5-29-25 THURSDAY MORNING NEWS

A new scam involving QR codes hits Allen County; A missing woman found dead in Defiance; Cop killer has criminal past; Mortgage payments in Lima have increased 67% since 2022.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It seems that scammers never rest, and there's a new
scam going around and Allen County. According to Allen County
Sheriff Matt Treuglia, the scammers are now trying to get
people to scan QR codes by telling them they have
an arrest warrant, that somebody stop up our office.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
And they gave the name of a Lima City detective
and a Allen County detective and said they were called
and told to report for a warrant, but they wouldn't
have to show up if the person scammer give them
a QR code to scan. If they scan this code,
they can just forego the warrant or possibly pay in Bitcoin.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
The sheriff adds they would never send you a QR
code to alert you you have an arrest warrant. If
you receive one of these scams, he encourages you to
contact the Sheriff's office or the line of police department,
but most importantly, do not scan the QR code. Earlier
this week, the body of a missing Michigan woman was

(00:59):
found Defiance. It all started Monday morning about ten forty
when Defiance police were alerted to a dog left in
an unattended vehicle. Police then learned the vehicle belonged to
a missing person out of Boyne City, Michigan. Then, on
Tuesday night, about eight o'clock nine point one took a
call from a fisherman reporting a body on an island

(01:20):
at near Riverside Park. That body was recovered and identified
as fifty seven year old Kristen Bates, the missing person
out of Boyne City, Michigan. The body was sent to
the Luke's County Corners Office for an autopsy. Anthony Emmanuel
Labrador Sierra, the Venezuelan man accused of posing as a
seventeen year old Perrysburg High School student, is expected to

(01:42):
appear in Perrysburg Municipal Court today on forgery charges. We
get more with Melissa Andrews from WTLTV in Toledo and
the on n and we're.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Learning from Perrysburg Schools once again about this situation. The
district says it followed the law when enrolling Labrador Sierra
in January of last year. A Perrysburg police report states
he claimed he was the victim of human trafficking and
wanted to become a student. However, the district says no
one reported any abuse or trafficking to school's staff during

(02:14):
the enrollment process. The district says it acted in good
faith and is now reviewing how it handles unusual enrollment
cases to prevent something like this in the future.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Thanks to the onn's Melissa Andrews for that report. We're
learning more about the man that killed a Moro County
Schriff's deputy this week. The suspect in the case has
been found guilty of several crimes in the past, including assault, pointing,
in discharging a weapon, and domestic violence. Court records also
say he threatened Deputy Daniel Sharer before gunshots were exchanged.

(02:47):
The suspect is in the hospital with serious injuries and
is charged with aggravated murder. Meanwhile, law enforcement officers from
across Ohio honored the fallen deputy. A procession to carry
Deputy Daniel Shaarer home home started in Dayton yesterday as
his body was transported from the Montgomery County Corners office
to Mount Gilead. First responders lined much of the route

(03:09):
as the deputy was driven along I seventy, I two seventy,
and I seventy one. The United States government is checking
all visa holders associated with Harvard University. Fox's Carmen Roberts
as the story.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
It's no longer just Harvard's foreign student visas under scrutiny.
The US is also closely checking business and tourist visas
of people connected to the university. Senior State Department officials
tell Fox News the agency will conduct an investigation of
those B one and B two visas, as well as others,
to search for possible security vulnerabilities and other abuses in

(03:45):
the visa system. This as Fox News Digital learned that
Homeland Security is eliminating the student visa program at Harvard
due to what it considers pro terrorist conduct during campus protests.
Carmen Roberts Fox News.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
And a new study on behalf of construction coverage says
that the estimated monthly mortgage payment from a median priced
US home is nearly sixty percent higher today than it
was just three years ago, and lima. Over that time,
the average mortgage payment has increased sixty seven percent, while
the median home price has increased just eighteen and a

(04:22):
half percent. That's the news you need this morning. More
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