Portland: Man struggling with gender identity claims $150,000 scam by psychic
MAXINE BERNSTEIN; The Oregonian
Published: 05/08/10 1:09 pm | Updated: 05/08/10 1:23 pm
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Drakar Druella was struggling with wrenching emotional problems last October when he walked into the Hawthorne Psychic Shop in southeast Portland for a palm reading and met Cathy Stevens.
Over the next seven weeks he would give the psychic $150,000 in cash and gifts so she could rid him of his "negative energy" and heal him. Druella says the 39-year-old woman was so convincing, he didn't realize he was being scammed until he heard Stevens launch into the same story with another client.