A Cascade man has been sentenced to six months in prison for fraudulently lowering odometers in nearly fifty vehicles before selling them.
69-year old Randolph Forrest received the prison term after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud last year.
The U.S. Department of Justice says information from sentencing showed that from June 2012 through July 2021, Forrest conspired with others to roll back odometers on used cars to sell them for more money. Forrest and others involved in the scheme tampered with the odometers of at least forty-seven cars by having the odometers fraudulently altered to reflect lower mileage. They then sold the cars to unsuspecting buyers at higher sales prices than the buyers would have paid had the true mileage been disclosed. As part of the fraud, Forrest mailed forms to a repair business requesting that odometers be changed to reflect lower mileages. Forrest advertised the cars with the lower, false mileages on Facebook and Craigslist.
Forrest was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and six months’ home confinement. He was ordered to make more than $140,000 in restitution to forty-seven victims of his offense. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.
Forrest was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the United States Marshal on May 6th.
