ASHANTI REGION, Ghana — Abdul Munaf Lawal, 32, has been sentenced to 35 years imprisonment with hard labor for defrauding a victim of $50,000 under false pretenses, the Ashanti Regional …
false pretenses
-
-
BOONEVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – A Jamaican national accused of running a Publishers Clearinghouse-style scam has been indicted in Prentiss County, Mississippi, following a year-long investigation. Delroy Escoffery, who frequently travels …
-
A Siler City Police Department employee is under investigation after allegedly defrauding domestic violence victims out of thousands of dollars in a U-Visa assistance scam. According to the North Carolina …
-
The Manistee County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two men on felony charges after investigating a series of contractor fraud complaints tied to unfinished or misrepresented construction work. In one case, …
-
A Rochester man, Chaz Keon Davis, 42, was arrested this week following an investigation into a six-figure vehicle theft in Farmington. On August 20, deputies apprehended Davis at a home …
-
HURON COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) – A Battle Creek man has pleaded guilty to felony charges after using stolen credit card information to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of lottery tickets. …
-
Greenville, NC – A Pitt County woman has been arrested and charged with dozens of felonies related to a large-scale identity theft operation, according to the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office …
-
A local man was arrested last week in connection with a fraud investigation originating in Florida, according to the Aberdeen Police Department. Andrew Bowman, 39, of Aberdeen, was taken into …
-
A Detroit man, Derrick Woods, 49, maintained he was framed during his sentencing in Midland County’s 42nd Circuit Court for defrauding a Midland woman out of her 2022 black Ford …
-
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Triad activist Frankie Gist, 29, was charged with felony obtaining property by false pretenses following a police response to a fraud call at a shopping center. Officers …