For the 2006 felony charge from a three-year eBay scam that could have resulted in a 20-year sentence and a $250,000 fine, Rich received two years’ probation — including one year of home confinement — paid no fine and was released seven months early from probation. Federal prosecutors said Rich made $65,000 from that criminal enterprise.
Rich’s attorney, L. Patrick Mulligan, denied this newest case has any connection to Rich’s federal guilty plea.
“It’s completely unrelated,” Mulligan said Friday at a press conference in his downtown Dayton office. “It’s completely unrelated factually, and it has no relationship whatsoever, not only in time, but even with this business.”
Mulligan then blasted the Moraine police and prosecutors for overreaching on the current case, said police have not returned property taken from a 2013 raid and said a loose diamond disappeared during the raid and is not on the inventory list.
Mulligan said Rich’s business has passed audits from the state and that a guitar supposed to be an example of stolen property was owned by a friend of the detective in charge and that the friend’s son pawned it at Moraine City Pawn at 4725 Springboro Pike.
“It seems to be a deliberate attempt to run him out of that town,” Mulligan said.
In the latest case, Rich purchased stolen goods from known drug addicts to help feed their addiction habits, according to Moraine police Det. Andy Parish.
A raid at Moraine City Pawn and a search Wednesday of Rich’s home in Kettering culminated in the arrest of Rich and what police said was the recovery of items believed to have been stolen from area retail outlets. Moraine police said they believe the theft-sell-buy operation involves hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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