All Life is Local points us to reports of an ATM skimming operation at a SunTrust machine located at 3440 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Cathedral Heights. It serves as a good reminder that, yes, these things actually do happen in the D.C. region:

Photo by cstein96 A former employee of the Cheesecake Factory on Wisconsin Ave. has been charged with facilitating a fraud ring that led to $117,000 worth of bogus charges on the credit cards of diners, Freeman Klopott reports in the Sunday Examiner. Nicole Ward was arrested and charged with bank fraud last week after two of her fellow servers told prosecutors that Ward had recruited them to be a part of a credit card…