MS Man Charged With Scamming Farmers
A Wesson, Miss., man has been charged with selling hay over the Internet. Authorities say the problem is James Darin Hoffman had no hay.
Copiah County chief investigator Milton Twiner tells The Clarion-Ledger that Hoffman was freed on $50,000 shortly after his arrest on Nov. 29.
Twiner says Hoffman allegedly been selling hay to farmers in Texas through a website called The Hay Barn. The site calls itself a “classified ad site for hay, hay equipment, and haying services.”
The Texas area was an easy target as it is under a state of emergency because of the ongoing drought.
Hoffman is charged with four counts of false pretenses.
