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Danis Mensah
A Ghanaian man has been arrested in the US for allegedly receiving nearly $6,000 in computer equipment purchased with a fake credit card, the Charleston Gazette has reported.
A number of Ghanaians have been cited in the increasing credit card theft cases in the US.
25-year-old Danis Mensah reportedly travelled from Bronx, N.Y., to Mason County on Saturday with the intent to secure the $5,750.50 worth of merchandise purchased with a fake credit card and send it to another location, according to the criminal complaint.
The reports said a Sgt. Bryan Morrow of the Point Pleasant Police Department received a tip from a company in Enfield, Conn., about five Canon computer projectors that were shipped to an address in Point Pleasant. The company owner said the items had been purchased with an invalid credit card and that an “R. Glassburn” had signed for them, according to the complaint.
Morrow went to Rochelle Glassburn’s home and questioned her about the shipment.
Glassburn said UPS delivered the boxes on Thursday and that she signed for them after an acquaintance of hers had asked her to. She said she had met the man online and he came and visited her for four days about three weeks ago, according to the complaint.
Glassburn said the man was Mensah and that before he went back to New York he told her that in a couple of weeks some packages would be delivered to her house and he asked her to sign for them, according to the complaint.
Mensah told her it would be several boxes of T-shirts that he needed for work.
She also said Mensah had been in the country for a month and that she only met him when he came to her house, the reports said.
Glassburn told police Mensah called her on Friday. She told him the boxes had arrived, but they had “Canon” printed on the sides. She opened a box and found that it had contained computer equipment, according to the complaint.
Mensah then told her that “he would take care of it,” according to the complaint.
Morrow compared the serial numbers on the equipment in the boxes at Glassburn’s residence to the numbers he received from the company in Connecticut and found they were the same.
Morrow told Glassburn about the investigation and confiscated the boxes.
Glassburn later contacted Morrow and said Mensah had called and asked her to pick him up in Charleston, where he was flying from New York. Glassburn said Mensah planned to ship the boxes via UPS to get them back to New York, according to the complaint.
On Saturday, Glassburn called Morrow to tell him she was going to pick up Mensah at the airport. Morrow brought the boxes back to Glassburn’s residence and set up surveillance there.
Morrow contacted State Police Cpl. K.M. Gilley and they set up a post near the UPS shipping center in Point Pleasant to see if Mensah would attempt to ship the packages, the complaint says.
That afternoon, Glassburn contacted Morrow and said that Mensah was not going to ship the boxes but take them with him when he flew back to New York instead.
Morrow and Gilley went to Glassburn’s residence and were told by Glassburn that Mensah was also shipping several laptop computers to her residence.
The officers arrested Mensah on felony charges of receiving and transferring stolen goods. He was sent to Western Regional Jail and is being held on $50,000 bond.
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