A phone call an Athens-Clarke County officer told him to make ended up unraveling a relationship a Georgia man had believed was real, according to a police report detailed by People. What started as a routine response to a family dispute turned into an identity fraud investigation that police say has since uncovered additional alleged victims across multiple states.
The man had been in an online relationship with a woman he knew as “Hailey Morello,” a Florida sheriff’s deputy he’d never actually met in person. Per the outlet, he reportedly sent her money and let her borrow his car, with investigators alleging Mills and the victim exchanged vehicles as part of the scheme
