Johnette Cruz joins to discuss grocery store note scam spreading across central Indiana
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | After the winter we've had, you've earned this. |
| 0:03.0 | Everything is 20% off at Sullivan's this weekend. |
| 0:06.2 | And I mean everything. |
| 0:07.4 | Patio, grills, lawn and garden, all 20% off. |
| 0:10.6 | So get a head start on spring this weekend only at Sullivan Hardware and Garden. |
| 0:15.1 | Joining us in the studio right now, we have WIBC's Jonnet Cruise from the newsroom. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey, good morning. Good morning. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm glad you could spend some time with us. You put out an article yesterday and a partnering video that absolutely blew up. So I think we need to talk about this. This is in regards to a grocery |
| 0:36.3 | store note scam that's going on in central |
| 0:39.9 | Indiana. So what people are walking up to strangers with handwritten notes saying that they're, |
| 0:46.1 | they need help because they're trying to buy groceries for people in need. Yeah. So the notes are |
| 0:52.1 | actually, they come in a variety of different ways. So it could |
| 0:55.6 | be someone saying that they've lost their job. And so they're looking just to buy a couple of things |
| 1:00.9 | for groceries or, you know, I'm a single mom or I'm pregnant and I need formula, just a whole bunch of |
| 1:07.8 | different things. And what we're finding out is once I put this story together and it was just because it was a lot of hearsay. And I had people share some of their stories with me, didn't really want to go on the record. So I was like, okay, I'll tell the story. And then lo and behold, we find out that this is literally happening like at just about any grocery store in central Indiana because it's happening in so many |
| 1:28.8 | different places. And it seems as though there is a specific woman that people have pointed |
| 1:34.0 | out that has done this in multiple areas. And it seems as though that person may be traveling |
| 1:40.0 | to different grocery stores doing the same type of scam. Okay. so this isn't just one specific grocery store or specific neighborhood. |
| 1:48.1 | From what I'm hearing, it is everywhere. |
| 1:49.9 | It is in Greenwood. |
| 1:50.8 | It is in Avon, Carmel, Noblesville, Fischer, all over the place. |
| 1:54.8 | And in Kroger, or Kroger, Aldi, Meyer, everywhere, Target. |
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