Paso Robles police have three in custody for alleged credit card fraud.
On Monday, officers received a call from Citibank employees around 4:30 p.m. regarding possible fraudulent transactions using stolen credit cards. The Citibank is located on the 1600 block of Spring St. Citibank Employees told officers they had previously been alerted by other bank branches in Atascadero, San Luis Obispo and Grover Beach that there was a group of suspects traveling northward using fraudulent cards at banks to withdraw cash from unsuspecting victim’s accounts.
Reginald Kent Wilder
PRPD officers were able to locate the suspects’ vehicle near the bank and pulled the vehicle over to investigate the fraud claims. Officers searched the vehicle and found 46 different credit cards, more than $7,000 in cash and drug paraphernalia. They determined all the credit cards were fraudulent and that the numbers were altered.
Each card had stolen users’ account information stored in the cards’ magnetic strips. Police arrested Danielle Lynn Williams, 34, of Long Beach for felony theft of credit card information, felony fraudulent use of a credit card, felony grand theft, felony commercial burglary and felony conspiracy to commit a crime.
Danielle Lynn Williams
Also arrested was Alan Keith Dixson, 47, and Reginald Kent Wilder, 53, both from Los Angeles. They were also arrested for the same charges as Williams .
Dixson, Williams and Wilder were transported and booked into San Luis Obispo County Jail.
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