LOCAL : 3 Held After Using Stolen Credit Card

Three people were arrested at the Radisson Suites Hotel in Fullerton after they allegedly checked in using a credit card taken in a robbery in Redondo Beach hours before, police said today.

Hotel employees called police at 11:15 p.m. Monday after a man rented a room using a Discover card imprinted with a woman’s name, Fullerton Police Officer Cecil Reece said.

Reece said the credit card had been reported stolen from a 38-year-old Torrance woman, whose purse was wrestled from her outside a Redondo Beach grocery store earlier in the evening.

Tracy Ann Andrews, 19, of Hawthorne, Joseph Karl Elkin, 19, of Redondo Beach and David Auron Frawley, 22, of Carson are held in the Fullerton City Jail on suspicion of robbery, forgery and possession of stolen property, Reece said.