Police: 2 caught with forged credit card at Dave & Buster’s

An attempted purchase with a forged credit card led to the arrest of two Queens men Thursday night at the Dave & Buster’s in Westbury, Nassau County police said.

Police said Shaquelle Evans, 23, of 149th Avenue, and David Beatty, 23, of Weller Lane, both in Rosedale, were arrested at 9:35 p.m. Each was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.

Both men face arraignment Friday in First District Court in Hempstead, police said.

Police said Evans attempted to make a purchase at the Dave & Buster’s on Old Country Road using a forged credit card and said a subsequent investigation by officers who responded to the location after being notified of the incident found Beatty in possession of “a re-encoded American Express gift card.”

Additional details were not immediately available.

By John Valenti

john.valenti@newsday.com

John Valenti, a reporter at Newsday since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press and Society of the Silurians for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing, and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. Valenti is featured in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 film “Big Shot.”