Orange County deputies Thursday arrested a Georgia woman for having stolen identity information and a credit card imprint machine. She was stopped for speeding on Interstate 10 in Vidor, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
Friday morning, Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Herschel Stagner Jr. set a total bond of $250,000. 47-year-old Donna Fearon faces a first degree felony offense of possession of identifying information with a bond of $100,000, a second degree felony offense of unlawful possession of a criminal instrument with a bond of $100,000, plus a third degree felony for having a prohibited substance in a correction facility with a $50,000 bond. Sergeant Tracy Sorge reported the woman was concealing marijuana when she was booked into the Orange County Jail.
Sergeant Sorge, who is in the sheriff’s narcotics division, said in the affidavit he and Deputy Russell Hall stopped a black Mercedes SUV traveling westbound on Interstate 10 at 87 miles per hour in a 75 mph zone. They smelled marijuana and searched the car.
He reported finding a credit card imprinting machine and a computer with identifying information stolen from credit cards. Twenty-eight credit cards were found with the name Meena K. Grover were also found. The affidavit said the woman was trying to hide something during the search. The deputies reported she had a Georgia driver’s license with her photograph and the name of Meena K. Grover.
According to Sergeant Sorge, the woman denied having any illegal substances on her, but she was concealing marijuana when she was booked into the jail.
People in Orange County have been victims in the past months of debit and credit card fraud after their names and card numbers have been stolen by illegal “skimmers” on gas pumps. Thieves put the skimmers on the outside pumps. When a card is swiped, the crooks can access the identification information through a computer. They use the debit or credit card information to steal items through unauthorized charges.
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