BOSTON (WWLP) – A Florida man has pleaded responsible in Boston federal courtroom for his function in a scheme that stole hundreds of debit and credit card account numbers through digital skimming gadgets at gas stations throughout New England.
According to the workplace of U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins, 32-year-old Luis Angel Naranjo Rodriguez of Hialeah, Florida pleaded responsible Wednesday to the next:
• 8 counts of wire fraud
• 4 counts of financial institution fraud
• 4 counts of aggravated identification theft
• 1 depend of possessing 15 or more counterfeit or unauthorized entry gadgets (the debit and credit card account numbers)
• 1 depend of possessing device-making tools (the card skimming gadgets)
Naranjo Rodriguez was arrested in March 2020 and indicted by a federal grand jury in September 2020. He secretly put in card skimming gadgets at gas pumps in 11 completely different areas in New England, together with in Lynnfield, Concord, Malden, Taunton, Randolph and Raynham in Massachusetts.
Between April 2019 and November 2019, Naranjo Rodriguez traveled incessantly from Florida to Massachusetts to take care of the card skimmers. Court paperwork revealed his cell phone acquired at least 4,878 textual content messages containing stolen debit and credit card account numbers, account holder names and PINs. He would take the account information and clone them onto reward playing cards to make ATM withdrawals, bought shopper items to resell, and requested money again on debit card transactions.
Naranjo Rodriguez was captured on safety digicam in Framingham on November 16, 2019 utilizing 4 cloned playing cards to withdraw cash from victims’ financial institution accounts at an ATM. He was arrested that night time after he was discovered tampering with gasoline pumps after a gas station had closed. Police discovered the 4 cloned playing cards in addition to gasoline pump keys, black latex gloves, 4 card skimmers, and a cell phone that acquired the textual content messages.
Naranjo Rodriguez will likely be sentenced on May 11.