Victims were women shopping in grocery stores, police said By Dan Schere |
February 5, 2021 | 3:34 pm
Montgomery County police have charged a man with stealing multiple credits from people throughout Montgomery County last year and using them to make fraudulent purchases.
Matthew John Bell, 37, of Olney, was charged on Jan. 27 with taking credit cards from six women between April and December. In all six cases, the women were shopping in grocery stores when their wallets were stolen.
Police said in a press release that Bell’s thefts included:
On April 23, someone stole a wallet from a woman’s purse while she shopped in a grocery store on New Hampshire Avenue in the Colesville area. The thief bought about $800 worth of prepaid Visa cards using the stolen credit cards.