Victim of a scam that one Real Estate Broker says is easy for anyone to fall for. The hopeful renter went to check out a home he saw on craiglist. The supposed Property Owner claimed to be out of town, said the door was open so he could see the home, which it was, and asked him to wire money. Right after sending the money, he realized it was all a hoax. Kccis kim st. Onge has the story. Kim its likely one of the biggest decisions in your life, and scammers are jumping at the opportunity to make big bucks at your expense. Shane torres someones desperate and really needs a place to live so theyre falling for it. Kim shane torres is a broker at remax real estate concepts. He says this scam is nothing new. Shane they will pull our exact photos and verbage from our listings and use that and sometimes theyll actually go as far as to create fake email addresses and pretend that they are us. Kim but lately. Shane thats a legitmate one. Kim hes seeing it happen more often, to more people. Shane
Jason r dan kelley of newton says the prison is currently understaffed and says the public was kept in the dark about this move. The Mount Pleasant facility will become a more minimum custody facility. This move will take between 8 to 12 months to complete. Live in studio, jason rantala, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Steve pete polson says he is sorry and he wishes he would have just shot himself that day, instead of hurting other people. Polson is the man who went on a shooting spree in Pleasant Hill last november, injuring 2 people. Kccis kim st. Onge is live at the polk county courthouse with an update on polsons trial. Kim polson admitted to the shootings for the first time today, but says he cant remember any of it because he was high on meth. He told jurors he had injected meth around midnight november 16, some 6 hours before he shot before that shooting in Pleasant Hill. Polson says he had a reaction to that particular meth injection hair on his neck standing up after he injec
To remain in the squad car is truly a tactical disadvantage because once youre in that seat with all that equipment theres no place to go. Mark in the video, you can see bolinger if his car. Within 3 seconds hes at officer after she shoots bolinger you can hear her tell the other officer at the scene. Chief wingert says not seeing a weapon doesnt mean there is no weapon. She wasnt able to make that assessment on whether or not he had a weapon. Now after the fact we all know that was the case, but in that moment she didnt know and she reacted based on what she knew in that moment. Mark wingert says after an internal review it was concluded there was no violation of department policy,and officer miller handled the situation as a reasonable person would handle the situation, a criteria from the iowa code. I asked why the criteria is for not a reasonle officer. Reasonable person standard applies to Police Officers and the average citizen. Police officers are not robots. We have fear, emoti
Steve new at 5 00 a pleasant , hill man is now in the polk county jail charged with 2 counts of lascivious acts with a child. Court documents show that 18yearold kyle calvert used a social media app to communicate with someone he knew was a minor. Calvert asked the victim to perform sex acts with other Young Children and record it. His bond is set at 40,000. Stacey the South Carolina deputy who slammed a student on the floor and tossed her several feet is out of a job. Kevin cooney is following that right now. Kevin stacy, this is deputy benfields. Deputy been fields. He has been fired after this video of a Violent Arrest quickly went viral and sparked national outrage. The Richland County sheriff says the student was being disruptive and refused to leave the classroom. But he says what happened with the deputy was not acceptable. It continues to upset me when i see that video. Its the fact that he picked that student up, and he threw the student across the room. Thatats not a proper t
Private email accounts. Late in the day, the person tweeting under the handle of cwa followed through on threats to release sensitive information. You know we dont lie. What you have all been waiting for. Sorry for the delay. Along with that statement came an attachment with the names, Social Security numbers and phone numbers of about 20 people said to be affiliated with the head of the c. I. A. In fact, the unidentified hacker, who claimed to be a high school student, says the information came from the private email account of c. I. A. Director john brennan. Whoever it is also claims to have hacked into the private email account of Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson. Throughout the day the hacker appeared to be taunting the officials and others in government. We are not doing this for personal satisfaction. We are doing this because innocent people in palestine are being killed daily and anyone know who we should target next . In a statement the c. I. A. Would only say it has re