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SEYMOUR — The Seymour Police Department is investigating fraudulent transactions allegedly made by the victim’s IT specialist.
On Oct. 18, Officer Austin Peelman responded to Brewskies on 117 E. Second St. in Seymour in reference to Matthew Rollins’ claim that money was being taken out of his bank account. Rollins and his wife Crystal are the new owners of Brewskies.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Rollins provided Peelman with a copy of his recent bank statements from The People’s Bank and highlighted transactions he was disputing with the bank.
Rollins also provided a copy of a transaction from a company known as TurnTex listing a payment of $442.88 paid from a Mastercard belonging to him, stating that the card number was no longer being used by him and that he did not make the purchase. The shipping address for the purchase was 816 F Ave. E; Building 2, or SET Supply.
Rollins also provided the responding officer with transactions made with his card number from a T-Mobile account that belonged to the suspect, Spencer Kindred, 29, of Seymour. Rollins said that Kindred was hired as Brewskies’ IT Specialist and that Kindred was the only person besides the Rollins to have access to the bank account, which was supposed to be used only to order check books.
Subpoenas requested for T-Mobile and Amazon were signed and granted in December. Responses from both companies were received in January. T-Mobile affirmed that all devices under the account returned to Kindred and that the account used the credit card belonging to Crystal Rollins.
There were two transactions which used Rollins’ card as the payment method, both having occurred on Oct. 5, according to court records. The amounts were $191.22 and $273.71. Amazon affirmed that the customer name listed on all 10 transactions placed on Oct. 5 to their website with Crystal Rollins’ credit card was Spencer Kindred, the affidavit states. The items could not be classified as business expenditures.
On Jan. 11, Detective Chris Franklin scheduled an appointment with Kindred for the next day to speak about the investigation; however, Kindred called Franklin the next day and left a voicemail saying he had contacted legal counsel and would not be coming to speak with Franklin or give a statement.
On Jan. 19, Franklin spoke with Curtis Seebeck, the owner of TurnTex, according to the affidavit. Seebeck said in October a “female who lived in Seymour” called him about a fraudulent charge. Seebeck informed her that the order was placed by a person named Spencer Kindred and that “[email protected]” was the email connected to the order, court records state.
Seebeck canceled the order and issued a refund immediately. Kindred then contacted Seebeck and claimed that his credit card company creates a unique number every time he uses his card. Seebeck told Franklin he deals regularly with e-commerce and what Kindred told him does not make sense. The last four digits of the credit card number for the Turntext order matched the card number for Crystal Rollins’ account, according to the affidavit.
Franklin closed the investigation on Jan. 23. Kindred was charged with three counts of fraud and arrested on Jan. 30, investigators said.
