I caught a crook who is currently doing time in a Federal prison.

We were on a cruise and when we got home our Discover bill was in the
mail. There were charges in Arlington, TX that were incurred when we
were on the water.

We called the card company and they said there were more charges, which
I got off the internet. The perp was still using the card in Arlington
at a Holiday Inn. He'd also used it in convenience stores so I was sure
he was on a security camera.

Card was cancelled and we weren't charged, but I was ****ed. I called
the Arlington police but because I didn't live there, they brushed me off.

I called the Holiday Inn. Told the gal at the desk that they were not
going to get paid and she'd better call the police. She told me the guy
had 3 rooms and claimed his house burned down so he needed the rooms for
his stuff.

Police came and they deactivated his room keys. He came to the desk and
they nabbed him.

He was running a scam. Had computers, printers all sorts of toys. He
would get cheap gift cards and make paper copies of credit cards and
paste them on. They didn't scan so all the entries were keyed in at POS.

They found that he had bags of US mail that his lackies had stolen for
him and a little pot as well, but the stolen mail landed him in Federal
prison with no parole.

We learned that he had gotten our credit card number from the security
guard at another motel in Arlington where we had stayed 6 months earlier.

This turned out to be a big ring of thieves that I had busted.

I did get a phone call from the Arlington Police Department with a very
humble apology.

No body messes with me and gets away with it!


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From somewhere very deep in the heart of Texas