Michael Kent’s victims say the con man charmed them then left them

Michael Kent’s victims say the con man charmed them then left them with a pile of debt.Michael Kent’s m.o. was always the same. He’d meet an unsuspecting woman online, charm her into letting him move in, then disappear without a trace after racking up thousands of dollars in charges to accounts opened in her name.Heather Blair was Kent’s latest victim. She met him online last year and soon after was whisked away on romantic getaways and out to fancy dinners.”He made me laugh. He swept me off my feet, and knew exactly what to say to me,” Blair told Spokane’s KXLY-TV. “He treated me like a woman.”Blair thought things were going great until she came home from a weekend trip with some friends to find Kent had disappeared. That’s when the bills started rolling in — Kent was going on shopping sprees with cards he’d opened in Blair’s name, eventually wiping out $15,000 from her savings.Pissed at Kent’s deception, Blair started investigating her former boyfriend’s past. What she found was a rap sheet that included 20 felony charges, three ex-wives in three different states and more than a dozen defrauded women just liker her.But somewhere along the way, Kent’s bilking-nice-ladies racket must have become less profitable. Because beginning last December, police say he started knocking over banks. Investigators believe Kent robbed a total of three banks in and around Spokane. He’s since been arrested for investigation of bank robbery, identity theft and the lesser charge of fooling a bunch of trusting women into believing they’d found love. “We are all just embarrassed that we fell for this,” says Blair.