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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWe wrote about Albert Adams more than a year ago<\/a> when we caught him pretending to be a combat wounded colonel of the Air Force variety. He was being investigated for misuse of funds for his charity “Soaring Paws”, some sort of dog rescue group. Well The Tampa Bay Times<\/a> reports that he was arrested yesterday;<\/p>\n Adams, 47, turned himself in Thursday at the Hillsborough County Jail to face seven felony charges relating to his operation of Soaring Paws. He was released about 90 minutes later after posting $14,000 bail, according to jail records.<\/p>\n “Soaring Paws Inc., through Albert Adams, has used various means, particularly through social media, to solicit donations while making misrepresentations or misleading statements to the public in order to gain said donations,” wrote state criminal investigator Randall Jones of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.<\/p>\n The agency launched a criminal investigation in April 2016 after the Tampa Bay Times published a series of articles that raised questions about the way Soaring Paws operated. The arrest affidavit cites many of the topics raised by the Times\u2019 reporting. Jones subpoenaed charity and personal bank records and combed through hundreds of pages of Adams\u2019 financial transactions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Adams shrugs off the charges and characterizes them as “paperwork problems”, according to The Times.<\/p>\n “It was just a simple clerical error and we will take the steps needed to prove that all we wanted to do and all we ever did was help animals in kill shelters make it to forever homes,” he said.<\/p>\n One count charges Adams with failing to use solicited money for its stated purpose. Another alleges that he obtained contributions by fraud while advertising on social media that Soaring Paws had found an airplane to buy. He told followers he had negotiated a purchase price and showed them a photo of a single-engine Piper with the tail number N322381. The plane\u2019s Connecticut owner told the Times in March 2016 that the plane wasn\u2019t for sale and he had never heard of Adams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Valor thieves and dogs – the stories all end poorly for the dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"