TULARE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man who claimed he was “just a mule” was arrested after attempting to defraud a 79-year-old woman from Tulare out of tens of thousands of dollars, police say.

Jasmine made a report to the police and gave them the name of the mule, a man based in elsewhere in Australia, but authorities did nothing and never laid any charges. So she tried to sue the money ...