Sheriff James A. McVicker has issued an alert to the citizens of the county to be aware of a couple soliciting funds for the Elizabethtown Presbyterian Church and for Bladen Crisis Assistance.
“We have been informed of a couple who were in the Bladenboro area this weekend going door to door selling tickets for a fund raiser by Elizabethtown Presbyterian Church,” said McVicker. “The people involved would knock on doors and offer to sell a plate of food to be delivered Sunday night. They were charging $5.00 a plate. Of course there was no fund raiser and there were no plates delivered.”
McVicker said the same suspects then went to the Lumberton area Monday and Tuesday and were working the same scam but representing themselves as members of Bladen Crisis Assistance. “They did not have tickets they were handing out but rather writing down the donor’s name and address saying they would deliver the plates later,” McVicker said.
There are two suspects working together. They work as a team. There is a white male who drives a black Z71 Chevrolet truck and a woman who is between 5’3” and 5’6”. She has strawberry blond hair, hazel eyes, freckles and possibly a scar under her left eye.
Sheriff McVicker urges anyone with information on these two individuals to call the Bladenboro Police Department, the Lumberton Police Department or the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office.
“This fraud was uncovered when Chris Denny, the pastor of Elizabethtown Presbyterian Church and a board member of Bladen Crisis Assistance began receiving calls from victims,” McVicker said. “Please help us put a stop to this. This is a crime against everyone.”
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