{"id":107028,"date":"2017-05-17T13:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T17:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=107028"},"modified":"2017-05-17T13:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T17:12:55","slug":"fbi-impersonator-preyed-women-sentenced-federal-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/fbi-impersonator-preyed-women-sentenced-federal-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Impersonator Who Preyed on Women Sentenced To Federal Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Jones was a con man. The 46-year-old Jacksonville, Florida resident impersonated an FBI<\/a> agent and an investment adviser\u2014and made a habit of preying on women. But like so many scam artists, his lies and deceptions finally caught up with him.<\/p>\n

The tawdry tale of Jones and the women he victimized began for Special Agent Steve Burros one January night in 2013, when a Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office detective contacted him and said that Jones had impersonated an FBI agent in an attempt to solicit free sex from a prostitute.<\/p>\n

Jones had requested a date from an online escort service and promised to pay $200. The prostitute arrived at his apartment, where Jones lived with his wife and three children. \u201cThis was all happening in the middle of the day,\u201d Burros said. \u201cThe wife was at work and the kids were in school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after the prostitute arrived, she asked for the money. That\u2019s when Jones said he was an FBI agent and that if she didn\u2019t have sex with him for free, she would be arrested. When the woman balked, Jones called an accomplice on the phone, who was working from a script.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe puts the phone on speaker and says, \u2018Hey, I got another one for you. I\u2019m just now finishing up the other two warrants,\u2019 \u201d Burros said. \u201cAnd so now, the prostitute believed him.\u201d Jones also pointed to a smoke detector in the bedroom and said the woman was being monitored by a hidden camera.<\/p>\n

Afterward, though, when the prostitute told her roommate what had happened, the two realized she had been scammed, and they went to Jones\u2019 residence to collect the money. The heated argument that ensued led to a police intervention, and Jones ended up being charged with receiving a sex act through force or coercion\u2014and Burros was called in to investigate the FBI impersonation allegation.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the accomplice on the phone during the prostitution incident was a young woman who knew she was part of a scam but didn\u2019t know Jones was trying to get free sex. She had a child with Jones but had no idea he was married and living with his wife and three other children. She, too, was a victim of Jones\u2019 many cons.<\/p>\n

It turned out that the young woman\u2014the mother of Jones\u2019 child\u2014had lost both her parents in a car accident and received a settlement of about $35,000 from the insurance company. Jones lied and told her he was an investment adviser and that he owned fast food restaurants and would invest the money for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe thought he was investing her money,\u201d Burros said, \u201cbut instead he was depositing it in his wife\u2019s account and spending it on himself.\u201d The young woman had no idea what Jones had done until Burros discovered the fraud.<\/p>\n

Jones was arrested on January 9, 2013 on the prostitute coercion charge and released on bond subject to electronic monitoring. The following April\u2014aware that Burros was on to his additional financial fraud\u2014Jones cut off his ankle monitoring bracelet and fled. He was on the run for more than two years, until he was captured in August 2015 by the U.S. Marshals Service in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

As for the FBI impersonation, \u201cJones was not a first timer,\u201d Burros noted. He had previously been arrested for passing himself off as an agent to get work done on his house.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Jones pleaded guilty to impersonating an FBI agent, wire fraud, and failure to appear. In February 2017, a federal judge sentenced him to five years and six months in prison. Upon release, he has been ordered to pay restitution of nearly $22,000 to the young woman whose insurance settlement he fraudulently gained access to. If he doesn\u2019t pay, he could be sent back to jail.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthony Jones was truly a con artist,\u201d Burros said. \u201cThe money he scammed from this poor young woman was a significant sum for her, and now she is living with her grandparents and raising the child she had with Jones\u2014and so far he has never given her a dime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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