A 15-year-old boy using smart phone applications has been charged with posing as a captain with the Shelby County Sheriff's Office or a Memphis police officer to steal credit and debit card information, according to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office.
The ninth grader was charged with the felonies of theft of services, theft of property and unauthorized use of a credit card, according to a media release issued by sheriff's office spokesman Chip Washington. He also was charged with criminal impersonation, a misdemeanor.
Taken to Juvenile Court, the boy's identity was not released.
The boy posed as a fictitious Capt. Tyrone Banks and launched the scam on Sept. 10, according to the sheriff's office. He used a smart phone application to look up personal information of potential victims in Memphis and Shelby County.
He claimed the victims' card number had been stolen and that he needed to verify them. He was able to give the first four digits of one bank's cards and asked the victims to give him the rest.
To add to his credibility, he used a police scanner smart phone application to run the sound of police calls in the background while phoning his victims.
Stolen card information was used to order pizza, a total of about $500 worth, several times. For $715, a bus tour company took the young suspect and several friends to Laser Quest. A house party, including DJ, cost $800.
Another $874 stolen was used to pay a utility bill for a friend's mother, officials said.
An investigation by Memphis police and sheriff's deputies led to his arrest on Thursday, according to the sheriff's office. Four witnesses who provided services for the house party identified the 15-year-old as their customer.
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