#Westport Connecticut—On 06/09/16 at approximately 7:00pm, Westport Officers were dispatched to Exxon, 1510 Post Road East, on a report that a male and female  ttempted to make a large cigarette purchase using a fraudulent credit card. The store clerk immediately recognized the suspects as they attempted a similar purchase a week earlier. The suspects left the store prior to police arrival. Officers located the suspect’s vehicle a short time later in the Shake Shack parking lot unoccupied.

Officers located the suspects, Geraldy Beraud and Aliyah Somerville inside the restaurant.  Officers then located several credit cards with Beraud’s and Somerville’s names on them in the Shake Shack bathroom garbage. These cards were  determined to be fraudulent. Officers also located over 20 cartons of stolen cigarettes in the trunk of the vehicle. Both parties were arrested for the charges listed above, with a court date of 06/20/16 in Norwalk.

(Westport Police Press Release)

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