An Upper Arlington couple was scammed out of at least $450 after being tricked by a telephone scam in which the callers said their granddaughter had been in a car crash.

The couple, who live on Southway Drive, reported receiving a call at 1:45 p.m. Feb. 14 from a woman who claimed to be their granddaughter. She told them she was just involved in an accident, and then turned the phone over to a man who said he was a public defender and the couple's granddaughter would need $4,000 in Walmart gift cards in order to get out of trouble.

The residents also were told that after they purchased the gift cards, they needed to call a man named "Jim McGill" and read the card numbers to him.

Sometime after the couple complied, the man called his granddaughter, who said she hadn't been involved in an accident and they likely had been scammed.

The couple called Walmart and was able to cancel the cards, but not before $450 had been used on them.

In other police reports:

* Phillip L. Preece, 22, of Russells Point, Ohio, was charged with felony possession of heroin and felony possession of drugs after he allegedly overdosed on heroin at a residence in the 4800 block of Nugent Drive. According to a police report, he was found at 2:10 a.m. Feb. 20 with heroin and Xanax. He was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.

* Three credit cards, $35 in cash and "other property," no value provided, were reported stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked in the 1800 block of Riverside Drive between 4:15 and 5:50 a.m. Feb. 17.

* A woman in the 4100 block of Greensview Drive reported someone tried to withdraw $20,000 from her savings account between 4:30 p.m. Feb. 15 and 11:30 a.m. Feb. 16.

During the same period, she said, someone made a $1 transaction in Elmhurst, New York, using her account and three other $1 transactions were made in New York and Connecticut using her husband's account.

* Loose change totaling approximately $8 was stolen from a vehicle parked in the 1800 block of Roxbury Road. Neither the time nor date of the incident was provided, but the report indicated a window was broken out to gain entry, causing $500 in damage.