SALINE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating two suspects on theft and drug charges.

Two people are in the Saline County Jail after using bogus credit cards at a Salina business and attempting to use one at another business early Tuesday morning.

On Tuesday, police were called to Rod’s VIII, 2140 West Crawford for report of a man attempting to use several credit cards to make a purchase, according to Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney.

Store clerks told police the man, later identified as Nicholas Rodish, 20, Denver, came into the store at about 1 a.m. and attempted to use several credit cards to purchase $2,000 worth of Kansas lottery tickets and $451.57 worth of cigarettes.

After several of the cards he attempted to use were declined, Rodish produced a card that was successful in making the purchase. He was also able to withdraw $500 from the card.

Rodish also cashed in $500 worth of winning lottery tickets from the purchase before leaving the store with a woman in a Dodge Dart and a U-Haul.

A short time later, police found Rodish and the woman Jodee Wallace, 48, Winnetka, CA., at the Baymont Inn, 1740 W. Crawford.

Sweeney said Rodish was found inside the U-Haul and in possession of a methamphetamine pipe.

Wallace was inside the hotel, where she had paid cash for a room after first attempting to use a credit card that was declined.

During a search of the Dodge Dart, officers located and seized a credit card embossing machine used to make bogus credit cards, according to Sweeney.

Rodish was booked into jail on multiple requested charges of criminal use of a financial card, felony theft, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Wallace was booked on multiple requested charges of criminal use of a financial card, felony theft, and possession of stolen property.