ONEONTA POLICE WARN AGAINST PHONE SCAM ONEONTA – City police are warning residents of a possible telephone scam. Police received notification from community members indicating that several people have received phone calls from a person who appears to know basic information about who they are. The caller subsequently advises the person to whom they are speaking that their son/daughter/niece/nephew has been arrested for DWI, is in court, and needs money immediately. The caller tells the person NOT to go to…
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Kids Back, Phony IDs Surfacing By LIBBY CUDMORE•Hometown Oneonta Edition of Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 The Chinese website www.reallygoodfakes.com could never be accused of false advertising. “They make fake IDs that fool the scanners at bars,” said Lt. Douglas Brenner, Oneonta Police Department. “They’ve even got the holograms.” Since college began, Brenner and the OPD have collected over 50 fake IDs from underage drinkers, the majority of them SUNY Oneonta students, the majority of them female. “Word got around campus…
Bronx Man, Suspected Heroin Dealer, Arrested By Deputies, OPD In Oneonta ONEONTA – A Bronx man suspected of being a major heroin trafficker in Otsego and Delaware counties was arrested early Tuesday evening after a month-long narcotics investigation, Senior Sheriff’s Investigator Mike Ten Eyck announced today. The suspect, Harry L. Wilkins Jr., 34, of The Bronx, was charged with possessing heroin with intent to sell and possessing more than a half-ounce of heroin. Approximately one ounce was seized, Ten Eyck…
