Five people are suspected of being responsible for thousands of dollars in losses due to the theft of credit card numbers and the use of counterfeit credit cards in Bay County and, possibly, the entire Panhandle, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.
While investigating the theft and fraudulent use of a credit card by a victim in Bay County, BCSO investigators developed information that a group of suspects were involved. The suspects, three men and two women, are believed to have conducted numerous transactions in mid-March using counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen numbers.
The group has been captured on security cameras in businesses using the fraudulent cards. Anyone with information on these suspects is asked to contact Investigator Craig Romans by telephone at (850) 248-2075 or email at craig.romans@bayso.org or Crime Stoppers at 785-TIPS.