Two Miami men accused of stuffing 91 fraudulent credit cards in a rental car headrest spent Tuesday night in the Alachua County Jail, Gainesville Police said.
Yasmany Veloz Miranda, 31, and Lizuan Miranda Monteagudo, 26, were arrested Tuesday afternoon after a traffic stop turned into car search, according to arrest reports.
Miranda Monteagudo was driving on Interstate 75 with Miranda Veloz in the front passenger seat when an officer pulled them over for following a car too closely, the report said. Monteagudo gave police permission to search the car.
Police found a computer bag on the passenger side of the car with a laptop, USB drives, a card skimmer and three keys, two of which appeared to be gas pump keys, the report said.
A total of 91 credit cards were bundled into three groups and stuffed inside the driver’s seat headrest, police said. Another skimmer and a re-encoder, a device that can transfer information from one credit card to another, were stuffed in the front passenger seat headrest.
The two men cut out some of the foam in the headrests to hide the credit cards and devices, police said.
Some of the cards had Monteagudo’s name embossed on the front and PIN numbers written on the back in marker. The account numbers connected to the cards’ magnetic stripes were different than the numbers embossed on the front, police said.
Monteagudo is listed as the registered agent of MSC Sales Inc. in Miami, according to the Florida Department of State business records. The home address listed on Monteagudo’s arrest report matches the corporation’s registered address.
Both men are charged with trafficking over 50 fake credit cards, using a skimmer to defraud, using a re-encoder to defraud and swindling to obtain property.
They are held in jail in lieu of $850,000 bonds.
