(Forestville, MD) -- Maryland State Police have charged a Prince George’s County teenager with using a stolen debit card number to purchase items ranging from wigs to a night on the town, in an ongoing investigation that has turned up scores of credit cards and a computer with a magnetic reader and writer in the teen’s home.
The accused is identified as Rasheed A. Adedokun, 19, of the 5100-block of Upshur Drive, Bladensburg, Md. He is charged at this time with five counts of unlawful use of a payment device number and one count of theft over $500. He is currently being held in the Prince George’s County Detention Center on $250,000 bond.
The investigation began in mid-May 2009, when a woman contacted a trooper at the Forestville Barracks and said her debit card had been cancelled by her bank due to a high number of weekend transactions that were unusual for her. Her debit card number had been used at the emissions testing station, a restaurant, a beauty shop, a nightclub and a department store.
The road patrol trooper from the Forestville Barracks began in immediate investigation that led to witness and video identification of the accused as the individual using the victim’s debit card number during that weekend in May. The accused paid for a vehicle emissions test, bought two female wigs, obtained a meal at a popular restaurant, purchased a guitar, some underwear, and finished up with a $650 tab at a |
