Two suspected shoplifters had been arrested at a Costco location Sunday after allegedly making an attempt to make use of fraudulent bank cards to steal merchandise, authorities stated.
The incident occurred round 3 p.m. in South Windsor, Connecticut, the South Windsor Police Division (SWPD) stated Monday.
Police stated the pair are suspected serial Costco shoplifters and recognized them as 35-year-old Brittany A. Howard of the Bronx, New York, and 34-year-old Kasheem M. Williams of Brooklyn.
“Officers responded to Costco (1220 Tamarack Ave) for experiences of two shoplifters actively stealing from the shop and making an attempt to pay on the self-checkout with fraudulent bank cards,” SWPD stated.
In response to authorities, retailer workers had been warned that the identical suspects had allegedly tried an analogous scheme at a Costco location in Enfield, roughly a 30-minute drive north.
Responding officers later found 28 stolen monetary paperwork, all below totally different names, contained in the suspects’ car, together with items believed to have been stolen from the opposite Costco location, police stated.
After the suspects had been taken into custody, authorities stated each people had been discovered to have energetic out-of-state warrants.
Williams had an extraditable warrant out of Suffolk County, New York, on a number of prices together with housebreaking, strangulation and assault.
Howard was discovered to have an extraditable warrant out of Hudson County, New Jersey, on bank card theft prices.
Each suspects now face extra prices, together with 28 counts of fee card theft, larceny, identification theft and conspiracy.
Police stated the pair had been held on $250,000 surety bonds and had been scheduled to seem in Manchester Superior Court docket Monday morning.
