{"id":7335,"date":"2025-10-16T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7335\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:05:07","slug":"houston-firefighter-accused-of-stealing-credit-card-information-from-fellow-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7335\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston firefighter accused of stealing credit card information from fellow firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 A firefighter with the Houston Fire Department was arrested after being accused of stealing the credit card information from a fellow firefighter and then attempting to buy $650 in products online with the information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Curtis Jones, 28, has been charged with credit card abuse. He was arrested Thursday morning at his home after his IP address was connected to the crime, according to the Harris County Pct. 1 Constable\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt is especially unfortunate when a first responder takes advantage of a fellow first responder,\u201d Harris County Constable Precinct One Alan Rosen said. \u201cOur investigation is ongoing. More charges are possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities say Jones and the victim were both assigned to Houston Fire Station 21 on Main Street in June when the crime allegedly occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The victim reportedly left his wallet in a backpack at the station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jones is accused of going online and attempting to charge $650 for a shirt and a pair of sneakers on the victim\u2019s credit card.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 A firefighter with the Houston Fire Department was arrested after being accused of stealing the credit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7188,294,56,7189,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-7335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-credit-card-abuse","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-fire-department","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}