Accused swindler ‘Prince’ Alex Tannous was arrested with a Mar-A-Lago card, FBI says

A man accused of falsely claiming to be a “prince” and bilking investors in San Antonio out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was denied bail Tuesday after testimony that he held passports bearing fake names and had traveled to several countries while being sought by the FBI. Earlier, the judge found that FBI agents had enough probable cause to charge Tannous with a single count of wire fraud based on allegations that he swindled $70,000 from a San Antonio operator of so-called ghost kitchens, eateries that serve only delivery customers. When Alex Tannous was arrested Feb. 6 after returning to the United States from abroad, officers found at least four passports in the car he was driving, FBI Special Agent Monroe Giese testified. Giese said agents also found a handgun and a membership card to Mar-A-Lago, the Florida golf club owned by former President Donald Trump, in Tannous’ wallet in the name of Sacha Thanus, an alias Tannous allegedly used.