Sheriff's office warns about phone scam

“No member of the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office will ever call you to request payment over the phone,” the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office advised in a recent message on social media. Sheriff’s office personnel were alerted to a phone scam involving phone calls from an individual claiming to be “Lt. Reynolds” from the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office. The caller tells individuals that they have outstanding warrants and requests payment over the phone. According to Public Information Officer Deputy Skylar Dailey, the sheriff’s office has had at least three reports of this type of call, all from local numbers; it was...

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