The following are excerpts from the Belmont Police log as made available by the Belmont Police Department. The log is public and available for review. All persons are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
3 p.m.: A Belmont resident reported being scammed out of $3,800. He got an email from someone he thought was his boss asking him to buy Apple gift cards to give to clients. As instructed, he bought a total of 19 gift cards worth $200 each, totaling $3,800. He then provided the gift card numbers and codes via email to the person he thought was his boss from [email protected] with his boss’s name listed as the sender. He contacted his credit card company and Apple regarding the incident…