A young man surnamed Ramírez Salazar was arrested on Saturday morning for asking for money in the name of the Costa Rican Red Cross, without belonging to the institution. After the intervention of the officers in downtown Escazú, they found ¢ 42,000, which the subject had collected thanks to the fraudulent activity.
He went with a piggy bank that they sell in the supermarket, a volunteer t-shirt (…) They arrested him and they immediately inform the Public Force,”
said Freddy Guillén, chief of the Municipal Police of Escazú.
A call to 9-1-1 was what alerted both the Public Force and the Municipal Police that the young man was posing as a Red Cross official to ask for money.
After locating him thanks to patrols, they consulted the Red Cross if Ramírez Salazar was one of its officials and if they had a collection campaign, which the institution denied.