{"id":24421,"date":"2026-08-10T09:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/?p=24421"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:39:37","slug":"scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/?p=24421","title":{"rendered":"Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern York County Regional Police Department is warning residents about a scam involving individuals impersonating members of the York County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.<\/p>\n<p>Scammers are claiming victims owe money for fines and are demanding payment through gift cards or Bitcoin, often while threatening arrest or other legal consquences.<\/p>\n<p>Police departments, sheriff&#8217;s departments, and other law enforcement agencies will not demand payment by gift card, Bitcoin, or other cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive a suspicious call, hang up and contact 911 or the Northern York County Regional Police Department Headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern York County Regional Police Department is warning residents about a scam involving individuals impersonating members of the York County Sheriff&#8217;s Department. Scammers are claiming victims owe money for fines and are demanding payment through gift cards or Bitcoin, often while threatening arrest or other legal consquences. Police departments, sheriff&#8217;s departments, and other law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[45,35,46],"class_list":["post-24421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-prevention","category-departmentnews","tag-breaking","tag-latest","tag-spoltight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24422,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24421\/revisions\/24422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycrpd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}