{"id":150682,"date":"2026-01-26T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150682\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:23:23","slug":"pcsd-fraud-unit-returns-90k-to-san-jose-scam-victim-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150682\/","title":{"rendered":"PCSD fraud unit returns $90K to San Jose scam victim | Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department (PCSD) Fraud Unit has returned $90,000 to a fraud victim in California after a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The case originated on September 11, 2025, when a local credit union alerted the PCSD about suspicious activity involving an 80-year-old Pima County resident.<\/p>\n<p>The woman had deposited a $90,000 check into her account from a sender she did not know.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives discovered the check was sent by a 92-year-old man from San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p>He was a victim of a lottery scam, believing he had won $8 million and needed to send the check as a tax pre-payment.<\/p>\n<p>The PCSD Fraud Unit worked diligently to ensure the entire $90,000 was recovered and returned to the rightful owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; The Pima County Sheriff\u2019s Department (PCSD) Fraud Unit has returned $90,000 to a fraud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[723,88,90,89,136],"class_list":["post-150682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-crime","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}