MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – A report of a suspected credit card skimmer at a Murfreesboro gas station led to a police response, a brief neighborhood search, and a pursuit that ended across town near Veterans Parkway and Highway 96. It all unfolded on Tuesday morning between 9 AM and 11 AM.
The incident reportedly began at the Raceway gas station on Highway 231 South, directly across the highway from Murfreesboro Medical Clinic. The gas station is in front of the newly built Tiger Hill townhome community, which plays an important role in this story.
According to information from the scene, someone at the gas station allegedly saw an individual place what appeared to be a card-skimming device on a gas pump terminal. Those devices are often designed to capture credit or debit card information and, in some cases, PIN numbers from unsuspecting customers using the pump. A manager at the gas station confirmed the device was an illegal skimmer and quickly called police…