Tarentum police charged a man with stealing about $5,200 worth of motorcycle parts from Gatto Cycle Shop using a stolen credit card.
Parrish Savon Middlebrook, 28, of Halcomb Avenue, Clairton, was charged with felony counts of theft, theft by deception, access device fraud and identity theft along with driving with a suspended license.
Middlebrook was released from the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh after posting a $10,000 unsecured bond, according to court records.
He faces a preliminary hearing March 16 before District Judge Carolyn S. Bengel.
Police said they were dispatched to the motorcycle shop along East Seventh Avenue on Feb. 5 for a report of a man trying to buy parts with a stolen credit card, according to a criminal complaint.
The shop provided police with a copy of a sales invoice for $1,200 worth of Harley-Davidson parts that Middlebrook ordered three days before, according to the complaint.
Police said they arrived a few minutes after Middlebrook left the shop without the parts he ordered because the credit card was declined and flagged as stolen.
The cycle shop told police that Middlebrook was the same man who previously used a stolen credit card to buy about $4,000 worth of motorcycle parts at Gatto’s other location, Three Rivers Harley-Davidson in Shaler, the complaint said.
Investigators said they used security video from the Tarentum cycle shop to track the silver Chevy Malibu sedan that Middlebrook was driving to the Jim Shorkey Chevrolet dealership on Old William Penn Highway in Murrysville.
The car dealership told police that the car was a loaner given to a woman who later was identified as Middlebrook’s girlfriend, the complaint said.
Monroeville police went to the woman’s house and learned that Middlebrook was driving it the day he went to Gatto’s, according to his arrest papers.
Police also determined that neither Middlebrook nor his girlfriend has a driver’s license.
