Two Former Pret A Manger Staff Charged With Identity Theft

Two former Pret A Manger staff allegedly skimmed customers’ credit card details to forge cards with their own names on them, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Nigel McCollum, 22, and Lenica Greene, 23, have been charged with identity theft, forgery, criminal possession of a forged instrument, criminal possession of forgery devices, and grand larceny, among other charges, in a 602-count indictment in New York State Supreme Court.
Two Former Pret A Manger Staff Charged With Identity Theft
The Pret A Manger restaurant at 24 West 23rd Street in Chelsea, where one staff member was allegedly skimming credit card details from customers. (Sarah Matheson/Epoch Times)
Sarah Matheson
8/15/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

NEW YORK—Two former Pret A Manger staff allegedly skimmed customers’ credit card details to forge cards with their own names on them, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Nigel McCollum, 22, and Lenica Greene, 23, have been charged with identity theft, forgery, criminal possession of a forged instrument, criminal possession of forgery devices, and grand larceny, among other charges, in a 602-count indictment in New York State Supreme Court.

McCollum is a former kitchen employee at the 23rd Street Pret A Manger in Chelsea. Over several months he recruited staff members to give him the credit card information of more than 100 customers, according to the indictment and statements made on record in court.

Police searched McCollum’s apartment and found two card skimmers, two encoding devices, an embosser, blank credit cards, hundreds of forged credit cards in McCollum’s name, and multiple cards in Greene’s name. Greene is a former employee at another Pret A Manger restaurant.

The two lived together and are in a relationship, the New York Daily News reported.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said McCollum and Greene had used some of the cards to make personal purchases.

McCollum allegedly told police after his arrest that he had made “over 10 grand” from the scheme, the Daily News reported.

The investigation is ongoing.

Sarah Matheson covers the business of luxury for Epoch Times. Sarah has worked for media organizations in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, and graduated with merit from the Aoraki Polytechnic School of Journalism in 2005. Sarah is almost fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Originally from New Zealand, she now lives next to the Highline in Manhattan's most up-and-coming neighborhood, West Chelsea.
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