Man Who Fleeced 2 Women for $130,000 Convinced Them They Were Possessed by Evil Spirits: Police

[joeybee12]

A man was arrested after he persuaded, sweet-talked and fleeced two women for $130,000, Hallandale Beach police said.

According to police, 32-year-old Joe Alvarez claimed he was a spiritual adviser and convinced the victims that they were possessed by evil spirits, their money was evil too, and only he could help them.

“The curse was put on me to be poor, it was put on money, so that's why I had to give all that money, to reverse it,” one of the victims told NBC 6.

Police, acting on a tip, arrested Alvarez at an apartment just off Fort Lauderdale Beach on the day before Thanksgiving. He is being held in the North Broward Bureau on $16,000 bond and faces two counts of grand theft and two counts of obtaining property by gaming, online jail records said.

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Man-Who-Fleeced-2-Women-for-130000-Convinced-Them-They-Were-Possessed-by-Evil-Spirits-Police-234356101.html

[ZombieHorde]

1. Yet selling water labeled as

homeopathic medicine is perfectly legal.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. I thought this would be a Pope thread.

[flamingdem]

3. This guy is good, the repukes

should hire him!

[flamingdem]

4. ermmygerd is it this man?

http://atc.berkeley.edu/bio/Jose_Alvarez/

[flamingdem]

5. Good grief here's another one that sounds like him from Fort Lauderdale

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-09-09/news/fl-artist-jose-alvarez-identity-theft-20110908_1_alvarez-first-identity-theft-jose-luis-alvarez

[SidDithers]

6. This is where belief in magical thinking and woo leads...

These women might still have their $130 large, if they'd said "Bugger off, there's no such thing as evil spirits"

Sid