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Card Skimmer Found At Needham Grocery Store, Police Issue Warning Card Skimmer Found At Needham Grocery Store, Police Issue Warning
Card Skimmer Found At Needham Grocery Store, Police Issue Warning Needham police are asking anyone who shopped at Sudbury Farms grocery store between Dec. 16 and Christmas Eve to monitor their credit and debit card balances after a skimming device was found on a self-checkout lane.  The device, which looks like a typical credit card acceptor, is placed over the store's device and steals the information of any card swiped through it.  Similar devices have been found in Roche Brothers stores in Wellesley, Natick, Weston, Sudbury, and Cambridge, Needham police said.  Police are investigating who placed the skimmer but have asked resident…

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by Josh Lanier
Police & Fire
Woman Embezzled $1.3M From Eastern Mass Business: Police Woman Embezzled $1.3M From Eastern Mass Business: Police
Woman Embezzled $1.3M From Eastern Mass Business: Police A 36-year-old Norfolk County woman was arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 2, and charged with stealing $1.3 million from her former employer, authorities said. Ashley Sumner, of Weymouth, is charged with larceny over $1,200, two counts of improper use of a credit card over $1,200, four counts of identity fraud, and one count of money laundering, Holbrook police said. She was being held on a $100,000 bond.  Detectives began investigating Sumner in March after her former employer, Allstate Glass, reported her for allegedly stealing $50,000 while handling the business's finances, police said.&nb…

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by Josh Lanier