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March IO. 2010
Thieves use Card Skimmers
The Vancouver Police Department is working
with local gas station operators to inform them o f
a growing fraud and identity theft crime, the use
o f skimmers on their gas pumps.
Over the past several months Vancouver Po
lice have received numerous calls reporting un
authorized charges on debit and credit cards after
the person purchased gas using a pay-at-the-
pump debit and credit card reader.
Vancouver Police are distributing informa
tional flyers and working with local gas stations
advising them to consider pump lock changes and
encouraging them to conduct regular inspections
o f pumps to look for possible skimming devices.
Citizens are encouraged to pay with cash, debit
or credit inside the store and not to use the pay at
the pump option if possible.
A nyone w ho believe that they have been the
victim o f identity theft should im m ediately
contact the bank that their credit and debit
card is issued through and then com plete a
police report.
THE
SPINACOLUMN
Dr. Billy R. Flowers
TM
A photo from the Vancouver Police Department shows a skimmer
device wired into the back o f a gas pump by credit card thieves.
The device didn't affect transactions, so customers were able to
pump gas while the skimmer quietly collected their credit-card
numbers.
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Heroin Overdoses
Bring Charges
A federal grand ju ry has in
dicted two men on charges they
sold heroin that resulted in the
overdose deaths o f two Port
land men.
F e d e ra l and M u ltn o m a h
County prosecutors say that
Jose Luis T orres Rojas and
Jose H ernandez Flores w ere
arrested last w eek accused o f
two counts o f distribution o f
heroin resulting in death and
one count o f distributing heroin.
The case involves the deaths
last year o f 38-year-old Patrick
M c G in n is and 2 8 -y e a r-o ld
Joshua Reeves.
A lso arrested was 18-year-
old Jose Ism ael Torres Rojas,
who is charged with distribut
ing heroin. All three men are
M exican citizens. A federal
court trial is scheduled for
M ay 4.
Pastor Guilty in Tax Case
A form er pastor o f a north
east Portland church has been
ordered to serve five m onths in
prison for aiding the prepara
tion o f a false tax return.
M a x im o G a rz a , 4 7 , o f
V ancouver, adm itted that he
provided false expense invoices
which purported to reflect pub
lic relations and other services
provided by V ictory O utreach
Church, to W illiam Thompson,
who was then operating a mail
order divorce service business
using the nam e H allw ood, Inc.
Thom pson used the false in
voices to take expense deduc
tions on tax returns filed by
H allw ood, Inc. in o rd er to
fraudulently reduce his tax li
ability.
G arza w as the pastor for
V ictory O utreach C hurch, a
n o n -d e n o m in a tio n a l church
w hich has operated in Port
land for over 15 years.
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