Crime & Safety

Faux Foreclosure Cleanup Was Really Theft

The information in this story comes from the ACC Police Department. An arrest doesn't mean a conviction.

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A man said he arrived at his Altarstone Drive residence around 12:30pm on April 2. He saw a white woman and a white man loading items into a silver pickup truck in his back yard.

When the resident confronted them, they told him they were from the mortgage company and were there to clean the house out becuase it was going into foreclosure. The man said he checked with his mortgage company and was told no one should be cleaning out the house.

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When the resident tried calling the number the couple gave him, they hung up on him. A laptop, jewelry, clock, desk top computer, and TVs were stolen. The total value was $8,300. No further descriptions were given of the suspects. He believes the truck was a Toyota.


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