A jury found Michael Duane Mullet guilty of multiple counts of Fraud and Theft. Mullet used a plumbing fraud scheme to steal more than $16,700 while working at Lawson Family Plumbing.
Mullet convinced 34 customers to pay him directly for plumbing work from April to August 2014. Mullet then deposited the checks into his bank account. The Mesa Police Department launched an investigation after a concerned customer called Lawson Family Plumbing to report Mullet’s suspicious activity. In May 2016, a State Grand Jury indicted Mullet on multiple counts of Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices and one count of Theft. Mullet will be sentenced on March 3, 2017.
Detective Fred Bamonte from the Mesa Police Department led the investigation.
The crack crew members of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, Assistant Attorneys General Kim Ortiz and Nick Klingerman, always in search of the lowest hanging fruit, prosecuted the case.