Friday, April 5, 2013
'This guy' said he had these great Opening Day tickets at Miller Park. But 'this guy,' with ducats in hand, still hasn't come back with the ballpark passes.
In a private transaction, it's always best to let go of the cash with one hand only while taking hold of the goods with the other. At 12:39 a.m. March 26, a man called police to say he had been “hustled” out of $600 for Milwaukee Brewers Opening Day tickets. He said he and friends had met “this guy” at Bravo restaurant at the Brookfield Sheraton Hotel, 375 S. Moorland Rd., who said he had great seats for sale. They took him up on it, the victim said, and he collected and handed over the cash in the elevator lobby — at which point the salesman told him the tickets were in his room. He got on an elevator with their money and did not return. The police report did not say how long the victim waited before the light dawned — or what he told his…
Friday, January 25, 2013
In a recent spate of attempted phone frauds, one victim felt forced to turn over money when the caller made threats of harming her family.
A number of different kinds of phone scams have been reported recently, and in one case a victim gave in to the caller out of fear for her family's safety. The frightened Brookfield woman called police Jan. 16 to say that a man had called her claiming to be from a collection agency, and he gave her a number she should call to speak to his supervisor. When she did, she said, he demanded that she go to a Walmart store and buy a $1,000 Green Dot money card and then call him back and give him the card number. When she hesitated, feeling that it probably was a fraud, he told her he would harm her family if she hung up on him. She stayed on the line and, after further bullying, she gave in and did as he asked, signing over $1,000 to him. But she…
Monday, November 26, 2012
Two men who ran a scheme to pose as Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper carriers to get holiday tips were sentenced to jail Monday for their crimes.
Two men who tried to grift money from area residents by posing as Milwaukee Journal Sentinel carriers during the 2011 holiday season will spend this year's season in jail. David S. Downer, 34, of Hartford, and Stephen C. Schumacher, 42, of City of Pewaukee, were each sentenced Monday to jail with work-release and probation for trying to swindle unearned tips from residents. Prosecutors asked Waukesha County Circuit Judge Patrick Haughney to give each man 60 days in jail. But Haughney instead gave Downer 75 days in jail and two years probation because he has a prior criminal record, while Schumacher got 21 days in jail and nine months probation. Both men were convicted of three misdemeanor counts of attempted theft by misrepresentation. …
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Brookfield woman called police when potential Craigslist buyer asked her to send extra money via Western Union to a Mississippi address.
A Brookfield woman called police about a potential Craigslist scam when a prospective buyer asked her to forward extra payment to another address via Western Union, reports say. The Brookfield woman said she was selling a Craftsman pressure washer for $400 on Craigslist when she received an offer to purchase from a man named "John Thomas," according to a police report. She received a $2,300 check in her mail on Friday, with instructions to send the remaining $1,900 to an address in Mississippi via Western Union, the report says. The woman did not cash the check, forward any money or mail her pressure washer to the prospective buyer. The complaint was at least the third Brookfield police have taken about Craigslist in the last month. Also …
TOM
6:50 am on Sunday, April 7, 2013
wonder if the name and address of the dummy will be available I have a bridge to sell Him cheap for cash more ›