Todd Jostes

Show Low Police urge anyone who believes they have been harmed by Jostes to contact Det. Sgt. Mike Butora at (928) 537-5091 ext. 230.

https://www.wmicentral.com/news/apache_county/accused-con-man-in-jail/article_b9414cd5-a444-57f1-8a6a-6722bafbb32f.html

https://www.wmicentral.com/news/apache_county/facts-law-in-dispute-in-contractor-fraud-theft-case/article_5482f659-9c91-5aaf-bb6d-8e92d21df17f.html

https://www.wmicentral.com/news/apache_county/jostes-released-from-jail/article_b27df538-f8f4-50d5-ae5b-0b4451abfe76.html

Wilderness man romanced women, then took their money

Todd Jostes has a reputation including accusations of romancing women, borrowing money from them and failing to pay them back.

Con Artist and Predator

 As this issue went to press in early February, a 3TV/CBS 5 investigative report aired alleging that Jostes is a con man who has lured several women  into romantic entanglements in order to borrow thousands of dollars of  money from them. Past civil and criminal cases and arrests came to  light. “What he does is he connects with people on Facebook from his  past, also from dating sites – Match.com primarily – and he will just  drown you in compliments and blow up your phone [with texts] a hundred  times a day,” says Dina (real name withheld to protect privacy), who  grew up with Jostes in Crete, a small town in Illinois south of Chicago.  Dina says she loaned him $16,000 after reconnecting with him on  Facebook in February 2016. After a brief “wooing” period, she says, he  starts the sob stories: “‘I’m so broke,’ and ‘Just help me get through  this rough spot so we can be together and my business can finally take  off again.’ It’s all the same. And it’s for large amounts of money.”