Berwyn Police Blotter
Fraudulent credit card use after purse, wallets stolen from teachers during school day
January 30, 2008, 8:34 AM
Two teachers at Havlicek elementary school, 6401 15th, reported thefts to police. The first teacher said her purse was stolen between 1 and 3 PM the previous day. It contained a wallet with a debit card, two credit cards, car keys and about $300 cash. At 7:40 PM, the teacher told police her debit card had been used at grocery stores three times already: one charge was for $40, once for $196.52, and once for $241.84.
A second teacher said her wallet was stolen out of her purse; the wallet held three store credit cards, a MasterCard, a checkbook, etc. She was unaware of the theft until MasterCard’s fraud division phoned her to report suspicious activity on the card; someone used it to charge $179 worth of items at a Target store in Chicago.
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