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St. Thomas Woman Makes Fraudulent Purchases from Walmart Online

Economic Crime Unit detectives apprehended a St. Thomas woman on Wednesday for fraudulent credit card use, the V.I. Police Department announced.

An investigation into Tatiana C. Thompson was initiated on July 12 and July 25 for the fraudulent use of a credit card. The investigation revealed that Thompson made purchases on Walmart.com using credit cards belonging to two different victims on July 7 and July 9. Thompson placed the orders and had them shipped to her post office box, according to the police report.

At 12:16 p.m. on Wednesday, Thompson, 30, was arrested for fraudulent use of credit cards, one count of receipt of money, goods and services obtained by fraudulent use of credit cards. She was transported to the Richard N. Callwood Command for booking, the police report stated.

Thompson was unable to post her $11,000 bail at the time of the arrest and was turned over to the Bureau of Corrections pending her Advise of Rights hearing, the report stated.

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