 The Crowing County Sheriff's Office is continuing their investigation of scam phone calls that are happening around the area the past few days. Several reports have been made of a male calling area residents stating that a warrant is out for their arrest and that they must make a payment to avoid arrest. The scammers have used real names of peace officers in the county and have targeted workers in area health care facilities. The Sheriff's Office says if you do receive a call asking for money just simply hang up. We have in the past made phone calls. Sometimes we do make phone calls. The difference is we never tell someone that will take money. So someone's calling saying we will accept money in lieu of us coming to arrest them. Just simply hang up the phone and and call and report it to us. We will never call someone and say we need $200 or we need X amount to stop us from coming to arrest you. If you receive a phone call like this or have any other information about the scam you can report it to the Crowing County Sheriff. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.