(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Perkins man has admitted to possessing a stolen credit card that was reportedly taken two days before Christmas from a wallet in the front seat of a woman’s unlocked vehicle in Perkins.
Sentencing was stayed by District Judge Phillip Corley until March 13, 2015, for Shannon Dean Alexander, 23, who pleaded guilty last week, Payne County Court Clerk Lori Allen said.
On the same day that the Perkins woman’s credit card was stolen, it was used four times at Ampride, once for $2.92, twice for $1 and once for $20, Perkins Deputy Police Chief Steve Hensley wrote in an affidavit.
The stolen credit card was also used at Williams Grocery Store for $7.18 that day for cigarettes and an energy drink, the affidavit said.
That night, Perkins Police Officer George Hannon emailed the off-duty deputy police chief that he had taken a credit card from Alexander which he believed could be the stolen one, the affidavit said.
“Officer Hannon also says Alexander told him his girlfriend gave him the card and Alexander admitted to him he did make purchases with this card at Williams Grocery store,” the affidavit said.
The officer was initially unable to identify the suspect on the store’s surveillance video, but later “I advised Lt. Galt that this subject looks similar to Shannon Alexander whom I just met during an assault and battery investigation,” the affidavit said.
“I told Shannon that there have been some thefts from vehicles in town recently. I told Shannon that I have a video of a person fitting his description using a stolen credit card at Williams Food Store,” the affidavit said.
Alexander told the officer “I’m not guilty of stealing a credit card,” but said he had used a girlfriend’s card, the affidavit said.
“Lt. Galt told Shannon that he was in possession of a stolen credit card and used it at Williams. Lt. Galt asked Shannon where the credit card was now.
“Shannon said ‘I don’t know – I can check my wallet,” the affidavit said.
When the defendant started pulling cards from his wallet, once was a debit card with the Perkins woman’s name on it, the affidavit said.
The defendant claimed he had gotten it out of his girlfriend’s wallet, the affidavit said.
But when the officer spoke to the defendant’s girlfriend, she produced a card with her own name on it, the affidavit said.
Asked if the defendant had access to her wallet, the girlfriend said, “No, I have to hide my wallet in a bedroom so he won’t steal from me,” the affidavit said.
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