“Dear Red Phone, Somebody's making phone calls in Morgan Hill and they've ripped off some seniors, and they tried to rip me off by you sending them a $200 deposit and they will send you $3,600 in a grant. They claim they're out of Washington, but it's a .org organization.”
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.