Fake water workers take $10,000 in jewelry from Edison woman
ZDNet UK, UK
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EDISON: Police are investigating the theft of $10,000 in jewelry, apparently taken while the
victim, a 64-year-old woman, was distracted by someone posing as a water company employee.
The scam began at about 10 a.m. Wednesday when a woman on Midwood Road heard a knock on her
door. A white, clean-shaven man, described as being 5-foot, 8-inches tall, about 170 pounds
and wearing a shirt that said “New Jersey American Water Company,” told the woman he had to
check something with her water system, police Sgt. Robert Dudash said.
The victim let the man into her home and they went to the kitchen where the man fiddled
with her sink. He then said he needed to check something in the basement.
As they went to the basement, the man spoke to someone on a cellphone. The woman told
police that while they were downstairs, she heard noise upstairs. The man posing as the water
company employee then left, Dudash said.
When the woman checked her bedroom, “it wasn’t ransacked but it was disheveled,” Dudash
said. The victim then realized that $10,000 in jewelry has been stolen.
“One suspect was seen but the other one was not,” Dudash said.
