Police are investigating a possible scam after a group stood at a Kingstree intersection Thursday and collected about $4,000 for a New Orleans church they claim was flooded during Hurricane Katrina, Kingstree Police Maj Joseph Shaw said.
Four people who said they were from Louisiana stood at the intersection of Longstreet and Main streets Thursday with buckets and told motorists they were collecting money for the New Life Church of New Orleans, Shaw said.
“It was supposedly a church that went underwater with (Hurricane) Katrina, but we weren’t able to confirm that,” he said.
Kingstree investigators called New Orleans police to confirm the existence of the church but were unable to do so, Shaw said.
Police wrote the four people a citation for soliciting monies without a permit. They also confiscated the buckets used to collect the money and the money, Shaw said.
The incident remains under investigation, Shaw said.
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