MASON CITY — Men from Texas and Alabama have been sentenced for posing as Internal Revenue Service agents and bilking a northern Iowa woman.
Fourty-one-year-old Eduardo Cruz, of Grapevine, Texas, last week was sentenced to four days in jail. A $625 fine was suspended, and he was ordered to pay nearly $5,000 in restitution. He’d pleaded guilty to theft. Co-defendant Coty Phillips, of Eufaula, Ala., last month was sentenced to 85 days in jail and ordered to pay $69 in restitution.
Police say Phillips and Cruz had called the woman and threatened her with arrest if she didn’t pay them money they said she owed the government.