Man Pleads Not Guilty to Defrauding Banks
A 26-year-old man charged with defrauding seven Ventura County banks out of more than $17,000 in a credit-card scam pleaded not guilty Monday in Ventura County Superior Court.
Judge Charles R. McGrath set a March 21 trial for David Jeffrey Wilkinson of West Hollywood.
Deputy Dist. Atty. William R. Redmond said Wilkinson remains in Ventura County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.
Prosecutors say Wilkinson used fraudulently acquired credit cards to withdraw money from banks from Thousand Oaks to Ventura, including six Bank of A. Levy branches.
If convicted, Wilkinson faces up to six years in state prison on charges of commercial burglary, grand theft and credit-card fraud.
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