NY: Cashier at Bellmore Payless Store Accused of Identity Theft

A Long Island shoe store employee is accused of stealing security information from customers’ credit cards and making duplicate cards.

Police say the cashier at a Bellmore Payless store used a “skimming” device to scan the magnetic strip of security information from the credit cards of 11 customers. Police say he used the cards to make purchases totaling nearly $11,000.