{"id":199168,"date":"2026-04-16T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199168\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:38:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-scammer-impersonating-nypd-employee-steals-thousands-from-92-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199168\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Scammer Impersonating Nypd Employee Steals Thousands From 92 Year Old Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a scammer who stole thousands from a 92-year-old woman in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say the suspect called the victim on April 8, claimed to be a New York City Police Department employee and said her daughter had been in a serious car accident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The suspect said the cost of medical care would be around $150,000. Shortly after, he arrived at the woman\u2019s home and was given around $8,000.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say he fled the scene in an unknown direction. He was last seen wearing a brown sweater, blue vest, gray pants, black sunglasses and multicolored sneakers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with additional information is urged to call 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a scammer who stole thousands from a 92-year-old woman in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-199168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}