An arrest has been made after the sheriff says a Pike County man pretended to be a military officer to solicit fraudulent donations for a military transition service.
According to East Kentucky Broadcasting, 49-year-old Monroe Jackson, of Frog Town Road, in Pikeville, was arrested over the weekend on a misdemeanor charge of misrepresenting military status.
Pike County Sheriff Rodney Scott said Jackson had been posing as a colonel, while never having achieved that rank and soliciting donations for the Mountain Comprehensive Care Center’s Veterans Transition Center.
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With the amount of money collected by Jackson under alleged false pretenses, more severe charges are forthcoming. Scott said that after EKB News reported Friday that Jackson was wanted by his department, the public came forward with information which led to Jackson’s arrest.
Anyone who believes they may have been defrauded out of money by Jackson should contact the Pike County Sheriff’s Department.
Jackson, who was originally ordered held on a $2,000 cash bond, was ordered released from the Pike County Detention Center on his own recognizance Sunday, . He will be in court December 1.
