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Owen Harbison.
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A 32-year-old Salt Lake man denied stealing credit cards from Australian golfer Robert Allenby and running up charges amounting to $20,000.
Owen Harbison pleaded not guilty Tuesday to second-degree identity theft, second-degree attempted theft and unauthorized possession of confidential personal information at his Circuit Court arraignment. Trial will begin the week of April 20 before Circuit Judge Glenn Kim.
Harbison is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Police said Harbison, who listed an Ala Napuaa Street address when he was booked Feb. 11, used three credit cards to charge $20,000.
Police are investigating what happened to Allenby after he left Amuse Wine Bar on the night after he missed the cut in the Sony Open.
Detectives said the professional golfer’s wallet, credit cards, cash and phone were taken on Jan. 17.
Allenby originally said he had been drugged, kidnapped, robbed of his credit cards, thrown into a car trunk and dumped 6.5 miles away in a park that night. That account, he said, came in part from a homeless woman who helped him get away from attackers.
The woman acknowledged helping Allenby but has denied telling him that he was thrown to the street from the trunk of a car.
Allenby also said had no memory of what happened during a 21⁄2-hour period after he left the wine bar.
The woman said she found him no more than a block away.