This full-time con artist and part-time escort is scheduled for release from Milton jail on March 17th. She is expected to hit the streets of Toronto again. Watch for her in the lower Bay St. and Queens Quay West areas as well as College Park.
Please report her whereabouts here.
See her picture on page 3:
http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/pdfs/8741.pdf
As per Toronto Star:
Woman who duped men faces new charges
Woman accused of duping men out of cash, lavish gifts
Convicted in 1998 of similar crimes to tune of $350,000
SCOTT ROBERTS
STAFF REPORTER
It was sheer coincidence, police say, that a woman with a host of identities
was arrested on Halloween night.
Seven years after pleading guilty to defrauding unsuspecting men out of more
than $350,000, Tracy Lynn Sargent - a.k.a. Alexandra Vandercroft, a.k.a.
Trinia Sargent, a.k.a. Leanne Diamond - is again in legal trouble over fraud
accusations.
"She's back," said Det. Const. George Pearson of 52 Division's fraud unit.
Police allege Sargent, 38, has duped two men out of $50,000, telling
elaborate lies about her life and financial need.
According to their investigation, police said, the woman met her victims
both on the street and over the Internet, wooing them into forking over cash
and gifts, police said. She has been charged with two counts of fraud over
$5,000. Her stories, Pearson said, included made-up details such as "she was
from Switzerland and that she's a university student at U of T in the
faculty of cardiology.
"She would tell them she needed money for tuition fees, rent, medical
expenses and even trips to France in relation to her medical career,"
Pearson added.
One of the victims came to police just a week ago after realizing who
Sargent really was.
He searched the Internet and found several articles published by the Toronto
Star in relation to the woman's previous charges.
"We had information she was about to leave the area and that's why we
stepped up our investigation and arrested her when we did," said Pearson.
Sargent was using the money to purchase extravagant gifts and pay for trips
overseas, police allege.
Pearson said there may be other victims who are reluctant to come forward
out of embarrassment.
During court proceedings in 1998, which led to her incarceration, evidence
showed she told some victims that she was the illegitimate daughter of then
Lieutenant-Governor Hilary Weston and movie mogul Edgar Bronfman. Others
believed she was anything from a Calvin Klein model to a would-be horse
trainer for Diana, Princess of Wales.
Documents entered in the 1998 court case showed Sargent had 57 fraud
convictions dating to 1986, a pattern thought to have begun in her hometown
of St. Thomas, Ont.
At her sentencing hearing in 1998, Sargent apologized for her actions.
"I displayed bad behaviour and caused uncalled-for pain to other people,"
she told the court at the time. Judge Stanley Long, who presided over the
case, was unsympathetic to her courtroom apology and sentenced her to two
years in a federal penitentiary.
He also ordered her to pay back $160,000 to one of her victims. Long called
her scams "one of the most horrendous fraudulent schemes that I've heard of
in all my years on the bench."
Please report her whereabouts here.
See her picture on page 3:
http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/pdfs/8741.pdf
As per Toronto Star:
Woman who duped men faces new charges
Woman accused of duping men out of cash, lavish gifts
Convicted in 1998 of similar crimes to tune of $350,000
SCOTT ROBERTS
STAFF REPORTER
It was sheer coincidence, police say, that a woman with a host of identities
was arrested on Halloween night.
Seven years after pleading guilty to defrauding unsuspecting men out of more
than $350,000, Tracy Lynn Sargent - a.k.a. Alexandra Vandercroft, a.k.a.
Trinia Sargent, a.k.a. Leanne Diamond - is again in legal trouble over fraud
accusations.
"She's back," said Det. Const. George Pearson of 52 Division's fraud unit.
Police allege Sargent, 38, has duped two men out of $50,000, telling
elaborate lies about her life and financial need.
According to their investigation, police said, the woman met her victims
both on the street and over the Internet, wooing them into forking over cash
and gifts, police said. She has been charged with two counts of fraud over
$5,000. Her stories, Pearson said, included made-up details such as "she was
from Switzerland and that she's a university student at U of T in the
faculty of cardiology.
"She would tell them she needed money for tuition fees, rent, medical
expenses and even trips to France in relation to her medical career,"
Pearson added.
One of the victims came to police just a week ago after realizing who
Sargent really was.
He searched the Internet and found several articles published by the Toronto
Star in relation to the woman's previous charges.
"We had information she was about to leave the area and that's why we
stepped up our investigation and arrested her when we did," said Pearson.
Sargent was using the money to purchase extravagant gifts and pay for trips
overseas, police allege.
Pearson said there may be other victims who are reluctant to come forward
out of embarrassment.
During court proceedings in 1998, which led to her incarceration, evidence
showed she told some victims that she was the illegitimate daughter of then
Lieutenant-Governor Hilary Weston and movie mogul Edgar Bronfman. Others
believed she was anything from a Calvin Klein model to a would-be horse
trainer for Diana, Princess of Wales.
Documents entered in the 1998 court case showed Sargent had 57 fraud
convictions dating to 1986, a pattern thought to have begun in her hometown
of St. Thomas, Ont.
At her sentencing hearing in 1998, Sargent apologized for her actions.
"I displayed bad behaviour and caused uncalled-for pain to other people,"
she told the court at the time. Judge Stanley Long, who presided over the
case, was unsympathetic to her courtroom apology and sentenced her to two
years in a federal penitentiary.
He also ordered her to pay back $160,000 to one of her victims. Long called
her scams "one of the most horrendous fraudulent schemes that I've heard of
in all my years on the bench."
