Police Duo used stolen credit cards24 October 2004
MOORESTOWN - Two men were charged Monday after they used stolen credit cards to go on a $5,000 shopping spree at the Moorestown and Cherry Hill malls and the East Gate Square shopping center, police said.
Michael William Jones, 24, of Paramus and Daniel Richard Scott, 23, of Goshen, N.Y., were taken into police custody after employees at the Lord and Taylor department store at the Moorestown Mall reported seeing them discard several credit cards while leaving the store, police said.
Responding officers found Jones and Scott in the mall parking lot at 9:17 p.m. They were both in possession of several credit cards issued to women, police said.
A vehicle belonging to one of the two men contained shopping bags with merchandise bought at the Moorestown and Cherry Hill malls and at East Gate Square, which has stores in Moorestown and Mount Laurel, police said. The credit cards found on Jones and Scott had been used to buy the merchandise, police said.
The total value of the items was estimated at $5,000, police said.
The owners of three of the credit cards were contacted, police said. All three reported that their credit cards had been stolen from their purses recently while they were at the Moorestown Mall, the Cherry Hill Mall and an unidentified Mount Laurel restaurant.
The three victims were identified as residents of Westampton, Philadelphia and Yardley, Pa.
Police said Jones originally gave officers a false name and identifying papers. Further investigation revealed that Jones was wanted for fraud and credit-card-related offenses in Wilmington, Del. He is also a fugitive wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service and the New York Division of Parole, police said.
Jones was charged with credit-card fraud, receiving stolen property, hindering arrest and being a fugitive. He was being held yesterday in Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly on $27,5000 bail.
Scott was charged with five counts of receiving stolen property. He was being held in the jail yesterday on $10,000 bail.
Source: phillyburbs.com
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