Aurora Phelps is being accused of drugging several elderly men and stealing their financial information, according to court ...
In its travel advice, Canada has warned its citizens about Irish romance scams, but overall has Ireland at its safest risk ...
A Las Vegas woman is accused of defrauding older men and causing the death of at least one of them.
The agency described the scheme as one of the most nefarious it has encountered, with nearly a dozen known victims and ...
A scammer who claimed to be a U.S. Marine has cheated a 47-year-old woman out of almost $90,000, according to the Salina Police Department.
Aurora Phelps, who is in custody in Mexico, faces 21 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud, identity theft, kidnapping and ...
She used online dating apps to lure older men to meet her in person, then drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, the FBI said.
In one instance Phelps is alleged to have kidnapped a victim by heavily sedating him and taking him across the U.S.-Mexico ...
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Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that the 47-year-old woman believed she was communicating with a U.S. Marine. The two professed their love for each other. Then the scammer told the woman he ...
In court documents, 43-year-old Aurora Phelps is charged with scamming four older men using dating sites like Tinder and OkCupid.