By Melissa Pinion-Whitt
Posted: 12/17/2009 12:18:59 PM PST
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Redlands police released a surveillance photo of a man who has... (Redlands Police Department)
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Two men posing as a building contractors have scammed several Redlands businesses out of money, claiming they were hired by building landlords to work on air vent systems.
Police said one of the men told employees at a business in the 1200 block of Alabama Street on Monday that he was working with the Fire Department and needed to check the air vent system.
He asked an employee for cash to pay for parts before he left the business.
Three State Street businesses told police they were also approached by men who said they were hired by the building's landlord to repair the store's vents.
An employee on East State Street gave the phony contractors more than $100.
A similar crime, involving someone who may have been driving a Jeep Liberty, was reported to the San Bernardino County sheriff's Yucaipa station.
One of the men is Latino, in his 50s and between 5-feet-10 and 6-feet-3 inches tall. He is stocky, has a mustache and slicked back black hair with some gray hair. He wore a short-sleeve button-down shirt and has faded tattoos on both firearms down to his wrists.
The second man is white, 6-feet-1 to 6-feet-3 inches tall and has a tattoo of a nude woman's upper torso on his left forearm. Both men carried leather daily planners.
Anyone with information may call Redlands police Officer Alex Paredes or Redlands dispatch, (909) 798-7681.
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