Posted on 08/13/2013 7:43:10 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
NEWARK (CBS SF) — A woman who dined at a Newark seafood restaurant on her birthday and was handed the wrong credit card by the waitress at the end of her meal was arrested after she took the card and headed to a nearby mall on Sunday evening, police said.
Jheline Demesa, 22, of San Leandro, ate dinner at Ray’s Crab Shack at 5989 Mowry Ave., where the waitress mistakenly gave her a credit card from an adjacent table, police said.
Instead of returning the card, Demesa allegedly left the restaurant with it, police said.
The real cardholder tried to cancel the credit card a short time later but learned that transactions had been made on it at the NewPark Mall across the street, Newark police Cmdr. Mike Carroll said.
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Hoooo boy! Something else to watch out for...
I’ve been given the wrong credit card back multiple times. Fortunately I’ve been able to retrieve mine without a problem.
Jheline Demesa....lucky me, free money.
Person gets the wrong card handed back to her? That's a "mixup".
Person just sticks the card back in their wallet and walks out with it? I could see that happening. Mixup.
Person quickly walks across the street to the nearest mall and starts running up a tab on it?? Fraud. And pretty stupid to boot, especially since they just likely swapped cards, and the real cardholder has their name.
You get your card back, go to another store and use it.
The test would be who's name did she sign on the credit slip. If she signed the name on the card, she knew. If she signed her own name then maybe she didn't notice.
Certainly reasonable doubt.
Amish?
This is why I never pay with a credit card in a restaurant anymore, unless it’s at the cash register.
You should read the comments at the source. Quite an eye opener for a San Francisco CBS outlet.
Cash is your Friend
yowser... I suspect they will be scrubbing that comments page before too long.
It’s a silent “h” in her fake name, I guess.
“You should read the comments at the source. Quite an eye opener for a San Francisco CBS outlet.”
No kidding! That said, the Newpark Mall has become a $hIthole thanks to third world immigrants and illegals from SOTB. The “anchor stores” have already pulled up stakes.
Wow. Absolutely amazing. There are slurs there I’ve never heard in my life.
Its a shame. I think most people are honest and would return something like this.
But this could be obamas daughter
Comments at CBS SanFran are indeed amazing. I guess people who know how to read and write are fed up with the Amish stuff.
Here is another look at what happened after the thief took the credit card and went on a frenzy with it.
“Credit card gets into hands of wrong Newark patron, suspect goes on shopping spree
By Natalie Neysa Alund
Bay Area News Group
Posted: 08/12/2013 03:27:36 PM PDT | Updated: about 17 hours ago
NEWARK — A restaurant patron who received the wrong credit card back after paying for Sunday dinner and then went on a shopping spree with it at a local mall now faces multiple felony fraud charges, police said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23846536/credit-card-gets-into-hands-wrong-newark-patron
She must have signed the other person’s name. Otherwise it’s a combination of honest mistake plus the clerk didn’t ask her for ID.
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