A dealer of methamphetamine and fentanyl has been tied to the house-stealing scheme in which a person was dismembered in the San Fernando Valley in 2020.
As first reported by Seamus Hughes’ Court Watch, Bahram Hassanshahi faces allegations of wire fraud, identity theft and drug sales in a postal inspector’s affidavit.
According to investigators, Hassanshahi — who also used the name “Persian Sean” — worked with Caroline Joanne Herrling and Matthew Jason Kroth to use fraudulent documents to illegally take ownership of homes, which they then sold for profit.
One such home was in Encino, and when the elderly homeowner died, his body was dismembered and discarded in San Francisco Bay, with Herrling claiming to police that she was a family friend and that the man had moved to Carpinteria.
Herrling’s scheme also targeted a Texas man who died by suicide after the thieves sold his Encino home out from under him.
It was that victim, Robert Tascon, that federal officials say Hassanshahi assisted with, as he’d met Tascon in jail.
After loaning Tascon $40,000, Hassanshahi assisted with the sale of Tascon’s home, earning himself $180,000 in the process, the affidavit says.
“He said he used the funds to buy drugs for resale,” the affidavit adds.
A dealer of methamphetamine and fentanyl has been tied to the house-stealing scheme in which a person was dismembered in the San Fernando Valley in 2020. As first reported by Seamus Hughes’ Court Watch, Bahram Hassanshahi faces allegations of wire fraud, identity theft and drug sales in a postal inspector’s affidavit. According to investigators, Hassanshahi […]
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