{"id":141600,"date":"2025-04-10T21:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T01:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141600"},"modified":"2025-04-10T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T01:19:06","slug":"public-advisory-northampton-county-sheriffs-department-warns-of-phone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141600","title":{"rendered":"PUBLIC ADVISORY: Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department Warns of Phone Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Northampton County, PA] \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department is alerting the public to a phone scam involving individuals impersonating law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>The department has received reports of a caller identifying themselves as\u00a0<strong>\u201cSergeant Walker\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0from the Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department. The caller falsely claims that the recipient has failed to appear for jury duty and may face arrest unless they pay a fee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a scam.<\/strong>\u00a0The Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department\u00a0<strong>does not<\/strong>\u00a0contact residents by phone to demand payment or solicit money in lieu of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are urged to remain vigilant and to report any suspicious calls or solicitations to the\u00a0<strong>Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s Office<\/strong>\u00a0by calling\u00a0<strong>1-800-441-2555<\/strong>\u00a0or by emailing\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:scams@attorneygeneral.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>scams@attorneygeneral.gov<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation 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>[Northampton County, PA] \u2013\u00a0The Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department is alerting the public to a phone scam involving individuals impersonating law enforcement officers. The department has received reports of a caller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PUBLIC ADVISORY: Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department Warns of Phone Scam<\/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":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"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\/141600"}],"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=141600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141600\/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=141600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}