Gardendale woman arrested for credit card fraud

Published 5:21 pm Tuesday, July 31, 2012

A woman who found a customer’s credit card on the floor of the store where she worked, has been arrested for fraudulently using that card.

Gardendale Police charged Lataya Dominique Brown, 23 with second-degree theft of property and fraudulent use of credit cards, after detectives determined that Brown picked up the card and used it at several stores in metro Birmingham, according to police spokesman Lt. Bryan Lynch.

Brown was arrested at her workplace Monday. She was transferred to the Jefferson County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bond.