A credit card fraud report prompted the dispatch of an officer to a location on January 27, at around 6:06 p.m., according to an incident report from the Douglas Police Department.
During an interview with the police, a woman revealed that on January 26, somewhere between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m., an unknown person had used her Walmart ONE debit card at two distinct Douglas locations. According to the officer’s account, the first transactions happened at Alley Cat for $53.34 and Smoe Cave for $6.43.
The card was used at Dollar General for a total of $77.93 two days later, on January 27, at about 10:50 a.m., the report states. The woman told the police that she had not personally used her card since January 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Krystal’s. She claimed to have misplaced her card since that purchase.
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According to the article, the woman was given access to security footage by Dollar General staff, which showed an unidentified male using her debit card inside the store.
The officer claimed to have spoken with the manager of the business, who had looked through the cameras and seen a black man using the woman’s card to make a transaction at the same moment. The manager remembered that the man had tried to buy a carton of Newport cigarettes, but the transaction was denied since there wasn’t enough money. She claimed to have canceled the purchase and authorized the man’s eight cigarette packets after scanning them.
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The proprietor of the store introduced herself to the police as Larry James Thomas, a 49-year-old Douglas resident, and said she knew the man.
After watching the security footage, the officer claimed to have seen Thomas enter the business, go up to the register, and make a purchase with a card rather than cash. He promised to get the video and to get in touch with Alley Cat and Smoke Cave to get the footage.
Consequently, court records state that Thomas was taken into custody on February 23 on a single charge of financial transaction card fraud. Additionally, the paperwork disclosed that as of Tuesday morning, Thomas was still being held in custody despite having been granted a $5,500 bond.
