A 34-year-old woman from Kissimmee was arrested Tuesday and charged with several crimes related to the theft and use of stolen credit cards to purchase online items.

Polk County Sheriff's Office detectives arrested Charmaine Wallace, of Big Sioux Court, in Kissimmee.

According to the arrest affidavit, Wallace used two different stolen credit cards to purchase the following items: 18 sleeping cots valued at $570.10, as well as 12 sleeping cots, nap mats, a table and chairs all valued at $831.02. The vendor from whom Wallace purchased the items, Internet Marketing, also suffered a loss of $570.10 when the money for the first set of items was charged back to victim's credit card by the credit card company because they were fraudulently purchased.

Polk County detectives intervened during the delivery of the second fraudulent order for $831.02 when they were alerted by the owner of Internet Marketing. As the items were delivers to Wallace, detectives executed a search warrant at her home, where they located several of the previously purchased items.

Wallace admitted to detectives that she used stolen credit cards to order the items in order to resell them. The investigation is ongoing.

Wallace was arrested and booked into the Polk County Jail on the following charges:

  • Two counts of illegal use of stolen credit cards
  • Two counts of grand theft
  • Two counts of criminal use of personal information
  • Two counts of theft
  • One count of uttering false instrument
  • One count of fraud
  • One count of forgery

Wallace remains in the Polk County Jail on $10,000 bond.

Wallace has a long criminal history, including arrests in 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2009.