Galveston and Houston residents returning to their hurricane-ravaged homes have been warned to watch for snakes and alligators. The same warning should be issued for residents still living in the shelters two weeks after Hurricane Ike.
Michael Scott Biles and Gregory Lewis have been arrested after visiting two shelters posing as recruiters for RDL Energy Inc., RDL, a local company, rovides contract workers for the oil industry. Job seekers at the shelters were instructed to complete an application, and attach a voided check so their paychecks could be direct-deposited.
A shelter employee called RDL to confirm Biles and Lewis were who they claimed to be. RDL said they had no knowledge of the “recruiters,” so shelter workers took approximately a dozen completed applications from the men, and told them to leave.
Undeterred, the men then took their show to a second shelter. An administrator at the shelter called the police who arrested the men.
Though neither man has ever been an employee of RDL Energy, Biles had applied for a job there.
Biles and Lewis are being held on charges of fraudulent use/possession of identifying information, a second-degree felony, and could serve as much as long as 20 years in prison if convicted.
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