62nd Precinct Cops of the Month nabbed credit scammers
BY HEATHER J. CHIN
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Sergeant Christopher Dixon and Police Officer Joseph Lavelle were named October’s Cops of the Month in the 62nd Precinct for their vigilance and swift action in catching two ATM skimmers red-handed – an arrest that led to the seizure of a large stash of counterfeiting materials from a Coney Island apartment.
Dixon and Lavelle were patrolling near Ceasar’s Bay Bazaar Shopping Center at 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 15 when they spotted two men inside a TD Bank vestibule, tampering with an ATM machine, tools in hand, metal shavings on the ground, attempting to remove ATM parts.