More victims are coming forward to tell how they were tricked out of their money by a man posing as a landlord in Fayetteville.
“I’m really hoping this man gets caught. I’m hoping they find him and put him away,” Ireana Darity said.
Darity is talking about Edwin Jamall Wilson.
Fayetteville Police Department charged him
with several felony charges after an ABC11 I-Team investigation, but he has not yet been arrested.
Investigators said Wilson posed as a landlord to potential renters. Darity said she first heard from Wilson after she posted on Facebook that she was facing homelessness and urgently looking for a rental home.
“‘I help single moms.’ That was his pitch, and I’m a single mother. So as soon as he said that, I was like, ‘Oh, my God! Thank God.’ That’s my blessing right there,” Darity said.
Renters in Fayetteville are out thousands of dollars for a house they say isn’t for rent but that Edwin Wilson tried to rent anyway.
Wilson let her tour the home. He told her he just evicted tenants, so the home would be ready for her within days.