Fans detain man accused of selling bogus tickets to UM-Indiana title game: cops
A man was arrested Monday night after he stole $5,000 from a woman who bought what turned out to be bogus tickets from him for the College Football Playoff National Championship at Hard Rock Stadium, according to police.
An off-duty police officer working security at the game between the Miami Hurricanes and Indiana Hoosiers was flagged down by the woman, who pointed to fans holding the man in one of the stadium’s parking lots, the officer wrote in the report.
The woman told the officer that Eddie Hudson, 65, and another man not named in the report approached her and offered her two tickets for $5,000, the report states.
She transferred the money to Hudson though the Venmo cash app. Hudson then texted her a photo of the fake tickets and ran into the crowd, according to the report. The woman tried to verify the tickets’ authenticity through Ticketmaster as Hudson kept moving away from her, the report states.
The officer said he arrested Hudson “without incident.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, Hudson was jailed on a $2,500 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on one count of grand theft.
