It’s lights out for debt collection agency run by felons
NEW YORK — State authorities have shut down a collection agency they said terrified people across the country into paying debts by telling them if they didn’t send money immediately, they would be thrown in jail.
Investigators said collectors working for the Buffalo company routinely posed as law enforcement officials in a bid to trick people into thinking they going to be arrested.
In reality, authorities said, the business was run not by law officers, but convicted felons. Its owner was former drug dealer who goes by the nickname “Bags of Money” and served 13 years for attempted robbery.
The company was the subject of a Dateline NBC expose in March. Its owner, Tobias Boyland, was arrested Tuesday on a weapons charge after investigators found he was carrying a loaded, unlicensed pistol. The search also turned up other weapons, including an AK-47, authorities said.
ANCFlyer wrote:
These clowns didn't do that or someone else, looked the other way . . .
