{"id":127776,"date":"2022-07-12T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127776"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:21:31","slug":"maryland-police-looking-for-grandparent-scam-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127776","title":{"rendered":"Maryland police looking for grandparent scam suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scam-249x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scam-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/scam.png 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspect allegedly contacted elderly individuals to inform them that their grandchild was in jail. They needed money for the grandchild&#8217;s release. The article provided an example where the suspect contacted an 84-year-old claiming to be one of the 84-year-old&#8217;s grandchildren. This &#8220;grandchild&#8221; needed money to be released. The &#8220;grandchild&#8221; provided information on how that money could be delivered. The 84-year-old followed the instruction and then handed the money to a &#8220;courier&#8221; assigned to collect the money.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police in Maryland are offering a $10,000 reward in the hunt for the suspect behind a &#8220;grandparent scam&#8221; that has targeted at least three senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents &#8212; in which victims are told their family members are in jail and that they need to hand over money to secure their release &#8212; unfolded between May 31 and June 3 outside of Washington, D.C., according to the Montgomery County Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This crime is known to law enforcement as the &#8216;grandparent scam,'&#8221; the department said in a statement. &#8220;Detectives have released surveillance footage of the suspect and are asking for the public&#8217;s assistance in identifying him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police say in the first incident, an 84-year-old victim in Poolesville was &#8220;contacted by a suspect claiming to be her grandson, stating that he was in jail and needed money to secure his release.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/maryland-police-warn-grandparent-scam-launch-hunt-suspect\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect allegedly contacted elderly individuals to inform them that their grandchild was in jail. They &hellip; <a title=\"Maryland police looking for grandparent scam suspect\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127776\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maryland police looking for grandparent scam suspect<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,13,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploitation","category-society","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}