When an Erie County woman fell victim to a common scam and lost $10,800 to fraudsters in May 2021, the Pennsylvania State Police relied on surveillance video and store employee assistance in identifying and charging someone in the crime. But a failure to preserve that video evidence, and the inability to locate the now former […]
Apr. 24—A Chicago man who scammed an 83-year-old Washington Twp. man out of thousands of dollars was sentenced to probation. Weihong Lian, 49, was sentenced Tuesday by Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Richard Skelton to up to five years of community control sanctions after he pleaded guilty March 25 to possessing criminal tools. Lian traveled […]
A Walled Lake garage contractor, Artemio Sessions, was sentenced to 40-240 months in prison for repeatedly scamming homeowners out of tens of thousands of dollars. Sessions, 56, was convicted of felony charges for the scheme he ran through his business, Garages R Us. Sixth Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Matthews delivered the sentence on Monday, Michigan […]
(WHTM)– A Pennsylvania towing company owner is accused of scamming around $300,000 from customers for short-trip tows, the Attorney General announced. Vincent Fannick, 56, who owns Vince’s Towing, a tow truck company in Pittsburgh, would charge customers extremely high tow costs by not revealing prices on invoices and then charge “accident service fees,” a news […]
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A man accused of scamming a San Diego woman out of thousands of her life savings learned he will not go to prison. During his sentencing, Zhi Gao was ordered to two years of felony probation for attempted burglary. The sentence comes from a plea agreement when Gao pleaded guilty […]
A Lexington man was federally charged for money laundering crimes after he was found by the U.S. Secret Service to be a posing as luxury car salesman and scamming high-end dealerships. Hussein Qasim, 34, of Lexington, faces two federal charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and transactional money laundering, according to a criminal complaint […]
Goi Chee Kong shows a picture of his son Goi Zhen Feng, who died after falling prey to human trafficking, during a press conference in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on Sept. 21, 2022. Goi said he believed his 23-year-old son was forced to work for groups involved in online scams. Vincent Thian/AP hide caption toggle caption […]