‘Serial Dine-and-Dasher’ Arrested In Making Dates Pay

Like there wasn’t adequate to currently
be concerned about
, discover a entryway when you look at the Online Dating Hall of Nightmares: An L.A. man provides over and over repeatedly eliminated with ladies to expensive restaurants, merely to spontaneously dump all of them, making these to foot the balance.
Authorities say
Paul Guadalupe Gonzalez, known in regional media because the
“serial dine-and-dasher,”
has done this with at the very least eight different women, and has now now at long last been arrested on ten crime fees.

“I couldn’t believe it,” mentioned Marjorie Moon, exactly who went with Gonzalez in 2016 after fulfilling him through software loads of Fish. They had hit it off, she mentioned, bonding over an appreciation of great food; the guy purchased two entrees — a chicken recipe and four lobster tails — together with costly wine and a soufflé for treat. Until the guy took a call, and never came ultimately back. “i recently passed [the waiter] my personal bank card and mentioned, ‘i simply wish go homeward’ — $250 later, I became outside,” Moon informed the Arizona

Post

.

Gonzalez provides pleaded not guilty to seven counts of extortion, two counts of attempted extortion, and something number of grand theft, allegedly making his dates spend over $950. Based on the region lawyer’s company, the guy faces around 13 years in prison.

Other tales of Paul’s check-skipping stick to a similar pattern to Moon’s. In 2017, he welcomed a Bumble match to a BJ’s Brewhouse in L.A., in which the guy purchased a steak, a Caesar salad with a side of shrimp, a baked potato, and a glass of wine. After the meal, he said the guy had a need to simply take a call, disappearing with only a half a baked potato kept available, the woman advised
CBS Information
. Another woman alleged that Gonzalez showed up to a “romantic cafe” in Long seashore, purchasing above $100 really worth of food, such as a supplementary entree he advertised was necessary because he is “a bodybuilder.” On that occasion, the guy disappeared during a supposed restroom excursion.

“suddenly, he’s all, ‘Oh, my personal phone’s passing away and I’m waiting on a call from my personal mom about my aunt. I will go right to the automobile to obtain my charger,'” one of several females scammed by Gonzalez
told CBS in May.
“My personal basic review to him as he had gotten up ended up being, ‘Oh, just what, you aren’t finding its way back?'”

Unsurprisingly, Gonzalez has actually an authorities record with numerous misdemeanors, including a
“snip and slide”
incident whereby the guy fled a beauty salon without paying, caught on video clip with moist dye in the tresses and a smock on. But hey, no less than he had been referred to as “pleasant.”