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Financial Crimes Prompt Arrest

By Lauren Williams

12/13/2016

33-year-old Yunier Perez

(KAIR)--An ongoing investigation by the Atchison Police Department lands a Texas man in jail for alleged financial crimes.

“It was determined we have a victim who reported the unlawful use of a financial account—that person actually lives in neighboring Jefferson County,” said Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson. “We learned that on Dec. 6 the information from that financial account was used at the local Walmart store to purchase items.”

He said arrested was Houston resident, 33-year-old Yunier Perez.

The victim never actually had a financial card stolen.

“But the information from that account was stolen and was transferred to a counterfeit card that this suspect used at Walmart,” Wilson said.

Perez was arrested Dec. 9 after he returned to the same Walmart store and police were notified.

“We took him into custody there in the store,” Wilson said. “We found on his person a counterfeit card with the financial information on it from the victim whose account was compromised earlier that week.”

Wilson says his office is still investigating the incident.

Official charges for Perez are theft, criminal use of a financial card, forgery and computer crime.

He was booked into the Atchison County Jail where he remains held on a $20,000 bond.

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