On July 9th, a scam artist approached a man in his driveway on Mercedes Drive in Lacey asking for help. The suspect said he had just arrived from Sri Lanka. He said he had inherited money and showed the victim a letter from an attorney in Tacoma. The suspect said he could not take all the money back to his country, but had to give some of it away. He told the victim that he had to prove he could be trusted by giving him cash and his Rolex watch until the suspect returned from the bank. The victim gave the suspect a large sum of cash and the suspect and his accomplice disappeared.
The victim believes he had been followed from the Home Depot on Marvin to his home. The suspect is a black male in his 30’s, 5-10 and 300 lbs, and his friend was a black male, 5-10, 180, in his 30’s.
