A Florida ex-con dressed up as a lady to dupe a pet store into selling him a French bulldog, police said.
Bryant Farfan, 29, strolled into All About Puppies in Largo on Oct. 2 — and used a woman’s stolen ID and credit card to buy the $4,000 fawn-colored pup, authorities said.
He also “falsified adoption records” and gave the pet store workers misleading information about the puppy’s future home, employees told ABC Action News.
More than a month later, both he and the dog remain on the loose, police said in a statement on Wednesday.
Store management fears Farfan may have already hawked the pup at a cut-rate price, according to WFLA 8. They even offered a $1,000 reward — “in hopes that someone will do the right thing and return her to us,” store manager Allie Julian told the station. “All we want is for her to be safe and have the opportunity to get a loving home that she deserves,” Julian added.
Dominica Newkirk, who stopped into the store to shop for a puppy for her daughter, told the station she was shocked by what happened.
“They even have payment plans so, you want to get a dog, but the fraud stuff is just crazy,” Newkirk said.
Farfan has an extensive rap sheet, with 15 mugshots in Hillsborough County since 2008 — some as a man, some as a woman, with both male and female aliases, according to the report.
He was arrested in Sarasota County for theft on the same day he had gotten out of prison, the outlet reported.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Farfan — or the French bulldog — is asked to call Largo police Detective Steve Allred or Detective Lance Moore at 727-587-6730.



