The Ventura County Sheriff Office in California Arrests a Fuel Theft Suspect: About 113,000 Dollars in Credit Card Fraud Losses, With Single Fraudulent Fuel Purchases of up to About 2,500 Dollars
The Ventura County Sheriff Office in California announced that investigators have arrested a suspect in a series of fuel thefts involving about 113,000 dollars in credit card fraud losses.
The sheriff office said that on October 17, Poole Commercial Fuels, in the 3000 block of Vineyard Avenue in unincorporated Oxnard, reported fraudulent fuel purchases, with single fraudulent purchases of up to about 2,500 dollars and total losses of about 113,000 dollars.
Investigators identified the suspect as Tigran Gabrielian, a resident of Murrieta. On November 4, the suspect first obtained about 900 dollars of fuel by fraud in the Newbury Park area, and was then taken into custody by investigators at a gas station in the 2000 block of Borchard Road.
The sheriff office said the suspect was linked to about 800 dollars in additional fraudulent fuel purchases, and that investigators found an extra fuel tank, fuel bladders and pumping and metering equipment inside his vehicle.
The suspect was booked on nine counts of identity theft under California Penal Code section 530.5(a) and grand theft under Penal Code section 487(a). The release did not publish the suspect date of birth, and this report does not carry it.
Source: Ventura County Sheriff's Office
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Photo: 图：文图拉市栈桥（资料图），燃油盗窃案由文图拉县警局侦办。Ken Lund 摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Ventura Pier in Ventura (file photo); the fuel-theft case is investigated by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. By Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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