The man who turned up to collect $700,000 (£522,000) in gold from a 79-year-old Michigan widow left in handcuffs. The box he was handed held foil-wrapped chocolate coins, not bullion.
His arrest, caught on footage released on Wednesday by the Kent County Sheriff's Office, closed out a gold coin scam that nearly wiped out the widow's life savings. The video shows undercover detectives converging on the courier in a strip mall car park near Rockford, moments after he took the decoy package from an officer posing as the victim.
