Police say the men used aluminum foil to cover antennas to scramble data signals at gas stations in Carpentersville and East Dundee last fall, so that the gas stations couldn’t run their credit cards – allowing the pair to buy $416 in cigarettes and other goods with fraudulent cards. They were arrested after a clerk at the Carpentersville station noticed the foil and became suspicious. <\/p>\n
The most serious charge against the men is a Class 2 felony with a standard sentencing range of up to four years of probation or three to seven years in prison. Neither defendant’s attorney could be reached for comment Thursday. Spruille and Bradley are free on bond and due back in court April 8. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Two men accused of scrambling satellite signals at Kane County gas stations in order to buy cigarettes with fake credit cards have denied the charges. Lester A. Spruille, 25, of the 800 block of West 50th Place, Chicago, pleaded not guilty Thursday to burglary, theft and fraudulent use of an electronic transmission, while co-defendant Lawrence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362915","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=362915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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