DES MOINES, Wash. A 20-year-old employee of Red Robin Restaurant was arrested for allegedly skimming credit cards from customers at least eight of them BECU cardholders and using the information to make $16,000 of purchases on the accounts.
Sheriff’s detectives were alerted to the crimes by a fraud investigator from BECU, who told them eight BECU members have had fraudulent activity on their accounts and in each case the common “point of purchase” was the Red Robin in Des Moines.
Detectives learned that one employee processed all eight transactions. The transactions took place between November 2011 and March 2013.
Detectives said there possibly could be more victims. At this point in the investigation they only have received documents from the victims who bank at BECU. Another search warrant will be sought to identify all the restaurant customers whose credit cards were processed by the suspect.
