COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – Columbus police have arrested a couple and on 137 charges including identity theft and burglary.
After several months of investigating, police arrested Cortez Porter and Amanda Burse.
Police also recovered more than $86,000 worth of stolen property.
Porter was charged with the following:
- Entering an auto
- Multiple thefts by taking of a motor vehicle
- Several financial transaction card thefts, and frauds
- Theft by deceptions
- Theft by receiving stolen property
- Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
- Possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime
- Possession of marijuana
- Several counts of burglary
Burse was charged with the following offenses:
- Multiple counts of entering an auto
- Several counts of financial transaction card fraud and theft
- Identity fraud
- Theft by receiving stolen property
- Criminal trespass burglary
- Theft by deception
Both suspects were taken to the Muscogee County Jail.