A 28-year-old Washington woman accused of helping drain nearly $100,000 from Victoria’s Secret and PINK gift cards became the focus of a much larger criminal investigation after police searched her apartment and said they found stolen guns, drugs, cash, identity-theft tools and piles of merchandise.
The BodyCam K9 host said Lynnwood police arrived at Hayley Brown’s apartment in Monroe after detectives linked her to suspicious gift-card transactions at Alderwood Mall and several other locations, where investigators believed she was spending stolen balances through barcodes displayed on a phone.
What initially sounded like a retail fraud case quickly expanded once officers entered the apartment, where the channel said investigators recovered four firearms, nearly a pound of illegal drugs and pills, roughly $40,000 in cash, equipment for making fraudulent financial documents and large amounts of clothing that still had store tags attached.
Police Say Gift Card Numbers Were Being Generated
According to the BodyCam K9 narrator, the investigation began after Victoria’s Secret noticed customers’ gift-card balances disappearing even though the physical cards had never been stolen…