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Residents of Newburyport, Massachusetts are being warned to be cautious after a scammer posing as a Newburyport Police officer reached someone in town by phone and demanded $10,000 or else they’d be arrested. City Marshal Mark Murray said that the scammer, who was most likely not in the U.S., was able to use both the name of an active Newburyport.
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DAVE ROGERS/Staff photoPolice officers are stationed outside a home in Newburyport where a man barricaded himself Friday morning.
DAVE ROGERS/Staff photoPolice, including members of a regional SWAT team, respond to a home in Newburyport where a man barricaded himself Friday morning.
NEWBURYPORT â Dozens of heavily armed police officers surrounded an Atkinson Street home Friday after a 57-year-old man barricaded himself inside. The same man prompted police to visit his home several times in the previous days.
The incident began when police responded just after 8 a.m. to a report of a break-in at Newburyport One Stop Gas Station at 1 Kent St. The suspect had left prior to officersâ arrival, but a witness saw the man â believed to be armed â flee into the residence at 3 Atkinson St., according to a press release.