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Name: Leslie Earl Raymond (James Kennedy, Father Kennedy, Richard Singletary, Albert J. Wykoff)
Aliases: James Kennedy, Father Kennedy, Richard Singletary, Albert J. Wykoff
Sex: Male
Race: White
Age Now: 39
Height: 6'3\"
Weight: 280 lbs.
Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Blond\rStrawberry
Eyes (Color and Correction): Green
Wanted for: Forged Credit Card, Seven Counts, Corona, CA; Jun 22, 2007
Credit Card Abuse, Kilgore, TX; Jul 09, 2007
Intent to defraud, 11 Counts, Corona, CA; Jun 22, 2007
Burglary, Five Counts, Corona, CA; Jun 22, 2007
Burglary In The 2nd Degree, Sioux Falls, SD; Jun 15, 2007
Forgery, Seven Counts, Sioux Falls, SD; Jun 15, 2007
Fraudulent Use of Credit Card, Four Counts., Dubuque, IA; Jun 14, 2007

Locations

Last seen: Santa Clarita, CA Cops in California say Raymond was last seen at a Fairfield Inn in Santa Clarita, Ca.
Possible location: Sioux Falls, SD , TX Iowa California Knoxville, TN
Last known: San Bernardino, CA Raymond moves from state to state regularly, but police say he was living at a motel in Santa Clarita, Ca.

Traits

Case Story

\"Forgive Us Our Trespasses\"

When 40-year-old Mark Gramm went to the hospital for a check up, he never imagined the bizarre turn his visit would take. It was June 15, 2007, a sunny day in Sioux Falls, S.D. As doctors performed tests on Mark, he suddenly passed out. Nurses quickly wheeled him to an emergency room to stabilize him. And while a nurse was checking on Mark, a priest walked in. \"I thought to myself, I must be in really bad shape,\" Mark tells us. The priest was wearing a jacket, which Mark found strange, because it was warm outside. But he figured the priest may be visiting some cold places inside the hospital, so he didn't question it. The priest only talked to Mark for about five minutes and then left. A few hours later, Mark was released and when he reached for his wallet on his back pocket, he didn't find it. Mark thought it may have fallen while he was wheeled to the emergency room, so nurses and physicians started searching for it with no luck. Then Mark remembered: aside from medical personnel, the priest was the only one who  had been in contact with him. Hospital employees went to check on the hospital's security camera and at that point, Mark got a call from his credit card company -- his credit cards had been used at several businesses in Sioux Falls.

\"Father Kennedy\" Goes Shopping

Cops in Sioux Falls were able to identify the man who took Mark's wallet as 38-year-old Leslie Earl Raymond. They say Raymond impersonated a priest and walked into the emergency room at Sanford Hospital in Sioux Falls saying he was there to visit some patients. Apparently he randomly targeted Marked and walked into his room. That's when he noticed that Mark's clothes were accessible, went for the pants and took the wallet. Cops say the jacket may have helped him hide the wallet. After the hospital visit, Sioux Falls detectives say Raymond went to different stores and bought a pre-paid cell phone and a multi-colored male Wire Fox Terrier puppy. At at least one of the locations he identified himself as James Kennedy.

More Crimes, More States

Police say Raymond has a Mississippi Driver's License under the name of James Andrew Kennedy -- an alias he has used in several opportunities. This name led detectives to Raymond's real identity and to the fact that he had served time in Tennessee, between 2003 and 2005, for Theft of Property. But the investigation also helped connect the Sioux Falls scam with scams in at least three other states: Texas, Iowa and California. In Kilgore, Texas, police say Raymond stole money from a patient after he entered her room. Then he went shopping to a local CVS store and bought gift cards. Almost the same thing happened in Dubuque, Iowa where cops say Raymond, who identified himself as Chaplain Kennedy, stole a patient's wallet and then used it at several stores in the area. And in Corona, Calif., cops say Kennedy didn't steal from a patient, but took a nurse's wallet and purchased gift cards at a CVS Pharmacy on June 22, 2007. Raymond was tracked to a motel in Santa Clarita, Calif. after the Corona incident, but hasn't been seen since.