{"id":132768,"date":"2024-07-15T17:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=132768"},"modified":"2024-07-15T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:03:49","slug":"phone-scam-involving-the-northampton-county-sheriffs-department-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=132768","title":{"rendered":"Phone Scam Involving the Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department has received several reports about a male caller identifying himself as Sergeant Riley of the County\u2019s Sheriff\u2019s Department contacting county residents.<\/p>\n<p>The caller requests that the citizens go to the bank or provide credit card information to satisfy a warrant for failing to appear for jury duty.<\/p>\n<p>The public should be aware that this is a scam. The Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department does not call residents and solicit money in lieu of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Please report any suspicious solicitations to the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s office at 1-800-441-2555 or email them to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:scams@attorneygeneral.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scams@attorneygeneral.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department has received several reports about a male caller identifying himself as Sergeant Riley of the County\u2019s Sheriff\u2019s Department contacting county residents. The caller requests that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=132768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phone Scam Involving the Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SCAM-ALERT.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}