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May 2, 2007
NEWS: Alaskan Teen Charged With Fraud
Christina DeLavergne was an
eighteen-year-old clerk at a membership
warehouse store in Fairbanks, Alaska, when she
began stealing her customers’ credit cards.
DeLavergne worked at a Sam’s Club store, where
she began pocketing the filched plastic. The
state prosecutor’s office claims that DeLavergne
used the cards to buy food, clothing, and other
miscellaneous purchases. Store loss prevention
employees became aware of DeLavergne’s
suspicious activity, and notified management,
then police.
When the manager and police confronted
DeLavergne, she admitted to having pocketed the
cards of customers who accidentally left them
behind at her register. DeLavergne told police
how she made the purchases at the store’s café
register, so she would not have to enter her
identifying employee information into the
register. Additionally, a search of DeLavergne’s
clothing found three cards not belonging to her
among her possessions.
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