A high-tech credit card skimming operation that stretched from Northern Virginia into Maryland has been busted — and detectives say the mastermind was “hiding in plain swipe.”
Detectives from the Fairfax County Police Department’s Financial Crimes Unit uncovered an elaborate skimming network targeting ATMs and payment devices at multiple convenience stores along the Richmond Highway corridor, the department announced.
The operation began after police found two skimming devices in early September, prompting a joint investigation with the US Secret Service…