The Region - News from April 12, 1987

Five people were indicted in Los Angeles for trafficking in $3.1-million worth of fraudulent and unauthorized credit card drafts. The four separate indictments name Timothy Shaw Hillebrand, 44, of Pasadena; William Dale Kegley, 45, of Woodland Hills; Laurie Jane Luttrell, 33, of Simi Valley, and Derek John Bond, 42, and Lovell Talmadge Brown, 53, both of Los Angeles. They face arraignment April 20. Assistant U.S. Atty. Maurice Leitner said the five were caught by a Secret Service agent posing as a businessman who agreed to process unauthorized credit card drafts through bank accounts in Asia and split the proceeds. The indictments say that in a series of meetings, Hillebrand gave the agent $1.7 million in unauthorized drafts and Bond provided $245,000 worth. Brown allegedly contributed $157,000 in phony drafts, and Kegley and Luttrell allegedly provided $999,000 worth. The defendants used more than 9,500 different credit card numbers in the scheme, Leitner said.