WILTON\u00a0\u2014 A Saratoga County man was allegedly scammed out of thousands of dollars after a person called him claiming that his relative had been arrested and needed money for bail.<\/p>\n
A 29-year-old Queens man faces two felony charges, third-degree grand larceny and third-degree attempted larceny, in connection with the alleged scheme, according to State Police.<\/p>\n
An investigation by State Police found that someone called the elderly Saratoga County man and claimed that his relative had gotten into a car crash and had been arrested. The person on the line said that his relative\u00a0needed money for bail.<\/p>\n
Police say the Queens man showed up at the\u00a0Saratoga County man\u2019s home on May 6 to collect more than $3,000 in cash from him. The Queens man then returned to his home the next day and attempted to get him to hand over more cash.<\/p>\n
The man contacted State Police on May 6 to report that he believed he\u2019d fallen victim to a scam.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old was arrested, arraigned in Wilton Town Court and transported to the Saratoga County jail without bail.<\/p>\n
State Police say the investigation into the alleged scam is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILTON\u00a0\u2014 A Saratoga County man was allegedly scammed out of thousands of dollars after a person called him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[844,610,9,24,63,122,124,123,31841],"class_list":["post-230499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-latestnews","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sarco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230499","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=230499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}