A D.C. man was convicted today of a bizarre August 2012 crime in which he impersonated a District government worker, conned an elderly woman into allowing him to tow her car away, and then selling the vehicle for scrap metal at a Maryland junkyard.

DCist reader Jon in Brookland sent in this image of an odd-looking inspection sticker he received from the District government. He wanted to know if it might be a fake, since he’d read about the con artist who has been allegedly posing as a Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs inspector in several D.C. neighborhoods lately. Jon’s plumbers had also told him they’d already received a green “approved” sticker for the work they were doing…