{"id":24234,"date":"2010-07-30T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T18:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=24234"},"modified":"2010-08-01T08:31:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T13:31:47","slug":"vehicle-sale-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=24234","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Sale Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=24235\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24235\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/07\/thumb_police-tyler-badge.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_police-tyler-badge\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24235\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; For the past several weeks, Tyler PD and several surrounding Police agencies have been working a vehicle theft\/fraud ring involving several black and white suspects.  The suspects are buying vehicles from individuals with fictitious cashier\u2019s checks. The checks are drawn on different banks, and police say they appear to be legitimate cashier\u2019s checks. The suspects are using multiple names, and after buying the vehicles and receiving the titles, they take the vehicles to other towns\/cities in Texas.  They then sell the vehicles for cash by assuming the identity of the person they bought the vehicle from.   Police say these suspects are creating fictitious paper Texas drivers licenses in whatever names they need.  <\/p>\n<p>Tyler Police Investigators warn citizens if they are selling a vehicle and the buyer wants to pay with a cashier\u2019s check, be aware of this scam and verify funds with your bank before releasing the title.  Any further questions can be directed to Detective Gary King with the East Texas Auto Theft Task Force at 903-593-6090.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; For the past several weeks, Tyler PD and several surrounding Police agencies have been working a vehicle theft\/fraud ring involving several black and white suspects. The suspects are buying vehicles from individuals with fictitious cashier\u2019s checks. The checks are drawn on different banks, and police say they appear to be legitimate cashier\u2019s checks. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=24234\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vehicle Sale Scam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 17:22:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24234"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24525,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24234\/revisions\/24525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}