Men Sold 200 Years Worth Of Magazine Subscriptions To 85 YO Blind Woman

[matcom]

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Two magazine salesmen will each serve 150 days in jail after being convicted of defrauding an 85-year-old Camarillo woman, who ended up paying for more than 200 years' worth of subscriptions, according to the district attorney's office.

Jeremy Marquez, 21, of Sacramento, and Jonathan Carey, 22, of Tacoma, Wash., each pleaded guilty to one count of felony theft from an elder. Both men also received 36 months' probation during their sentencing Tuesday.

According to authorities, Marquez and Carey were soliciting door-to-door Dec. 20 when they introduced themselves to the woman as representatives of United Family Circulation and requested donations for college.

The woman, who is nearly blind, agreed to donate $130 to each man and gave them two signed checks. She asked them to fill in the payee and amount because of her poor vision. Instead, the men each wrote out checks for $3,360, then mailed them to their employer, officials said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-me-vnscam18mar18.story

[flamingyouth]

1. And Hell readies a room...

:grr:

[southerngirlwriter]

3. Hell is much, much, much, much too good for them.

Unfortunately, I can think of many worse things. They deserve them all. :grr:

[BlueJazz]

2. And worse....

The subscriptions were to "Monthly Caterpillar Bulldozer Repair"

[WoodrowFan]

7. yeah but

its swimsuit issue is a KILLER!

[DS1]

9. American Photographer would have been much crueler

[RobertSeattle]

4. F'ing Tacoma residents...

Shesh.

:evilgrin:

[catzies]

5. THAT'S MY HOMETOWN

Camarillo has a huge retirement community, is heavily GOP and we border "Reagan Country," aka Simi Valley :puke:

Cheney was here yesterday at the Reagan Library. The paper has a photo of him walking arm in arm with Nancy Reagan.

[ComerPerro]

6. Those men are truly Conservative Heroes

When the moment of truth arrived, they stepped up and screwed society to make a buck.

[gyopsy]

8. My thoughts exactly

That's capitalism for you.

[Paragon]

10. "What am I gonna do with 40 subscriptions to 'Vibe'?"