{
  "id": 18281749,
  "title": "Judge rejects grandparent scammer's bid to back out of guilty plea, sends her to jail instead",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/judge-rejects-grandparent-scammers-bid-to-back-out-of-guilty-plea",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-05T01:37:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alana-duncan-fraud-plea-sentence-grandparent-scam-9.7410026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Calgary woman who admitted to stealing thousands of dollars from elderly victims was handed a 12-month jail sentence plus a year of probation after the judge refused to allow her to back out of her guilty plea.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}