THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, November 30, 1995 TAG: 9511300375
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY SUSIE STOUGHTON, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SUFFOLK LENGTH: Short : 42 lines
In the past six weeks, a woman known as Jane Doe used a stolen credit card to get money from three locations of the Bank of Suffolk, but employees were prepared Tuesday when she walked into the bank's fourth site in Whaleyville.
The teller knew that a woman fitting Doe's description had allegedly gotten about $20,000 from the bank by using stolen cards and false identification since Oct. 19, said bank president Harold U. Blythe. She asked for more than $4,000 in a cash advance but apparently panicked and left when the teller tried to stall the transaction, he said.
Police spokesman Mike Simpkins said the woman drove north on U.S. Route 13 several miles, then abandoned the car, which she had gotten from a rental agency near Norfolk International Airport, also by using the stolen credit card. She walked into the office of a lumber company, pulling a suitcase behind her, and asked an employee to call a taxi.
The employee, who had heard of the earlier incident at the bank, called the bank instead, and officials there alerted police. Officers picked her up at the lumber company about 3 p.m. and returned her to the bank, where she was identified, Simpkins said.
The card, issued to Tanja A. Pyles, allegedly was stolen from a mailbox in Connecticut.
The woman also had a New Jersey driver's license with the same name and an address in Lodi, N.J., and a Florida license issued to Ethel Olisa of Miami.
Police believe neither identification is correct and said the woman may have defrauded others in Hampton Roads.
The FBI and Bureau of Immigrations are assisting with the investigation by Detective D.J. Greene.
``Doe'' - who is described as black and about 30 - is being held in the Western Tidewater Regional Jail without bond. She has been charged with use of a stolen credit card and credit card fraud. by CNB