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TURLOCK (CBS13) — A Ceres antheral has been arrested connected suspicion of rental fraud crossed respective cardinal California communities.
Turlock constabulary say, backmost successful June, they started investigating 2 cases of radical who accidental they recovered a rental spot listing connected Facebook Marketplace, but past ending up losing $2,000 each to fraud.
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In some cases, the victims reported gathering with the fishy and giving him currency deposits of what was expected to beryllium their archetypal month’s rent. However, the fishy past disappeared – with the victims incapable to determination into the properties they thought they had paid for.
It appears the fishy – aboriginal identified arsenic 37-year-old Ceres nonmigratory Miguel Perez – was targeting Spanish-speaking victims, detectives say.
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Detectives besides judge Perez is suspected successful respective akin fraud cases crossed San Joaquin and Monterey counties.
Perez was arrested connected Wednesday by detectives, Turlock constabulary say. He has been booked into Stanislaus County Jail and is facing 2 counts of theft by mendacious pretenses, on with 5 different warrants helium had retired for his arrest.
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With Perez frequenting Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Solano counties, detectives judge determination could beryllium much imaginable victims of the rental fraud scheme. Anyone who believes they whitethorn person been a unfortunate of Perez is urged to telephone detectives astatine (209) 664-7319.
CBS13 Staff
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