A Bloomington retirement home is one of many targets identified in a multi-state credit card theft scheme involving a Texas man acting as a female nurse to steal credit cards and make large purchases.
Retirement community resident reports missing credit card
As previously reported by The Herald-Times, Markinious Katrell Hartfield, 43, is accused of stealing credit cards in three instances from the Redbud Hills Retirement Community in Bloomington in March. A woman pursuing criminal charges said she left her apartment unlocked for a short time frame and returned to find a credit card missing.
Police: Missing card used in Kentucky
Police said the woman’s card was used that day, March 4, to make three purchases amounting to over $600, including one at a Walmart 145 miles away in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Man arrested suspected of similar crimes in several states
According to jail records, Hartfield is wanted on warrants in other states — Georgia, Massachusetts, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Iowa — for similar crimes.
In Illinois, Hartfield is suspected of entering retirement community apartments in Adams County dressed as a female nurse and stealing both credit and debit cards for use in Quincy-area stores.
The Texan native had similar crimes in previous years. First in Louisiana in 2006 and again in Colorado in 2009, where he and another man were accused of 20 credit card thefts over five months that resulted in more than $50,000 in losses victims.
Suspect faces multiple charges in Indiana
Hartfield was arrested on June 11 in Houston on a burglary warrant from Illinois. He faces three felony burglary charges and three misdemeanor theft charges in Monroe County.
Hartfield faces a $100,000 bond and is being held at the Brazoria County Detention Center in Angleton, Texas.
This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Texas man accused of stealing credit cards from retirees in Indiana
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