Busted by Facebook Post!

Hey there! You're just in time for a fresh mug of Arabica and a virtual treat. Help yourself! Say...you may have read about Rashia Wilson on Facebook...if'n fact you're one of their kazillion readers. Rashia Wilson's life had spectators. For more than a year, investigators watched her.

They read her Facebook posts, including this one on May 22:
"I'm Rashia, the queen of IRS tax fraud. … I'm a millionaire for the record. So if you think that indicting me will be easy, it won't. I promise you. I won't do no time, dumb b------."

U.S. Marshals arrested Wilson on a weapons charge brought by IRS-Criminal Investigations. In an affidavit, IRS-CI special agent Gary W. Smedley said investigators found a .22-caliber Walther beneath Wilson's mattress, a cellphone photo of her with a pink firearm and a Facebook image of her with the Taurus at Shooting Sports Inc.

Wilson, 26, who has prior felony convictions for grand theft and burglary, is not permitted to own a gun, said Smedley, who testified at a preliminary hearing Friday afternoon.


It quickly turned to tax fraud when private defense attorney Timothy J. Fitzgerald asked that Wilson be allowed to post bail, a move opposed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara C. Sweeney.

The prosecutor read Wilson's tax-fraud millionaire Facebook post aloud in court. She said Wilson may well have been involved in the theft of $1 million.

"Ms. Wilson is clearly very skilled at identity theft," Sweeney said. She told Magistrate Judge Thomas G. Wilson that defendant Wilson had been throwing around a "staggering" amount of money and had talked about getting out of town.

Investigators found evidence at Wilson's home that fraudulent tax returns may have been filed within the past week, Sweeney said. Printouts of medical records, dated Sept. 14, contained notations that appeared to be about tax filings.

The search Wednesday turned up thousands of ID numbers and 40 reloadable debit cards. The gun charge against Wilson arose after a two-year, multiagency investigation of tax fraud in Tampa, which drew on the efforts of the Tampa Police Department, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Secret Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

She has been arrested 40 times since age 12, but has never gone to state prison.

The judge denied bail. Wilson left in shackles.

Whoa! Now there's one naughty lady!

See ya, eh!

Bob