Crime & Safety
Police: Season Rife With Credit Card Crimes
The following arrest information was supplied by the state police at Fogelsville. It does not indicate a conviction.
Theft: Reported by a 12-year-old Lower Macungie boy at 5:15 p.m. Dec. 3; black and red Mongoose BMX bicycle taken from the baseball field in Church Lane Park along Church Lane, police said; no value given.
Theft/fraud and forgery: Reported Dec. 21 by Alan Wildonger, 66, of 5166 Briarwood Drive; someone opened a Home Depot and Dell credit card in his name and purchased unknown items at unknown cost, police said.
Theft: Reported by Rita E. Sisselberger, 48, of Center Valley; black patent leather wallet taken from shopping cart in 1091 Mill Creek Road; several credit cards and $200 were inside the wallet, police said.
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Access device fraud: Reported at 3 p.m. Dec. 5 by Jamie Hare, 50, of 2106 Wisteria Road; victim's credit card used by unknown person to make an online purchase, police said; no value given.
Identity theft: Reported at 1 p.m. Nov. 25 by a 52-year-old man at 5301 Hanover Drive; victim's credit card used by unknown person to attempt to make an online purchase.
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Charged: Dalton Miller of the 4000 block of Penn Street, Coplay, and Kevin McDermott of the 8400 block of Cliff Forest Street, Fogelsville; both at 10:56 p.m. Dec. 15 with retail theft at Walmart, 1091 Mill Creek Road; both charged with attempting to take $135 in Yugioh cards without paying, police said.
Theft: Reported by Barbara Egan Maake of the 900 block of Treeline Drive; six credit cards, a cell phone and a purse were taken from the residence between 8 p.m. Dec. 11 and 7 a.m. Dec. 12, police said.
