Man who stole neighbours' credit card used it to treat them to tickets for football game

Police say a Florida couple were surprised to learn that tickets to a Tampa Bay Buccaneers football game given to them by a neighbour were actually paid for with their own credit card. Anthony James David faces a variety of charges after deputies say he also stole his neighbours' Discover and Best Buy gift cards. They say he had befriended the couple and gave them a false name and even took them to the Buccaneers game with the ill-gotten tickets, all without them knowing.

"As it turned out looking on our credit card statement, we had actually financed the entire day," Bill Callahan from Spring Hill said. "He seemed like a really nice guy. Introduced himself as a pharmaceutical rep, and everything seemed pretty accurate with what he was telling us." But Bill and his wife Melissa became suspicious after discovering their card has been used fraudulently to purchase flowers at a local florist, food from Panera, legal services from a Tampa attorney, PayPal services, and Verizon services. They also found that two of their Best Buy gift cards were used at Best Buy stores in Spring Hill and New Port Richey.



Detectives say surveillance video from some of those purchases implicated David, who had told the Callahans that his name was Anthony Sagglioca. "He is very skillful in the way he conducts himself," Bill said. They say they found the same thing when they contacted the Buccaneers' ticket office. "When detectives received statements from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, it was confirmed that the victim's credit card was used to purchase the season tickets, as well as individual game tickets in Anthony's name, for an amount of $608.

"It was also confirmed that the game tickets, for which he invited and 'paid' for the victims to attend, were paid by Anthony using the victim's stolen credit card," the sheriff's office explained. "Obviously, the victims were unaware that the tickets to the game they were attending had been purchased using their credit card." In all, Anthony David allegedly made $2,969.38 in fraudulent purchases using the stolen credit card, as well as $100 using the stolen Best Buy cards. "It's embarrassing, it's maddening. It makes me think how will I trust anyone again?" Bill said. David, 37, was arrested last Friday night. Deputies say he has an "extensive history" of fraud charges.