Two Cop Plea For Bilking Prospective Tenants By Renting Foreclosed Homes They Didn't Own; Used Craigslist To Post Ads

In Vista, California, XETV-TV Channel 6 reports:

• Two Orange County men who bilked thousands of dollars from people by renting out homes they didn't own pleaded guilty Wednesday to grand theft. Alexander Braslavsky, 34, and Anthony Patrick Marshall, 38, will be sentenced Nov. 10 in Vista. Under the terms of a plea agreement, they must pay $15,000 in compensation to four victims by the sentencing date. They each face up to 90 days in jail.

• "I'm happy that the victims will get all their money back up front," said Deputy District Attorney Anna Winn. The prosecutor said restitution was her top goal in reaching the plea bargain. Under the plea deal, two other counts of grand theft were dismissed, as well as conspiracy and attempted grand theft charges. Winn said Braslavsky and Marshall -- who has a real estate license -- posted ads on the Craigslist Web site for five foreclosed homes in Carlsbad, Corona and Stanton and rented them out.

For more, see Pair Plead Guilty to Renting Homes They Didn't Own.

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