{"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:\/\/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 the citizens go to the bank or provide credit card information to satisfy a warrant for failing to appear for jury duty. The public should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SCAM-ALERT.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}