Aggressive door to door solicitors are hitting the area
People knocking on your door and asking for money.
Following message came from Forest Hill Neighborhood Watch. Don’t open your door if you don’t feel comfortable.
This afternoon (February 26th) several residents called police in response to a young man soliciting money for an alleged drug addiction charity. Police were able to catch him near the park and obtain his information. Please be wary of opening your door to strangers. This man, as described below, was quite aggressive with one neighbor and tried to shake hands while coming into the front door. Luckily our neighbor pushed him back onto the porch and did not allow himself to be bullied or suckered into giving him money. The man gave no identification to neighbors and had no literature for his charity. If given a choice to be rude (not opening door or giving money) or victimized, please be RUDE and then call 911!!
Young male, around 20 yrs old
5’10”
160 pounds
blue jeans and torn black jacket
Raiders hat
black maleHe was knocking on doors on Springhill and Stonewall, from the 4400 block towards the park.
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Richard Hayes
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He came by my house on and kept trying to open the locked storm door, even though my dog was barking insanely. When I started to cut him off in his spiel and tell him that I couldn’t help him, he made a rude gesture and took off.
I also reported a young man claiming to be with ADT, who also tried to come through the locked storm door. The local ADT franchise claim that they do not use door to door solicitors, but said that they could not answer for other offices. This young man was dressed in sloppy jeans and had an oversized pale blue ADT tshirt on.