{"id":20304,"date":"2025-10-23T23:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20304\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:01:06","slug":"california-man-arrested-after-financially-scamming-wichita-falls-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20304\/","title":{"rendered":"California man arrested after financially scamming Wichita Falls woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) &#8211; A California man was arrested for defrauding a 64-year-old woman right here in Wichita Falls, stealing tens of thousands of dollars from her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DPS told our crews that Dan Pham of San Jose had told the victim he was a special agent named Robert Jacobs and even threatened her with criminal charges if she didn\u2019t pay money back in various ways. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Despite his arrest, DPS said Pham refused to cooperate with investigators or allow them to search his electronic devices. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pham was charged with exploitation of an elderly individual and an enhanced charge of theft of property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas DPS said that in 2023, elderly adults reported $3.4 billion in defrauding scams, and $4.9 billion was reported in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s a big thing, and you know, in a world that\u2019s technology-driven now, they are becoming more routine and common,\u201d said Gutierrez. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KAUZ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) &#8211; A California man was arrested for defrauding a 64-year-old woman right here in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[237,7,9,8,16685,16682,16680,16684,1555,100,16681,16683,16679,1557],"class_list":["post-20304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-arrest","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-channel-6","tag-elderly","tag-falls","tag-kauz","tag-man","tag-news","tag-scam","tag-wf","tag-wichita","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20304","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=20304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}