A former Jefferson City resident pleaded guilty to charges he faced in two separate fraud cases.
During a hearing before Cole County Presiding Judge Jon Beetem, Darryl Mallory, 32, who now lives in Minnesota, pleaded guilty to felony fraudulent use of a credit device in November 2019. Prosecutors dismissed a felony charge of stealing he was facing in this case.
He also pleaded guilty to a charge of felony forgery from July 2021. Prosecutors dismissed a felony charge of fraudulent use of a credit device and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest against Mallory in this case.
In each case, Mallory was place on five years supervised probation. If he is found to have violated terms of his probation, Mallory faces seven years in prison for each case.
In the fraudulent credit card case from November 2019, Mallory was one of three people charged.
Arlince Boyd, 30, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of fraudulent use of a credit device and stealing. Prosecutors amended the charges down from felonies. Boyd was placed on two years of unsupervised probation.
Maurice Jackson, 30, pleaded guilty to felony possession of a controlled substance and was placed on five years of supervised probation. Prosecutors dismissed felony charges of fraudulent use of a credit device and stealing.
The three went to Menards on Stonecreek Drive on two occasions, according to a Jefferson City Police Department probable cause statement. The first time, they used a credit card that processed as a Menards credit card to pay for $566 in merchandise. The second time, they conducted six transactions with credit cards that processed as Menards gift cards totaling $2,350, police reported.
The general manager told police the transactions were suspicious because the cards used were blue, and Menards cards are green and silver. He also had been alerted by Menards corporate offices that individuals had been cloning company gift card account information onto a fraudulent card.
After looking at store security video, police identified Mallory as one of the suspects and went to an address on Monroe Street he was known to frequent. It was also the home of Boyd and Jackson. Mallory would not provide any information with any type of identification about who he was. Eventually, authorities said, they found Mallory was on parole through Illinois.
Later, officers followed Jackson to a business on Missouri Boulevard, where he dropped off a box to be picked up specifically by one of three people. It turned out the box contained 14 OshKosh B'gosh/Carter's gift cards, along with nine tablets of what was believed to be Ecstasy.
Boyd arrived at the business and was taken into custody. Authorities said she was connected with fraudulent activity in other states.
In the forgery case from July 2021, Mallory was charged after a chase with authorities.
A Jefferson City Police Department probable cause statement shows officers went to Phillips 66 on Stadium Boulevard for a report of a man, later identified as Mallory, pumping gas for multiple subjects.
Officers talked with Mallory, who gave them a false name. When they attempted to detain him, he fled on foot. Officers pursued him and eventually arrested him after deploying a Taser.
Officers searched Mallory and found he was in possession of multiple gift cards to gas stations. Authorities said Mallory had tossed many gift cards during the foot pursuit. They later found all of the cards had a zero balance.
Four of the cards were found to be debit/credit cards belonging to Central Bank customers. Bank officials advised authorities none of the customers were local, but they would contact the victims.