SPRINGFIELD -- Police and prosecutors want business owners and managers to be aware of a strip search scam. Someone impersonating a Springfield police officer on the telephone pulled a dirty trick on some people at an unidentified fast food business.
About 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the caller asked the manager to strip search a 21-year-old female employee to look for evidence of a crime. The manager complied but the search, on the explicit instructions of the caller, went further than just having the employee remove her clothes.
"At some point, we might be looking at pursuing charges for sexual assault on the caller that called the business," said Officer Matt Brown, a spokesman for the Springfield Police Department.
It sounds unbelievable but this has happened many other times in states all over the country in recent years. A sheriff in Maricopa County, Ariz., wants a Taco Bell restaurant manager there to be charged for complying with the same or a copycat caller and conducting the same kind of strip search on a customer. A similar incident happened on Wednesday at a Sonic restaurant and a caller attempted the same scam at a Country Kitchen restaurant, both in Joplin, according to The Joplin Globe. This is the first reported incident in Springfield.
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