Man arrested for credit card spree

By Matt Smith/msmith@trcle.com

July 03, 2008 11:39 am

— Cleburne police arrested an Oklahoma man Saturday after he charged $1 at two area gas stations then later charged $3,848 at the Cleburne Wal-Mart. Apparently hungry after the shopping spree, the man charged $17.96 at Taco Bell, according to police reports.
The problem was Benjamin Ryan Jackson, 28, charged the items on a credit card that did not belong to him.
Police responded to the Days Inn Hotel on North Main Street on Sunday in response to the credit card abuse. A Kentucky woman staying at the hotel told police she and Jackson went to Chances Nite Club on Saturday. The woman told police the bartender, without her knowledge, returned her credit card to Jackson at the end of the night instead of her. The woman said she left the bar without Jackson and received a phone call from her bank the next day regarding suspicious charges on her credit card.
Police arrested Jackson, who was staying in another room at the hotel, on a charge of credit card abuse. Jackson has since been released from the Johnson County Corrections Center.