Two Michigan men are facing an array of charges after being accused of felony theft in multiple Kentucky counties.
Bowling Green police were contacted by the Elizabethtown Police Department in regards to an alleged money card scam carried out by 29 year-old Cordell Barnes and 33 year-old Byron Gaskin, both of Detroit.
Officers were informed that Barnes and Gaskin would input money into Walmart registers to purchase and load visa money cards, then trick the system into cancelling the transaction, allowing the subjects to keep the money and causing a loss to the store. The subjects conducted these scams at Walmarts in Elizabethtown and Bowling Green, according to police.
After receiving a description of their vehicle, officers located Barnes and Gaskin at the Walmart on Morgantown Road and conducted a vehicle search that revealed multiple Visa money cards, a very large sum of U.S. currency, two bags of marijuana and multiple Walmart receipts consistent with the scam. Officers also found a total of $960 and an additional Visa money card in Barnes’s pockets, and over $1600 cash in Gaskin’s pockets.
The search confirmed thefts of over $2000 between both Bowling Green Walmarts on Thursday.
Barnes and Gaskin were arrested and are each charged with engaging in organized crime, theft by deception-include cold checks between $1000 and $10,000, receiving stolen property between $1000 and $10,000, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia – buy/possess. They are both lodged in the Warren County Jail.
An investigation to confirm thefts at stores outside of Warren and Hardin counties is ongoing.
Source: WBKO
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