Two men sent to prison for impersonating police officers
Two men convicted of impersonating police detectives to cheat grieving families out of thousands of dollars have been sentenced to prison.
A Superior Court judge in Norwalk on Friday sentenced Frank Kegel of Simi Valley to 10 years and Martin Pelayo of Whittier to 22 years in prison.
Kegel and Pelayo were convicted last month of defrauding two Spanish-speaking families between October and November 2007.
The men told a family they could prevent them from being fined for neglect after their son died alone of a heart attack. The family paid $17,000.
In another case, they duped the family of an Iraq war veteran who was stabbed to death out of $28,000 by claiming they could solve the son’s death.
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