{"id":152747,"date":"2018-09-06T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=152747"},"modified":"2018-09-06T19:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:06:52","slug":"sheriffs-office-reports-phone-scam-barnes-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=152747","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff’s office reports phone scam, Barnes Co."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Valley City (CSi)\u00a0 The Barnes County Sheriff\u2019s Office reports an ongoing phone scam\u00a0in\u00a0\u00a0Barnes\u00a0 County.<\/p>\n

The Sheriff’s Office states that\u00a0the phone number appears to be coming from the Barnes County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the caller claims to be, ”\u00a0a Deputy with the Sheriff\u2019s Office and may provide a name. \u201cThe caller\u00a0states they are contacting them, because they have missed jury duty and now must pay certain fees, or an arrest warrant will be issued for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The office says, in one instance, a resident stated that they were told to go to the local Family Dollar store to purchase a card they could put money on. They\u2019re then required to use cash and are told they cannot use a debit\/credit card.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur office has not received any reports from Barnes County residents that have followed through with the requests made by the callers. The Sheriff\u2019s Office will not call residents and demand any type of payment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone receiving such a call should contact \u00a0\u00a0the Sheriff\u2019s Office at 701-845-8530.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City (CSi)\u00a0 The Barnes County Sheriff\u2019s Office reports an ongoing phone scam\u00a0in\u00a0\u00a0Barnes\u00a0 County. The Sheriff’s Office states that\u00a0the phone number appears to be coming from the Barnes County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the caller claims to be, ”\u00a0a Deputy with the Sheriff\u2019s Office and may provide a name. \u201cThe caller\u00a0states […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152748,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152747\/revisions\/152748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}