Man who scammed registrants gets 4 years in prison
Marquis Lamar Conner Sr., 43, of Decatur, Georgia, was the last of four defendants to go before the Muskingum County Court of Common Pleas for sentencing Aug. 18.
Conner argued for his own sentencing before Judge Kelly Cottrill. After a lengthy statement where he blamed the victims for being defrauded, Conner received four years in an Ohio prison. Of the others, two got three years and one got 2 years house arrest.
The defendants organized an interstate operation with illegal phones while imprisoned in Georgia to pose as law enforcement and goad payments from registered sex offenders nationwide. “The group threatened the sex offenders with arrest if they did not transfer money to the inmates through the individuals assisting them from outside the prison system,” the prosecutor’s office said.
The true measure of justice is not whether it protects the popular, but whether it protects everyone.
That principle was tested when a group of Georgia inmates set up an elaborate scheme to extort registered sex offenders across the country, including victims here in Ohio. Posing as law enforcement, they threatened arrest unless payments were made. Their targets weren’t random—these offenders were chosen precisely because of their marginalized status. In the conspirators’ eyes, they were easy prey: pariahs with no public sympathy, unlikely to draw protection.
Yet Muskingum County law enforcement did not look the other way. They investigated, prosecuted, and secured prison sentences for those responsible. That choice matters. It signals that justice is not conditional, and the law does not abandon even the least sympathetic among us.
This case reaffirms a core truth: the rule of law stands tallest when it shields those society is most tempted to cast aside. Fraud is fraud. Extortion is extortion. And accountability is not negotiable.
Here, justice served is justice delivered—for all.
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The article mentioned them posing as LEOs, but it didn’t say whether they were charged with that crime .. in some states, it can be a sentence of up to 10 additional years .. I have had two such phone calls .. The first one, I told him I’d have to get the money and I’d have to call him back .. I asked him if the caller ID was correct and he said it was .. Then I called my PO and my PO did 4-way call with him; my PO officer, me, the BC Sherrif’s Office, and then him .. What was REALLY FUNNY? The IDIOT actually used an actual officers name that was actually working in the office that day, and that my PO was buddies with .. My PO talked to the man while the officer started a trace on the call .. Unfortunately, the Deputy Sheriff spoke up and said who he was .. The next thing we heard was “click” .. SO, the man hung up before they could get a trace on him .. 🙄.. I would have loved being there if they could have arrested him .. 😂
that is a tv fallacy. Once a trace is initiated by authorities, a hang up does not disconnect the trace. Your story is not believable.
Ok, this post might be flagged and not posted as vulgar, but it has some humor too.
I got a call like this, the guy said “This is detective so and so and I am looking for you because you failed to show up to provide a DNA sample”. I had heard about these calls happening, and I knew I had no outstanding DNA requirement, Florida had already ex-facto demanded it long ago.
Took a line from the movie The Exorcist and said “I was expecting your call”, he said “really”. I said “yes and the reason I could not make it is because I was busy watching your mother s*** c***s in hell”. They hung up and I never heard from them again.
Since this is defined federally as wire fraud, I think the feds should charge them all too.
Unfortunately he’ll be hailed a hero in prison.
When you catch them in the act on the phone they scream profanities at you.