A Moray teenager has been accused of trying to use stolen bank cards to buy almost £2,000 worth of sports goods over the internet.
Kenan Lambert faces 15 separate charges after going on an alleged crime spree.
The 18-year-old, of Baron Street, Buckie, is said to have broken into peoples’ vehicles to steal their debit cards, before placing huge orders with JD Sports online.
Lambert appeared in the dock at Elgin Sheriff Court yesterday, where he denied all charges against him. He will go on trial next year.
Prosecutors allege that Lambert stole “a quantity of bank cards” from a car in Yardie on October 13.
Later that day, he is said to have “pretended” to a JD Sports employee that he was the holder of a bank card belonging to someone else.
The indictment says Lambert attempted to buy £1,609.94 worth of goods from the firm’s website illegally.
He is also alleged to have tried using a stolen Natwest bank card to purchase £199.98 of JD Sports merchandise on November 8.
Lambert’s earliest charge dates between May 11 and May 17, when he is alleged to have stolen two ladders from the Yardie area in Buckie.
Between August 23 and August 25, he is accused of breaking into an unlocked car on the town’s Shearer Avenue and lifting two pairs of sunglasses and a satellite navigation system.
He faces nine other charges of breaking into cars in Buckie and Findochty across the past two months, and taking iPods, a phone, keys and cash.
Prosecutors further say that Lambert scratched a car on Buckie’s St Peter’s Road on November 23 or 24.
And he is accused of altering his electricity meter to gain free power on November 27.