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Police bust $13M - 14 member Florida ORC ring that used
stolen identities to apply for 23,527 credit cards and
purchased 56,873 gift cards at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club
Taking a year to investigate the U.S. Secret Service and
Florida Department of Law Enforcement found that the
gift cards were being used by 12 small businesses to buy
items from Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and other stores. The
businesses fronted themselves as "discount
dollar/convenience" stores with names like Wendy’s
Dollar and Duarte the Real Discount Inc. Goods purchased
with the fake gift cards were then sold at the discount
stores across Miami-Dade. Buying gift cards as far away
as Maine. (Source
miamiherald.com)
Arizona ORC ring of 6 busted and was hitting stores in
Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tucson.
A string of robberies that began April 24 at stores such
as Louis Vuitton, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom's Rack
and Gucci netted $100,000 worth of stolen merchandise,
Scottsdale police said. On Wednesday, Scottsdale
detectives conducted surveillance at Scottsdale Fashion
Square Mall, where two of the suspects, Quinzale
Laquwana Nero, 19, Virgil Nave, 30, were seen entering,
then exiting the mall with 29 Michael Kors purses
estimated to be worth more that $8,000, police said.
(Source
azcentral.com) |
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