Two men from Miami were arrested Tuesday after a Seward County deputy sheriff found credit card skimmers and fraudulent credit cards during an Interstate 80 traffic stop, the sheriff's office said Wednesday.
The deputy pulled over Jose Roberto Jr., 18, and Reinier Pena, 28, for a traffic violation at 11:20 a.m. and asked to search the car after developing suspicion they were involved in criminal activity, a news release said.
The men allowed the deputy to search the car and under the hood the deputy found two gas pump credit card skimmers concealed under the air filter and in a void space, the release said.
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Credit card skimmers are illicitly attached to ATMs and gas pump pay stations to secretly record credit card information that can be used to make fraudulent credit cards.
The deputy also found eight cards in the car that had been altered and loaded with stolen credit card numbers.
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Both were taken to the Seward County jail on suspicion of multiple felonies.
Investigators believe they were traveling to Colorado from Florida.
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