🌱 Patch AM: How a single fake email cost one Solon business over $100,000

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In today's newsletter:

• How a single fake email cost one Solon business over $100,000
• How a Solon custody pickup turned into two arrests

Today's riddle: I quit my job as a banker. 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

• Fake email leads to company's loss of $100,000: Solon police blotter (cleveland.com) — Several recent Solon police reports highlight local fraud, forgery, and impaired driving cases, including a business on Solon Road losing over $100,000 to an email scam. Residents also reported altered checks, vehicle damage, drug possession, and weapons-related OVI arrests on Aurora Road and nearby streets, with detectives continuing multiple investigations.
   

• When father of arrested woman in Solon comes to pick up her kids, he is found to be drunk and possessing weapons (cleveland.com) — Solon police recently handled a tense situation where a woman was arrested after alleged threats at a local apartment, and the father who came to pick up their children was then arrested on suspicion of impaired driving with loaded guns in the vehicle. The case also involved child endangerment concerns and notification of county child services, with the children ultimately released to their grandmother.
   

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