In March 2017, the Lehigh Valley and Warren County were gripped in a violent string of cellphone store robberies.
An Easton man and a Wilson Borough man who would eventually be arrested provided daily subject matter for a wide-ranging task force trying to get a step ahead of the pair.
With all that heat on, two men from Medford, New York, who had no connection to the robbery spree, burglarized a T-Mobile store in Bethlehem Township. A security firm actually watched the burglary in real time as the men stole phones, including one with a tracker, authorities said. The firm was able to follow where the men were driving and Pennsylvania State Police arrested them after a stop.
The moral of the story is, of course, you don’t want to commit a crime when authorities on on alert for it.
On Tuesday, a Brooklyn man was arrested after Colonial Regional police said he and two others used other people’s identifies to open Sam’s Club memberships and then the three bought more than $7,000 in merchandise before store employees caught on. Two of men fled, leaving the third, Savery Kwame Richardson, 25, to face police.
At 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, while a police officer was in the same Sam’s Club in Northampton Crossings Shopping Center in Lower Nazareth Township talking to an asset protection manager about a different theft, two Brooklyn men, using fraudulently obtained memberships tied to other people’s credit cards, tried to buy about $425 in items, including two sound bars, police said.
A store employee alerted the Colonial Regional officer that a possible instant replay was underway, police said.
Malachi Samuel Davis, 20, who was using the name of a person from Duluth, Georgia, and Kelvin Earl Curry, 22, had opened fraudulent memberships just before entering the Sam’s Club off Route 33 and were using “scan & go” apps on phones to prove their memberships and to make purchases, police said.
Davis left merchandise at the register and tried to walk out, police said. But officers were waiting and both men were arrested, police said.
They were arraigned Thursday morning before District Judge Nicholas Englesson on charges of access device fraud, conspiracy, theft by deception (two counts), identify theft (two counts) and false identification to a law enforcement officer, police said. They were housed in Northampton County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail each. They remained behind bars early Thursday afternoon.
Neither had an attorney listed in court papers.
Police don’t know if the men were the two people who got away on Tuesday, Detective Gary Hammer said. Since everyone is wearing a mask these days, identifies are more difficult to determine. But it is likely they are not the same two coming back for a second bite, Hammer said. They did not return in the black van that was seen Tuesday, Hammer said.
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