Begging In Lexington

Gary would often hang outside highly populated areas wherever he was, like grocery stores and shopping malls. He had been seen at Zandale Shopping Center on Nicholasville Road, as well as at the Lansdowne one on Tates Creek. And it would be while he was begging that someone would catch on to his game.

Finding Out It Was All A Ruse

Sometime in August of 2013, people he had taken advantage of began to notice that what he was doing was really a big, fat lie. They reported him to the police who then went in search of the man whom people were calling the ‘bogus beggar.’ And that’s when they came upon Gary Hank Thompson.