STATESVILLE, N.C. — Charles Johnson, the owner of Carolina Blue Tours in Statesville, is accused of scamming elderly people out of $25,000.
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The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said an 83-year-old woman told deputies that she and others paid Johnson for an Alaskan cruise.
Johnson canceled the day before they were expected to set sail and wouldn’t give them a refund.
The travel agent never booked their reservations and went on the cruise himself, investigators say.
Johnson faces six felonies of obtaining property by false pretenses.
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