Louisville Metro police have arrested two men in a credit card skimming operation.
Onil Cesar Perez-Delgado, 37, and Yosmel Castillo-Martinez, 28, were taken into custody in the 5800 block of Outer Loop Tuesday (11/03) night.
According to arrest reports, LMPD detectives conducting a credit card skimming investigation observed the men swiping cloned, re-encoded credit cards at a self serve car wash on Outer Loop over a two night period.
On the night of their arrests, police say the men left the car wash in separate cars traveling at a high rate of speed toward Shepherdsville Road. When officers made traffic stops on the vehicles they saw the re-encoded cards in plain view. Police said Perez-Delgado had 14 cards in his car while Castillo-Martinez had 13.
During their surveillance police recorded the men using 83 cards. A search of the apartment the men shared authorities found a computer with a device to create and embed credit cards attached to it, other cards that had been re-encoded, cash and rolls of magnetic tape used to make credit cards. Police determined at total of 114 credit cards had been cloned.
Perez-Delgado and Castillo-Martinez are each charged with 114 counts of unauthorized production of a credit card, 114 counts of false making or embossing of a credit card, and one count of using a scanning device to re-encode or transfer information from a credit card.
Metro police believe the men were trafficking the stolen credit cards for profit.
Source: WAVE
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