Retired Dallas FBI Agent’s Accomplice in Bizarre ‘Secret Probation’ Scam Gets 70 Months

The co-conspirator of a retired FBI agent who convinced a Granbury woman she was on “secret probation” and conned her out of more than $750,000 was sentenced Thursday to 70 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Joseph DeLeon, 64, of Fort Worth was convicted last August of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a jury trial before U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of Dallas. His co-defendant, William Roy Stone Jr., was sentenced on Feb. 6 to 87 months in prison followed by a three-year supervised release. The two were jointly and severally ordered to pay $765,320.37 to the victim of their fraud scheme, identified in a December 2021 indictment only as “C.T.”