JOHNSON COUNTY —Earlier this month, members of the Lenexa Police Department's Directed Patrol Unit were patrolling hotels in the area of 95th Street and I-35 highway in Lenexa, according to a social media report.
Officers contacted an individual from out of state parked at one of the hotels and began conversing with him. Through an investigation officers discovered nearly 2000 retail gift cards that had been altered illegally. Scammers often alter gift cards in such a way that an unsuspecting victim has the money drained remotely by the suspect.
Officers took the individual into custody and he has since been charged by the Johnson County District Attorney's Office with Destroying a Written Instrument, which is a felony.
The Lenexa Police Department's Directed Patrol Unit is tasked with a variety of different response actions and proactive enforcement, including narcotics, firearms crimes, prostitution/vice, human trafficking, pattern crimes, and more.
Police did not release the suspect's name.