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Ex-Tucson realtor gets prison for improper home sale
Comments 0 | Recommend 0TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A former real estate agent has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison plus seven years of probation for improperly selling the home of an elderly Tucson resident and keeping the profit.
State prosecutors say 46-year-old Ammar Dean Halloum was working as a licensed real estate agent when he misrepresented himself and obtained the title of a Gilbert home from a Tucson dementia patient. Authorities say Halloum then flipped the property.
Halloum pleaded guilty to one count of theft/financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult and one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices, both felonies.
Halloum was sentenced Tuesday in Pima County Superior Court. He was ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution to the victim and more than $30,000 to the Arizona Attorney General's Office for prosecution costs.
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