Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

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Yeah, this big businessman editor of the newspaper, a fairly big deal on a small pond. And he just was a con artist really. He groomed adults for money.

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Today on Small Town Dicks, we have the usual suspects. We have Detective Dave. Hey there. I feel like I caught you walking out the door. And we have Detective Dan. Hello. Hello. And we are so pleased to welcome a new guest to the podcast. Please welcome Detective BK.

Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. We're so thrilled to have you. Thank you so much for giving us one of your days off. I know those are precious few and far between. So we're very grateful. So BK, please tell us how this case came to you.

So this case came to me when a local attorney called me directly and said that she was representing her clients Janet and Tom and they invested almost $200,000 with their friend Steve and his wife Linda in a limited liability corporation to start a high end fancy Mexican restaurant in town.

I was aware of this restaurant living in our town and it was popular from the day it opened its doors and it opened in 2005. And according to George, the general manager of that restaurant, it was making the first year 500,000 just in credit card receipts.

The first year and then the second year 800,000 in credit card receipts that doesn't even count their cash business. So this business second year is probably making a million dollars in receipts. And actually one of our police officers worked their part time as a waitress just because she was just a social person. She liked the interaction. It was a super popular happen in place.

So this attorney told me that Janet and Tom had invested this money and they purchased shares in this limited liability corporation that owned this restaurant.

And the restaurant despite making money apparently started to lose money and nobody knew why. So one of the complaints that the attorney told me was that Janet's signature had been forged on some loans that were made to the restaurant.

They had gotten copies of these loan applications and looked at Janet's signature on them and Janet said that's not my signature. And this attorney actually prior to calling me had hired a handwriting expert.

The handwriting expert says this signature does not belong to Janet. However, the people who made the loan, the company that made the loan were refusing to cooperate with this attorney to take Janet's name off the loan and said that she was liable for the money.

Which was over $300,000.

Is it $300,000 on top of the $200,000 she's already invested?

Yes. And it ended up being three different loans. That $300,000 was three different loans in different amounts. But it was approximately $300,000.

Same lender, same lender every time. And they were using the credit card receipts from the restaurant in order to guarantee the loan.

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