SHE SPED AWAY.

The Victim: Several

The Crime: Theft through scam

Date: Monday, Sept. 16, and others

Time: Mostly during daylight hours

Location: Ellsworth near Glencoe

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Darren Dattalo with the Lower Greenville Crime Watch is trying to warn the public: Someone is scamming area residents, with several incidents taking place in the last couple of months.

In one of the first incidents, a resident told Dattalo that she had been walking with her baby in a stroller down Ellsworth near Glencoe Park. A large African-American woman was parked on the side of the road with her hood up and a young child with her. The woman asked to borrow a phone, saying her car was broken down.

As soon as the resident handed her the phone, the woman jumped in the car and drove off. The car was an older model Toyota Corolla. Fortunately, the thief got away with just the phone and there were no injuries. After sending out information on the crime to residents, Dattalo received word that there also have been other similar crimes in the area.

“Once I sent out the alert, I got several emails from people in the neighborhood. There was a very similar incident involving a similarly described woman just a few days earlier [Sept. 11] near SMU,” he says. “I then heard of another similar incident in the Moss Farm area. Not sure if it’s the same woman, but the description was the same.”

Dattalo says that a few days later, an-