Sunday, October 29, 2023

Elderly women scammed by smooth-talking shyster: Claims

John D. Moore, who allegedly scammed his mother-in-law in Dothan seems to have moved his scams to Florida


He faces nearly 30 charges of bilking an elderly Dothan and now there are complaints from other women he scammed them.DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Dawn Lynch moved to Navarre, Florida, a few years ago, coming from northern Ohio. A couple of words reveal her accent isn’t from the Deep South.

However, Dawn, 76, who has fit into the Panhandle lifestyle quite nicely, is delighted with her modest manufactured home in a 55-plus community.“I saved the money to get my floors repaired because some of the spots on them were really soft,” Lynch said.Having previously used Moore for smaller jobs, he was her go-to guy for the flooring project---or so she thought. She called him a personable and friendly man, but now she thinks of him as a scammer.

Lynch isn’t the only one who claims Moore duped them. Down the road is Sharon Routledge, who settled in Navarre after bouncing around the country for years.She claims she gave Moore the $800 he requested to purchase materials for a project at her home, but all she ever saw was a stack of inferior wood and no work.“Before we concluded our investigation, we were well over $250,000,” Dothan police said of the amount Moore stole from an elderly woman here. headtopics.com

News4′ Fact Finders contacted Moore, who said he would consider a comment but has yet to provide one.Court schedulers set Moore’s trial on November 13 in Dothan.

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