Stanley P. Brozana Jr., 72 – Served 37 Years as Orwigsburg Police Chief
The employee of a Schuylkill County gas station and convenience store is accused of swiping the credit cards of customers who lost them there.
According to court documents, back in early December 2024, a Trooper from State Police-Schuylkill Haven spoke with a woman who said she was the victim of theft at the Mobil gas station in Cressona.
The woman told police that she had received a transaction alert notifying her of activity on her Chase credit card. It had been used for a 1-cent transaction. She reportedly said to police that that credit card had been lost about a week prior at that gas station.
When she initially contacted the business, the victim told police, she said the store said her credit card and driver’s license, which was also lost, weren’t there.
Police say they went to the business the same day they spoke with the victim and learned that the credit card and driver’s license were there, in a basket behind the register. Multiple other cards were in the basket, police say.
Later that day, police say they contacted the store manager, who said she’d review surveillance footage from inside the establishment to see if and when the lost card was used.
The next day, police say they received a call from the store manager. A day before the missing card was used, surveillance footage reportedly showed a store employee – identified as Brittany Steinmetz, 36, of Minersville – swiping multiple credit cards, including the victim’s in this particular incident.
Police say they’ve made multiple attempts to contact Steinmetz but thus far, have been unsuccessful.
Charges of identity theft and unauthorized use of an access device, both misdemeanors, have been filed against Steinmetz. She’s been ordered to answer to these charges at a preliminary hearing currently scheduled for April 29.
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