Indianapolis TV station Fox 59 reports a local woman is claiming that a credit card fraud allegation against her is the result of her being outed as the mistress of Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne.
(Woman has photos, receipts related to trysts with the married Wayne)
Recently 15 FBI agents raided 26 year-old Natasha McKenzie’s home, taking many of her belongings after she was suspected of stealing Wayne’s Huntington Bank debit card and charging nearly $100,000 on it.
The raid was spurred by a police report filed by Wayne last month:
A police report filed in April said Wayne was contacted by a department store about an attempted transaction and he learned that up to 333 charges had been made on the account since September.
The report said Wayne didn’t know how the woman got the number.
McKenzie told Fox 59 she was blindsided by the raid, saying, “Reggie gave me all of his credit card information I still have a record of everything he gave me.“
More:
Statements show from December 2009 to April 2010, McKenzie used the card to pay her phone, insurance and cable bills, trips to Wal-Mart and groceries. She also purchased several plane tickets, Carnival Cruise tickets and hotel rooms — all used, she says, for the couple’s romantic get-a-ways.
McKenzie says Wayne is acting like he’s never met her, but McKenzie and her attorney say they have proof.
“We have evidence. There’s text messages and photos and of course ’she’ doesn’t want to release those at this time,” said McKenzie’s attorney P. Lynn Bibbs.
McKenzie is not currently in custody or charged with a crime, but her attorney told Fox 59 that, “detectives plan on issuing a warrant for her arrest.”
McKenzie: “Everybody is on his side. I’m in Indianapolis. He’s Reggie Wayne.”
While some may interpret McKenzie going public with an attorney as an extortion plot, the fact remains that her home was raided by the FBI - which required a search warrant after serious accusation by Wayne.
By reporting $100,000 in stolen debit card charges, Wayne took a drastic step against McKenzie. A step that he may seriously regret if she does indeed posess verifiable evidence that many of those purchases were material to an extramarital affair. (Along with accompanying communications and photos of the two together.)
That said, one wonders why McKenzie didn’t present such evidence to local authorities immediately after the initial FBI raid, rather than first presenting it to the media.
Wayne, who was married last summer, may be a local celebrity but if McKenzie does have hard evidence that some of those purchases were for his benefit - along with other evidence that the two had a relationship - I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think there’s no judge in the country who would grant such drastic legal recourse against her.
8:51 pm on May 29th, 2010
I guess Marvin Harrison didn’t teach him how to handle off field “problems”.
8:12 am on May 30th, 2010
Tough to believe Mr. Wayne or a rep didn’t check is checking account statement for nearly a year. If my Xtra Ho had laid a $100K howdy on me, it wouldn’t have taken 9 months to decide it was happening. I’m calling Mr. Wayne’s astonishment as Colt dung.
8:40 pm on May 30th, 2010
who’s this Xtra Ho?
6:22 am on May 31st, 2010
These gals are getting smarter, they are getting the goods up front. He is crying foul because wife must have found out. The time he was involved with her started before he was married. He must be suffering from alzhimers because he forgets which bed he is supposed to be in. He’ll regain his memory for awhile.
8:20 pm on June 1st, 2010
Marvin Harrison,how can i say?
7:35 am on June 2nd, 2010
holdin5aces,
8:05 am on June 2nd, 2010
Hey, holdin5aces, count again, December 2009 to April 2010 is only 5 months.
I’m also having a hard time believing that this woman isn’t a gold-diggin Biotch . . . $100K sounds more like jealouse rage for not picking her to be the Mrs. Evidence can be fabricated and I agree - if it existed at the time then why wasn’t it brought forward when she was first accused. Simple, her lawyer (that she probably paid with funds from selling what the FBI didn’t find) needed time to make it up.
Sorry but it’s all legal smoke and mirrors from someone who wants what someone else has and decided they would take it with or without the blessing of the owner. Momma used to say don’t take what aint yours and turn away that which is given you that you couldn’t get for yourself!
As for the comment about Marv, he didn’t pull the trigger but I wouldn’t blame him if he did on someone that was threatening and thieving him.
8:09 am on June 2nd, 2010
Oh, and of course you are going to fall back on this idiom of “I’m just this innocent no name . . . he’s a big football star “crap! Why should anyone be sympathetic to you Miss McKenzie? You obviously was spending his money and knew how and where to do it.
11:55 am on June 3rd, 2010
Indy guy you are sadly mistaken….. and you obviously know nothing about court or the legal system……..
Soooo let me break it down for you…..
I would almost guarantee this is what happened….. He obviously was cheating with her…. Otherwise why would he be paying her rent and childcare bills, and texting her for that matter…… you don’t text someone who is stealing from you…..
If he did “find out” that she was “stealing” money from him he could’ve canceled the card no problem anytime……
He just got married and she just got hip to his accounts and what he was doing…. When the department store called to let him know about the charges guess who probably picked up the phone? His wife…. She told him there was a problem with an account she did know he had….. and then here we are….. Then he gotta cut her off…..
I don’t condone cheating at all….. and I’m not a gold digger by any means…. but really… if you’re gonna do it at least when you get caught be a man and own it….. She at least did that……
3:43 pm on June 3rd, 2010
This is clearly a trifling b%tch. Reggie got married this Summer 09, and the charges started September 09, whiich is righ at the end of Summer. The b%itch was just mad Reggie got married and stopped paying her rent. So she moved forward using the card without authorization. Nothing like a jilted b%tch, especially a gold-digging, trifling one.
6:08 pm on June 13th, 2010
Here’s a womans point of view. First of all, the thang- thang was exceptional….at first. (Give u my money - “exceptional”).
Then, it started to just get ordinary..but, (I’m in a little too deep so it’s cheaper to keep her “ordinary”).
Then BOOM!!!!! Wifey boo showed him the pot of gold at the end of the double rainbow and the “ho” just became a “ho ” literally.
So the only way to remove himself from the “ho” emotionally, physically and financially was to make her look like a thief.
Ray Charles could see through this and I’m not buying it.
I see charges for filing a false police report in his future.