SANTA ANA, Calif.—A former Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy previously indicted on multiple felony charges has been charged with allegedly stealing a dead woman’s credit cards and attempting to use them to make several thousands of dollars worth of purchases. Steve Hortz, of San Dimas, responded on Aug. 19, 2020, to the woman’s Yorba Linda home for a welfare check and found her dead inside, said Orange County District Attorney’s Office Public Information Officer Kimberly Edds. While at the home, Hortz allegedly stole three credit cards and later used them to make thousands of dollars worth of unauthorized online purchases, though most of the purchases were declined. Hortz, who was arrested last September on unrelated charges, was charged Friday with four felony counts of attempted grand theft and one felony count each of identity theft and grand theft embezzlement, Edds said. He faces a maximum sentence of four years and …
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