Man condemned to probation, he must pay $ 340K in the Ohio dog training scheme

An Ohio man convicted of directing a fake dog training business was sentenced to five years of probation last week.

Jason Jones, 45, was sentenced on Friday after declaring himself guilty of 181 positions not to provide dog training services as promised and for acts of animal cruelty, said the office of the Montgomery County Prosecutor.

He has also been ordered to pay $ 341,363.24 in restitution, the office said in a press release. The assistant prosecutor previously recommended a minimum prison sentence of 10 years.

Jones’ Coacusado, his ex -girlfriend Tabatha Taverna, 48, and his current 40 -year -old Jennifer Long girlfriend will be sentenced on Friday, said Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office.

Jones, Taverna and Jennifer Long declared themselves guilty in relation to the following positions:

101 Robbery counts for deception
33 charges beyond reach
24 charges of cruelty to pets
16 charges of robbery against a victim of elders or disabled
4 robbery counts
2 Lack of presentation of the State Income Tax
1 count of participating in a corrupt activity pattern

The man took customer money, returned dogs with ‘signs of negligence’

According to the lawyer’s office, Jones claimed to direct a business called Dayton Dog Trainer LLC, who said he trained dogs and support animals. He also promised monitoring training and nothing happened, said the office.

Jones charged more than 120 clients thousands of dollars for training, but when the dogs went home, “they were not already trained of stool with obvious signs of negligence and abuse.” In total, it took more than $ 340,000 of its customers.

A dog died after being in the care of Jones, according to judicial documents obtained by USA Today.

Jones previously directed his company of Dog coaches Dayton until March 27, 2024, according to Montgomery County prosecutor.

In judicial documents, the fiscal lawyer wrote that Jones operated a legitimate business at one time, but there was a change in August 2018.

“Jones turned that business into a branch,” reads judicial documents.

Jones lied about his experience as a dog coach

The Jones website announced services such as training for advanced dog obedience, aggressive dog behavior and rehabilitation, manners in the house, as well as training for therapy dogs, sight and diabetes dogs alerts to dogs. Jones also claimed to train dogs in narcotics detection, smell detection and track dogs, the prosecutor wrote in judicial documents.

Once the clients communicated with him, he offered to travel to them for home evaluations, which lasted between a minute and two minutes. After that, he spoke with the dog owners for the next 45 minutes or so, the prosecutor wrote.

In judicial documents, the prosecutor said that during conversations with customers, he was dishonest about his background and work experience.

Jones told customers during these evaluations:

I was in the army
It was a military coach K9
Trained “Guerra dogs”
It was a k9 manager in Afghanistan
He was a police officer
It was a K9 police coach
Trained dogs for Cincinnati Bengals players
Trained dogs for movies

“Several things they said had a real thread in them,” prosecutors wrote in judicial documents. “He was in the National Guard and active duty for two months and eleven days, for the initial training, before going to Awol and received an administrative high of chapter 10 instead of being a martial court.”

Jones was previously assigned to a military police unit in the National Guard, although he was never a military policeman “because he left before his training,” prosecutors wrote.

Jones was an auxiliary officer of the Phillipsburg Police Department for eight months and worked as an auxiliary ranger of the Greene County Park for 18 months. He left both jobs before being fired, prosecutors wrote.

The Bengals Security Chief said Jones did not have his dogs trained by Jones, according to the documents.

His LinkedIn profile also contained lies, lawyers wrote, including a lie about the interdiction of narcotics for Green County for three years and seven months.

“While he had videos that they said they were from him training dogs in a center of Perrera, since at least 2006 that has not been the case,” prosecutors wrote in judicial documents. “He has never been owned/executed of this type.”

Prosecutors: Victims fell into multiple categories

According to the prosecutor, the victims of Jones fell into multiple categories:

Those who took money and refused to respond or refund completely.
Those whose dogs were left, but sent back and considered “insecure.”
Those who were elderly, in the army and disabled; He did not train his dogs and neglected some of them.
Those whose dogs were injured, some of whom were returned to their owners and behaved so aggressively that they had to be sacrificed.
Those who paid the training and received dogs that were not trained and behaved worse than before.

Jones caused customers to sign a six -page contract and pay him entirely, prosecutors said in judicial documents. He also asked to pay in cash, or through the venmo application, paypal or cash because “he preferred those payment forms to avoid taxes.”

The average rate for its services was $ 2,500 and when it was time to train, there was an emergency or retired back, prosecutors said.

“Once healthy dogs lost a significant weight and were returned with ribs that were shown,” the judicial documents show. “Many dogs were returned tangled with stool and smelling of urine. The dogs were returned with rashes, bald points and whip. The teeth of a dog seemed to have been filed.

Customers say the dogs were worse when Jones returned them

The prosecutors also alleged in the judicial documents that Jones promised a woman who was losing his eyes sight. Once he recovered his Jones dog, the dog was aggressive and attacked it. She required leather graft surgery after the attack.

Another client is paraplegic and when Jones returned his dog, he bit his granddaughter and sent her to the emergency room to get stitches in her hand.

Another client went to Jones to train a dog and certificate for air trips. The dog was not trained and the boarding school was denied, prosecutors wrote.

“Many of the victims fear Jones,” prosecutors wrote. “He threatened to sue them if they left a bad review. When they canceled or tried to cancel, it was aggressive with them and pressed them to keep the training or too scared to defend their right to refund. In addition to his fear was the fact that in all cases, he was in his homes and knows where they live. ”

‘The defendant must never be allowed near a dog again’

Calling business as a “scam”, prosecutors said Jones directed the company of Dayton Dog Trainers out of a house in New Lebanon with Taverna, one of his coacked. They also worked in a trunk cabin in Brookville, then in a house in Huber Heights with the coacusado Long.

The researchers interviewed neighbors in Brookville and Huber Heights, who never saw Jones training any dog. As for the bathroom, he breaks for dogs, he often left his son or his son.

The researchers believe that the dogs were kept in cages while they were under their care, and found a crushed box that makes them believe that the defendants physically abused the dogs, prosecutors said.

The researchers assaulted the house of Brookville de Jones in October 2023 and made him know that what he was doing was a crime, but continued doing business until they fulfilled an arrest warrant.

Prosecutor Mat Heck, Jr. said in the press release on Friday that he is happy that Jones in front of the consequences of his actions.

“This defendant directed his so -called business in a way that he suggested that he believed he could escape the consequences of taking the money from people, torture his dogs and provide little or no real training of dogs,” said Heck.

“The number of victims is amazing. As owner of a dog, I am relieved that their criminal activities have been arrested. This defendant should never be allowed near a dog again!

Sale in Martin is a reporter of the USA’s now’s team. She is from Norfolk, Virginia – The 757. Send an email to [email protected].