Thursday, November 25, 2010
Couple Scamming Elderly
KENTUCKY...
An elderly woman may have been taken advantage of but she says she's not a victim. Louisville Metro police are trying to track down the man and woman responsible for targeting elderly area residents for the last three years and one of them hopes others will learn from her story.
An elderly woman may have been taken advantage of but she says she's not a victim. Louisville Metro police are trying to track down the man and woman responsible for targeting elderly area residents for the last three years and one of them hopes others will learn from her story.The pair pose as plain-clothes officers in the middle of an investigation. Their story seems good but police say in reality they're working on the other side of the law. "I thought I did the right thing by asking to see a badge and so forth," said Carolyn Belt, 67. Belt says she considers herself pretty up to date on what you're supposed to do when police come to your door.
"I even said to him, 'You're not supposed to search my house without a search warrant,'" she said.
The man and woman who came to her door had a good story and a check from her bank.
LMPD Detective Amanda Frederick says Belt is not the first to be taken by the pair's story.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 10:17 PM 
