Credit card used before theft discovered

Published 4:22 pm Tuesday, May 16, 2017

THOMASVILLE — A Thomas County woman was not aware her credit card had been stolen until she received a phone alert during predawn hours Monday reporting possible fraudulent transactions on the bank card, according to authorities.

The woman, an Ochlocknee resident, went to her vehicle to retrieve her wallet. She found the passenger side door of her SUV unlocked and her wallet and $80 missing. The wallet contained the woman’s driver’s license, $100 and her checkbook.

A speaker and $150 were taken from two other vehicles parked at the residence.

The bank informed the woman her credit card had been used at five Thomasville businesses.

“They were hitting the stores that stay open 24 hours a day,” said Sgt. Pascal Autrey, Thomas County Sheriff’s Office investigator.

The victim contacted one of the stores and was told two men and a woman just left the business after using her card in the self-checkout lane.

“Two suspects are being sought. They were identified from interviews in the field and from surveillance footage,” Autrey said.

The suspects are a male and a female.

Also on Monday morning, deputies were dispatched to Lower Boston Road, where a woman said that sometime between 10 p.m. Sunday and 7:42 a.m. Monday someone entered her mini-van and left contents of the glove compartment on the vehicle floor. Ten $1 bills were reported missing.

Senior reporter Patti Dozier can be reached at (229) 226-2400, ext. 1820