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Five suspects are facing charges after a fake police officer tricked a Delafield man into transferring $15,000 to avoid arrest for missed jury duty.
Investigators linked the call to Derrick Posey, an inmate in federal custody in South Carolina who used a contraband cell phone to operate a half-million-dollar scam.
Delafield police discovered the fraud network targeted over 300 victims nationwide using cryptocurrency kiosks and spoofed law enforcement phone numbers.
Four co-conspirators in Mississippi, Iowa, Florida, and Georgia are currently facing money laundering charges alongside Posey.
