ROCKINGHAM — Police say a man used a woman’s debit card to withdraw nearly $8,000 over a four-month span.

Azriah Ellerbe, 55, of Eastside Drive in Rockingham, is accused of obtaining $7,828.95 between Mar. 23 and July 13 using a State Employees Credit Union Visa debit card — that had the victim’s photo on the front — by presenting it as his own, according to an arrest warrant issued Tuesday.

Ellerbe was arrested that day and charged with one felony count each of financial card fraud and obtaining property by false pretenses. He was booked into the Richmond County Jail under a $5,000 secured bond and later released. His court date is scheduled for Sept. 10.

He has no other pending charges in the state, according to online court records.

Records with the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction show this isn’t the first time Ellerbe has been charged with fraud.

In 1999, he received probation and a suspended sentence after being convicted on four misdemeanor fraud charges.

Ellerbe also spent two weeks behind bars in 1991, following a conviction the previous year for breaking and entering and larceny.

William R. Toler

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