Woman Conned Out of $11K in Photos, Police Say

Editor's Note: The following Middletown and Edgmont township incidents have been supplied by the Pennsylvania State Police-Media Barracks. Anyone with information regarding any of these incidents is asked to call police at 484-840-1000. If arrests or charges are mentioned, they do not indicate guilt or a conviction.

A local woman was not paid and defrauded out of thousands of dollars for photography work she performed, police said.

Over the course of a year, a 45-year-old Texas man, defrauded a 44-year-old woman out of about $11,000, according to State Police.

The woman had agreed to work for the man on various photojournalism assignments but was never reimbursed for her work, according to State Police.

The man also utilized several of the woman's photographs as his own for publication, according to State Police.

The investigation is ongoing.