{"id":192662,"date":"2020-02-26T07:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=192662"},"modified":"2020-02-26T07:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T13:25:07","slug":"police-warn-of-money-extortion-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=192662","title":{"rendered":"Police warn of money extortion scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-131905\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JPDpatch-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JPDpatch-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JPDpatch-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JPDpatch.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (JPD)\u00a0 Jamestown Police is cautioning the public to be wary of a money extortion scam.<\/p>\n<p>Police Lt. Nick Hardy,\u00a0 reports that the\u00a0 dispatch center received a call just after 1-pm Tuesday about a possible kidnapping at the Jamestown Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Hardy says, \u201cThe male, who was calling from Bismarck, reported his daughter had just been kidnapped and he was on the phone with the abductor. The complainant could hear a female screaming in the background and the abductor was requesting money to get his daughter back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After investigating, with assistance from the Bismarck Police Department, it was determined the call was a scam to extort money.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Hardy adds, \u201cThe complainant\u2019s daughter was contacted was determined to be okay and was not the female on the phone screaming. The complainant had a medical emergency and had to be taken to the hospital because of the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone receiving a call like this, is\u00a0 asked to report it to local law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (JPD)\u00a0 Jamestown Police is cautioning the public to be wary of a money extortion scam. Police Lt. Nick Hardy,\u00a0 reports that the\u00a0 dispatch center received a call just after 1-pm Tuesday about a possible kidnapping at the Jamestown Walmart. Lt. Hardy says, \u201cThe male, who was calling from Bismarck, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192662","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=192662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192663,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192662\/revisions\/192663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}