A Redwood City man has been charged in federal court with impersonating a federal agent for allegedly victimizing a family that was threatened with jail and deportation for immigration fraud unless they paid $50,000, court records show.
Frank Salvador Solorza, 45, was arrested Feb. 10 after he pedaled up to a San Mateo County home on a bicycle - while dressed in a clown suit - and grabbed a briefcase that he believed contained the money, authorities said.
Solorza claimed that three gang members put him up to the scam, in which six members of a family received phone calls and letters purportedly from U.S. immigration officials, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Los Bozos
The winner of the Headline of the Year Award will have to top this from the SF Chronicle:
Why a clown suit?
The guy says three "gang members" put him up to this. "Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in!"
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