'Quick Change' Scammer Strikes Again, This Time In New Jersey
EWING, NJ (CBS) – Police in New Jersey are now searching for a man who is also wanted in Delaware for allegedly using a "quick change" scam.
From Nov. 2013 until Jan. 2014, the suspect, identified as 68-year-old Warren Sampson, committed thefts in at least nine stores in the state of Delaware.
Police say Sampson would usually enter the retailer and buy small items using a $100 bill. As the transaction was completed, the suspect would then claim he'd received incorrect change and initiated a series of rapid money exchanges with the cashier in order to correct that cashier's supposed mistake.
Once the suspect left the store, the cashier would realize he had left with the merchandise, the change and the original $100 bill.
Earlier this month, Sampson reportedly struck again at two stores in Wilmington. Then, on Sept. 11, police say Sampson tried to use the same scam in Ewing at a store on the 100 block of Scotch Road. The clerk in this incident didn't fall for the scam and eventually took back Sampson's change and handed him his $100 bill, which he left the store with. What's more, police in Ewing now say Sampson struck at the same store earlier this year, in February, where he got away with $99.
Sampson is described as 6'5" tall and 210 lbs with a bald head and brown eyes. Police say there are warrants out for his arrest in Philadelphia, New York City, Wilmington and 16 jurisdictions throughout New Jersey.
Anyone with information on Sampson's whereabouts is asked to call police.
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