Extortion Scams Keep Bridgeport and Fairfield Police Busy
[caption id="attachment_183" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Police investigate possible leads."][/caption] At 1:13pm today police were contacted by a woman from Housatonic Community College that she received a cell phone call from a "professional kidnapper" stating he her brother in the trunk of his car, and if she wanted to see him again she was to withdraw money from the bank. Police immediately set up a perimeter and started looking for possible suspects in the area. Plain clothed detectives and unmarked police cars followed the woman as she follow directions from the "kidnapper" on her cell phone as she walked to People's Bank on Main Street to withdraw money. She was then told to wire the money. She then went to the Kwik…