{"id":101948,"date":"2026-02-01T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:08:09","slug":"coraopolis-police-investigating-chargeback-scam-involving-pokemon-merchandise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101948\/","title":{"rendered":"Coraopolis police investigating chargeback scam involving Pok\u00e9mon merchandise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Coraopolis, Allegheny County, are investigating a chargeback scam targeting a local gaming store, which involves the purchase of high-value Pok\u00e9mon cards, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the suspects use credit cards to buy expensive Pok\u00e9mon merchandise, then later dispute the charges with their banks to receive refunds while keeping the items.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified one suspect as Mylen Hailey of Detroit, Michigan, who allegedly targeted a Coraopolis gaming store last month.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Hailey used a fraudulent credit card to purchase nearly $3,500 worth of Pok\u00e9mon merchandise. The charges were later disputed.<\/p>\n<p>The store owner did not learn of the chargeback until about a month later, after the suspect and merchandise were no longer traceable, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Hailey has not been arrested, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Coraopolis, Allegheny County, are investigating a chargeback scam targeting a local gaming store, which involves the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,49546,9340],"class_list":{"0":"post-101948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news","11":"tag-pokmon","12":"tag-scam-alert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}