Nashua CVS Worker Stole 20 Customers' Identities: Police

NASHUA, NH — A Nashua CVS worker was arrested this week on charges he stole the credit card information of 20 customers and went on an online shopping spree, police said. Bounhange Tang, 22, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was charged with 20 counts of felony identity fraud and held on $50,000 bail. (Subscribe to Nashua Patch news alerts for breaking Nashua news. iPhone/iPad users: download the new Patch app.)

Nashua police Lieutenant Craig Allard said Tang was a pharmacy technician working the CVS drive-thru on the Daniel Webster Highway. He used his phone to take pictures of customers' credit card information, Allard said. Tang was arrested Tuesday.

Tang is a student at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Allard said Nashua detectives launched an investigation after university police tipped them off to Tang's actions.

"Detectives then discovered that from June of 2016 to December of 2016, while Tang was assisting customers at the CVS Pharmacy drive through window, Tang would obtain (customers') credit card information by taking a picture of the front and back of the ... credit card with his cell phone," Allard said in a statement. "Tang would then obtain the customers address from the CVS computer and then use this information to purchase items online and resell them."

CVS said Tang left CVS in mid-March.

"We will conduct a full internal investigation into this matter," CVS said in a statement. "His alleged activities do not reflect the values and the commitment to customer service of our store colleagues. We apologize to customers affected by this, and we will conduct the appropriate follow up with them when the authorities share their information with us."

Photo: Bounhange Tang. (Credit: Nashua Police Department)