Tag: Douglas County Sheriff’s Office In Oregon

St. Thomas Native Claimed To Be Dying For 8 Years To Swindle Old Woman Out Of Land

COTTAGE GROVE, Oregon — Janet Grosz simply wanted to help. So when a man named John Paul Hope told her about his plans to create a place where disabled veterans could live in dignity, she was all for it. Grosz, a widowed, retired nurse, agreed to give him three acres of her 55-acre ranch in […]

St. Thomas Native Accused Of Conning Senior Citizen Out Of 30 Acres Of Land

COTTAGE GROVE, Oregon — Investigators say that a U.S. Virgin Islands man arrested recently was responsible for a string of fraud cases that stretched from Arizona, to Washington state, and ended in Oregon. Tyrone Curtis Powell, 40, of St. Thomas, allegedly used the alias “John P. Hope” as he established multiple fake non-profit organizations to […]