Undercover officer busts suspected scammer in Michigan, video shows

The Brief

  • A Michigan Sheriff’s Office posted video of a man being taken into custody during a sting operation.
  • The arrest happened after the suspect had allegedly tried scamming a woman out of her life savings.

(FOX 2) Undercover officers from a Michigan Sheriff’s Office released video from a sting operation where they took a suspected scammer into custody while he was allegedly defrauding a woman out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Kent County Sheriff’s post online is from a May 1 arrest where an officer posing as a victim places Yug Chauhan in handcuffs as soon as they hand a box to him.

Hours earlier, the sheriff’s department had become aware of the alleged scam.

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