William Harris, 68, was arrested Saturday on charges of crimes against an at-risk person or elderly adult and theft.
The woman estimated that she and her family paid about $300,000 to Harris under the belief that they would receive $15 million in return, according to the affidavit.
The woman, then 81, told Greeley police in October that Harris told her his grandfather had millions of dollars hidden and Harris was working with Vice President Kamala Harris and the Department of Homeland Security to exchange the money from old currency to new currency. But William Harris claimed that he needed to pay taxes before the money would be released to him. The woman said she and her family found the story to be convincing, according to the affidavit.
The woman and her family, including her now-deceased husband, son and brother, started giving Harris money to help pay the taxes, according to the affidavit. She used money from her Social Security checks, pension, savings account and profits from the sale of her brother’s house to pay Harris. She would send the money through cash, checks or deposit the money into Harris’s bank account, according to the affidavit.
The woman never got any of the money she was promised, nor was she reimbursed for the payments she thought were going to taxes.
The woman gave Harris was $145,950. Her family paid the rest of the $300,000 Harris got from the group.
Some of the money was deposited into a bank account owned by Harris’s wife. She denied knowing about the money being paid to her husband in an interview with police, according to the affidavit, stating her husband had access to the account and debit card.
When the woman ran out of money to give, she told the Larimer County victim about the false investment opportunity, according to the affidavit.
Another victim also reported that Harris scammed her out of $4,500 in 2023. She told police that her family lost their house in a fire, and she met Harris while working at her family’s restaurant a short time later.
Harris introduced himself as an officer working with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and also said he was a former player for the Kansas City Chiefs and had a Super Bowl ring, according to the affidavit. Harris told this woman he made large investments and said he would be able to get her $100,000 if he invested with him. After she gave him the $4,500, she never saw him again.
In the Larimer County case, Harris defrauded about $153,000 from a man over the course of six months. Harris asked the victim to withdraw and deliver cash to various locations across Larimer County and Denver, according to a Larimer County Sheriff’s Office news release. In June, the Larimer County victim became suspicious of Harris and contacted the sheriff’s office.
Harris told the Larimer County victim the same story of needing to pay taxes before he could inherit millions of dollars.
Harris is scheduled to appear for a disposition hearing on March 24 at the Larimer County Justice Center in Fort Collins. He is also scheduled to appear in court for a disposition hearing on April 14 at the Weld County District Court.
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