Man pleads guilty to using credit card skimmer at a Missouri Taco Bell

TOPEKA – A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to stealing credit card information while he worked at a Taco Bell in Belton, Missouri.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a news release that 32-year-old Yao Vignon Kpade, of Overland Park, Kansas, pleaded guilty Monday to electronic device fraud.

He admitted that he used a device called a credit card skimmer to obtain information from customers’ credit cards. He encoded the stolen information onto bank cards in his name and used the cards for personal purchases.

Kpade agreed to pay a total of $2,465 in restitution to two banks and to forfeit seized property including computers, electronic tablets and cell phones.

He will be sentenced March 2.

This story was originally published November 4, 2014 at 12:48 PM with the headline "Man pleads guilty to using credit card skimmer at a Missouri Taco Bell."