More Credit Card Shenanigans at the New Lenox Walmart: Cops

The cops nabbed another crew of credit card crooks at the New Lenox Walmart, police said.

This time, the police say they caught a man and two women with more than 20 bad credit cards following a failed bid to bilk the East Lincoln Highway superstore out of merchandise and gift cards.

An officer was sent to the Walmart shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday to look into a complaint of a customer “fraudulently using a credit card,” police said.

The customer and another woman had reportedly left the store by the time the cops got there but were tracked down and pulled over by the intersection of Route 30 and Veterans Parkway. A man who was driving the two women, 23-year-old Steven Wilson of Chicago, did not have a valid license and wasn’t using his headlights, police said.

Wilson and his two passengers—Talia Anderson, 21, of Carbondale and Denitria Freeling, 20 of Berwyn—all were taken into custody and charged with credit card fraud. Anderson and Freeling were also charged with burglary.

A Walmart employee told the cops “Anderson and Freeling attempted to purchase merchandise and gift cards using credit cards that were declined,” police said. “The officers discovered that they were in possession of over 20 credit cards that had been re-encoded.”

Wilson, Anderson and Freeling were all taken to the Will County jail.

Just a day earlier, a Chicago woman trying to score gift cards from the New Lenox Walmart was caught with more than 100 re-encoded credit cards, police said. And five days before that, three Chicago women were arrested at the same Walmart when they were allegedly found to be in possession of more than 100 counterfeit credit cards.

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