Christon Brewer, 24 is accused of impersonating a Carolina Panthers player and bilking people out of $25,000. Brewer pretended to be a NFL player for the Carolina Panthers' Travelle Wharton. He turned himself in to Union County officers late Monday afternoon.The Panthers say the man first started impersonating Wharton in mid December of last year and continued his fraud into the months that followed. Earlier this year the team said the man cheated an Atlanta woman out of $5,300 while she was in Charlotte. He promised her he would use his status as a Panther to help promote events during the CIAA basketball tournament, which is held in uptown Charlotte every year.
"He's duped a lot of people out of a lot of money," the real Wharton said. "I feel bad for those people, but he really doesn't care about [them]."
Christon Brewer, 24, who was taken into police Union County Police custody on Monday and was later transferred to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department headquarters. Brewer, who lives in Monroe, was charged with false pretense.