{"id":53758,"date":"2014-07-12T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T12:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53758"},"modified":"2014-07-12T08:34:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T12:34:19","slug":"ma-police-arrest-harvey-malbaurn-for-soliciting-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53758","title":{"rendered":"MA Police arrest Harvey Malbaurn for soliciting donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Facebook sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2014\/07\/11\/plainville-police-arrest-man-claiming-to-collect-money-for-veterans\/\">a link to this story<\/a> about Harvey Malbaurn who was dressed in &#8220;military style fatigues&#8221; and collecting money for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusonvets.org\/\">Focus on Veterans<\/a>&#8221; charity outside a Dunkin Donuts in Massachusetts when an observant police officer saw him, made a donation, and struck up a conversation with the 67-year-old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Malbaurn said the money went to a house in Connecticut for homeless veterans and not Massachusetts vets.<\/p>\n<p>Malbaurn claimed to be in the military, but could not provide any information about what branch he was in.<\/p>\n<p>Police made a call to the Attorney General\u2019s office and found that the Focus on Veterans group was not allowed to solicit money in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Malbaurn, who had collected over $500 until his conversation with the officer, was arrested and charged with Larceny by False Pretenses. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t know anything about the charity, but I&#8217;d be suspicious of anyone collecting for them in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Facebook sent us a link to this story about Harvey Malbaurn who was dressed &hellip; <a title=\"MA Police arrest Harvey Malbaurn for soliciting donations\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53758\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MA Police arrest Harvey Malbaurn for soliciting donations<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53758","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}