Bad Cop: Orlando cop accused of felonies turns himself in
Orlando police Officer Wendell Robey was a high-school resource officer who moonlighted at Universal Orlando.
Investigators said he had another side business: illegal Universal and Walt Disney World ticket sales on the classified advertising website craigslist.com.
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Investigators said he had another side business: illegal Universal and Walt Disney World ticket sales on the classified advertising website craigslist.com.
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On Friday, Robey, 40, and his wife, Shaton, 35, surrendered at the Orange County jail on several felony and misdemeanor charges relating to the business, including grand theft, trafficking in stolen property and identity theft. Court documents released Friday show Robey, his wife, two employees at the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal and an employee of another business were the subject of an undercover investigation by the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation that lasted several months. The couple began selling Wendell Robey's free employee tickets, marked "not for sale," about Sept. 1. Then they began buying and selling other tickets, express-line passes and parking passes. A bellman at the Hard Rock Hotel sold them room keys that could be used to avoid standing in line at Universal and to park for free at the hotel. The Robeys resold the tickets in the parking lot of a tourist-area TGI Friday's — which is not implicated. In at least one instance, Shaton Robey brought her twin toddlers with her, documents show. Unknown to the Robeys, they sold items to a Universal Orlando detective and MBI investigators, from whom they also bought tickets. Shaton Robey told authorities the couple earned $10,000 to $15,000 a year from ticket sales. Messages left on Wendell Robey's telephone Friday were not returned. On Wednesday, when the charges came to light, he would not comment. The couple cooperated with investigators. |
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