Woman scammed for over 80000 dollars

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now he got an Arkansas man who stole thousands of
dollars from a Franklin County elderly woman, and he got,
of course, community control. He has been according to a
spokesperson of the Franklin County Prosecutor's office, David Nelson received
a suspended prison sentence, community control and was ordered to

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pay the victim eighty five thousand, five hundred and ninety
dollars eighty four cents. The prosecutors say they did argue
for prison time. According to the Sheriff's office, seventy six
year old woman was she was contacted or did contact
authorities back in March and said she believed she had

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been the victim of a scam. The victim said in
January she was contacted by somebody that identified themselves as
John Green, claiming to be a representative of publisher's clearinghouse.
You may already have won, the victim said she was
told to win her three million dollars, she'd have to
pay taxes on the winnings before she could claim the prize.

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She was instructed to write a check for eighty nine
twenty dollars and send it to a person identified as
David Nelson in Little Rock, Arkansas, February fourth. She sent
the check, but she didn't receive any of the alleged winnings.
Imagine that. Imagine two days later, Nelson deposited the check
written by the victim into his personal account. He was

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later arrested and extradited to Franklin County. I mean, not
only is he a thief, but he's a stupid thief.
On how did they ever figure that out? It's like
Jerry Springer writing a check to a hooker when he
was done in Cincinnati. That was stupid. The Prosecutor's office
says that Nelson pleaded guilty one count of theft. Additional

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charges of theft, money laundering, and receiving stolen property were dropped.
Prosecutors office and Nelson stole approximately one hundred and forty
thousand dollars in the victim. Just over fifty six thousand
dollars of it was returned to the victim at the
start of the case. He will serve his community control
in Arkansas, so it's not even he's in Arkansas. That

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doesn't Yeah, so just nothing, he got nothing. I mean,
being forced to go back to Arkansas could be kind
of a penalty, I guess, yeah, but been down there, no, Oh,
I've seen pictures. That's enough. This guy should have been
locked up. You know, he's an old man himself. His
mugshot here, I like his I like his His shirt

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says David, I know, and what's his name? David? So
it's like, you can't even hide that from people, can you?
Master criminal? But he yeah, I just I'm sorry, this
whole community control things taking me off