{"id":235914,"date":"2026-05-18T21:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:39:41","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-california-man-defrauds-trumbull-woman-out-of-900000-worth-of-gold-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235914\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | California Man Defrauds Trumbull Woman Out Of 900000 Worth Of Gold Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A California resident has been arrested for scheming a Trumbull woman out of thousands of dollars police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers say 23-year-old Tushar Sharma, of Arcadia, California, has a prior arrest from New York State Police stemming from a similar incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say it began in March when the victim received a Microsoft Windows pop-up message with a phone number that connected her to Sharma. He claimed to be a Federal Trade Commission agent.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He told the victim her assets and family were in danger and she needed to send him money for safekeeping.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the victim gave Sharma $900,000 in gold coins during two scheduled parking lot meetups.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The victim reported the incident to police and agreed to another arranged meeting by investigators.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Sharma was expecting another transfer of $300,000 in gold coins.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On May 14, as Sharma approached the victim\u2019s car he was arrested by Trumbull police and the Bridgeport Police Task Force.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators suspect there are more victims in the area and encourage them to come forward.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sharma is set to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California resident has been arrested for scheming a Trumbull woman out of thousands of dollars police say.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-235914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235914","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=235914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}