POLICE BEAT: March 8 to March 13

March 8 - Nothing to report. March 9 - Nothing to report. On March 10, at 7:26 a.m., a reporting party in Salton City advised they had been scammed...

March 20, 2023
7:04 PM

March 8 - Nothing to report. March 9 - Nothing to report. On March 10, at 7:26 a.m., a reporting party in Salton City advised they had been scammed via cell phone. According to Imperial County Sheriff's Office logs, the store employee reported falling for a scam from a caller who claimed to be a store manager, and the employee took $700 from the store and $2,100 from their personal bank to deposit into a Bitcoin machine in Mecca, California. A report was taken. On March 11, at 6:01 p.m. a reporting party advised of a white male adult at a store located in the N.