{"id":189508,"date":"2010-01-17T01:23:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T06:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/misspelled-name-lands-scammer-in-prison"},"modified":"2010-01-17T01:23:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T06:23:36","slug":"misspelled-name-lands-scammer-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/189508","title":{"rendered":"Misspelled name lands scammer in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/0836ae0998butler.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"gregorybutler.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"173\" \/><\/span>Of all the ways to get caught passing a phony credit card, using one with your own misspelled name on it might be the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask Gregory Buter &#8212; ummm, Butler &#8212; who was sentenced to 27 months in prison for trying to buy more than $12,000 worth of gift cards and tools from a Naperville business with just such a card.<\/p>\n<p>An employee at a Home Depot alerted store security on Nov. 9 because he recognized Butler, 47, who allegedly had used a fraudulent card at the store in the past. Security called police, who confiscated his credit card, which was embossed &#8220;Gregory Buter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Butler pleaded guilty on Tuesday to possessing a counterfeit credit card and was sentenced by DuPage Judge Kathryn Creswell.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested with Danny Collins, 52, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/neighborhoods.html?region=3275031\" rel='nofollow'><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/neighborhoods.html?region=1435491\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago<\/a>, whose case on the same charge is pending.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; <a href=\"mailto:abarnum@tribune.com\" rel='nofollow'>Art Barnum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Misspelled name lands scammer in prison\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagotribune.com\/~r\/ChicagoBreakingNews\/~3\/s-DaTYoc8qA\/misspelled-name-lands-credit-card-scammer-in-prison.html\"  rel='nofollow'>WGN Radio Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9zNc2Ht0sRETt8g5c9TWUzB17zc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9zNc2Ht0sRETt8g5c9TWUzB17zc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9zNc2Ht0sRETt8g5c9TWUzB17zc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9zNc2Ht0sRETt8g5c9TWUzB17zc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=yDR9bVmk-zs:tEl0NMWsHuo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=yDR9bVmk-zs:tEl0NMWsHuo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=yDR9bVmk-zs:tEl0NMWsHuo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=yDR9bVmk-zs:tEl0NMWsHuo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/yDR9bVmk-zs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the ways to get caught passing a phony credit card, using one with your own misspelled name on it might be the worst. Just ask Gregory Buter &#8212; ummm, Butler &#8212; who was sentenced to 27 months in prison for trying to buy more than $12,000 worth of gift cards and tools from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}