(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Perkins teenager has been charged with using a debit card that had been stolen at a Stillwater gym and burglarizing a shed on Main Street in Perkins, both in December.
Rayne William Hinkle, 18, was arraigned this week on the felony charges and allowed to remain free on a personal recognizance bond pending a Feb. 18 court appearance with an attorney.
A Stillwater woman reported on Dec. 15 that her son’s debit card had been stolen in Stillwater and used at four locations in Perkins, but she did not have the debit card number and times of the transactions, Perkins Police Lt. Jason Galt wrote in an affidavit.
The following day, the Perkins lieutenant received information regarding the card number and times of its usage, the affidavit said.
The card was used at 4:36 p.m. at Ampride Convenience store, 4:50 p.m. at Williams Foods, 6:31 at Williams Foods and 8:51 p.m. at OnCue convenience store, all on Dec. 6 in Perkins, the affidavit said.
“Additionally the card was attempted to be used at New China Restaurant in Stillwater on Dec. 10, 2014, at 7:44 p.m.,” the affidavit alleged.
When the Perkins lieutenant received video from OnCue, he immediately recognized the suspect as Hinkle, the affidavit alleged.
“The Williams Foods surveillance shows the same subject, Rayne Hinkle, making two different purchases with the card at two different times,” the affidavit alleged.
With Stillwater Police Detective Lt. Kyle Bruce, Hinkle was interviewed at the Perkins Police Department two days before Christmas, the affidavit said.
“Mr. Hinkle admitted that he used the card at the OnCue, Williams Foods (twice) and at the Ampride to buy fuel,” the affidavit alleged.
“Mr. Hinkle admitted to taking the credit card from an unknown person at Gym One in Stillwater,” from an unattended wallet on a bench inside the locker room, the affidavit alleged.
“He did not know the person he had taken the card from,” the affidavit alleged.
Six days after the stolen debit card was used, Perkins Police Officer George Hannon took a report from a woman who said a red Craftsman tool box was taken from a shed on her property, the affidavit said.
When Hinkle was interviewed by the Perkins lieutenant on Dec. 23, Hinkle said he took the tools and the tool box and sold them to Best Pawn in Stillwater for $40, the affidavit alleged.
The owner of Best Pawn in Stillwater told Officer Hannon in a Dec. 26 interview that he personally knew the Hinkle family, the affidavit said. He said he does not normally buy large items because of a lack of space in his store, the affidavit said.
“Because he knew Rayne, he decided to help him out and purchase the tool box from him personally and not as a business operator,” the pawn shop owner told the officer, the affidavit alleged.
The pawn shop owner said that there were no tools in the tool box, which he said he bought for about $40, the affidavit alleged.
He said “he later traded the tool box to a person in exchange for his truck to be detailed,” the affidavit alleged.
The pawn shop owner was able to retrieve the tool box, which he gave to Officer Hannon, the affidavit alleged.
The Perkins woman who had reported the theft identified the tool box as hers, the affidavit alleged.
If convicted of using a stolen debit card on Dec. 6 and burglarizing a Perkins shed on Dec. 12, Hinkle could be imprisoned for 10 years and fined $3,000, according to the charges filed by prosecutor Mike Kulling.
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