{"id":441758,"date":"2025-12-12T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441758\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:02:09","slug":"man-targets-spanish-speakers-to-steal-ids-forge-signatures-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441758\/","title":{"rendered":"Man targets Spanish speakers to steal IDs, forge signatures \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detectives are looking for additional victim after a man tricked elderly people into signing up for long-term solar panel lease agreements by using victims’ identities and forging their signatures, the Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday. <\/p>\n

Detectives named Kevin Eduardo Cristofer Esperanza as the suspect, saying that he has targeted older people with limited computer literacy, especially Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n

According to the LAPD, Esperanza would approach his victims, pretending to sell solar panels. While speaking with the elderly people, the suspect would convince them to provide personal information.<\/p>\n

Esperanza then use the sensitive information and forged their names to sign them up for long-term solar panel lease agreements without their knowledge of consent. <\/p>\n

Investigators believe the crime happened between July 2021 and February 2022.<\/p>\n

The LAPD urged anyone who knows a victim or who may have been victimized to contact Detective Juan Campos at 213-486-5995 or email 31480@LAPD.Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives are looking for additional victim after a man tricked elderly people into signing up for long-term solar…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":441759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,4530,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-441758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-lapd","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115705082290168007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}