Texas Man Bagged For Allegedly Pocketing Cash, Passing Himself Off As Lawyer Providing Foreclosure Rescue Services

In Williamson County, Texas, KXAN-TV Channel 36 reports:

• A Williamson County man is arrested after allegedly fraudulently posing as an attorney. The Williamson County Sheriffs office was contacted after Ray Echavez filed several documents with the Williamson County Clerk’s Office. Clerks in the office did not believe that Echavez was a lawyer.
• Deputies contacted the man named in the document. According to the affidavit, the victim said that he met Echavez through a realtor and agreed to pay $2,500 for help in stopping the foreclosure of his Cedar Park home. The victim said he received legal advice and even appeared in court with Echavez, where a judge refused to grant an application for a restraining order against the foreclosure company.
• The victim also said there was paperwork where his signature was forged. Investigators also believe that Echavez at one point called deputies attempting to impersonate the victim. Echavez is charged with falsely holding oneself out as a lawyer, a third degree felony.

Source: Man posing as attorney arrested (Man allegedly paid $2500 for legal advice).