News Briefs: Thief Posing as Utility Worker Steals $50,000 in Jewelry

A thief claiming to be a utility worker recently stole $50,000 worth of jewelry from a home in Mequon, Wisconsin. To those in the industry, it’s a familiar scam. An important looking utility official knocks on the door of someone’s home and says they need to get inside in order to check the water. Only, it’s not a utility official at all, it’s a robber in a reflective vest carrying a clipboard. In the Mequon case, the victims were an 81-year-old woman and her 53-year-old daughter. They’d had some water issues recently, so they let the man into their home.