May 15, 2007

NEWS: MA Waitress Stole Cards

Closely following the news of an underground credit card information theft scam among restaurant waiters in New York’s Chinatown comes the reports of a Braintree, Massachusetts waitress who stole at least three credit cards from her customers. Stephanie Fox, 21, of nearby Randolph, was working at Italian restaurant Bertucci’s when she was served with an arrest warrant on suspicion of having purposely filched customers’ cards in order to buy Boston Red Sox baseball game tickets, among other items.

At the time she was taken into custody, Fox was said to be holding the three cards in question, as well as four Red Sox game tickets, an undisclosed amount of concert tickets, as well as gift cards that had been bought with the cards. Local police say that they picked out Fox as a likely suspect after having discovered that she was working during all the shifts when the victims were able to identify that their cards had gone missing. The managers of that particular Bertucci’s location identified Fox on surveillance camera from a department store, as well as a pharmacy, where she was making purchases using the cards. One of the three victims reports that Fox had charged $1,400 worth of Ticketmaster purchased to their missing card, as well as purchases at CVS and Abercrombie & Fitch. Other victims allege that she used the stolen card to shop at stores in and around Braintree. The now-former waitress is staring down charges of forgery, uttering, larceny and receiving stolen property


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