Mayfield Heights woman says elaborate drug cartel scam cost her around $2 million

MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — A woman, 76, reported Jan. 26 that she was the victim of a scam in which she was told she was being investigated for drug trafficking.

During the past summer, she had been contacted by a supposed investigator with Walmart’s fraud department.

That person told her that a package being delivered to her had been seized by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and that it contained drugs associated with Mexican cartels…

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