HONOLULU – Authorities believe a man who withdrew all of the cash from a Hawaii Central CU using 27 different cards in a matter of minutes is responsible for a much larger cards scam that has affected as many as 900 accounts.
The suspect is believed to have used phony cards to drain as much as $90,000 from New York to Las Vegas and Hawaii between Oct. 8 and Oct. 29.
A surveillance video showed the suspect hitting the credit union ATM in downtown Honolulu.
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