Last week, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office spoke to a man who pretended to be religious to find housing, took a report for two men who fell victim to a passport scam and responded to reports of illegal camping.

The following incidents occurred between Monday, June 1, and Sunday, June 7.

Posts on a Summit County Facebook group caused enough concern for one user that they requested a welfare check June 1 on the man who posted them. The posts discussed returning to heaven, and the poster’s profile had posts about his favorite guns. A deputy got into contact with the man, who lives out of state but wants to move to Summit County. He told the deputy that he made the posts about heaven because he thought it might be easier to find housing if people thought he was religious. He confirmed that he owns guns and posts about them but said that is because he likes guns. The man assured the deputy that he was OK and had no intention of harming himself or others.

Two men living in unincorporated Breckenridge tried to renew their Mexican passports by contacting someone on Facebook who was advertising passport assistance. They sent basic information and images of personal documents, along with their photographs, and received back a photo of new passports and a link to pay for them. Once they sent the money, they never heard from the scammer again. A deputy took a report June 2, and the men are working with their bank to see if they can get their $300 back.

While on routine patrol June 2, a deputy saw a car with its rear license plate bent in half, making it unreadable from behind. The vehicle was unoccupied in a Dillon Valley parking lot, and nobody was nearby. The deputy ran the vehicle through a crime database and found it had been reported stolen from Aurora. They had the vehicle towed, took a report and notified the rightful owner that their car had been found.

A national bank called the Sheriff’s Office on June 3 because one of its customers in the county had sent several large wire transfers to another country, and the bank suspected it could be related to fraud. Deputies spoke to the customer, who said he was sending the money to get out of a timeshare, believed the company was legitimate and had sent around $100,000 total. The deputies’ preliminary investigation indicated the situation was a scam, so they advised the man not to send any more money, which he had planned to do. The investigation is ongoing.

Deputies investigated a report June 5 from a Wildernest resident who said someone had tampered with his children’s bikes while they were left unattended in the house’s open garage. The man suspected other kids in the neighborhood were responsible, but deputies could not find any proof that the suspected kids did anything to the bikes. Deputies concluded that the man blaming the kids was likely about an ongoing dispute between the two families.

The campground host at the Pine Cove Campground on the Frisco Peninsula reported people camping June 6 without permits just outside the campground’s boundaries. A deputy found the campers and told them they were camping illegally, and they packed up and moved without incident.

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Canoers on the Dillon Reservoir called for help June 6 because they were struggling against strong winds to make it back to shore. A ranger took a boat to their location and gave them a courtesy ride to the marina. They reported no injuries.

Also June 6, a neighbor notified a second-home owner that there were two people camping just outside the boundary of his property on U.S. Forest Service land. The campers would have had to cross through private property to get to the Forest Service land, and the homeowner told deputies this was the second time this had happened. The homeowner requested the campers be trespassed and cited. A deputy found the campers, reviewed the situation and issued a warning. The campers agreed to leave, and the homeowner was satisfied with the outcome.

When a couple driving near Georgia Pass in the early hours of June 7 got stuck, they found they had no cell service and had to walk until they found a connection to call for help. A deputy responded and gave them a courtesy ride home, and the couple planned to retrieve their car the next day.