May 2, 2007
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NEWS: Alaskan Teen Charged With FraudChristina 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.