Annandale VA: Police investigating solicitors in Annandale community

As a result of several complaints from residents of the Ravensworth-Bristow community in Annandale about door-to-door solicitors, officers from the West Springfield Police District have issued warnings to several unlicensed solicitors and told to leave them the neighborhood.

Those solicitors are associated with these companies: Power Home Remodeling (based in Chester, Pa.),?
E Enterprises Inc. (Lutherville, Md.), the Smart Circle International LLC (Plano, Texas), Fast Trak Management (Falls Church, VA).

When one resident asked to see a solicitor?s license when someone from Power Home Remodeling knocked on this door, the man ignored him and went to the house next door. The resident thought the solicitors might be connected with a series of day-time burglaries that have plagued the neighborhood.

He later learned that Power Home Remodeling sends dozens of young adults with criminal records and outstanding warrants into a? neighborhood and that the Fairfax County Police Department is investigating the company. Another resident was alerted by her dog that there might have been a solicitor lurking in her backyard and she was concerned that he was could have been casing the house for a burglary.

If salespeople or home improvement representatives come to your door, the police suggests asking to see a solicitor?s license. If they don?t have one, or you see suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the police non-emergency number, 703/691-2131.

In addition to the possibility of break-ins, there are plenty of unscrupulous people out there trying to con the elderly into overpriced yard work or home improvements. The police refer to those scammers as ?woodchucks,?? and the Mason Police commander, Capt. Carol Wilhite, has made cracking down on them one of her top priorities.

Source: http://annandaleva.blogspot.com/2013/05/police-investigating-solicitors-in.html

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