Con Man Sentenced for Defrauding Victims in Louisiana
Con Man Sentenced for Defrauding Victims in Louisiana
Published November 18, 2021
Louisiana – Glenn Lee Dobbs, Jr., 51, of DeBerry, Texas, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Donald E. Walter to 33 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, on wire fraud charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. Dobbs was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $391,241.
Dobbs was charged with wire fraud by a federal grand jury and pled guilty on April 15, 2021. Dobbs claimed to two victims that he owned and ran a commercial roofing company, according to evidence submitted to the court. Dobbs falsely represented to one of these victims in March 2017 that his company had a contract to roof the Roadrunner Rubber Company, a tire and wheel factory in Houston, Texas. Dobbs requested money from the victim in exchange for a part of the profits from the falsely described contract’s materials costs. Dobbs had the victim believe that he had a deal with Roadrunner, according to the victim, therefore he paid him $212,348.
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) discovered that Dobbs solicited money from a second victim in April 2017 for another roofing project that did not exist. Dobbs misrepresented to the victim that he had a contract to roof a building with the Tomball ISD in Tomball, Texas. Dobbs requested that the victim pay the materials costs associated with the falsely described contract in exchange for a portion of the roofing job earnings. He received $178,893 from the victim. Neither of these victims was ever compensated for the money they gave to Dobbs.
Dobbs defrauded the victims in the Western District of Louisiana while already under federal indictment in the Eastern District of Texas for carrying out a similar scheme there.
The FBI was the investigative agency in this case and Assistant U.S. Attorney Leon H. Whitten prosecuted the case.
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