Two People Arrested For Posing As Bell Ringers In Modesto

December 19, 2011 5:47 PM

Reporting Andrea Menniti

MODESTO (CBS13) – Two people have been arrested for posing as Salvation Army volunteers in Modesto, say police.

Khalillah Williams, 25, of Patterson and Domonick Carrie, 25, of Antioch were reportedly outside of the Walmart on Plaza Parkway on Sunday collecting donations with a Salvation Army red kettle when a real volunteer showed up and chased them away and called police.

Police say the two then went to a second Walmart and tried the same thing when they were caught by police and taken into custody.

“People are out there giving their hard-earned cash and these people were manipulating the system and taking money by false pretenses,” said Sgt. Pat Kimes of the Modesto Police Department.

“I was kind of disgusted,” Michael Paugh of the Salvation Army said. “We solicit this money for those less fortunate that need help around Christmastime.”

It’s unknown how much the suspects collected. Some bell ringers can take in up to $1,000 a day.

Paugh said if the suspects needed help, they could have asked his organization for assistance.

“To see someone come out and do this for their own gain, it’s sad,” he said. “Christmas is a time of giving, a time of sharing. It’s not a time of taking.”

gna

These poor lowlifes will stoop to the lowest levels just to rip people off . . . .

low class Americans, this is what they look like . . .
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This is what Blacks do, Not like they would get a real job or anything.
david

don’t give to bell ringers. send your check or money order directly to the salvation army if it is your favorite charity. never give to bell ringers, door to door solicitors no matter who they represent, never buy anything from anyone selling door to door. it’s your money so up to you to protect it and probably what little you have these days. just tell them politely that you send donations direct to charity of your choice or whatever. scams everywhere so don’t encourage them by being a patsy.
Emily

Out of town visiters, well at least they were not holding up folks at gunpoint or breaking into houses. I wonder where they got the S A bucket etc..
imblackandonparole

Tis the Black season! HO HO HO !!
Gillgurl

This is just another blight on the Black race. I am once again embarrassed at the audacity of the mind state of humans, Black or any other color. It’s wrong and vile. All this type of behavior does is, give racist more reinforcement to criticize and sterotype all Black people. Not all of us are like those two. Some of us actually work very hard for a living, are educated and up standing citizens. The actions of these two low lives, only makes it worse not only on us as a race, but on the people that they were stealing from.
it’s a fact

YOU PEOPLE.. are few and far between. MLK Would be so proud. Not!
Tessa

CHARIMIG……I am surprised it wasn’t in Stockton….the armpit of California