Texas PC Geeks has an "F" with the Houston Better Business Bureau and eight complaints in the last year, including customers who said Vanderbrown has kept their computers for months and sold them what they believe was bootlegged software.Vanderbrown wouldn't talk with Local 2, but six computer techs who used to work for Vanderbrown thought it was important they speak up.“You do believe that he's putting pirated software on people's computers?” Davis asked the group.“He is,” answered Logan Hayes, who said he worked at Texas PC Geeks Kingwood location before Vanderbrown closed it earlier this year.“How do you know?” Davis asked.“I've seen him download it off the Internet and it is an illegal unlicensed copy,” said Hayes. “And then he would put it on a flash drive and say, ‘Go put this on this on the computer.’"What's catching up to Vanderbrown now is his criminal history. Local 2 Investigates discovered he was born Ryan Lloyd Brown. He pleaded guilty to breach of computer security in Montgomery County in 2001, served 10 days in the Harris County jail on drug charges in 2002 and in 2005, he was sentenced to 52 months in prison in Oregon for four counts of felony identity theft, bigamy and two counts of possessing a stolen vehicle.
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