Colorado Teen Busted in Bar-Code Scam
George Merritt writes on DenverPost.com:
Jonathan Baldino might be off the "nice" list.
Police say Baldino used homemade bar codes to buy electronic gadgets at prices far below any legitimate discount. The 19-year-old is facing three counts of being naughty - one of them a Class 5 felony.
Baldino was detained by Target security Wednesday after he purchased a $150 iPod with a bar-code label of $4.99.
Baldino, a freshman electrical-engineering student at the University of Colorado, told police that he made phony bar codes from real bar codes taken from inexpensive merchandise, then glued those bar codes on to big-ticket items at Target, according to the police report.
posted by Fergie @ 12/05/2005 10:59:00 AM
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