A 73-year-old grandmother lured an alleged scammer to her house in Lengthy Island, New York, the place he was once pounced on by means of police and arrested.
Fast-thinking Jean, a former 911 dispatcher, grew to become the tables after receiving a telephone name from anyone claiming to be her grandson and two different unknown males requesting $8,000 bail cash following a DUI arrest.
“I do know he was once an actual scammer. I simply knew he wasn’t going to rip-off me,” she instructed CBS New York. The giveaway? Jean does no longer have a grandson who drives.
Jean instructed the alleged scammers she had the money just right to move and stuffed an envelope with paper towels. She referred to as police. When the person confirmed up at her area, she passed over the “cash” and officials detained him on her garden. The arrest was once recorded on her doorbell digital camera. Watch the video right here:
“I figured, he’s no longer going to fall for that,” she stated. “Smartly, he fell for that hook, line and sinker.
Police charged Joshua Estrella Gomez, 28, with tried grand larceny. He’s going to seem in court docket on Feb. 3.