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Q: I was recently helping this man who told me he needed help after he was assaulted at the hotel, and he was crying and shaking and I asked him what happened and he explained to me what happened and his car key got stolen and his medications (ambien and other cancer medications) and his phone, and he said he can pay for all this in a day, but when I tried to use his account number with his private banking he claimed he has a lot of money, all the payment was rejected. I payed for the next hotel since his credit card and ID got stolen and can’t pay for the next hotel. I started feeling suspicious. So I kept asking him to pay after my payment was rejected, I knew something was wrong. So I searched his name. I only knew his first name but when I helped to get him a new spare key, the receipt he gave me after paid said Drew Donovan. So I googled his name and found all this information and your blog. What can I do to stop this idiot? And maybe lock him in a jail so that he can stop doing this? When I called the police, they told me that it’s a small claim case and that they won’t do anything since it’s a civil matter… reallly? That’s useless! Thank you so much.
A: Thank you for your question. Drew Donovan is a career crook, an extremely prolific con man, professional fraudster and identity thief with a felony rap sheet. File a criminal police report immediately. If he acted in more than one city, then file the report in all involved cities. Inform the police that the matter is criminal for the following reasons: 1. Donovan is running a full-time criminal enterprise with his conspirator; 2. Donovan is defrauding individuals, banks, hotels and real estate companies; 3. Donovan uses fraudulent devices including fake checks and fake electronic payments; 4. Donovan engages in identity theft; 5. Donovan has been accused of kidnapping and rape; 6. Donovan’s criminal enterprise has defrauded hundreds of victims of well over $2 million; 7. Since he was released from prison fairly recently, he’s probably violating parole or probation. These are 7 criminal activities, so it’s not just a civil complaint. Details https://www.laloftblog.com/?s=donovan
We’ve helped to jail Donovan before, and will do it again until he ends his very lengthy career in crime. Provide to the LA Loft Blog and to the police all evidence, including emails, text messages, any fake checks and copies of charges to your credit cards etc.
Provide more details to us and to police, including all locations, dates, dollar amounts and all fraud-related activities engaged in by Donovan. Get legal advice from an attorney.
In addition to pushing police to press criminal charges, you may also sue also Donovan and any other involved parties in small claims court. Provide a copy of fraud documentation to whoever has charged you any money. Thank you.
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Thank you. I will call LAPD again.
He told me he was assaulted in Hilton. And he showed me his broken glasses, his broken laptop, and his phone got stolen, as well as his wallet (credit cards and ID) and medications. So he was crying and asking me to help him, promised he would pay right away using his bank account. He kept saying he can pay any of my credit debt (I don’t have any) but after I paid locksmith ($1600) and AT&T new iphone12, and made me spent all weekend helped him. I also took him to DMV, and yelled at me constantly when he couldn’t get things done and keep saying he was paranoid.. and need his medications and need the ride to Studio city.. so I gave him a ride to get it while his flat tire was torn… the total bill adds up to $4000. After charging his a count to pay all the bill was declined 5 times I started getting very suspicious. He promised he would give me a trust fund or his Range Rover etc… I told him I told need any of that just pay his bill, and got sick and had to go to emergency room for his chemotherapy. Sounds like excuses and I became very suspicious and I searched his name on Google and found out sure enough, he did this before with others.
He is in Orange right now. Hilton Double tree by city center mall. I have his car key as he gave me one (I paid for it and he hasn’t paid and probably not planning to pay) to make me believee he is trusting. He is meeting his private banker Kellie and Brian her assistant, and just got a chemotherapy treatment last Tuesday. He has yelled at me, fucked up my plans with friends on weekends, played with my emotions and my bank account. He is probably doing this with others. Tried to contact Double Tree and tell them that the guest is a scam but because I’m the third party and couldn’t tell me what room he is in because They can’t verify the incidents. Should I contact the police in OC? I only knew his first name but I remember there was a receipt I got from locksmith for his black BMW and that receipt has his name. And I paid for his new cellphone and service under my name because he didn’t have his ID (stolen)
File the police report at the police station.
Consider taking legal action against the locksmith if they knew or should have known about the fraud.
He is in them Knoxville area and scammin. All he comes in contact with.wat ever.he is coming back to Calif on a plane. Due 9.07.2021 from Knoxville