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The plea hearing for the man who allegedly charmed multiple South County seniors into giving him money for landscaping services he never completed was once again continued to December, due to a request from the defense attorney Thursday to gather more information on the case. 

The plea hearing for the man who allegedly charmed multiple South County seniors into giving him money for landscaping services he never completed was continued to Nov. 1, due to the public defender declaring a conflict in the case.

The man who allegedly charmed multiple South County seniors into giving him money for landscaping services he never completed is scheduled to enter a plea in court this Thursday.

Nearly one month after the District Attorney launched an investigation the man that roams around South County, charming seniors into giving him money for jobs he never completes, the ialleged “landscape scammer” was arrested July 21 in Gilroy for 13 counts of petty theft and eight counts of misdemeanor elder fraud. 

About a month after police launched an investigation of the man who roams around door-to-door in Santa Clara County, looking for victims who will pay him upfront for landscaping services he doesn’t complete, police arrested the alleged “landscape scammer” Monday night in Gilroy.

The Santa Clara District Attorney's office teamed with the Gilroy Police Department to create a public service announcement warning county residents about landscape scams. 

Since the Dispatch wrote an April 24 story about a 77-year-old Gilroy man who claimed he was scammed by a crook under the guise of a friendly tree pruner, 10 others from Gilroy and Morgan Hill have come forward with similar stories of a man by the name of Michael Oliveira who collected money for work he never completed, prompting police to launch an investigation.

It was the perfect set up for a scam.