Upper Cumberland Electric Issues Scam Alert Warning

January 17, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation is warning its members about an elaborate scam attempt that is targeting utility customers.  The scam starts with a person calling who states that if you don’t pay your bill immediately, your service will be disconnected.  If you do not pay immediately with your credit card or with a service called “Pay Pac,” they ask you to call “customer service” through another number.

When you hang up and call that number, it becomes a 3-way “conference” call which is routed to the actual customer service department of your utility.  While you’re on the phone with your utility company, the scammers are on the line, listening for any information you give, including your account number, credit card information, and even your bank account number.

Known numbers used in this scam: 

Caller ID: 765-357-0159

Call back: 855-303-7775

UCEMC reminds its members:

• Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation will never call members to request credit card, banking or other financial information over the telephone.
• Although all forms of payments are accepted, UCEMC will never call members demanding a specific payment method be used.
• UCEMC will never call members requesting payment outside of normal business hours.

If you have any doubts about who might be calling regarding your electric bill, contact UCEMC:

Corporate Office – 615-735-3208, or 800-261-2940.

January 17, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

The Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian Church is again sponsoring a drive thru mobile food pantry on Friday morning, January 25 rain or shine.

All previous drive thru mobile food pantries by the church have been on Saturdays but this one will be on a Friday.

In partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank, the church plans to prepare enough food boxes to serve up to 300 families regardless of their income status, on a first come, first served basis.

(VIEW VIDEO FROM THE LAST DRIVE THRU MOBILE FOOD PANTRY ON NOVEMBER 10)

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Families will receive enough food to last them for a full week. Second Harvest will bring in pallets of food on trucks. The food will then be off loaded and organized in preparation for the distribution.

Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. and the food will be delivered from 9:00 a.m. until noon. Unlike most food distributions, those being served by the mobile pantry will not have to get out of their automobiles. They will drive thru in a pickup line and volunteers will deliver the food directly to their vehicles, placing the food boxes either in the back seat or trunk. Cars will line up facing north on College Street across from the Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

“It’s a mobile food pantry but it’s also a drive thru. The recipients will stay in their cars. They will line up starting at 8:00 a.m. on College Street and when we have everything prepared and organized we’ll start the line moving, hopefully around 9:00 a.m. Recipients will drive through. As they enter in we’ll have a team there to put a box of food in their cars, either in their back seat or trunk,” said spokesperson Teresa Trapp Brown.

“We will line up right across from the church (Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian Church) on College Street. We’ll start registration at 8:00 a.m. We’ll need the name of the recipients and how many families are being served. We’re limited to two families per vehicle to make sure we have enough food,” added Isaac Gray, Minister of the Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Others who wish to volunteer may show up Friday, January 25 or call for more information at 615-464-7896 or 615-597-4197.

January 16, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

A 19 year old DeKalb County man wanted since October for allegedly stealing $80,000 worth of tennis bracelets in Franklin has been captured in Texas.

Jario Godinez was arrested at a Dallas home after Franklin police coordinated with Dallas authorities to make the arrest.

Franklin police said they tracked Godinez to a home in Dallas. Dallas police arrested him as he tried to flee out of the back door of a home on December 28. Police said several of the stolen tennis bracelets were found on him at the time of his arrest.

Godinez was extradited to Franklin and charged with felony theft. He is in the Williamson County Jail on $100,000 bond.

On October 26, Franklin Police began investigating an $80k snatch & grab theft from Grogan Jewelers, located inside the CoolSprings Galleria. Investigators quickly identified the suspect as Jario Godinez, who snatched about a dozen tennis bracelets out of the hands of a sales associate.

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