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Jailed woman visited regularly: Report
Toronto Star – Mar 27, 2008
A Foreign Affairs Department report provides a detailed account of contacts between the Canadian consulate in Guadalajara and the jailed woman since her February 2006 arrest. The document also offers a glimpse at life in the Puente Grande women's jail including Martin's skirmishes with inmates weekly telephone calls to her mother and a prison beauty pageant. Consular officials spoke often with Martin 51 by telephone sometimes several times a day and visited the prison at least a dozen times. There's no indication of the length of the calls and visits and only a brief note about each encounter. But the report obtained by The Canadian Press helps bolster the Canadian government's claim of regular dialogue with Martin and Mexican officials. It's not known why the point-form chronology was created and Foreign Affairs didn't immediately return a call. Martin and her Toronto-based lawyer were not immediately available for comment… "No call to mother as Ms. Martin was in a beauty pageant at (the) prison and did not go to the office for the weekly call. " Mexican authorities arrested Martin on allegations of money laundering and participating in a criminal conspiracy connected to an investment scam her former boss Alyn Waage. Martin denies any involvement in an Internet-based fraud scheme masterminded by Waage which bilked 15000 investors out of nearly US$60 million. Waage is now serving a 10-year sentence at a low-security federal prison in Butner N. The former Edmonton native claims Martin – his private cook for 10 months in 2000-01 – was oblivious to the scam and he's sworn an affidavit saying so.
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Campbell defrauded US$320000 from elderly victims many of whomare in their eighties. He wasnabbed after the police traced money wired to his accounts by victims. The Jamaica lotteryscam has hit many elderly Americans and several states are now warningresidents to be wary of telephone calls from individuals posing as Jamaicanofficials. An 85-year-oldwoman in Houston recently lost US$16000 aftershe was tricked into believing she had won a lottery in Jamaica. ne of theperpetrators who claimed he was the President of Jamaica reassured her that ifshe paid processing fees she would receive a US$2. Thewoman eventually lost her life savings.
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Sauk Valley Newspapers – Mar 27, 2008
It’s a time-worn technique police see all too much — scam artists pretending to be someone they’re not then diverting their victims’ attention to rob them. “There are people that go around and their sole objective is to rip people off” Bartonville Police Chief Brian Fengel said Wednesday. “This is their job. That’s what they do. “That’s what happened to an elderly Bartonville couple March 15… Swindlers are known to look at communities close to interstates. They scope out neighborhoods and prey on senior citizens — looking for them out in their yards or for homes with wheelchair ramps. They employ several ruses to get into homes including needing to use the telephone needing a glass of water wanting to write a note for a neighbor or looking for a lost pet. nce inside they will distract victims and confine them to one room while others secretly enter and burglarize the home. “They’re very good salesmen and divert their victims so they can commit their crimes” Fengel said. nce they’ve stolen cash or other valuables they race away in a vehicle. Many times the victims are only able to provide police with minimal details of the getaway car.
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