AUTHORITIES CHARGE OHIO MAN WITH FRAUD.Byline: Donna Huffaker
BURBANK - An Ohio man, himself a senior citizen, has been charged with six felonies in connection with defrauding the elderly in Burbank. Albert Prizant, 73, was arrested earlier this week after a handful of alleged victims told Burbank police that Prizant came to their homes, offered to remodel re·mod·el tr.v. re·mod·eled also re·mod·elled, re·mod·el·ing also re·mod·el·ling, re·mod·els also re·mod·els To make over in structure or style; reconstruct. , took money for services not yet rendered, then skipped out on the contract, Detective Matthew Ferguson
Matthew Ferguson is an actor born on April 3, 1973, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts. said. At an arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted earlier this week, Prizant pleaded not guilty to all charges. An 85-year-old Burbank resident paid Prizant $3,600 last summer to replace a deck, but Prizant destroyed the old deck and never returned, Ferguson said. The resident, whose name police would not release, tried unsuccessfully to reach Prizant by phone, using the numbers Prizant left him. The resident then visited the address Prizant had given him and discovered it was merely a mail drop, Ferguson said. Officials from the Contractors State License Board confirmed for the resident that Prizant is not a licensed contractor, as he claimed to be, Ferguson said. The detective said Prizant used his own senior citizen status to gain the trust of other elderly people. Anyone who might be the victim of a similar contracting scam (SCSI Configured AutoMatically) A subset of Plug and Play that allows SCSI IDs to be changed by software rather than by flipping switches or changing jumpers. Both the SCSI host adapter and peripheral must support SCAM. See SCSI. is asked to call Burbank police at 238-3277. |
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