Thursday, February 28, 2002

City police report several minor accidents last night although there were no injuries. There are no arrests to report.

ATM FRAUD ARTISTS AT WORK IN SAULT
City police are investigating two incidents involving Automated Banking Machines. Two females are hanging around ATMs and are placing an object into the card slot. When a customer inserts a card, it gets jammed in the machine.

The females then offer the customer some assistance by telling him that this has happened to them and that the victim should re-enter his PIN number to extract his card. This does not work, of course, and they then offer the victim an 800 number to call for assistance.

When the victim has left to make the call, they clean out his account. Please do not accept their assistance. Call police immediately. The investigation is continuing.

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY
Police have received two reports from students involving suspicious activity. On Feb. 26, at about 8:20 a.m., a student walking to St. Bernadette felt he was b