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06-19-2009 09:39 AM |
GFY scammer David Stodghill makes the news
Longtime GFY members will appreciate this. For those who don't know, Stodghill has a long, searchable history of conning numerous adult webmasters, not to mention other antics including violent threats, and occasionally calling CPS to the homes of webmasters with bogus charges. A quick search of his name will turn up countless threads.
More recently he's been trying to pass himself off as a legit film producer, but it looks like his past finally caught up with him. From today's Shippensburg Sentinel (at Cumberlink dot com - can search for this article and post the link since I can't w/o having more posts on GFY?)
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Shippensburg police say film project bogus
By Dale Heberlig, Sentinel Reporter, June 19, 2009
Last updated: Friday, June 19, 2009 9:38 AM EDT
Shippensburg police are warning residents to steer clear of a bogus filmmaker who claims to be making a fire-safety movie.
Police Chief Fred Scott says the man, identified as David Stodghill, is pitching plans to make a movie in downtown Shippensburg using local fire apparatus and Hollywood celebrities. He says King Street would be closed and a vacant college fraternity house burned.
Stodghill, 36, used the name Randy Thomas in his pitch and even informed Scott of the plan.
Scott say Stodghill is from the Carlisle-Newville area and recently returned from North Carolina to take up residence in Shippensburg,
Scott says dealing with Stodghill is risky business, especially if there are children involved.
“He has a lengthy criminal record and is a habitual liar, according to information I’ve collected from other police departments,” Scott says. “Have no contact with him in any way, shape of form.”
Stodghill floated the same scam last summer in Carlisle.
“He talked to me,” Scott says, “and the mayor (Bruce Hockersmith) and Tom Moriarty (emergency management coordinator) about this fire safety movie.”
When Scott checked the credentials of “Randy Thomas,” he discovered that Thomas is a legitimate filmmaker but that Stodghill is clearly not Thomas.
“He was talking about auditioning young girls for the movie,” Scott says. “I’m not comfortable with him around kids.”
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Scott says Stodghill has committed no crime locally, “except for telling people that the police support his film.”
Stodghill’s past is another story. Cumberland County and state police records show Stodghill has served several prison terms in the past — one for concealing the whereabouts of a child.
Cumberland County records indicate Stodghill has been imprisoned there six times since 1995 — twice on charges of indecent assault and on other occasions on charges of intimidating a victim, aggravated assault of corruption of a minor, receiving stolen property and criminal trespass
Terry Bigler, a downtown Shippensburg businessmen, says he was approached by Stodghill on several occasions but was skeptical from the start. He reported the encounters to Scott and Borough fire Chief Jamie White two weeks ago.
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