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"Jamar said Halaweh stole about $150,000 worth of gift cards from Safeway stores by using fake credit cards to purchase them."
They discovered that two men had been buying dozens of gift cards, often pre-paid Visa cards, at grocery stores up and down the North Coast. The large sums raised red flags for Safeway.
Often, they would buy several thousand dollars worth at a time.
“Sometimes they would buy $3,000 worth, then come back again later in the day and do it again,” Jamar said.