Who are these alleged credit-card stealin’ shoppers?
published 3:19pm Thursday Jul 19, 2007
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Albemarle police are asking for help in identifying happy shoppers believed to be involved in a series of break-ins in the Mill Creek area. These photos came from a security camera at Wal-Mart in Mechanicsville June 4.
Although hard to tell from the grainy security videos, the suspects above are described as a heavyset, black female (in the yellow shirt), a black male, and a white male. And they allegedly followed this haul with a shopping spree at a Richmond Wal-Mart.
Over the evening of June 3-4, six cars were broken into in the Mill Creek/Reynovia area. A Mill Creek residence was burgled May 30. “I believe they’re related,” says Detective Sean Reeves.
The credit card from the daylight residential break-in May 30 was used at a Cherry Avenue gas station, then the perps feasted at McDonalds before heading over to Staunton. There, they shopped at A&N and Kroger.
Police are asking anyone with information about these individuals to contact Detectives Reeves or E. Espinoza at 296-5807, or Crimestoppers at 977-4000.
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A credit card is a system of payment named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. A credit card is different from a debit card in that it does not remove money from the user’s account after every transaction. In the case of credit cards, the issuer lends money to the consumer (or the user). It is also different from a charge card (though this name is sometimes used by the public to describe credit cards), which requires the balance to be paid in full each month. In contrast, a credit card allows the consumer to ‘revolve’ their balance, at the cost of having interest charged. Most credit cards are the same shape and size, as specified by the ISO 7810 standard. http://usacreditcards.cn/