Clinic clerk accused of shopping with patients’ credit card numbers – Mountain Top Media

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — For the second time in a month, a clerk working in Prestonsburg has been accused of using credit card numbers she obtained at work to go on a spending spree.

Katie Picklesimer, 38, of Tutor Key, has been employed as a clerk at the King’s Daughters Medical Center clinic on US 23 in Prestonsburg. Part of her duties in that role was to accept payment for patient co-pays, many of which were paid with credit cards.

Prestonsburg Police Det. Dennis Hutchinson, who had been investigating a case in which a clerk at the Prestonsburg driver’s license office used patron debit card numbers for personal expenses, got a report alleging that Picklesimer had been doing the same thing.

Prestonsburg Police allege Picklesimer used patient credit card numbers to buy items on the TikTok store, using her own name and address to have the items shipped to her.

Picklesimer is now wanted for eight counts of fraudulent use of a credit card. Police say when she learned she was under investigation, she went home and left her husband a note saying she was leaving him for a boyfriend in New York. She hasn’t been seen since, except she contacted a friend after she left to say she had a flat tire.

Police are now on the hunt for her. They ask any patients of King’s Daughters who notice suspicious charges on their cards to contact them at (606) 886-1010.