Women Busted For Scamming Old Bay Ridge Man Out Of $300K

Reeva Johnson and Holly Mitchell

A 76-year-old Brooklyn man was taken for a $300,000 ride when two women convinced him to invest his money in gold coins, but there was never any gold involved: According to the Post, "drifters...married to brothers in a gypsy clan" Reeva Johnson, 24, and Holly Mitchell, 23, were busted on charges including grand larceny when one of the elderly man's friend got suspicious.

The man, who would only identify himself as Vincent, tells his sad story, "I don't know how [Johnson] zoomed in on me. I would bump into [Johnson] here and there while out shopping. It was always around the same time." Authorities say that Johnson managed to get Vincent to believe that the gold coins would yield more than his money sitting in a stupid bank earning interest, so when she and Mitchell asked him for $150,000 to give to a coin collector they had recommended, he did it. And when the pair asked him for another $150,000 a few weeks later, Vincent wrote another check, even though he never got any coins.

Vincent was apparently on the verge of giving the pair another $450,000—they used the ol' "Holly needs a kidney transplant" story—but one of his friends contacted the authorities. Still, when he saw Johnson at the stationhouse, he tells the Post, "I wanted to say something to her. I wanted to say, 'Sorry it turned out this way.'" Lesson: Old men in Bay Ridge have lots of money and are still nice after you steal hundreds of thousands from them.

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By Jen Chung in News on June 27, 2011 5:22 PM

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Inkognita

How did this guy ever meet up with two gypsy grifters? I wonder if he ever went to one of those psychic reader places in Bay Ridge to have his fortune told.

Wait until word gets out about gullible, old men with money to burn. Scores of enterprising gypsies will be flocking to the neighborhood to set up psychic reader businesses.

HypocraticOath

People who scam old folks should be kicked into the ocean with a truck tire around their neck.

JackBrat

HEY- when you're an ugly woman who 'belongs' to a male-dominated gypsy clan: what do you do for a living?!? You SCAM other people. . . that's what!!

jisnotused

WHAT? REALLY? OMFG!

CityFace

Mmm, Old Bay.

Remi Pann

By gypsy clan... what do they mean?
Are they talking about the classic sense of gypsy, as in the Romana or what...?

Emmily_Litella

They look exactly like two sullen gypsie girls I saw silently begging on the subway (walking through cars) holding little signs saying they just lost their jobs and have a child to feed. NEVER GIVE ON THE SUBWAY. When you give you are casting a vote for continued harrassment. There are many needy people who can not get up ride around on trains. Think of them, not the people interrupting your thoughts on your commute.

Mordicai

So they are going to arrest Glenn Beck next?

dollarmenu

That looks like the before-and-after photo of a woman's eyeball-reduction surgery.

PanBenek

During the spring of 1944 at Auschwitz the Nazis sent the Gypsies to the gas chambers, German Jews came in to occupy the barracks they had lived in. I knew a German Jew who managed to survive.

Bernie_Geotz_Squirrel_Luv

Shoot, if this lonely old guy wanted friendly chitchat, all he needed to do was shop at Trader Joe's.
Dumbass old koot. f'ing Gypsies. always during the summer with their scams.