He should be put away for a while this time. Arrested this week on multiple charges including check bouncing, giving false information to police, drugs, probation violation and fraud, fake real estate philanthropist Drew Christian Donovan is now in San Mateo County jail awaiting a hearing on June 14. #drewdonovan #fraud #dtla
Donovan, who also goes by the name Christian Andrews and once known as convicted felon Jimmy Wayne Jackson originally of Holland, Michigan, first gained the attention of the L.A. Loft Blog more than a year ago after he called our office requesting help to buy a luxury Sky loft in Downtown Los Angeles. It turns out that he is a scammer who claims to be a wealthy individual with terminal cancer who wants to help deserving individuals to pay their bills, and even wants to buy them a home. He just needs some assistance along the way to avoid his meddling parents, and he asks for a bit of help for his expenses during the process — well, he wants thousands of dollars of help actually. Based on Donovan’s carefully crafted B.S., it can seem like a small price to pay for more than a million dollars of handouts.
Of course, his payments of the bills will bounce, the million dollar check will bounce and the home purchase will never occur as his earnest money deposit confirmation and all other financial confirmations that he provides are phony. Naturally, nearly everything he says is a lie. Donovan is a full-time charlatan who runs a criminal enterprise using the highest level of skill, technology, forgery and identity theft to bilk hundreds of victims (including families and disabled persons) out of millions of dollars to support his depraved lifestyle of drugs and anonymous sex. He has even been accused of kidnapping a mother away from her children, and, based evidence recovered by the LA Loft Blog, Donovan might possibly be suspected of poisoning and rape using sleeping pills like Ambien. This monster is exactly where he belongs today because we all worked together to stop him:
Name: DONOVAN, DREW C
DOB: 11/21/1968
Gender: M
Facility: Maguire Correctional Facility
Case Number: 18-3379
SMCSO: 1223104
Booking Number: 767471.0
Next Court Date: 06/14/2018 01:30PM
Projected Release Date: Not Available
Court Dockets
COURT DOCKET BAIL CHARGE
18-NF-006521-A USD 25,000.00 M 148.9(a) PC Giving False Information To A Police Officer
18-NF-006521-A USD 25,000.00 M 11364.1 HS Possession Of Smoking Device
18-NF-006521-A USD 25,000.00 F 532(a) PC Obtaining Money, Labor Or Property By False Pretenses
18-NF-006521-A USD 25,000.00 F 11377(a) HS Possessing A Controlled Substance
18-NF-006521-A USD 25,000.00 F 4573 PC Bring Drugs Into A Jail
WR018085 NO BAIL F 1203.2 PROBATION VIO PC 1203.2 PROBATION VIO
WR018085 NO BAIL F 476A(a) PC Making Or Delivering A Check Exceeding $950 Knowing There Are Insufficient Funds For Payment
BURA10088701 NO BAIL F 476A(a) PC Non-Sufficient Fund Check Multiple Checks (Felony) | Submit / Request Evidence: crimestoppers@laloftblog.com
Thanks the mindful readers of the L.A. Loft Blog and the South San Francisco Police, the conniving creep is now safely behind bars where he belongs. Let’s hope he stays there for quite a while before he slithers his way back to Southern California. In the mean time, we all need to remain vigilant against fraudsters, con artists and other dangers that lurk.
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