It started with a knock on the door from a stranger on Monday.
The visitor, a white man with facial scruff in a maroon shirt and a black hat, told the 90-year-old man who answered that his roof needed some work and offered to fix it. The man agreed.
A few minutes later, the so-called roofer said he was owed money for the repairs — which wasn’t true. None had been made.
But the men drove together, in the victim’s car, to a bank in Millcreek. The visitor waited while the older man withdrew cash and then drove him home, taking the money for himself.
The whole thing was done within an hour, Evelyn Stallings, the man’s daughter, told FOX 13 in an interview on Thursday.
“He trusts and thinks everybody is there to help him and to be kind to him and not to take advantage of him, so that’s the hard part,” Stallings said. “... We’re very grateful that he is alive but very mad that people would do that to trusting old people and take advantage of them and do a scam.”
With her father now out $3,000, Unified Police are looking for information about the man who approached him. And Stallings said she’s speaking out in hopes that he and the other two men who accompanied him will be punished — and that another trusting family won’t have to go through what hers has.
Anyone with information can fill out a confidential web tip at the department’s website online or call 801-743-7000.
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