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MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - A woman faces felony theft charges after lying about being an evacuee from New Orleans, receiving $1,300 from the Red Cross and getting a good Samaritan to take her into her home, authorities said.
Beretta Jo Hogg, 36, of Lithonia, went to an American Red Cross shelter for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina last week in Marietta and told officials she and her 8-year-old son had lost everything in the hurricane, Cobb County police officer Wayne Delk said.
She filled out paperwork and left the shelter with $1,300.
Later a woman who felt sorry for Hogg and the boy took them into her home. But while Hogg was sleeping, the woman talked to the boy, who told her he attended a school in Stone Mountain, police said. The woman then called authorities and Hogg was brought to the Cobb County Jail on Saturday.
Hogg, who has been charged with theft by deception, remained in jail Tuesday in lieu of $2,850 bond.
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - A woman faces felony theft charges after lying about being an evacuee from New Orleans, receiving $1,300 from the Red Cross and getting a good Samaritan to take her into her home, authorities said.
Beretta Jo Hogg, 36, of Lithonia, went to an American Red Cross shelter for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina last week in Marietta and told officials she and her 8-year-old son had lost everything in the hurricane, Cobb County police officer Wayne Delk said.
She filled out paperwork and left the shelter with $1,300.
Later a woman who felt sorry for Hogg and the boy took them into her home. But while Hogg was sleeping, the woman talked to the boy, who told her he attended a school in Stone Mountain, police said. The woman then called authorities and Hogg was brought to the Cobb County Jail on Saturday.
Hogg, who has been charged with theft by deception, remained in jail Tuesday in lieu of $2,850 bond.