Story By: Jonathan Macias, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
This beautiful woman has been arrested for posing as a police officer and seducing public servants before convincing them to take out loans and disappearing with their cash.
Twenty-nine-year-old Blanca Aurora Caro Restrepo has been arrested for stealing cash from a series of public servants she seduced after pretending to be a police lieutenant in the Valle del Cauca department in western Colombia.
She is said to have seduced several public servants who worked for the police and the army and one of the victims, a 23-year-old who has not been named in reports, told local media: “We lived together for almost eight months and she used to use police uniforms and identified herself as a police officer. She made me take out several loans and then she left.”
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According to the local police, Restrepo managed to steal up to 50 million COP (12,491 GBP) a month using this strategy. She would seduce her victims and make them take out loans before disappearing with the money.
Colonel Javier Navarro, police commander from the Cauca Valley has confirmed to the local media that she allegedly committed fraud in several different departments in Colombia such as Valle del Cauca, Narino, Cundinamarca and the capital Bogota.
Navarro also said: “She also attended several local schools as a police officer to give speeches about drugs and social media use.”
The authorities began their investigation in 2017 after several victims reported the woman, who introduced herself as a police officer called Paola Restrepo, to the authorities.
She was reportedly caught at a tollbooth as she was travelling to Bogota and upon verifying her identity authorities found that she had an arrest warrant issued by a court of the capital of Colombia.
It is unclear if she has been charged.
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