SAN ANTONIO — A man who dressed as a priest to scam nearly $25,000 worth of merchandise from San Antonio businesses has pleaded no contest to the thefts.<\/p>\n
George Persyn will be required to repay all his victims and could serve up to two years in jail, prosecutors said. Sentencing was set for Oct. 24.<\/p>\n
Persyn had a long-running scheme in which he ran up tabs for thousands of dollars on credit after convincing business owners he was a Catholic priest in need of donations.<\/p>\n
Among the items he took from at least 13 businesses included $2,149.85 worth of business suits, a golf cart, wall art, cell phones, furniture and about $5,400 worth of police equipment.<\/p>\n
…Once the credit was issued, Persyn then went on a shopping spree, even bilking a religion supply store for about $457 in religious tapestry and communion wafers. Persyn and his wife left the area earlier this year after a number of media reports surfaced. SAN ANTONIO — A man who dressed as a priest to scam nearly $25,000 worth of merchandise from San Antonio businesses has pleaded no contest to the thefts. George Persyn…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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