Man Gets Prison for Defrauding Pet Owners
A California man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for tricking owners of lost pets to wire him money.
William Muniz was sentenced Friday on charges that he duped at least two pet owners to send him money on the false promise that he would return their lost pets.
Muniz, 40, told a Colorado woman that he found her cat while passing through Denver with his wife in a motor home. He said he would fly the cat to San Francisco for $172. The woman wired the money, but the cat never arrived because Muniz had never found it.
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