A Brooklyn man with 39 fake credit cards worth $500,000 was stopped by Alabama police after he rang up just $9,000 in fraudulent purchases, police allege.
Edward Earl Jones, 30, is being held on $620,000 bond at the Jefferson County Jail after being charged Tuesday with five counts of identity theft along with credit card fraud, trafficking in stolen identities and theft of property, AL.com reported.
“This is the new bank robbery,” Gardendale police Det. Chris Clark said.
Jones, who booked a three-day trip from New York to Birmingham on Saturday, had a collection of credit and debit cards from accounts stolen from Regions Bank customers in Alabama.
Edward Earl Jones, who booked a three-day trip from New York to Birmingham on Saturday, had a collection of credit and debit cards from accounts stolen from Regions Bank customers in Alabama. Gardendale Police Edward Earl Jones, who booked a three-day trip from New York to Birmingham on Saturday, had a collection of credit and debit cards from accounts stolen from Regions Bank customers in Alabama.
“He had the ability to make over a half million dollars,” Clark said. “It just got stopped before he could get that far.”
Jones started swiping the fake cards Sunday, moving from one big-box Target store to the next, the North Jefferson News reported. He began with purchasing $3,000 in gift cards from the Target in Fultondale, Ala., police said. Less than an hour later, Jones bought $6,000 more in gift cards at the Target in Homewood.
That’s when Regions spotted the potentially fraudulent charges and called police, AL.com said.
Gardendale police alerted Target’s Inverness location, which denied Jones’ purchases. Officers caught Jones at the Target in Hoover, where police uncovered the full extent of the Brooklyn man’s alleged scheme.
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I gotta laugh at this one cause he don’t even look like he can read too good…with 39 credit cards?? :ngakak
Yep! leave the people dem retarded man child alone!
Please don’t let this negro be Jamaican, amen.
PP, who did he think he was and where exactly was he going with 39 credit cards looking like a homo thug ass criminal???…WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE??!! :hammer
SCRAPE UP EVERY MUMA BLOODCLAAT WAN A DEM …SED SPEED NO PHUCK’N DELAY ND WHERE DIS CRUFF GOING WID NOT EVEN THREE BUT 39 CARDS…NOT EVEN MI WALK WID DE POOR LIL WAN MI GOT….PHUCK’N THEFT DEM KMDT
it bun mi man tiad a dem nd is like a poor phuck’n Jamaicans dem a scrape up like really now
Am praying this fool ain’t jcan… :hope
As if we need one more strike against us..Lord see us thru :hoax2
pure* mi mean dem too disgusting now man honey..greedy dawg choke puppy kmft
Same suh Simply, krape up every last one ah dem one be one. Zero tolerance fi all scammers and teefs. Den unno see how how him face fava when dawg hav yaws…..
Laws Jess’s! Can (some) black folks just stop the f*uckery already? No man. This is too much now. How the ras u gon buy 3 gran worth of gift card without being suspicious?
Another dumb greedy ninja. :hoax2
Oonuh have pity on this one please…from the looks of him, fi him elevator nuh guh all the way to the top floor.
Bring all a dem down..one by one, two by two,…. five by five, hmm,mm.
Jesus if you are not busy come here, I pay for a credit watch program through Transunion, Yeap. I am one of those folks who watch my credit like Hawk. It is sad but if you can pay for a credit watch program do it. SMH These damn people.
Dam disgusting
39 credit card? What ah piece ah swiping him pudding. Lol him swear him set fi di Christmas
Dat eediat bwoy did really ah beg fi dem lock him up. Smady cah really chupid suh :bingung
Sell him a come back a new york come sell them fi half price unu. Why unu no leave pple credit alone.
This is common now and they all believe if they go to a small hick town they will get over.
Whats more interesting to me is the investigators that made a fake page at the bottom of this article to get drug secrets from a woman’s friends and family…..Social Media!
Funny thing that sites like IG some people have thousands of followers that they have no idea who the people that follow them are….funny thing!
hayyyyyyyyyyy so mi nuh know whey dem badda private dem page fah and dem doe know who a follow dem :travel
Whey yu say Met! FREE UP DE INSTAGRAM PAGE! Cause who nu fi de de already lock in when it went private! :sundulgans
Is like securing the hen house wid de fox lock inside wid the hens :ngakak
from yessideh mi a laugh pp and a say the same thing to miself dem a private page and feds goodly deh pan it already
That is the funny part Met..some a dem private dem page cos the fire hot but dem nuh realize sey dem a lock in the feds and snitches wey dem pon dem page long time….a only JMG dem a worry bout? JMG cannot make an arrest and Met is a ghost wid no name and no face suh shi cyaan snitch…
Dem a criminal but dem nuh too smart.
Thats how us good looking Spanish people gets to be in the know, they steady messaging me loving my swag! :ngakak
Tell him seh him a look pan 20yrs dem mek him swipe dung 10 a him connect…tired a dem rass…a diss a di new kine a bank robbery??
Damn greeedy, sorry for all the ballers who put eeennn their Christmas orders. Unno glad bag buss
I cannot with these , thief wey him a do wid so much credit card :ngakak :malu :ngakak
Please God Dont let him be a Jamaican amen :takut
dam fool a early Christmas sales he a make