Kansas man pleads guilty to using customers' credit cards

 

November 2, 2018



OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — The longtime owner of a barbecue restaurant pleaded guilty to using customers' credit cards to fund spending sprees.

Matthew Sander, owner of Smokin' Joe's Bar-B-Q in Olathe, pleaded guilty Thursday to seven counts of identity theft, four counts of theft and one count of criminal use of a credit card.

The Kansas City Star reports a plea agreement calls for Sander to serve a year in prison and make full restitution.

Assistant District Attorney Alex Scott said two of the cases Sander pleaded guilty to involved him using credit cards customers had inadvertently left behind at...



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