Former coach gets 8 years for scamming elderly
19.05.12
STOCKTON - A former high school basketball coach convicted of stealing more than $270,000 from elderly people was sentenced to eight years in state prison Monday.
Prosecutors say Larry Cunningham Kimble, 55, convinced elderly people to invest in his business, MT2Y, LLC. The company sold light bulbs and health-care management programs.
He met one of the couples at The Home Church on West Lane. The wife uses a wheelchair and the husband is legally blind.
Prosecutor Stephen Taylor said Kimble, a coach at Jim Elliot Christian High School from 2003 to 2008, went to the couple's home for money 13 times.
Taylor said Kimble generated hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors - and only generated $24,000 in actual sales. "We will never know where all that money actually went," Taylor said.
In October, a jury found him guilty of six counts of first-degree residential burglary because the transactions took place in the investors' homes.
Source: Stockton Record