Pregnancy scheme
Pregnancy and childbirth are the main things in lives of many families. You are giving life to a new man. It is awesome!!!!! And I don’t understand how some cruel people can use it. There is one story about it.
An Alexander woman arrested for writing almost $3,000 in hot checks is also wanted for allegedly defrauding couples interested in adopting a child.
Lindsey McCall was arrested on a Saline County warrant charging her with allegedly writing $2,817 in hot checks.
Authorities said she also is wanted on contempt of court charges in Bryant and Sherwood.
McCall lied about being pregnant and allegedly collected money through an adoption agency from a Concord, N.C., couple interested in adopting her child, a Saline County Sheriff’s Department report states.
Capt. Jason Massey discovered the possible pregnancy scheme after speaking with a Concord Police Department detective who said McCall used falsified documents from an Arkansas medical provider stating that she was pregnant.
Massey initially contacted the Concord detective concerning a warrant charging McCall with allegedly obtaining property under false pretense. The warrant states that “the false pretense consisted of goods and services obtained by means of (McCall) receiving $10,478.75 in wire transfers for birthparent expenses from June to December 2004 from the victims when the defendant knew she was not in fact pregnant and acted as if she was pregnant to continue to collect these monies.”
Massey said the sheriff’s office has also received information that the San Francisco Police Department is investigating McCall for possibly defrauding another couple in that area.
Deputy Josh Hickey and Benton police Officer Bobby Shell went to McCall’s residence on Friday to arrest her on the felony hot check warrant but could not find her, authorities said.
Hickey returned to the residence later Friday and saw McCall’s parked vehicle packed with clothes “as if she were ready to leave the state,” the sheriff’s report states. Hickey was again unable to find McCall, however, and called Shell and Deputy Harold Higgins for assistance.
According to the report, McCall called Saline County dispatch while the officers were outside the residence. She then spoke to Higgins on the phone and said she was in Hot Springs at Lake Ouachita and that she wanted to turn herself in at 3:30 p.m. at the Saline County jail.
Higgins asked McCall how she got to Hot Springs when her car was parked in front of the house. She replied that a friend had picked her up in a white car, but Higgins said neighbors said they never saw a white car at the residence.
Higgins then told McCall he knew she was in the house and urged her to exit the residence before he had to obtain a search warrant and go in after her.
About an hour after denying she was in the house, McCall surrendered and was taken to jail.
Massey said the FBI is investigating whether McCall attempted her alleged pregnancy scheme in other places.
McCall has been transferred to Rivendell Behavioral Health Services near Alexander.
So, guys, be careful!