Two suspected shoplifters were arrested at a Costco location Sunday after allegedly attempting to use fraudulent credit cards to steal merchandise, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred around 3 p.m. in\u00a0South Windsor, Connecticut, the South Windsor Police Department (SWPD) said Monday.<\/p>\n
Police said the pair are suspected serial Costco shoplifters and identified them as 35-year-old Brittany A. Howard of the Bronx, New York, and 34-year-old Kasheem M. Williams of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers responded to Costco (1220 Tamarack Ave) for reports of two shoplifters\u00a0actively stealing\u00a0from the store and attempting to pay at the self-checkout with fraudulent credit cards,\u201d SWPD said.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, store staff had been warned that the same suspects had allegedly attempted a similar scheme at a Costco location in Enfield, roughly a 30-minute drive north.<\/p>\n
Brittany A. Howard, 35, of the Bronx was arrested at Costco after allegedly attempting to use fraudulent credit cards. Eyewitness 3<\/p>\n
Kasheem M. Williams, 34, of Brooklyn was arrested alongside Howard. Eyewitness 3<\/p>\n
Responding officers later discovered 28 stolen financial documents, all under different names, inside the suspects\u2019 vehicle, along with goods believed to have been stolen from the other\u00a0Costco location, police said.<\/p>\n
After the suspects were taken into custody, authorities said both individuals were found to have active out-of-state warrants.<\/p>\n
Williams had an extraditable warrant out of Suffolk County, New York, on multiple charges including burglary, strangulation and assault.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said the pair are suspected serial Costco shoplifters. JHVEPhoto \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Howard was found to have an extraditable warrant out of Hudson County, New Jersey, on credit card theft charges.<\/p>\n
Both suspects now face\u00a0additional charges, including 28 counts of payment card theft, larceny, identity theft and conspiracy.<\/p>\n
Police said the pair were held on $250,000 surety bonds and were scheduled to appear in Manchester Superior Court Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two suspected shoplifters were arrested at a Costco location Sunday after allegedly attempting to use fraudulent credit cards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3283,128,2222,11713,109162,396,57,9,24,63,129,131,130,797,58],"class_list":["post-284713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-arrests","tag-bronx","tag-connecticut","tag-costco","tag-credit-card-fraud","tag-fraud","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-theft","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}