A Leesburg woman’s scheme to use a man friend’s tools to obtain baseball cards resulted in her arrest Tuesday afternoon.
The man friend arrived at his Fruitland Park property in time to see two men loading his tools and other property into a trailer. He was able to block the truck and attached trailer so the men could not leave the property. The man called the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and a deputy responded to his home in the 800 block of Berryhill Circle.
The deputy questioned the two men and was told that 50-year-old Meghan Simpson Borsher had traded the items that they put in the trailer for their baseball card collection. One of the men showed the officer a series of messages on his phone which showed Borsher negotiating the transfer of items she claimed were hers in exchange for the baseball cards.
When Borsher was questioned by the deputy, she claimed that the owner of the baseball cards gave them to her. She could not explain why she sent pictures of the tools and items that did not belong to her to the man with the baseball card collection.
Borsher was placed under arrest for scheming to defraud and theft by deception. She was taken to the Lake County Jail where bond was set at $4,000.
