AUSTIN -- Investigators want to track down two people who used stolen gift cards and find out where they got them.
Store surveillance video could be the key to identifying the couple. The surveillance video shows a man in a red shirt, blue jeans and red slippers or shoes. Walking behind him is a woman wearing a dark colored bandanna. They're seen leaving the Capital Plaza Target store on June 9.
"These are the two people who used the cards," said John Loughran, a detective with the Travis County Sheriff's office. "There is no question to that."
The question is, are these the people who stole them? The cards were birthday gifts for Bob Meyer's daughter.
"I called it a fluke, an accident," said Meyer.
Meyer called it "a fluke, an accident," back in January, when his parents sent his son a gift card and It never showed up. So, when the same thing happened to his daughter's cards, Meyer reacted differently.
"I did not call it an accident," he said. "I asked my mom to look at the receipt. She called Target. Target looked at their computer, the time of day, the register, the store. I got it all."
That information helped Target pinpoint the exact transaction.
"Without that, we do not have any kind of a case, because with a gift card you are not required to leave any type of identification," said Loughran.
Investigators say the man and woman in the video may not be the ones who stole the cards. That's why detectives want to find out how the couple got the cards.
Meyer says one thing is certain: someone is going through his mail.
Because it's happened more than once, Meyer says it is more than just random of acts of vandalism.
"It does not take rocket science to figure out they are seeing a birthday card," said Meyer. "They are bending it and realizing there is something in there. It is hard. It is a birthday card. It is $100. It is $150. That does not bother me. What bothers me is they are going through my mail, and they are stealing my kids' birthday gifts."
Anyone who recognizes the man and the woman in the surveillance video is asked to call the Travis County Sheriff's Office.
