{"id":136529,"date":"2024-10-21T22:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T02:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=136529"},"modified":"2024-10-21T22:42:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T02:42:56","slug":"phone-scam-involving-the-northampton-county-sheriffs-department-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=136529","title":{"rendered":"Phone Scam Involving the Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department (NCSD) has received several calls from citizens reporting that they received a phone call from \u201cSgt. James Riley\u201d of the NCSD. Riley informed them that they have a warrant or that they owe fines and threatens them with jail time if the fines are not paid by credit card or bitcoin.<\/p>\n

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

Please report any suspicious solicitations to the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s office at 1-800-441-2555 or email them to\u00a0scams@attorneygeneral.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Information provided to TVL by:
\nCounty of Northampton
\n669 Washington Street
\nEaston, PA 18042
\nhttps:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department (NCSD) has received several calls from citizens reporting that they received a phone call from \u201cSgt. James Riley\u201d of the NCSD. Riley informed them that they have a warrant or that they owe fines and threatens them with jail time if the fines are not paid by credit card or … Continue reading Phone Scam Involving the Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Department<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122147,"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":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NC-Northampton.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136529","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=136529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}