Katie Sanders and Kameel Stanley report:
A St. Petersburg man has been charged with stealing customers’ credit card numbers from a marketing company he worked for to buy nearly $30,000 in dinners, limos and other luxuries.
After a four-month investigation, deputies arrested Christopher Albert Fregapane, 25, of 4544 40th Ave. N on a felony charge of scheming to defraud, according to an arrest affidavit.
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Deputies said Fregapane gathered the credit card information while working as a telemarketer for Eclipse Property Solutions, a St. Petersburg marketing firm he joined in July 2009, said Sgt. Tom Nestor, a Pinellas sheriff’s spokesman.
Deputies said Fregapane and another employee, Michael Northcutt, 26, listened from their cubicles as co-workers repeated customer credit card information aloud to confirm accounts.
Read more in the St. Petersburg Times.