{"id":244936,"date":"2026-05-27T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244936\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:43:06","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-man-accused-of-28k-phone-scam-targeting-center-moriches-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244936\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Man Accused Of 28k Phone Scam Targeting Center Moriches Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Bronx resident accused of scamming a Center Moriches woman out of thousands was arrested on Tuesday, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say Servando Ruiz Cuenca, 45, called the 65-year-old victim and pretended to be a representative from Chase bank in September.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He claimed her account had been compromised and instructed her to transfer $44,000 to another account. Two withdrawals totaling $28,000 were made a short time later.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The woman immediately reported the incident to police. Detectives with the Financial Crimes Unit were able to recover $16,000 that had not yet been withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Ruiz Cuenca was held overnight following his arrest. He is set to appear at First District Court in Central Islip for arraignment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx resident accused of scamming a Center Moriches woman out of thousands was arrested on Tuesday, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-244936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244936","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=244936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}