Business owner upset about $650 in stolen gas

One Abbeville business owner is out $650 of stolen gas and he wants other business owners to be aware of a crime occurring in Vermilion Parish.

Maxwell Chreene, owner of Maxi Mart, across from the old Fruit of the Loom building, recently learned that three people charged $650 worth of gas with stolen credit cards.

Each time, the Visa card was charged at the pump and not inside the business.

On average, the person charged $140 worth of gas at each stop. One person came back twice during the day.

Chreene did not know that was happening until his office manager Chataignier O’Neil recently received an envelope from Visa with statements stating certain charges on certain Visa cards came from stolen credit cards.

One card was from Georgia and another was from New Jersey.

The charges were made two months ago.

Chataigner studied the charges and also learned that the same credit cards were used at three different gas stations in Vermilion Parish and other stations in Acadiana.

One person charged $2,000 worth of fuel in two days.

“I am very angry,” Chreene said. “I want others who sell gas to know this is happening.”

Chreene said Visa

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