{"id":1196,"date":"2016-10-27T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2016-10-27T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T00:36:11","slug":"warning-scam-in-baytown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Scam in Baytown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This case actually happened just outside the city limits in Harris County and the police were <em>not<\/em> notified. We only found out through a family member.<\/p>\n<p>Please pass this along to your neighborhood watch groups and let them know there is a con man in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Male subject in a blue truck approaching elderly residents outside their home and striking up a conversation about how he did roof work for them 3-4 years ago when no such work was ever done. Male builds a rapport with elderly victim and offers to do &#8220;more work&#8221; for victim, quoting a very low price for something that would normally cost much more. (Example: $48 to black top driveway) if elderly victim agrees to the deal, male does shoddy; bogus work in about an hour or less and tells victim the price is now $500. If victim refuses to pay he threatens to call police on them.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has had this type of encounter or should anyone be solicited for something like this, please contact the police.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart Beasley<\/p>\n<p>Crime Prevention Officer<\/p>\n<p>Baytown Police Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This case actually happened just outside the city limits in Harris County and the police were not notified. We only found out through a family member. Please pass this along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighborhood-watch-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakewoodcivic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}