A Holiday Inn employee took a photo of a guest\u2019s debit card as she was checking in on May 1 and then used the information to attempt nearly $1,000 in fraudulent purchases, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Kimberlyn Lipovetsky, 39, of Ashley, faces two felony counts of unauthorized use of a credit card.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, while checking into the Holiday Inn Dunmore on May 1, Jordan Parkhurst noticed the front desk employee \u201cplaying around\u201d with her phone.<\/p>\n
Parkhurst didn\u2019t immediately report the suspicious behavior but remembered it.<\/p>\n
When she noticed two unauthorized purchases on her banking portal on May 5, she contacted the hotel and spoke with manager Corey Pregmon.<\/p>\n
Parkhurst told Pregmon she suspected an employee was fraudulently using her card.<\/p>\n
Pregmon reviewed security footage and spotted Lipovetsky taking a photo of Parkhurst\u2019s debit card with her cellphone as she was checking in.<\/p>\n
Pregmon contacted Dunmore police, who contacted Parkhurst by phone.\u00a0Parkhurst said she had checked in on May 1 and checked out on May 3.<\/p>\n
Officers reviewed the bank account and identified the suspect purchases as $369 at Walmart in Dickson City and $594 at Sally Beauty Supply on May 3.<\/p>\n
Police \u2014 who noted the Sally Beauty Supply charge had been reversed by the bank \u2014 found that Lipovetsky was a registered customer of Sally Beauty Supply.<\/p>\n
Police then reviewed video surveillance footage at Walmart, which showed Lipovetsky using her cellphone to connect a debit card with her account, purchasing an expresso machine and then returning it for cash.<\/p>\n
Lipovetsky remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on May 26 before District Judge Alyce Farrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Holiday Inn employee took a photo of a guest\u2019s debit card as she was checking in on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,2136,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-192747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-dunmore","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192747","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=192747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}