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Police search for woman suspected of fraud

GASTONIA, N.C. — A woman suspected of fraud is wanted, and officers hope that someone knows her identity.

A wallet belonging to an 83-year-old Gastonia woman was stolen from her purse at Walmart on East Franklin Boulevard in Gastonia on Nov. 7.

Gastonia police said her debit card was then fraudulently used the same day at Kangaroo Express in Gastonia.

A woman was captured on surveillance video inside the store.

The woman has been described by police as a black woman possibly in her 30s.