On April 24, at about 6:39 p.m., Del Frisco’s Grille reported that an order had been placed over the phone using a fraudulent credit card to the Hoboken Police Department.
Management reported that after the credit card transaction was approved, they received a call from a man from Oregon.
The man claimed to be a victim of credit card fraud and stated that he received an alert from his bank of a transaction that occurred at their restaurant, which he did not approve.
Detectives Michael Losurdo, Adam Colon, and Fabian Quinones were notified of the complaint and responded.
When the detectives arrived, they learned the order had not been picked up.
The detectives conducted an investigation along with uniform patrol under the command of Lieutenant Ranaldo Gonzalez and waited for the order to be picked up.
At about 7:24 p.m. a man identified as Isaiah Baptiste entered Del Frisco’s and allegedly attempted to pick up the order made with the victim’s credit card.
Officers saw Baptiste operating and pulling up to Del Frisco in a black Mercedes-Benz with two male passengers.
Baptiste and the two passengers, identified as Kaya Findlay and Jason Palmer, were also stopped for investigation.
The investigation led to the arrest of all three parties.
Isaiah Baptiste from Bushkill, PA, Kaya Findlay from Brooklyn, NY, and Jason Palmer from Brooklyn, NY, were charged with Fraudulent Use of a Credit Card, Credit Card Theft, Theft of Identity, Uttering, Theft by Deception, Conspiracy to Commit Credit Card Fraud, and Committing an Unauthorized Act During a state of Emergency.
All charges for arrestees were placed on summonses, and they were released with a Hudson County Superior Court date.
They are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
