Three people were arrested Wednesday after an officer found 51 fraudulent credit cards inside their car, Gainesville Police said.
Jael Diaz Morejon, 34, of Miami; Sergio Rodriguez Sanfiel, 30, of Colorado; and Grettea Dominguez Mendez, 23, of Tampa were pulled over on Interstate 75 at about 2:36 p.m. for a tinted windows infraction, according to an arrest report.
The officer noticed two large bundles of cash in rubber bands on the front passenger’s floorboard and in the center console area. While the officer was writing a warning, Rodriguez Sanfiel, who was driving the car, spontaneously told the officer he could search his car, according to the report.
The officer found a credit card re-encoder, gas pump keys, ledgers, a laptop, USB cables, fraudulent credit cards and large amounts of cash, according to the report.
Dominguez Mendez told police the equipment was hers, according to the report. She said she used the laptop for fraud and the money found by police was acquired from fraudulent credit card use, according to the report.
Dominguez Mendez was arrested on charges of trafficking in counterfeit credit cards, fraudulent use of a credit card and possession of a scanning device to defraud. Rodriguez Sanfiel and Diaz Morejon were arrested on a charge of possessing counterfeit credit cards.
The three remain in the Alachua County Jail, as of press time, in lieu of a combined bond of $1,800,000.
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