Dakota Valkyrie
May 29th, 2010, 09:06 PM
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Joshua Mulvey, 26, faces new criminal charges in an Internet fraud scheme after a Snohomish County man who saw the episode recognized Mulvey as the same person who conned him out of $2,500 last year, police say.
Mulvey appeared Thursday in Spokane County Superior Court, where the new theft charges were added to the 10 counts he was charged with in February after investigators unraveled what they described as an elaborate con game that preyed on people responding to bogus Craigslist postings advertising cars for sale.
Mulvey appeared on the courtroom drama within the past two years with his ex-girlfriend, whom he was suing for repayment on a car he said he sold to help her financially. But the show's host, former family court Judge Judith Sheindlin, was unsympathetic.
She concluded Mulvey had fraudulently sold the car and ruled in the ex's favor.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we try to deceive," Sheindlin said. "Goodbye Mr. Mulvey; from this court you get nothing. You're a con man."
[...]
Mulvey, the son of longtime Spokane County sheriff's Deputy Ronald Mulvey, served time in prison for a 2004 investigation in which, detectives said, a group used Internet fraud to obtain stolen car parts to make its vehicles fast for street racing. He has 18 felony convictions.
Investigators in that case described Mulvey as a "genius" who had the talent to work for government intelligence agencies but used his smarts to con sellers into shipping him cars and parts without paying first.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011981400_judgejudy29m.html
From February:
When detectives started looking into the case, victims started coming out of the woodwork. Mulvey has allegedly preyed on Craigslist users since early last year. People say Mulvey posted cars or car parts for sale on the website, get those people to send him money, and then disappear.
Detective Corey Turman says Mulvey would be texting with those people and say he was delivering it and he was this close, and then he would say he got a flat tire and the contact would stop. Detective Turman jumped on the case in December and found Mulvey has victims in California, Florida, Colorado, Illinois, and Washington.
Detective Turman says Mulvey is a smooth talker and convinces people it is a safe deal. In order to elude police and his victims, Turman says Mulvey changed his number seven times in one year.
Turman says when police tried to question Mulvey last week he escaped though his apartment ceiling. Now detectives are searching his home.
Police say Mulvey was hiding out at a Motel Six in Coeur d’Alene. Turman says when officers showed up to arrest him a second time, he tried to run again. Detective Turman says Mulvey barricaded himself inside and pushed a couch and TV against the front door. Officers had to break through the window and pull Mulvey out of the bathroom to take him into custody.http://www.krem.com/news/local/Alleged-craigslist-scammer-wanted-in-five-states-now-behind-bars-84644267.html
His time on "Judge Judy": http://vimeo.com/2997172
He puts more effort into being illegal than most folks do at legitimate jobs. He may be "smart", but he's stupid.
Joshua Mulvey, 26, faces new criminal charges in an Internet fraud scheme after a Snohomish County man who saw the episode recognized Mulvey as the same person who conned him out of $2,500 last year, police say.
Mulvey appeared Thursday in Spokane County Superior Court, where the new theft charges were added to the 10 counts he was charged with in February after investigators unraveled what they described as an elaborate con game that preyed on people responding to bogus Craigslist postings advertising cars for sale.
Mulvey appeared on the courtroom drama within the past two years with his ex-girlfriend, whom he was suing for repayment on a car he said he sold to help her financially. But the show's host, former family court Judge Judith Sheindlin, was unsympathetic.
She concluded Mulvey had fraudulently sold the car and ruled in the ex's favor.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we try to deceive," Sheindlin said. "Goodbye Mr. Mulvey; from this court you get nothing. You're a con man."
[...]
Mulvey, the son of longtime Spokane County sheriff's Deputy Ronald Mulvey, served time in prison for a 2004 investigation in which, detectives said, a group used Internet fraud to obtain stolen car parts to make its vehicles fast for street racing. He has 18 felony convictions.
Investigators in that case described Mulvey as a "genius" who had the talent to work for government intelligence agencies but used his smarts to con sellers into shipping him cars and parts without paying first.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011981400_judgejudy29m.html
From February:
When detectives started looking into the case, victims started coming out of the woodwork. Mulvey has allegedly preyed on Craigslist users since early last year. People say Mulvey posted cars or car parts for sale on the website, get those people to send him money, and then disappear.
Detective Corey Turman says Mulvey would be texting with those people and say he was delivering it and he was this close, and then he would say he got a flat tire and the contact would stop. Detective Turman jumped on the case in December and found Mulvey has victims in California, Florida, Colorado, Illinois, and Washington.
Detective Turman says Mulvey is a smooth talker and convinces people it is a safe deal. In order to elude police and his victims, Turman says Mulvey changed his number seven times in one year.
Turman says when police tried to question Mulvey last week he escaped though his apartment ceiling. Now detectives are searching his home.
Police say Mulvey was hiding out at a Motel Six in Coeur d’Alene. Turman says when officers showed up to arrest him a second time, he tried to run again. Detective Turman says Mulvey barricaded himself inside and pushed a couch and TV against the front door. Officers had to break through the window and pull Mulvey out of the bathroom to take him into custody.http://www.krem.com/news/local/Alleged-craigslist-scammer-wanted-in-five-states-now-behind-bars-84644267.html
His time on "Judge Judy": http://vimeo.com/2997172
He puts more effort into being illegal than most folks do at legitimate jobs. He may be "smart", but he's stupid.