A Dallas solar salesman has been indicted for allegedly using homeowners’ identities and forged e-signatures to take out tens of thousands of dollars in loans, prosecutors said.
Andres Jesus Linares-Rea, 27, faces two counts of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft for fraudulently obtaining homeowner loans for rooftop solar systems between September 2022 and December 2024, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas.
U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould said in a news release that Linares-Rea worked with solar engineering, procurement, and construction firms and sold systems door to door…