Christian Mosco filed a fake document via computer using prosecutors’ identification in an attempt to drop criminal charges against himself.





DAYTONA BEACH — Christian Eugene Mosco came up with what appeared to be a sure fire way to win his criminal case in which he was accused of threatening or extorting Jon Hall Chevrolet, a report said. Mosco declined to file criminal charges against himself, the report said.

Only problem is Mosco can’t do that, for at least two very important reasons. First, he is the person charged with the crime, and second, Mosco is not a prosecutor, or even a lawyer.

Mosco, 47, is now facing a slew of additional felony charges that could send him to prison for decades, including impersonating a prosecutor and practicing law without a license. Mosco is listed as a transient in an arrest report but his current home is the Volusia County Branch Jail, where he is being held without bail.

Those charges are on top of the second-degree felony Mosco was already charged with of threats or extortion after investigators said he emailed Jon Hall Chevrolet in Daytona Beach in May 2019 and demanded $50,000 and a 2019 Chevy Malibu in exchange for not revealing two years-worth of sales-records containing customer’s Social Security numbers.

Mosco said he found the records but Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood told a TV station at the time that he believed the records were stolen.

Mosco was arrested and charged with threats in the Jon Hall case.

On Sept. 26 an "announcement of no information" was filed in Mosco’s case. An announcement of no information means that prosecutors have decided not to file charges against someone.

But Laura Panzarino, an employee in the office of Volusia County Clerk of the Circuit Court Laura Roth’s, saw the filing the next day and thought the "no info" announcement was suspicious because prosecutors had already filed "an information" against Mosco, meaning they had charged him.

The correct document would have instead been a nolle prosequi, meaning prosecutors had dropped the charges.

The correct document would have also been filed by an actual prosecutor and not Mosco.

Panzarino alerted prosecutors.

Mosco used the names and Florida Bar numbers of prosecutors Danielle Fields and Andrew Urbanak to file the fraudulent "no information," according to a charging affidavit.

Mosco got a copy of a no information from someone else’s case and fraudulently altered it, the affidavit said. Then Mosco digitally filed the document via the Florida Courts E-Filing portal, the report states.

Mosco fraudulently created a user account by using Urbanak’s information. He used Fields’ information on the no information document.

There is now an authentic information filed in Mosco’s court records by Assistant State Attorney Sarah Thomas.

Thomas has charged Mosco with two counts of falsely impersonating a prosecutor, each a second-degree felony; practicing law without authority, a third-degree felony; two counts of fraudulent use of identification, each a third-degree felony; fraudulently acting as a state attorney, a third-degree felony; and uttering a forgery in the form of a fake no information, a third-degree felony.

Each second-degree felony is punishable by up to 15 years in prison and each third-degree by up to five years in prison.

Seventh Circuit State Attorney R.J. Larizza said he had never heard of a case in which someone had filed a fraudulent document through the court’s online system. But Larizza said the system has been adjusted, so someone could not pull the same thing again.

"He was able to finagle and trick the system into allowing him to file the document," Larizza said.

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