A 20-year-old waitress at a Washington state Red Robin has been arrested for alleged credit card skimming and King County authorities give credit to BECU, the $11.5 billion institution in Tukwila, Wash., for the information that broke the case

More than $16,000 in fraudulent activity apparently occurred in accounts of eight BECU members and, in investigating the cases, BECU security determined that there was a single point of commonality, namely that all had dined at a Red Robin restaurant in Des Moines, Wash.

Todd Pietzch, a BECU spokesman, said that the credit union turned that information over to the sheriff's department, which narrowed the cases down to a single waitress.

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