POLICE REPORTS: THEFT BY DECEPTION, SCRAP METAL THEFT

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State police from the Punxsutawney Barracks are investigating a case of theft by deception that happened in late March in Banks Township.  Troopers say that they received a report on March 29^th of an unknown individual representing themselves as “Alviro Bedoya” of PNC Bank called the victim, a 65-year-old woman from Rossiter and tricked her into purchasing gift cards and providing the numbers to the scammer.  She was scammed out of $2500.

Troopers are investigating a theft of some scrap metal in North Mahoning Township that happened late last month.  State Police from the Punxsutawney barracks say that someone trespassed at a location at the intersection of Knox Road and Cressley Drive in the Rochester Mills area and stole miscellaneous scrap metal on March 26^th.