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Police: Fraudulent credit card numbers net woman $1,000 worth of barbecue

 
Published Oct. 14, 2015

A 48-year-old woman is facing fraud and theft charges, police said, after she used other people's credit card numbers to buy large quantities of food from Smokey Bones, a barbecue restaurant at the Clearwater Mall.

Rhonda Renee Cox told police she sold the food for money, according to an arrest report.

She was arrested Oct. 9. In total, police wrote in the report, Cox took $1,220.33 in food from Smokey Bones through six online takeout orders. If a card number was declined, according to the report, Cox would provide several others until one was accepted.

At least one of the card numbers belonged to a person from Michigan who called to ask about the fraudulent charge, investigators wrote.

Officers said they also found marijuana in Cox's car. She additionally faces a drug possession charge.

CLEARWATER

Man accused of burglary left print on maxi pad

Christopher Kearney made off with about $10 in change from the car he burglarized Sept. 27, deputies said, but he left one important thing behind: a palm print on a maxi pad.

Kearney, 29, of Largo "ransacked" the vehicle on Newport Road, according to an arrest report. But he left behind the sanitary napkin in the center console, investigators said.

He faces a charge of burglary of an unoccupied conveyance.

TARPON SPRINGS

Man arrested after church windows smashed

Noah Christian Terrill told officers he was mad, had been drinking and also was taking unknown narcotics before he punched out the windows of a church Oct. 7, according to an arrest report.

The 34-year-old Holiday man faces criminal mischief charges.

Police said he headbutted and put his fist through three windows at the First Church of Christ, Scientist on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Officers said Terrill also punched and made a small dent in a nearby car.

When investigators arrived, according to the report, Terrill was bleeding from cuts to his hands and wrists.