Possible scam involving older man and purchased item, Houston TX


Officers responded to a suspicious situation near Fidelity St where an older man was possibly scammed after buying an item a few hours earlier. Several people were gathered outside a house. The incident involved checking on the situation and addressing a possible fraud.
Audio|Source: Houston Police Department - All Districts
02:27
Transcript:
00:00
Still need a record, Bowie 8, and bound at Westfield. Need a record, by way 8 and bound of West you play.
00:06
near Fidelity St.
00:11
There's a bunch of people outside of house. I'm gonna talk.
00:14
See what's up.
00:16
Maybe for a mail on the, near the railroad track, Hispanic, a white male in the thirties.
00:22
They dropped another call of Scott and Polk, same information, white male balls, yellow shirt, Loogee laying on the train track. I'm gonna go and dupe it out.
00:32
Seven, signer.
00:35
That's where 7-9, gotcha.
00:42
No, I feel fine, can you prepare my phone?
00:48
Is that clear?
00:50
Go ahead.
00:53
Hey, this is 14 at 15, the evening is out of the soft piece. I saw just keyed up about the person on the train tracks. It's a train trying to come in this off the video, blocking off.
01:02
15, that's clear. I can use some road to it at the moment. And down, let's get to do off the train tracks.
01:14
Oh,
01:15
yeah, you can step them up code 1.
01:17
10 and 32, please step it up code 1.
01:21
What's me doing on? Hey Omar, we got officers that are in route to that another frame of the track.
01:26
We got a train coming to the solo unit there too.
01:29
I'll keep you out there.
01:30
I'll keep you out there.
01:31
If I got a unit on Rob do, step it up code 1.
01:34
They're additional unit that closed by, they can step in up code 1 if you can check by, please.
01:41
Fortunately, if you flow down, we have some bike for all units, I mean motor.
01:46
That's good, sir.
01:47
32 guns, slow down code 2.
01:50
Code 3[1], it's an old guy. He said he just bought it a couple of hours, though, so probably been scammed.
01:56
Just give me another unit, though.
01:59
That's clear, all units, so Fidelity should lower down, Code 3[1].
02:02
All units 2-near Fidelity can slow down code 3.
02:10
I need two, one evenings, one not detained. Clear.
02:22
36 George.
02:25
Probably got scammed, so I'm gonna figure it out.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Code 3: Emergency response; proceed immediately with lights and sirens.
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Location mentioned:
Near Fidelity St, Houston, TX 77029
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