COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Imagine being able to stop a crime before it happens. Well, that’s exactly what happened for one local man.

Courtland Dixon runs a transport service for elderly and medically disabled people in the Chattahoochee Valley.

Dixon says a recurring rider scheduled a transport to the bank without knowing the rider was in the progress of a financial phone scam.

“I arrived to pick up Mr. Holifield, and I noticed he was on the phone,” Dixon explained. “I didn’t think anything of it, so I took him to the bank. When he came out of the bank that’s when the antennas kind of started to rise because he had a lump sum of cash.”

Dixon said the man withdrew $10,000 in cash.

This is when Dixon asked if the man was making a purchase. The man’s response — he was paying a bill.

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