HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Investigators are looking into an elaborate scheme involving a luxury vehicle, a fake Facebook account, and stolen law enforcement identification.

Now, a former Harris County detention officer and a former inmate, who investigators say she was working with, are on the run.

"I mean, I trust(ed) a police officer," said a man who court documents have identified as a victim in this case. ABC13 is not identifying him because he fears retaliation.

The badge, from the Harris County Sheriff's Office, is what a northwest Houston man says convinced him to buy a car on Facebook Marketplace.

A 2022 Lexus, only $10,000.

"She's in a uniform, badge, nametag, everything," he explained.

He said a woman who identified herself as Stevie Mosley met him at an apartment complex o

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