SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (WISH) — A Scottsburg trade proprietor was once arrested Friday and is going through a number of legal fees after an Indiana State Police investigation that began in March.
In March, a trade seller contacted Detective Tim Denby with the ISP Particular Investigations Segment. The seller alleged that 57-year-old John Gibbs, proprietor of Gibbs Innovate Producers Inc., was once committing fraudulent trade practices.
Scottsburg is in southern Indiana, a few part hour north of Louisville.
The seller informed investigators that Gibbs it appears paid for products and services rendered with a fraudulent test for over $10,000. Denby discovered later via investigation the test was once written on an afternoon Gibbs closed the related bank account.
All the way through the investigation, Denby discovered of more than one different distributors who had been owed massive bills by way of Gibbs’ corporate for paintings finished on the manufacturing unit in Scottsburg. The ones distributors incorporated quite a lot of contractors in southern Indiana and a in the community based totally monetary establishment.
The quantity of fraudulent or stolen monies totaled greater than $302,000.
Investigators got an arrest warrant, and Gibbs was once taken into custody at his house in Simpsonville, Kentucky.
Gibbs is going through legal fees for seven counts of fraud, seven counts of robbery, and one depend of corrupt trade practices. He was once additionally arrested on similar warrants from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia.
