Three men are facing many charges after officers discovered a credit card skimming operation inside a Dallas home, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation announced Tuesday.
On July 17, a merchant contacted the Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center after discovering a skimmer, alerting authorities to the situation. The next day, officers executed a search warrant on a Dallas house, discovering 115 credit card skimmers, $50,000 in cash, 25 phony IDs, and more than 300 payment cards that had been re-encoded with victims’ account information.
Authorities reported the arrest of three Romanian men, Victor Marian Tecu, Triussa Gabrielle (also known as Ionut Firan Alexandrau), and Gheorge Ciprian Hilitanu, in connection with the bust…