Crime & Safety
Store Employee Photographed Customer's Card, Then Used It: Cops
A store employee in South Windsor is facing credit card theft charges, police said.
SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — A former employee of a South Windsor second-hand store is due in court on March 4 to answer a trio of charges related to first obtaining, then using, a customer's credit card numbers, police said.
Police on Feb. 20 arrested Kanasja McClendon, 18, of Hartford on a warrant.
In July, a customer had left a wallet in a changing room at Plato's Closet, according to a report. McClendon, an employee of Plato’s Closet at the time, is accused of taking pictures of a credit card inside the wallet and then racking up $260 in charges with it, according to a report,
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McClendon was released on a $10,000 cash/surety bond and was charged with sixth-degree larceny, the illegal theft of a credit card and the illegal use of a credit card, according to a report.
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