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Jaime Castillo, age 36, of the Bronx, was arrested on multiple counts of grand larceny on Wednesday, Nov. 20, after carrying out so-called “grandparent scams,” Nassau County Police said.
A 90-year-old Port Washington woman contacted police on June 2, 2023 saying she had received a phone call from someone claiming to be “Raymond Allen,” a lawyer representing her grandchildren.
The caller told the woman her grandchildren had been arrested and he needed cash to bail them out. The woman then met a man in person and gave him $17,600 in cash over a period of two days.
A second victim, an 89-year-old Hewlett Harbor woman, was defrauded out of a total of $7,700 the following July for what she also believed was bail money.
Investigators determined that Castillo was behind both scams, police said. He was arrested without incident on suspicion of four counts of grand larceny, criminal impersonation, and scheme to defraud.
Castillo was arrested in September 2023 after allegedly scamming a Westchester County couple from Harrison out of $9,000 using a similar grandparent scam, as was previously reported by Daily Voice.
Nassau County Police asked anyone who may have been victimized to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS.
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