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Suspect in Porter fraud nabbed by Chicago Police

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The Porter Police Department is expressing its gratitude to the Chicago PD after CPD officers apprehended a fraudster in their jurisdiction on Thursday who’s accused of victimizing a local business.

On Wednesday, the PPD said, Tilden Enterprises reported that a man purportedly “re-opening” a restaurant on 95th Ave. in Chicago had used fraudulent credit cards to purchase equipment and supplies which had already been delivered, late in November, to the back door of that restaurant.

“At this time,” the PPD noted, “a substantial loss, in the thousands, is involved.”

Because the suspect is believed to have been using both a false identity and a disposable cell phone, PPD Det. John Lane feared it would be “difficult,” to say the least, in actually identifying him.

As luck would have it, however, Tilden Enterprises was scheduled to make another delivery to 95th Street on Thursday. In advance of that transaction, Lane contacted his counterparts in the Chicago PD, which arranged for officers to be on the scene to intercept the suspect, who was subsequently identified by a Tilden Enterprises employee as the man who’d made the fraudulent purchases.

The suspect was then taken into custody by the CPD “as he attempted to leave the area and blend in at a CTA bus stop,” the PPD said.

Turns out, the restaurant on 95th Street is not in the process of re-opening at all. Instead, “the supplies were apparently being loaded into a vehicle after the deliveries were accepted” and taken to a different location.

The Porter County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is expected to formally charge the man next week and his name will be released at that time, the PPD said.

“Without the efforts of Tilden Enterprises and the cooperation of the Chicago Police, the true identity of the perpetrator would not likely have been available and prosecution not possible,” the PPD noted.

“All persons are reminded to check their monthly credit card statements when they arrive in the mail (or more frequently, on line) to verify their charges, as credit card fraud is very common,” the PPD added.

 

 

Posted 12/18/2015

 
 
 
 

 

 

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