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标 题: Security Guard Foils Fake Credit Card Ring
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Mar 15 20:22:20 2011, 美东)
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/27203362/detail.html
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A security staffer at a retail store helped break up an
interstate crime ring that used counterfeit credit cards from Georgia to
Ohio, police said.
Three men were arrested after a loss-prevention manager at a Meijer store in
Lexington, Kentucky reported that they were acting strangely while buying
iPods.
The men, Le Yu, 22, Lei Tian, 22, and Liye Zhei, 23, are believed to be
Chinese citizens who have used faked credit cards in at least five states,
according to Lexington police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts.
Lexington police were called after the Meijer employee observed them "acting
strangely" on Friday, Roberts said. The men allegedly used fake credit
cards to buy iPods, The Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
The employee gave police a description of the men and their car, and the car
was stopped and police found iPods and 86 fake credit cards, Roberts said.
According to court records, the men also had $5,200 worth of phone cards and
at least $4,700.
The employee "called us just off a hunch -- just off a behavior," Roberts
said. "One person's sharp eye really helped to stop this activity."
Roberts said she could not identify the employee who alerted police.
The men were charged with 86 counts of criminal possession of a forged
instrument and one count each of false making or embossing of a credit card,
and receiving goods by fraud under $10,000.
It appeared the men flew to Atlanta from California and drove north along
Interstate 75, using the cards in Georgia, Ohio and Indiana, Roberts said.
A district judge entered not-guilty pleas for the men during an arraignment
Monday because they did not have attorneys. |
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