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Woman Accused of Using Outrageous Story to Panhandle in Dunwoody

Dunwoody Police say a woman was telling would-be donators her son was killed in a car accident, except they talked to him.

Dunwoody Police reported the arrest Monday of a 50-year-old woman near the Shops of Dunwoody for suspicion of panhandling and using a story that didn't pan out.

A concerned resident tipped police that the woman was soliciting money from people going in-and-out of the shops in Dunwoody Village on Chamblee Dunwoody Road.

Her pitch: that her 27-year-old child had been killed in a car accident recently and she needed money and help because of her tragic loss.

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The gig was soon up, say police. Officers called her son - supposedly deceased - who said he was doing alright.

This isn't the first run-in Dunwoody Police have had with the woman, police say. She was warned a few years ago by Dunwoody PD for begging and soliciting, they said.

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