{"id":25192,"date":"2013-07-25T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T22:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=25192"},"modified":"2013-07-25T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T22:18:09","slug":"bait-and-switch-technique-could-land-man-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/07\/bait-and-switch-technique-could-land-man-behind-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bait And Switch Technique <br>Could Land Man Behind Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6J2gYkvFmu0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/center>An unknown male is accused of using one of the oldest tricks in the books, the bait and switch technique, to swap price tags to score himself a laptop at a fraction of the price.\u00a0 However, that act could land him in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Florida\u00a0Crime Stoppers is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a man who was looking at computers at Capital Pawn,\u00a01300 Homestead Road, Lehigh Acres, on the afternoon of July 8<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The man asked the store\u2019s employee to look at a few different computers, and while the clerk was busy with other customers, the male slyly switched the $1,000 price tag from a newer Dell computer with the $100 price tag of an older, much less valuable laptop.\u00a0 When the clerk returned to the man, he purchased the more expensive computer, which now donned the cheaper tag, and walked out the door.\u00a0 Since the man paid in cash, there was no identification left to track him down.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The male is believed to be in his 40s, and is roughly 240 lbs.\u00a0 He currently faces felony charges of larceny grand theft.\u00a0 Anyone with information on the identity and whereabouts of this suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477).\u00a0 All callers will remain anonymous and will be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.\u00a0 Tips may also be made online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swflcrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.swflcrimestoppers.org<\/a>\u00a0or by texting a tip to CRIMES (274637) Keyword: REWARD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown male is accused of using one of the oldest tricks in the books, the bait and switch technique, to swap price tags to score himself a laptop at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}