A man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of serving as a courier in a cash scam that targeted Windsor residents, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Investigators said scammers posed as federal officials and told victims their bank accounts had been compromised, instructing them to withdraw cash that would then be collected by a courier.<\/p>\n
Detectives with the Sonoma County Sheriff\u2019s Office organized a sting operation and arrested 56-year-old Zhengning Chen, of Oakland, when he arrived to pick up money from one of the victims, officials said.<\/p>\n
Chen was booked into the Sonoma County jail on $250,000 bail. He remained in custody Friday and is scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday in Sonoma County Superior Court.<\/p>\n
Authorities have not released additional details about the scam, including how many people were involved or how much money was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of serving as a courier in a cash scam that targeted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,861,7,8,723,138,332,1529,181,23,1338,100,993,143,145,144,3628,23689],"class_list":["post-35024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-east-bay-crime","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-morning-wire","tag-news","tag-north-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sonoma-county","tag-windsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35024","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=35024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}