6 Bay Area Women Arrested In Gift Card Scam

CBS 5 CrimeWatch RICHMOND (BCN) ― Sacramento police announced Tuesday the details of a gift card scam that has netted the arrests of six women, some from Richmond, that are allegedly part of an international crime ring. A group of women, who investigators are calling the "Richmond Girls," allegedly went on shopping sprees around Northern California, using gift cards with stolen credit card information on them, police said. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department Detective Sean Smith said that the women, who targeted stores from Hayward to Roseville in eastern Sacramento County, earned the nickname because all of them are either from or have close ties to Richmond. Smith also said that there's a "significant number of other suspects we're attempting to identify" in the investigation. The women allegedly wired more than $120,000... [read full story]