{"id":8218,"date":"2018-08-16T22:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T05:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=8218"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:28:31","slug":"caretaker-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2018\/08\/16\/caretaker-fraud-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Caretaker Fraud Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sergeant Anthony Prencipe]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On July 30, 2018, the El Dorado County Sheriff\u2019s Office was called regarding a fraud investigation in Rescue. \u00a0The caller had found multiple fraudulent checks made out to a caretaker they had hired for their elderly parent.<\/p>\n<p>EDSO deputies and detectives worked together and found that the caretaker, identified as Terry Whitcomb, had written numerous fraudulent checks for thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Whitcomb was interviewed and subsequently arrested. \u00a0A search was conducted at Whitcomb\u2019s residence and over $5,000 was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Whitcomb was booked into the El Dorado County Jail for charges of identity theft and Elder abuse.<\/p>\n<p>August 16, 2018 at 1:24 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergeant Anthony Prencipe] On July 30, 2018, the El Dorado County Sheriff\u2019s Office was called regarding a fraud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/crime\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Crime<\/a>","tag_info":"Crime","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8219,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8218\/revisions\/8219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}