MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A senior rip-off on the upward thrust around the U.S., price a South Florida grandfather some $8,000 money.
“My only thought was to help him,” stated 77-year-old Lazaro Suarez in Spanish. He referred to his Grandson, Ivan Suarez, 20.
Lazaro Suarez stated he were given a decision on Friday, from anyone claiming to be his grandson, main him to imagine it was once Ivan at the telephone.
The individual was once asking him for assist, announcing he had simply been in an twist of fate and hit a pregnant lady. There was once panic in his voice.
“He told me it didn’t sound exactly like me but it sounded as if I was nervous and got into a car accident,” recalled Ivan Suarez. “No one’s voice would be the same.”
Minutes after the frantic name, Lazaro Suarez’s telephone would ring once more. It was once a person claiming to be an lawyer named ‘Henry Santiago,’ insisting he would wish greater than $8,000 to get his grandson out of bother and stay him out of prison.
“He goes like any grandfather would – ‘ok I’m going to help him,’ said Ivan Suarez, who is very close to his grandfather.
Lazaro Suarez went to the bank and withdrew $8,000. He then placed a call to the alleged attorney again, who instructed him to place the money in a box with a ‘fake’ case number on it so that a courier could collect it.
Fifteen minutes after that, Ivan says a man in a maroon Lexus showed up to the home.
Lazaro Suarez is seen on camera, leaving his house with the money in hand.
He gives it to the unidentified man and calls Ivan hours later to make sure he was released.
“He told me, ‘Hey! did the attorney bail you out?’ recalled Ivan Suarez. “I’m like what are you talking about.”
Miami Dade Police have been notified.
Just a couple of weeks prior, detectives busted Manuel Alfonso Lopez in every other case virtually similar to Lazaro’s case, down to the buck quantity.
Detectives insist there are extra sufferers in the market falling for a lot of these scams and asking the general public for assist.
This additionally comes at the heels of a sequence of aged scams in Westchester, Southwest Miami-Dade and Hialeah the place seniors have been focused for the jewelers they wore.
Anyone with information in this most up-to-date case must touch Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.
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