Toronto police say they’ve made multiple arrests and laid hundreds of charges in a months-long fraud investigation.
Police say four people were arrested this week in connection with moving company fraud in the area of Bellamy Road and Progress Avenue in Scarborough.
Back in June, officers executed a warrant against several budget moving companies.
According to police, two men bought and operated the companies, quoting customers low amounts when they reached out online.
However, police say, after they picked up the person’s belongings, they used contracts without signed amounts and would then withhold their customers’ belongings until they paid a higher amount police said would be “thousands of dollars more than they were originally quoted.”
Police say it is believed the companies would then threaten to sell off the customers’ belongings unless the higher amount was paid.
In some cases, police say, that did happen.
On Friday, police say they arrested a 55-year-old Toronto woman, who has been charged with theft over $5,000, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, and mischief by interfering with property over $5,000. She is expected to appear in court Nov. 1.
Three other people are also facing hundreds of charges. A 30-year-old man, 29-year-old man and 26-year-old woman in Toronto have all been charged with dozens of counts of obtaining through false pretenses, fraud over $5,000, possession of property obtained by crime, theft, fraud, and attempted fraud. It is not clear…
