The Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department is warning residents to be on the lookout for phone and email scams impersonating law enforcement.
Local authorities are recently seeing an increasing number of reports of scammers trying to coerce money from residents.
Sheriff Alyshia Dyer says they often pretend to be officers and compel victims to immediately give them money under threat of enforcing an arrest warrant or not releasing a loved one from jail. She says scammers prey on people’s fear of being in trouble with law enforcement…