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Credit Card Fraud

Friday, May 10, 2013

Police: Ice Rink Credit Card Thief Could Have More Victims

Barry Fig has been charged in Fairfax County and Montgomery County, Md.

Arlington County police say a man charged with credit card theft in Fairfax County and Montgomery County, Md., may have more victims in Arlington and are asking them to come forward. Barry Jason Fig was charged with five counts of felony credit card theft in March, according to Arlington police. The thefts occurred at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Ballston. Fig allegedly would enter unattended locker rooms and steal items from various equipment bags left there by recreational hockey players, according to police. He would then use them at retail stores, authorities say. Upon his arrest, police found several credit cards in Fig's possession that didn't belong to him — many belonged to victims from Kettler and other area ice rinks, …

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

You Had Mail!

Police: Arlington man victim of credit card fraud, burglary within same week.

Someone stole an Arlington man's credit card, used it to order items online, had them delivered to the man's house — and then burglarized the house to retrieve those items, according to the Arlington County Police Department. The man told police he knew he last had the credit card in his possession on May 14. Three days later, the man received "numerous" packages in the mail at his residence in the 3000 block of North Lee Highway, according to information police released Monday. The items — "a whole bunch of women's shoes and purses" — were ordered with the stolen card, police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said. The order consisted of various brands of purses and shoes, Sternbeck said. All of the shoes were the same size, he said. Shortly …

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