Bad check for bad bikes.......seems fair.....

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Fraud charge cancels man's cycle purchase
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
WOODBURY HEIGHTS -- A Voorhees Township man free on bail in Camden County on charges he bilked 53 victims out of more than $500,000 was arrested here this week after allegedly buying a $10,000 motorcycle with a bad check.

Christian N. Sparacio, 38, allegedly bought the Suzuki motorcycle at Power Sports here on July 16, with a check drawn on an account in his name that had been closed for more than nine months, police said.

He returned to Power Sports Monday to purchase another motorcycle while a police officer was there taking a report on the first incident, said police.

 
   
 

During the arrest, police allegedly found a private investigator's badge and what appeared to be a home-made private investigator's ID card, said police.

Sparacio, who had been a Camden City police officer for less than a year, also had a Camden City police badge, a badge holder with the words "Camden City Police" printed on it and a laminated business card identifying him as a Camden City officer, said police.

Police said they determined Sparacio was not a licensed private investigator after contacting the New Jersey State Police.

Investigators also learned Sparacio had been charged in Camden County with the theft of more than $500,000 from 53 separate victims, said police.

He was on bail for those charges and a charge of impersonating a public servant in Evesham Township, police said. Evesham police said they had a Camden City badge they'd seized from Sparacio, said police.

It is unknown where Sparacio obtained the badges. It's a violation of law to sell police badges to anyone without proper identification, police said.

Sparacio was charged here with theft by deception and criminal simulation and committed to the Gloucester County Jail in Woodbury in default of $10,000 full cash bail, said police.

Additional charges may be filed for possession of an unidentified controlled dangerous substance, police said.

Sparacio's Camden County charges stemmed from him allegedly taking money for concrete work he did not do under the names of C. Sparacio Inc. and Ultimate Concrete Inc., said police.

The Evesham impersonation charges resulted from him allegedly posing as a police officer in an attempt to convince victims not to notify authorities of their complaints, according to a release made earlier this month by Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi.

A motion to increase Sparacio's bail in the Camden County cases has been postponed.

He returned to Power Sports Monday to purchase another motorcycle while a police officer was there taking a report on the first incident, said police.