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[Redneckerz]

Chris Hansen, 59, of Shippan, was charged Monday with issuing a bad check to a Stamford business for several thousand dollars in marketing merchandise. He was released without bond after signing a written promise to appear in court.

According to a four-page arrest affidavit obtained by the Stamford Advocate, Hansen placed an order with Promotional Sales Limited of Summer Street in 2017 for several hundred ceramic mugs, T-shirts and decals. The order totaled $12,998.05.

In September 2017, the company allegedly turned over the goods after receiving a check issued by Hansen News LLC ― a company reportedly led by Hansen ― for the entire amount. It bounced.

According to USA Today, the bad checks involved ordering 355 mugs, 288 T-shirts and 650 vinyl decals he bought in the summer of 2017.

Curiously, this happened during the Kickstarter to get To Catch A Predator back on:

The timing of the order appears to coincide with Hansen attempting to keep promises he’d made during a Kickstarter campaign aimed at funding “Hansen vs. Predator,” a spinoff of the “To Catch a Predator” series Hansen hosted on “Dateline NBC” from 2004 to 2007.

Kickstarter donors were promised a number of items, including T-shirts and coffee mugs. The campaign raised nearly $90,000 but multiple donors left comments on the Kickstarter page complaining they never received anything.

Similarly, police say Hansen failed to keep with multiple promises he’d allegedly made to reimburse Promotional Sales Limited of Summer Street. The business owner filed a complaint with police in April 2017.

In April 2018, Promotional Sales Limited of Summer Street allegedly received a personal check from Hansen in the amount of $13,200. It bounced three days later, according to police. Hansen then allegedly emailed the owner of the company. The email, according to the affidavit, read, in part:

''I truly thought I had this covered. I am scrambling to get it done. Please give me till the end of the day. I sold a boat to cover the rest of this and need to pick up the payment this afternoon.''

A third check was never received, police said, and an arrest warrant was issued for Hansen. He turned himself in to police on Monday, the Stamford Advocate reported. (Which is the 14th.)

Sources:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ed-catch-predator_us_5c3f84eee4b027c3bbbd7f7a
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/...ris-hansen-arrested-bounced-check/2597115002/

Ill be watching over this thread like a hawk. You have been warned.

 

[Wings 嫩翼翻せ]

Wish I knew who the man was, but wow that's a lot of money for a bounced check. Makes complete sense.

 

[tkscz]

Was expecting this to be more ironic than it is. This is just one of the weirder Kickstarter projects going wrong.

 

[Vlaphor]

Wish I knew who the man was, but wow that's a lot of money for a bounced check. Makes complete sense.

He did a video series called "To Catch A Predator", where decoys posed as teenagers online and invited grown men to their house to have sex with them, then Chris Hanson would come out from behind something and ask them a bunch of questions about what they were doing. It was fun in a schadenfreude way of seeing these dudes try to come up with legitimate excuses for why they were sending dick pics to someone they believed was a 13 yr old girl.

Was expecting this to be more ironic than it is. This is just one of the weirder Kickstarter projects going wrong.

For that, you're going to want to look at the time hidden cameras caught him cheating on his wife.

 

[cr0w]

It's funny but it's also sad that Hansen really only has one specific marketable skill, and that's luring sexual predators to sting operations. That's the only job he's qualified for, and he keeps trying to revitalize the idea every time his latest show ends.

 

[AngularSaxophone]

$13,000 seems like a ton of money for less than 1500 things you can buy at the dollar store.

 

[Greedings]

People still use cheques? Is it 1994?

 

[Wings 嫩翼翻せ]

He did a video series called "To Catch A Predator", where decoys posed as teenagers online and invited grown men to their house to have sex with them, then Chris Hanson would come out from behind something and ask them a bunch of questions about what they were doing. It was fun in a schadenfreude way of seeing these dudes try to come up with legitimate excuses for why they were sending dick pics to someone they believed was a 13 yr old girl.

Oh shoot, that guy?! Wow. Who would've thought, eh?

 

[bitbydeath]

Wish I knew who the man was, but wow that's a lot of money for a bounced check. Makes complete sense.

Figured it was one of the MMM Bop brothers. He aged horribly judging by the pic.

 

[King of Foxes]

What!? No way...!

 

[Scopa]

People still use cheques? Is it 1994?

Yeah. I can’t comprehend this. The U.S.A. can be a weird place sometimes. No metric system. Still using cheques. Still producing cars with column shifts. So progressive, yet so backwards.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Why would you risk everything you have over something so small

 

[TheSadRanger]

It's funny but it's also sad that Hansen really only has one specific marketable skill, and that's luring sexual predators to sting operations. That's the only job he's qualified for, and he keeps trying to revitalize the idea every time his latest show ends.

 

[cr0w]

Lol goddamn