Location: 1700 Block of E Springville

Incident Date: 3/12/18

Incident Time: 7:09pm

Case Number: 18-3332

City: Porterville

Posted by: Dispatch

On 03/12/2018 at approximately 1909 hours, Deputies responded to the 1700 block of East Springville Avenue in Porterville regarding a call for service for a female subject impersonating a landlord and receiving money from potential tenants. Deputies learned three separate victims found a social media post on a Porterville Buy and Trade page, soliciting an apartment unit for rent. The victims contacted the social media account holder, met in person with the female subject, and gave her a total of $2,100 dollars for the deposit and first month’s rent. The female subject provided them with keys to the apartment unit and then left the scene. The subjects learned the keys provided to them did not work and the female subject was not the legal landlord for the property. The legal landlord was contacted and denied the female subject having any ownership of the property. This case still being investigated.