With the coronavirus leading to shortages of some supplies, Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor says he is receiving more cases of price gouging.

State Attorney General Josh Shapiro said on Twitter Sunday his office has fielded “a whopping 614 reports of price gouging.”

On Saturday, he said his office had received 373 complaints and has filed 24 cease-and-desist letters to get them to stop. His office has received more than 200 complaints in one day.

The attorney general’s office has set up a special e-mail address so Pennsylvanians can alert authorities to price gouging: pricegouging@attorneygeneral.gov.

“We’re working hard to investigate every lead you send us,” Shapiro said on Twitter. “So keep them coming.”

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Shapiro asked those filing complaints to include the name of the product, the price and the store location.

We’ve received a whopping 614 reports of price gouging -- and my Office is in the process of looking into every single one of them.



When emailing your report to pricegouging@attorneygeneral.gov include details like:



✅ product name

✅ product price

✅ store location — AG Josh Shapiro (@PAAttorneyGen) March 15, 2020

When Gov. Tom Wolf issued a disaster declaration to deal with the coronavirus, he put in place protections designed to guard against price gouging.

Under rules governing a disaster emergency in Pennsylvania, companies and vendors are barred from charging a price for goods or services that exceeds 20 percent of the average price for those same items or services in the 7 days preceding the date of declaration, state officials said.

Shapiro has urged consumers to contact his office if they see the price of basic goods and services rise dramatically.

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