A 41-year-old man accused of siphoning more than $340,000 from his ailing father's accounts over two years was booked into the Broward County Main Jail after being extradited from North Carolina, where deputies caught up with him during a traffic stop. Brandon Jamal Foeman now faces two first-degree felony counts of exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult involving $100,000 or more, tied to allegations that he abused power of attorney privileges his father had granted him ahead of several surgeries.
According to WPLG Local 10, whose reporter Andrea Torres detailed the case, Foeman's father gave him legal authority to act on his behalf before undergoing multiple surgeries, including an amputation. A detective affidavit cited by the outlet alleges Foeman used that authority to open a joint Citibank checking and savings account while his father was hospitalized, then used it to move money out of his father's accounts.
Investigators say the scheme unfolded between 2021 and 2023, per the affidavit, with Foeman allegedly transferring about $159,000 in Miami GESE pension payments and over $57,495 in Social Security payments belonging to his father. Detectives also allege he moved roughly $30,000 in employee pension payments during the same span. The joint checking account reportedly showed thousands of dollars in what the affidavit describes as suspicious expenditures.
Checks Deposited While Father Was Hospitalized
Foeman also deposited two checks drawn on a Florida Innovations & Technologies LLC account into the joint savings account, according to the affidavit, totaling about $94,000. That company was previously owned by Foeman's father and his business partner and had conducted international business transactions. The affidavit alleges his father never signed or authorized those deposited checks, and that they were issued while he was hospitalized.
Detectives allege the money didn't go toward his father's care. The station's report notes Foeman is accused of spending funds at restaurants while his father was hospitalized, on trips to Cancun, Mexico, in both 2021 and 2022, and on pets his father did not own.
Warrant Led to Arrest During North Carolina Traffic Stop
A Broward County judge issued a warrant with a bond hold on January 15, 2026, and Broward Sheriff's Office deputies later arrested Foeman. Broward County Circuit Judge Michael Lynch was set to preside over the case. Foeman was ultimately taken into custody roughly seven months later, on July 29, when the Randolph County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina announced deputies had apprehended him during a traffic stop after receiving notice from Florida authorities.
A North Carolina magistrate set a $700,000 secured bond and ordered electronic house arrest upon release, according to the Randolph County Sheriff's Office, pending an extradition hearing the agency said was scheduled for July 31. Foeman was then booked into the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale to face the pending charges.
Prior Federal Firearm Case Surfaces in Background
Court records reviewed separately show Foeman has a criminal history beyond the current allegations. In August 2014, a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida indicted a then-28-year-old Brandon Jamal Foeman on a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, part of a multi-defendant case connected to an investigation into the Almighty Imperial Gangsters Nation street gang, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which unsealed the indictment against six South Florida defendants at the time.
What the Felony Charges Carry Under Florida Law
Exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult involving $100,000 or more is a first-degree felony in Florida. Under Florida Statute § 825.103, exploitation involving assets of $50,000 or more carries a statutory maximum of up to 30 years in state prison, according to Online Sunshine. Florida law also permits prosecutors to aggregate separate transfers made as part of a single course of conduct to reach those felony thresholds, per the Sammis Law Firm, which is how pension deposits, Social Security payments, and corporate account transfers can be combined into a single major charge.
The same firm notes that Florida Statute § 775.15(10) sets a five-year statute of limitations from the time an offense is committed for prosecutors to bring elder exploitation charges under Florida Statute § 825.103, a window relevant given the alleged transfers span 2021 through 2023. Separately, under Florida's sentencing guidelines, a conviction for elder exploitation involving $50,000 or more carries a recommended mandatory minimum of 34.5 months in state prison for a defendant with no prior score points, absent grounds for a downward departure, according to the Law Office of Richard Hornsby.
A Recurring Pattern in Broward County
Cases like Foeman's are not isolated in South Florida. Hoodline has previously reported on a Deerfield Beach elder exploitation case involving power of attorney abuse, as well as a Parkland investor accused of exploiting a disabled Hollywood senior. Florida's Department of Children and Families Adult Protective Services unit fielded 52,858 elder abuse investigations statewide during the 2015-2016 fiscal year alone, with financial exploitation accounting for 11,200 of those cases, according to the Legacy Planning Law Group. More recent reporting from WUSF indicates state caseworkers continue to field tens of thousands of elder safety and financial exploitation complaints each year, stepping in when vulnerable adults cannot protect their own assets.
Florida law requires anyone with knowledge or reasonable suspicion of elder financial exploitation to report it to the Florida Department of Children and Families Abuse Hotline at 1-800-962-2873, which triggers a requirement for Adult Protective Services to begin an investigation within 24 hours, according to the Sketchley Law Firm. Reports can be made anonymously at any time by family members or financial institutions. It remains unclear whether any of the roughly $340,000 in allegedly diverted funds has been recovered, or how the unauthorized transfers first came to light.
