Operator of local transportation company prevents customer from losing nearly $20,000 in scam

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Imagine being able to stop a crime before it happens. Well, that’s exactly what happened for one local man.

Courtland Dixon runs a transport service for elderly and medically disabled people in the Chattahoochee Valley.

Dixon says a recurring rider scheduled a transport to the bank without knowing the rider was in the progress of a financial phone scam.

“I arrived to pick up Mr. Holifield, and I noticed he was on the phone,” Dixon explained. “I didn’t think anything of it, so I took him to the bank. When he came out of the bank that’s when the antennas kind of started to rise because he had a lump sum of cash.”…

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