Crime & Safety

Police: Men Used Stolen Gift Cards at Wawa

The men purchased hundreds of dollars in cigarettes.

Two men reportedly used stolen gift cards to purchase more than $600 in cigarettes.

According to a police report, on Tuesday, July 3, two men at the on Lancaster Avenue in Wayne used two gift cards to purchase cigarettes. Both transactions were for $314.08.

Minutes later, an employee of the Wawa on Sugartown Road in Wayne encountered two men trying to purchase cigarettes with bad credit cards in that store.

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According to the police report, the employee stated that the men "got suspicious" of the employee's activity and left the store.

The car the men were driving was a rental car from Hertz.

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