March 13, 2009

    LANSING - Attorney General Mike Cox today announced the arrest of Gino Soave, an officer with the Dearborn Police Department, for tax evasion and fraud related to the purchase of a 54' boat known as the "Bada Bing V." 

    Soave, 41, of Dearborn Heights, presented a forged bill of sale to the Michigan Secretary of State stating that the sale price of the boat was $77,000.  However, the original sales documents show the price of the boat was actually $285,000.  By understating the sale price of the boat, Soave paid an estimated $12,000 less in taxes than was required at the true sale price. 

    Soave is scheduled to be arraigned today at the 40^th District Court in St. Clair Shores.  He is charged with:

·        One count of Forgery, a 14-year felony

·        One count of Uttering and Publishing, a 14-year felony

·        One count of Tax Fraud, a five-year felony

A criminal charge is merely an accusation and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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