The Scoop on our Ticket Guy

And by the way...we never did get our tickets.

Fostoria, OH) --- Mark West, 53, is now a week on the lam in the eBay ticket scam, which left dozens of Internet customers from coast-to-coast without Ohio State-Michigan football tickets.
Now NBC24 has learned the missing Fostoria man has a violent criminal past, and even did prison time.
"If they don't get their tickets, they'll get their money back," West promised NBC24 more than a week ago, when concern first surfaced from eBay customers. West disappeared the next day.
NBC24 uncovered West's extensive rap sheet dating back 35 years.
According to court records, authorities in Wheeling, West Virginia arrested West for attempted armed robbery and drug possession in the early 1970's. West was convicted across the Ohio River in Belmont County, Ohio for possession of marijuana and drunk driving in 1973.
West kept clean until 1987, when he confessed and pleaded guilty to armed robbery at an Amoco gas station along I-75 in Bowling Green. Court records show a fresh start in Toledo went sour a week after West got fired from his job, when he pulled a knife on a store clerk and stole more than $200 cash. West served a three-year prison sentence for that conviction.
Whether Fostoria police knew about West's violent rap sheet while fielding dozens of complaints from angry customers is unclear.
"I'm mad at the Fostoria police department for just allowing him to disappear," said Patrick Johnson of Huntsville, Alabama. He lost more than $400 on game tickets, and says he was told Fostoria police didn't have the manpower to stake out West's apartment.
"We couldn't stick a guy there 24-7 to have him watching out at his apartment there," admitted Fostoria Mayor John Davoli. "I think it'd be kind of senseless to have somebody sitting there 24-7 watching the guy."
Last Friday, Fostoria police turned the case over to the Ohio Attorney General. State agents raided West's apartment on Monday, seizing a computer, financial records, a phone and answering machine-- even a threatening note from an angry victim left at West's doorstep.
Still, Fostoria's mayor is confident police will catch West if he ever comes back to town.
"Trying to hide an elephant behind a telephone pole, to be honest with you," Davoli said of West's potential return to Fostoria. "If he was in town, people would know or contact the department."
NBC24 has learned West's wife and her attorney will soon meet with state investigators. A spokesperson for the state attorney general's office says victims are now starting to file complaints against Teresa West since her husband is nowhere to be found.