Stop Darien Small Tell Your Story... Stop The Scam!

Same old Darien, same sad story!

New Aliases:
Darrin Jessie Smalls
Darien Jess Small
Darrin Smalls
Jessie Smalls

New Company Names:
Imagery and Stories
Wedding Tales (800-920-7681 More.Weddinginfo@gmail.com)

Rip Off Reports
http://www.ripoffreport.com/photography/imagery-stories/imagery-stories-...
http://www.ripoffreport.com/wedding-services/imagery-stories/imagery-sto...

To All of my Fellow Supporters:

I started this website back in 2006 with the intent of helping victims of Darien Small. Little did I know it would generate the attention and receive the traffic it has. My intent was never to victimize Darien Small. From the inception of this site, my goal has been to alert people dealing with him and try to reconnect folks to their rightfully owed products and memories. I am glad to say that I have received many emails from potential victims of Darien, all thanking me for preventing the inevitable. A few people have even been able to confirm they either received products from Darien or from a generous photographer used by Darien due to this site.

However, it is with solace that I can confirm he was recently arrested in Maryland. He has a court date of 5/15/2008 on an outstanding warrant from criminal activities in 1992. Darien has been on the run long enough – and his past has finally caught up.

An article ran in the Chicago Tribune today, March 10th. It was a great article and I thank Angela Rozas for contacting me and writing the story.

You can read the article here:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/mar/10/news/chi-small-scammar10

I have recently received two very informative leads. Looks like he is no longer in Atlanta and up in the Northeast and Midwest. I'm going to try to verify them a little more, but here's what I can tell you:

New Alias:
Darrell Smalls

More Scamming:
He is still shooting weddings (specifically in the Chicago area)
He is still shooting sporting events
He wrote a landlord in Providence, RI $800 in bounced checks.

New Company Name:
Artistic Stories (artisticstories)

New Cell Phone:

I have not had the chance to write a full exposure of Darien’s (who is now using the name Dare Small) latest operations.

He is posing as a photographer for sports shoots. The most recent one I was able to see in Indiana. While there is not proof of anyone being scammed, it is only a matter of time before people start pouring in. I was tipped off by photographers he hired to staff the event who said he has made empty promise after empty promise of payment. You’re story doesn’t change does it, Darien!

His new operation is called Sports Story. You can see his website at:

A source close to the situation has just sent me a complete State of Michigan background investigation on Mr. Darien Small. I have tried to verify that some of this information is publicly available, but only some of it is. For that reason, I cannot safely post it all. However, I will give you what I feel is safely public as well as what else was included:

As of 10/19 in the State of Michigan:

Current Address
(which is for sale and looks to be empty, I drove by)
8855 N Canton Center Road
Plymouth, MI 48170

Other Information

If you have reached this page, you most likely have been scammed by a man by the name of Darien Small. To make sure we are talking about the same person, he is a very soft spoken African American man with a slight speech impairment. He claims to be a professional wedding photographer. His company name is Awesome StoryBooks and Imagery Interactive.

Darien, Dare, Darrell, Craig, Small, Smalls is in Chicago. I have confirmed that he is looking for a place to stay in the area.

He is using the name Artistic Stories (artisticstories) as his current company name. It sounds like he's still in the photography business.