Police: Phony Cop Sold Cars He Didn't Own, Hijacked Possession Of Vacant Foreclosed Homes, Clipping Cash From Unwitting Tenants On Subsequent Rentals

In Louisville, Kentucky, WHAS-TV Channel 11 reports:

• June Perry found an ad on Craig’s List back in August that looked promising. Perry needed a car so she went to test drive it, that's when she met Gary Hammond. “I believed every word he said,” Perry said. Perry said she believed Hammond because he told her he was an LMPD homicide detective.

• She gave him close to $2,000 in cash and took the car. Perry says Hammond promised to deliver the title a week later. “That’s what made me trust him,” Perry said. “I thought he was homicide detective and said he would never put his job on the line for $1,750.”

• But that title never came and Perry says Hammond sent her something else instead that sent her straight to the police to file a report. “He sends me a picture of himself full blown naked,” Perry said. Perry says police told her Hammond was never in law enforcement and he didn't even own the car he sold to her.

• Police say just last month Hammond moved from selling cars to renting out houses. Problem is police say he didn't own the houses he was renting out the bank does because the houses are in foreclosure. Police say Hammond broke into two south Louisville homes and told people he was the owner and wanted to rent them out.

• Police say he got $1200 from one couple and $1100 from another. The couples thought they were paying security deposits and for rent. Police say Hammond took off and the couples figured out the houses were foreclosures and call Hammond a con artist.

• Hammond is facing impersonating a peace officer, terroristic threatening, burglary, and theft by deception.

Source: Man arrested after allegedly selling cars, renting homes he doesn’t own.