Police said he cloned borough resident’s credit card to make fraudulent purchases
A three-month investigation led to identity-theft charges against a Montgomery County man, Kennett Square police said Tuesday.
Police said a 46-year-old resident of the 200 block of East State Street reported on Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. that his Visa credit/debit card had been cloned and used to make fraudulent purchases. Keith J. Cherry, 27, of Blue Bell was charged with access device fraud, identity theft, theft by unlawful taking and related offenses, police said.
Cherry was arraigned in district court and released on $5,000 unsecured bail, police said. According to court records, Cherry, who has pending drug charges in Montgomery County, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on May 21.
Claudio Cortez-Herrera, 22, of Wilmington, De.; Francisco Gonzales, 20, of Wilmington, De.; and Daniel Saldana-Figueroa, 22, of Coatesville, were cited for disorderly conduct for an incident that occurred on April 14 at 9:12 p.m. in the 400 block of Juniper Street, police said. Gonzales was turned over to constables on an outstanding warrant, police said.
Police issued public-drunkenness citations to Stephanie Pizzini, 45, of Avondale, on April 18 at 10:30 a.m. in the 100 block of West State Street, and to Moises Diaz-Sedano, 27, of Kennett Square, on April 19 at 1:56 a.m. in the 100 block of West State Street.
Police are investigating multiple reports of theft. The first occurred April 15 at 10:50 p.m., a white male, late teens to early 20s, wearing a hoodie, yellow/mustard-colored sweat pants and a scarf or bandana covering his face, entered a business in the 400 block of East South Street and took merchandise without paying; he left in a dark-colored Nissan, police said.
Sometime overnight on April 16, two hanging plants were stolen from in front of a business located in the 100 block of East State Street, and on April 17 between 6:50 and 7:17 a.m., the driver’s-side window was smashed out of a tractor/trailer parked in the 500 block of South Union Street; cash was stolen, police said.
