Everything is not coronavirus
related. You may remember press reports last year of groups of people stopped
at off or on ramps to the freeway asking motorists for money so that they can
fill up their gas tank. Sometimes they offer to sell a “gold” bracelet,
necklace, or other jewelry in trade. The gold jewelry turns out to be fake. Sometimes
there are children in the car. They may also have approached people in shopping
parking lots.
Well, apparently, they
are back. In recent days, there has been talk of citizens being approached by
people asking to trade jewelry for gas money along freeway ramps and in parking
lots throughout Skagit and Snohomish Counties. Some areas where they have been seen,
as reported on social media, include Arlington, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Everett,
Bothell, Smokey Point, Marysville, Totem Lake, and Mill Creek.
This has become enough of
a problem that Washington State Patrol (WSP) has begun an investigation. In a
posting, the WSP has described the activity as that of a “known criminal enterprise”
and “… a nationwide issue that has trickled into our area.”
To help with the
investigation, the WSP is asking for any information about this enterprise,
including dash-cam video of the incidents.
If you have any
information that can help the WSP please contact WSP Trooper Heather Axtman at heather.axtman@wsp.wa.gov or (425)
583-9978.
Here is a description of how
the gang operates from reports from last year,
KIRO TV:
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