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PARK CITY — Three people were arrested Tuesday after a “complex fraud operation” involving 49 credit cards, police said.
Employees from several stores in the Tanger Outlet Mall in Park City contacted deputies after they observed three individuals from California who purchased items using credit cards that only worked by being manually entered, according to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. Store clerks reported that many of the transactions were initially declined, but additional credit cards were offered.
Deputies located the three people and discovered a large amount of merchandise in their rental car. Upon further investigation, deputies discovered the three people possessed at least 49 credit cards that had been fraudulently produced, the sheriff’s office said. The cards were produced with their names, but had breached account numbers.
The group shopped at 19 stores in the Park City Outlet Mall and a sporting goods store in Price using the fraudulent credit cards, the sheriff’s office said. Detectives believe the three individuals also shopped at several other stores on their drive to Utah from California.
“It was also discovered that the individuals had been to Utah some weeks ago on a similar crime spree,” the sheriff’s office said.
Michael Chiles, 30, Dontrail Brown, 34, and Eniola Obileye, 22, were booked into the Summit County Jail in connection with several felony charges.
