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Woman charged with fraud after stolen credit used to make 186 purchases

Espanola police have charged a woman after someone used the tap feature of a credit card to ring up more than $5,000 in purchases.  Police say the 24-year-old is charged with fraud and possession of property obtained by crime.  Police say a man’s wallet was stolen from his home while he was a client at a care facility in Gore Bay.  The tap feature was used 186 times.  Police identified the accused using surveillance cameras at one of the shops where the credit card was used.

 

Rocco Frangione
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.

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