West Chester Police Blotter

FBI Impersonators Scam Westtown Family

Westtown-East Goshen Police say the family purchased debit cards and provided the account details to the crooks.

A Westtown Township family was the victim of a recent telephone scam carried out by two men posing as members of the FBI, according to Westtown-East Goshen Police. On Thursday, a resident of Westtown Township told police that between March 26 and March 27 his family received telephone calls from two men who identified themselves as representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Police say the men told the eventual victims that they had not paid enough income tax to the Internal Revenue Service. The first caller threatened arrest if the man did not make a payment immediately. The victim and his wife were directed to go and purchase Green Dot Pre-paid debit cards, police say. The victim and his wife purchased four cards in the …

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Tom Sunnergren

10:57 am on Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Wow. That's pretty scary. Thanks for the heads up Robert.   more ›

Man Defrauds West Chester Bank of $2.5 Million

Ordered to pay $747,000 in restitution after the First National Bank of Chester County loaned him $2.5 million.

A Plymouth Meeting man was sentenced to 33 months behind bars last week after federal investigators say he defrauded a Chester County bank and four individuals for various real estate loans and investments. Kelly DeFeo, 43, of the 200 block of Donna Drive, Plymouth Meeting, was found guilty of charges involving conspiracy, false statements, and mail fraud by a jury in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania last spring. He was sentenced last Wednesday by judge Norma Shapiro to 33 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $747,000 in restitution to his victims. According to a release from the Internal Revenue Service's Philadelphia Field Office, DeFeo was a general contractor and real …

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