3 charged with using fake credit card at Rock Hill stores

For the second time within a week, three people were arrested after police say they tried to make purchases at two Rock Hill stores using a fake credit card.

Officers responded to Target about 3:30 p.m. Thursday after three men tried to make purchases with fake credit cards, according to a police report. Store employees contacted a nearby to make them aware of the fraud attempt.

Police located the three suspects in their car in the Target parking lot and identified them as 31-year-old Russell Campbell of Matthews, N.C., 45-year-old Michael Anthony Martin of Missouri City, Texas and 30-year-old Darron Ross, whose address was not listed in the report.

A Target employee told officers Martin entered the store and tried to purchase two Apple watches and two sets of Beats headphones. The transaction would not authorize because Martin was using a stolen credit card, police said. He tried to give a card number to the employee but a loss prevention officer stopped the transaction.

The employee identified the three suspects as the men who had been in the store, police said. Officers located the credit card they tried to use at Target and in another case at a nearby store.

Each man was charged with three counts of criminal conspiracy, three counts of financial transaction card fraud, three counts of financial transaction card theft and three counts of financial identity fraud, according to the report. They were placed in the Rock Hill city jail.

This is the second time in less than a week that multiple people have been charged with using fake credit cards at Rock Hill stores. Police on Nov. 27 arrested three New York residents who tried to use fake cards at three stores.

This story was originally published December 4, 2015 at 3:30 PM with the headline "3 charged with using fake credit card at Rock Hill stores."