Nicole L. Case, of Kansas City, was charged with a felony of fraudulent use of a credit device.
Case, 32, used a credit card belonging to a victim for the purpose of obtaining goods knowing that the defendant’s use of the device was unauthorized.
Nicole Case
The defendant called police on Jan. 5, after he received an alert from his security system showing a person stealing a 2014 gray Toyota Venza from inside an attached garage in Kansas City. Inside the car were checks issued by Bank of Oklahoma valued at $600.
When deputies arrived at the home they found a window pane in a back door smashed out and they found the house to be ransacked. A second vehicle was also stolen from a barn behind the house.
Additional items stolen were a shotgun, diamond earrings valued at $10,000, a pearl necklace valued at $1,600, frozen deer meat, a miter saw, an electric motorbike, snow and leaf blowers, signed baseball memorabilia, new pots and pans and children’s and adult clothing.
An American Express card, a Cabela’s credit card and 18 Visa gift cards worth $4,500 were also stolen. All the keys in the house were also stolen.
A video at the house showed a person resembling Case, according to court documents. She attempted to use the stolen American Express credit card at Murphy Oil USA. She attempted to prepay for gas but the card was declined. Walmart surveillance showed Case and a man in the store where they purchased $434.77 worth of groceries using stolen gift cards.
When Case was confronted by a detective at the Clay County courthouse on Jan. 14, she told him she had found a wallet in a parking lot and used the credit card and gift cards.
The detective located the vehicle she had driven to the courthouse and found it to be stolen. Stolen goods were found in the car. Case told the detective that she had been given the Volkswagen.
Case has no prior felony convictions but she has an arrest history for numerous thefts, assault, forgery, making false declarations, possession of controlled substances, tampering with utilities and burglary.
She pleaded not guilty to the accusations on Jan. 16. She appears in court again this week.