below welcome to the richmond police department activity report this is something that we're going to be trying to do on a once a month basis to let people know what's going on in town the first thing i'd like to talk about today is some fraud cases we've been dealing with the last two weeks people in this not only just this town but throughout the state in the nation get confronted with these incidents and have property taken away from their credit rating their debit cards and other things so what i'd like to talk about first is we've had a couple cases in town where debit cards have been hacked through their computer systems it's very important for you that you check your computer financial or your records online or through a statement form that one of these cases the reason we knew about it was he was reading his statement on line and all the sudden notice these purchases that he didn't actually do and what you'll find with these  debit cards they hack into your system on line they have this computer program which is basically continually runs when it matches an account number with a pin number then what they start doing is purchasing small items so the banks don't normally the financial institutions don't normally catch it so you might see on your statement of a sudden a walmart dot com for eight nine ten twelve dollars or i tunes dot com for the same amount of time to tell you were the purchase was made it would give you a store number we've had some of these in the recent past where the purchases were in london england france  spain and or anywhere to united states as far as you know texas california if they get into your system for these small purchases then bingo what they'll do is they'll try to go in and capitalize on a much larger purchase if you don't check your statement you don't know what the good thing about specially the credit cards is the you're covered through the bank first thing you've got to do is call the bank or whatever financial institution institution you use to tell them that you know this wasn't my account most the time what's going to happen is the has to she is going to have you destroy your card issuing new one and you have to have a new pin number but this is constantly going on another incident i would like to talk about that happened recently in town we had a woman that was a telephone at home gentlemen advised her that he was from the so surety department and that she had issues with her social care to account now this woman was you know older in her sixty's and she did a smart thing this guy went on and on he never actually asked her for social security number but he went on with this big long story about how our social care to account was being fraud he got to the point where he actually asked her do you remember your so scary number well this woman was really wise she didn't give any of that information now what she did was basically told  i don't give that information out if this is truly somebody from the social security administration why you send me something in the mail so they see to your heard that the person hung up never ever ever give out your information over the phone anybody i don't care who they are unless you initiate the call if you call your bank or you call somebody like the social security administration or whoever it is if you initiate the call you know you're calling if you get a call don't ever ever give that information out because more times and it's bogus these agencies both budget and state are not going to ask you for that information we're told on the other scam that we've had going on in town is a lot of people now use craigslist and e bay and what we found is we just had another one come up is a person put something on one of those advertisement areas he gets a phone call i want to buy this piece of property the stipulation is i'm going to send you a check doesn't matter what the amount is but the checks going to be for sale at this and this particular case was one thousand dollars more than the asking price and i need to do send me that thousand dollars back to cover the shipping to this address that is one of the scams that they use all the time because it looks like a good bank check it's not it's not a good bank check all the sudden you send a thousand dollars to the post office box in some state they've got your thousand dollars you got nothing you've got a fraudulent check so be very careful when you're dealing with people on the in the internet when you're trying to sell stuff either through craigslist or e bay or some other format that you make you can always go on these websites and tell you how to avoid scams because they are being utilized it's a legitimate company but they're being utilized for scam and they have the resources tell you what you protections you need to take before you embark on any of these kind of sales over the internet i'd also like to talk to you today about some burglaries we had on tuesday the twelfth of may be wary which were day time we had actually three calls for service that evening two houses were broken into and one car was entered these are all on cochran road they all happened between seven am and five pm when people at work this is becoming an epidemic problem not so much here in richmond but throughout the not only cheating county but the entire state both of these houses that were entered were easily angered because the security on the doors was very lax and all they had to really do was push the door open or give it one good kick in there in the house and what they're looking for is stuff that's easy to sell and both of these houses they took amounts of change that were everybody has a jar or something that they throw their loose chang in one of them had probably seventy five dollars worth of change another one had on and determine amount at this point plus there was cash one house had two hundred fifty dollars at least in cash it was kept in a little storage box and then they also took jewelry and electronics to really help us we really need you to start a got alectryon ics or firearms because that's also a big ticket item is record serial numbers one i pod looks like another pod looks like the third i pod looks like a thousand other i pods in a way for us to track that is through the serial numbers and what we're finding in this county is these little piece of electronics baby and i pod or a cell phone or  laptop computer is being taken to different locations in the county and being sold your six seven hundred dollar laptop computers being sold at store ebay for maybe fifty seventy five dollars this is a support their drug habit we need to serial numbers for that the other thing is jewelry and we've had good luck in the last few months solving some of our recent burglaries prior to that by recovering the droid because the people either a had photos or into innocence we actually had people go to the pawn shops and actually found their jewelry and with the current laws right now these pawnshops are required to get a photo identification of whoever they're buying the stuff from is actually has led to us be able to solve two of these cases and charge these people we couldn't actually charge him with the burglary but we charge him with possession of stolen property which has the same penalties actual burglary charge so it's very important for you to either a serial numbers or in the case of jewelry have photographs of it you can always go down to  you know the pond shops we have a list of pawn shops in this entire state and we have the email list like the burglary we had on tuesday or one of the burglaries you kind of unique culture a pearl necklace that w stolen and if we can get a very good description of it we'll notify the pawn shops and there's a good likelihood that somebody's going to try to sell that and has use it to support their drug habit the other thing is we had the size of two house burglars also on cochran road tuesday was another car was entered and that's also becoming a chronic problem throughout gitting county people and i've spoken about this before at different forums people still tend to leave valuables inside their car most of time on locked women who will be going someplace to leave their pocketbook sitting right there in plain view guys will leave their wallet sitting there in the center of the council there's change sitting there and their prescription drugs are sitting there their g p s unit cameras you name it and it's all in plain view and ninety nine times out of one hundred these vehicles are unlocked so all they get to do is walk by open the door reach in and it gets sold off and either on the street or to some pawnshop or something of that nature here again the easiest thing for you to do is put the stuff in the trunk or at least put it someplace where it's not visible as car the other day it was unlocked but there was nothing in it that the thief could take you know that there was no valuables left in the car but they went through it anyways so you have to take precautions were having these crimes are being fueled right now by the people that have to feed their addictions to drugs and it takes a lot of money and when they steal that like i said six seven hundred out of a laptop computer and they sell it for years and get fifty or seventy five dollars for it all right now a bag of heroin in the states anywhere from forty to eighty dollars a shot and anybody that's using heroin is using four to six to eight bags a day math that's a lot of expense so that's a lot of that other than the items i've talked to the last two weeks of actually been relatively slow the you know for most people know that we're only a five person department and generally there's only one person on duty at any given ship but for the last two weeks you know they've issued a total of thirty two traffic tickets forty four written warnings and use of these are for you know of speed or  problems some property watches noise disturbances we've been investigated for access none of them had injuries they were just property damage accidents along answered five alarms five we had to welfare checks the welfare checks generally stem out of the one of the two schools so the kid hasn't shown up for school so officer green i'll be in the us are over school resource officer kinds of tracking down these kids why aren't they in schools when we can't get over parents and we don't know where the kid is and then then the routine stuff is some agency assist citizens assist usually it's something as simple as a jump starting a car somebody needs you know slid off the road which we had quite a few on sunday night when the ice came in and then the four frogs so it's been a kind of a like a sort of slow couple of weeks we did have to activate our emergency response vehicle again as a third activation on sunday night when the weather was so bad the ambulance couldn't get up stage road and we had eighty something year old female patient there that had some kind of heart  to bring that vehicle up there to get her out of her residence down to the main road and into an ambulance where she was transported that i still thank you for joining us on this edition of richmond police bait m g found buck and hope you'll join us next time