Minn. Twins Impostor Tries to Buy Home

Minn. Twins Impostor Tries to Buy Home

source: Associated Press Top Strange News

MINNEAPOLIS – A man posing as a Minnesota Twins baseball player tried to buy a million-dollar home, but was foiled when he produced a supposedly official document riddled with misspellings and bad grammar.

Dewitt Alonzo Davison, 21, insisted he was just trying to impress his fiancee and her family.

Davison told real estate agents he had recently signed a $17 million contract with the Twins and wanted to buy a home before he reported for spring training in Fort Myers, Fla. He provided a letter, purportedly from the Twins, that verified his financial status.

But the letter was riddled with misspellings, which made seller Robert Griggs suspicious about the prospective buyer of the $1.495 million home.

Griggs’ real estate agent contacted the Twins organization, which said they had no one by that name under contract and certainly did not pay him $17 million.

“It was full of misspellings and grammatical errors,” Mark Naylon of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office said of the letter. “It wasn’t even on Twins letterhead.”

Davison was arrested for being a military deserter.

“It was a stupid little joke that went too far,” Davison said. “I guess I was trying to impress some people.”

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