A Valero station on Interstate 10 reported finding two illegal credit card skimmers attached to gas pumps on Tuesday. The manager of the Valero Corner Store, 7253 Interstate 10 near Highway 62 went to Orange police Tuesday. She told officers she discovered one of the pumps had been tampered with. She called the company’s tech department and two skimmers were found on pumps.
During the past year, a number of people in Orange County have had fraudlent charges made on debit and credit cards. The account numbers had been stolen by thieves who put the illegal skimmers on outside gasoline pumps.
–
A man was cut in the head Tuesday when another man attacked him with a wooden board that had nails in it. Orange police were called to the 1700 block of Barkins Street about 5 p.m. They found Harry Jermaine Bias sitting in a chair on a front porch with his head bleeding.
He told police he had been sitting in a vacant lot in the 2900 block of North 17th Street. Another man, who police report is 55 years old, came up and started harrassing and antagonizing the victim. The man then picked up the board and hit the Sias.
Police reported Bias had a cut about 5 to 6 inches long running from the front of his head to the back. Acadian Ambulance took him to a Beaumont hospital.
–
A resident on Chasse Knoll Monday reported the theft of a pistol from his pickup truck. The missing gun is a Smith and Wesson 9 mm. It had been in the glovebox of the truck.
The post More Skimmers Found appeared first on KOGT.