The Harris County District Attorney's Office says Juchway Rhodes Jr., 54, 'often preyed on Spanish speakers who paid for property in cash and may not have understood the system' and 'was no better than a snake-oil salesman.'
, Texas was a habitual offender, who faced a minimum of 25 years up to life in prison for stealing a total of $442,000 in cash and property.
"When a scammer perpetuates this kind of fraud, it creates two classes of victims: the true owners and the unsuspecting buyers," Harris Co. DA Kim Ogg said. "He often preyed on Spanish speakers who paid for property in cash and may not have understood the system." Rhodes reportedly would often use forge or fraudulent deeds when scamming buyers, according to Assistant District Attorney Valerie Turner, chief of the DA’s Consumer Fraud section.
"He was no better than a snake-oil salesman, selling fraudulent goods," Turner said. "Those fraudulent goods were land, and he knew he didn’t own them.""You can’t take a forged or fraudulent deed, run it through a title company and somehow clean it up," she said. "He knew that, but he did it anyway."The 54-year-old was convicted by a jury Thursday for Aggregate Theft of more than $300,000, which is a first-degree felony.
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