged bills, according to Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrest reports.
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There are at least 20 victims of identity theft in Clay County and the amount stolen is at least $10,000, the Sheriff’s Office said. All the Clay County victims had accounts on file at the Eagle Harbor Golf Club where Mr. Janitor was contracted to do cleaning, according to an arrest affidavit.
The man is accused of using the stolen identities between March and September to open Capital One credit card accounts. Most of the accounts were immediately identified as fraudulent and closed, but investigators determined the accounts were created using Internet addresses connected to Mr. Janitor’s Comcast account at a St. Augustine address, the affidavit says.
Other applications were filled out from an AT&T account at another St. Augustine address in the name of “Morris Hines.” Morris’ name previously was Morris Hines before he had it legally changed to Jonathan William Morris II, the affidavit says.
Morris was initially arrested in October on identity theft charges in both Clay and St. Johns County. He was arrested Dec. 7 on additional charges. He remains free on $200,000 bond while awaiting a pre-trial hearing in January, court records show.
The cleaning service was also used at Selva Marina Country Club in Atlantic Beach, the affidavit says.
“The investigations in all three jurisdictions are ongoing and additional charges are pending,” said Mary Justino, Clay County Sheriff’s Office public information officer. “In a nutshell, he used his access to the various companies’ offices to obtain personal financial information that could be used to commit ID theft and financial fraud.”
