Glen Northrup, 65, was in a Duval County courtroom late Wednesday afternoon where he learned his fate after pleading guilty last month to felony organized fraud. The I-TEAM began investigating Northrup back in June of 2022 when customers contacted us for help to either get their money back or get their fence work completed. Ultimately, more than 20 customers came forward to us saying they paid Northrup thousands of dollars in deposits for various fence projects, but the work was never done.
Northrup has consistently told the I-TEAM he intended to pay people back, blaming COVID and his eviction from the property where he worked and lived for causing him to fall on hard times. He asked the judge for probation. “He ran a reputable business until he did not run a reputable business,” said Assistant State Attorney Stephen Siegel. “Mr. Northrup is not the first businessman in the history of Jacksonville or any other community to recognize that there comes a time to stop. There’s a point at which you have to close the doors and when someone wants to give you money, you tell them ‘No, I can’t continue to take your money because I won’t be able to do your work.