WILTON, N.Y. (WNYT)- New York State Police (NYSP) said a Queens man was arrested after investigators say he collected cash from an elderly Saratoga County scam victim and returned for more.<\/p>\n
Related: State police recover $10K from scam targeting Saratoga Co. man<\/a><\/p>\n Troopers got the complaint May 6 from an elderly Saratoga County resident who said they were targeted in a scam, NYSP said. Investigators said the victim got a phone call claiming a family member had been arrested after a vehicle crash and needed money for bail.<\/p>\n Police said Roger K. Flemming, 29, from Queens, went to the victim\u2019s home May 6 and collected more than $3,000 in cash tied to the scam. Troopers said he returned May 7 and tried to collect more cash.<\/p>\n State police said Flemming was arrested May 7 and taken to SP Wilton for processing. Police said he was arraigned in Wilton Town Court and remanded to the Saratoga County Correctional Facility without bail.<\/p>\n The charges are Third-Degree Grand Larceny and Third-Degree Attempted Grand Larceny, according to NYSP. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Wilton<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Roger Flemming<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0New York State Police<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Grandparent Scam<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Arrest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILTON, N.Y. (WNYT)- New York State Police (NYSP) said a Queens man was arrested after investigators say he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[101,90531,9,24,747,63,122,124,123,90530,90529],"class_list":["post-230592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-arrest","tag-grandparent-scam","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-roger-flemming","tag-wilton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230592","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=230592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}