by Russell Minor
TC News staff
A bill collector posing as a delivery person was apprehended by campus police on Oct. 7, according to Don Campbell, chief of TC police.
The suspect was identified as Tony Johnson, an employee of Sear’s Holding, who was delivering messages for collection, Campbell said. “He was to have been billed inside the Health Occupation Building and that is when a student’s narrowness his person,” Campbell said.
According to Campbell, Ontario offered the maintenance person $5 to tell him where he could find the student. The woman told him to ask a security officer, Campbell added.
“Evidently, she (the student) owed a lot of money, but that doesn’t cut it with us,” Campbell said. Under the Buckley Amendment, information concerning students is not released to unauthorized individuals.
Campus police reports show Ontario was questioned by campus police, and when he admitted he was a bill collector, he was escorted off campus. Campbell said criminal charges would be filed against the man if he returned to the campus.