Police Arrest Two For Alleged Baby Funeral Scam

June 19, 2011 10:32 PM

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MODESTO, Calif. (CBS13) – Two women were arrested after allegedly begging for donations to pay for the funeral of a dead baby that doesn’t exist, authorities said.

The Modesto Police Department said 27-year-old Tiffany Lyon of Modesto and 20-year-old Chasity Doll of Sun City stood near busy intersections over the weekend with a sign of a baby boy and asked motorists to help pay for costs associated with his death.

Officers responded to an intersection near Vintage Faire Mall on Saturday after drivers reported that the two women were entering the roadway to collect the donations, creating a traffic hazard.

Lyon and Doll told two officers that their son, Justin Michael Farrell, died at a Modesto hospital on June 6 from a heart condition while they were on vacation.

When officers asked for specific details about where the child died, the doctor’s name, or the child’s city of birth, the women evaded the questions, authorities said.

Police Arrest Two For Alleged Baby Funeral Scam

The two suspects allegedly downloaded a picture of a baby off the internet to help sell their story. (Modesto Police Department)

After checking for recent infant deaths in the area, investigators questioned the women further and discovered the picture had been downloaded off the internet, according to the Modesto Police Department.

Authorities said the two women collected $640 in donations before officers discovered the ruse. Both suspects were arrested for taking money under false pretenses and conspiring to defraud the public.

Phil

Doll was doing this in Peoria, AZ also. Must have made enough money to get to CA.
John Reid

But if they had been politicians running for office it, their lies would have been legal

larrybob

wait, I don’t remember any politicians ASKING for money

countrycuz

Horsewhipping is too good for this white trash!
Tarantula

They were doing this right near where I work a few days ago…
Joe

Did you read any of the comments from people calling them white trash? All races commit crime. It just so happens that blacks commit them at a disproportionally high rate.

steven

I beg to differ……
Blacks are arrested/prosecuted/convicted more…. hence the skewed numbers
Detex

what does that have to do with anything?

larrybob

The baby was black
Joseph Valadez Sr

see the flippin sigh?!

NVZ

while these two losers may be white trash, and even that may be questionable,. let’s keep the truth in perspective.

for every white-trash duo bilking idiots out of pocket money, there’s about 50,000 blacks or mexicans stealing people’s identities, cars, money, etc. not to mention street-gang affiliations, drive-by-shootings, rapes, drugs, graffiti, etc. no, people are NOT all the same, only the corrupt try to say otherwise.

Regional Bubble

And there are hundreds of white men on Wall Street stealing millions through a corrupt system – what’s your point you ignorant racist?

InTheBubble

Those aren’t white men. They’re gypsies of the Ashkenazi tribe. Try to keep up.

Submitter

Do not hand money out to people on the side of the road with a sign. They are drug addicts. If they truly needed assistance, they would be down at the local welfare center like everyone else, or busy looking for a job.
John C

Gives the whole white race a bad image.
Honest Kent

“It is my occupation be plain.”
Editor, proof read your copy!
“over the weekend with a sign of a baby boy”
Ralph Rivera

they aspire to be black, like all the other people who demand a free ride.

larrybob

You mean white, right? After all, we used black as slaves, what more of a free ride can you gt?

CB

I saw these two over in Salinas, CA at the Pilot Truck stop doing the same thing.
joey

So are the police going to start investigating all beggars to make sure they really are veterans or homeless or hungry?

The girls are beggars. Either let these two go or arrest the rest of them
Psycho Dad

The Obama family gets free vacation with our tax money plus they get paid as well.

These two women are clearly white trash

larrybob

It’s because so many white trashers have Psycho Dads

Travis Futcher

lol. this is what it comes down too. smh…this is sad.
http://thecryptojournalist.wordpress.com The Cryptojournalist

2 things

Among the rash of grimey crimes happening nationwide, this is pretty grimey. Worse than stealing copper, but at least they weren’t selling a baby.

And Chasity Doll. What a name

http://rhymeandreasonable.com
BaltimoreBuckeye

Dudes have been performing this scam in Baltimore for as long as I can remember. Take a trip to the Harbor, and you’re guaranteed to meet the guys with the clip boards from a local church, seeking donations for the headstone of a baby killed in “the ghetto” recently. When they’d confuse me for a tourist, I LOVED calling them on it, and they’d mumble hatred under their breath as they walked to a new area.
walter12

Did they beg in Spanish?

Angel

Hello they are WHITE!

illegals are Sponges

White? Really? That’s weird, I’ts usually Blacks or latinos(Roaches)

Anonymous

Dumb white trash.
free stupidity

how dumb
i hope they get death
http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com
Aghast/Yet, not so much!

Just when I thought humanity had sunk as low as possible…………………………That is until I read of the mom that killed her daughter by putting her in the microwave…..What is this world coming to? That really is a rhetorical question, however I do wonder what we are leaving to our children… Sad.
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