OCALA, Fla. - 
 
 Ocala police say they're getting closer to catching the woman who used a stolen credit card to buy $400worth of hair last month. 
 
 Officers have received numerous tips from the public after releasing a picture of a smiling woman posing with the card on Monday. 
 
 Her victim, 74-year-old Josephine Lupo, had her wallet stolen while shopping at a Ocala Walmart. 
 
 "I've never had anything stolen from me," Lupo told Local 6. "I'm shaking right now every time I think about. I think, 'How could that happen?'" 
 
 Abdel Kasem said the alleged thief is a regular customer, but the Kasem said she grew suspicious after the thief showed a credit card and didn't have a matching driver's license. 
 
 "She kept saying, 'You know me, you know me,' and I said, 'I know your face, but we don't know your name, so I'm not gonna take your card without ID.'" 
 
 That's when Kasem asked to take her picture with the credit card. 
 
 "I thought that would scare her into saying I don't want this anymore, but she smiled for it," Kasem said. 
 
 The picture surprised Lupo, too. She old Local 6 the woman who took her wallet was not African-American. So now police are hoping a picture will help lead them to whoever else was helping her steal. 
 
 "I'm going put all my credit cards in a vault," said Lupo. "I want them in jail." 
 
 According to the police report, there may be even more evidence for police. 
 
 There is surveillance video that shows the woman using a stolen credit card to buy gas, but police say it is not available yet. 

 The woman in the picture smiles coyly, posing with a stolen credit card and wallet, police say, moments before she used the card to buy more than $430 in beauty supplies. 
 
 Ocala Police Department detectives are asking the public if they recognize the woman, whose photo was snapped by an alert store clerk who felt something just wasn't right with the purchase. 
 
 The owner of the wallet reported it stolen on July 4 while she was at the Wal-Mart store at 4980 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. Though the initial report came a month earlier, the woman called police again Sunday to report the fraudulent transactions made to her credit card. 
 
 OPD Det. Mark Proco started visiting the places where the card was used, including the Looking Good Beauty Supply at 1971 W Silver Springs Blvd., reports state. 
 
 The transaction at Looking Good occurred July 5. The clerk said she was suspicious because the woman did not have a state photo identification. The clerk asked the woman if she would be willing to take a photo holding the card. The woman agreed, holding the reported stolen card near her smiling face. Also caught in the photo was the woman holding the stolen wallet, police said. 
 
 The card also was used at a Citgo on 1517 SW 10th St. and the Family Dollar at 9264 SE Maricamp Road. All the transactions, which totaled just less than $500, were made July 5, reports state. 
 
 The woman, who is black, has a heavily tattooed left arm and a large tattoo across her chest with a flower and what appears to be a name. 
 
 Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Proco at 369-7105.
– A picture is worth a thousand words—and sometimes a possible jail sentence. Police in Ocala, Fla., are searching for a woman who used a stolen American Express credit card after a suspicious store clerk snapped a photo of her posing with it, reports the Smoking Gun. The shopper charged more than $400 worth of items from Lookin’ Good Beauty Supply, but she couldn’t produce any government-issued ID to prove she was the person listed on the card. The cheerful consumer agreed to the clerk’s request for a picture of her with her plastic, which also had been used to make purchases at Family Dollar and Citgo. "I thought that would scare her into saying I don't want this anymore, but she smiled for it," the clerk tells WKMG. Police say they've gotten several tips since releasing the photo to the public, but haven't made an arrest yet. The card actually belongs to an elderly woman who says it was stolen while she was shopping at Walmart. In the photo, the alleged thief also appears to be holding the wallet that was stolen along with the credit card, reports the Ocala Star-Banner. (Elsewhere from the police blotter, click to read about a man caught cooking crabcakes at a diner.)