Former legal assistant faces charges in credit-card fraud

A former legal assistant faces fraud charges today after Melbourne police said she managed to bilk a local attorney out of at least $ 12,000 in credit card purchases.

Police arrested Kristina Petrik, 38, about 10 a.m. Wednesday at her new place of employment following an investigation into allegations she defrauded her former employer out of money during a year-long period.

Petrik was charged with one count of scheming to fraud and three counts of fraudulent use of a credit card after Melbourne detectives determined she used debit and credit cards from the Bradley K. Boyd law firm at least 88 times to make purchases.

Petrik bought clothes, computer software and even paid for services for a family portrait, officials reported.

"(Petrik) was working for an attorney's office and had access to the attorney's credit cards," said Sgt. Trevor Shaffer, spokesman for the Melbourne Police Department.
"She even made a few transactions on the attorney's personal credit card. It seems that she had run into some family trouble."

Petrik's photograph as a legal assistant remains on the attorney's website. The purchases were discovered after Petrik went to the attorney and asked for a two-week leave to be with her children. The firm handles Social Security and disability claims.

Petrik was en route to the Brevard County Jail Complex.

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