Police say a suspect was stopped after allegedly using stolen credit cards to buy hundreds of dollars in gift cards.<\/p>\n
NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa. \u2014 A New York man is facing criminal charges after police say he attempted to use stolen credit cards to purchase gift cards and groceries at a Giant Eagle in North Huntingdon Township.<\/p>\n
According to North Huntingdon Township Police, officers responded July 7 to the Giant Eagle on Route 30 after store loss prevention personnel detained Quansheng Niu.<\/p>\n
Investigators said loss prevention watched Niu select multiple gift cards before gathering several grocery items and proceeding to checkout.<\/p>\n
Police allege Niu completed three transactions using eight different credit cards stored on his phone through a tap-to-pay feature. Two additional cards were declined.<\/p>\n
Authorities said Niu purchased $540 in gift cards along with bottled water and other groceries totaling $552.47.<\/p>\n
While the transactions were taking place, loss prevention received notification from a retail banking group indicating that at least two of the credit cards being used had been reported stolen.<\/p>\n
Investigators also determined Niu allegedly attempted eight additional transactions using eight different credit cards at another Giant Eagle in nearby Hempfield Township.<\/p>\n
Police contacted the Department of Homeland Security during the investigation. According to police, Homeland Security advised that Niu was in the United States unlawfully.<\/p>\n
Niu, who police identified as being from Flushing, New York, has been charged with access device fraud and retail theft. He was denied bail.<\/p>\n
The charges are allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.<\/p>\n
Key Points<\/p>\n
A New York man was arrested after police said he used stolen credit cards at a Pennsylvania Giant Eagle.<\/p>\n
Investigators allege he attempted multiple transactions using numerous credit cards at two grocery stores.<\/p>\n
He is charged with access device fraud and retail theft and was denied bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a suspect was stopped after allegedly using stolen credit cards to buy hundreds of dollars in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-239175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239175","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=239175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}