PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two former Georgia state prison inmates are jailed in that state on charges that they phoned Pittsburgh-area residents and scammed six into wiring $990 each, supposedly to pay fines for missing jury duty.
The Allegheny County sheriff's office expects more victims to emerge as it continues investigating the suspects, 36-year-old Antonio Jones and 28-year-old Taurus Thurmond. The men were in the Fulton County (Georgia) jail awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania on Monday.
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The Allegheny County sheriff's office learned of the scam on Easter weekend when some 30 people called claiming they'd received phone calls about fines for missing jury duty.
Investigators traced the calls to phones with 412 -- or Pittsburgh-area -- area codes, which were later traced to the suspects through the Georgia State Probation system.