Crime & Safety
Local Man Duped Out of $8K By Bronx Woman Pretending To Be His Granddaughter: Cops
The woman claimed to be locked up on a pot charge and in need of bond money.
A woman from the Bronx duped a local man out of $8,000 by pretending to be his granddaughter and claiming she was locked up on a pot charge.
Valencia Johnson, 30, faces felony theft charges for her alleged swindle of the local man.
Johnson remains at large. The warrant for her arrest carries a $100,000 bond.
On Sept. 2, Johnson called the local man and posed as his granddaughter, according to a criminal complaint on file in Will County court.
Johnson “said that she had been arrested for possession of cannabis and needed $8,000 to be released from jail, and induced (the man) to deposit $8,000 into a Bank of America account … in the name of Valencia Johnson,” the complaint said.
The warrant for Johnson’s arrest says she lives on Walton Avenue in the shadow of Yankee Stadium.
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