Officer Accused of Credit Card Fraud

A Los Angeles police officer was charged Monday with being part of a credit card fraud ring that allegedly altered cards to increase credit limits, according to the Los Angeles district attorney’s office.

Phillip Clemons Davis, 33, assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division, allegedly used an electronic encoder to alter the magnetic strips found on the back of credit cards.

Charges filed against Davis include possession of a forged driver’s license, possession of a counterfeit seal, insurance fraud and the sale or receipt of access cards to defraud.

Also charged were Tandra Ann Sadr, 19, and Monica Coles, 28, both of North Hollywood. Both were charged with burglary and Sadr also was charged with dissuading a witness from testifying on a call she made from jail.

The trio was arrested Thursday when Burbank police served search warrants at two apartments in a complex in the 5300 block of Riverton Avenue, said Lt. Duane Dow of the Burbank Police Department.

During the arrest, a Rottweiler mixed-breed dog apparently belonging to Coles got loose and bit Officer Craig Campbell, who shot and killed the dog, Dow said.

Campbell was taken to St. Joseph’s Medical Center where he was treated and released, Dow said.