From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE –Two New York men are being held in jail with bonds of a half million dollars each after Trussville police made a major bust in a credit card scheme.
According to Trussville police captain Jeff Bridges, officers made what Jefferson County Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Raulston is calling “possibly one of the biggest credit card seizures in the county.”
Trussville police nab New York pair using cloned credit cards.
Bridges said police received a call from Regions Bank saying they had detected two people attempting to make purchases with cloned credit cards in Foot Locker at the Pinnacle.
Detective Keith Rosetta went to the business and quickly apprehended the suspects. After questioning the two men, he requested a search warrant for their vehicle.
A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed 193 cloned credit cards and 61 gift cards valued at $10,000. Police also found new store merchandise such as cartons of cigarettes, Nike Air Jordans, Apple products, cellphones and other electronics.
Michael Demartino Wimbush, 25, of New York, and Calvin Jorge Hylton, 24, also from New York, are currently being held in the Jefferson County Jail charged with encoded data fraud. The men are being held on $500,000 bonds each.
Authorities believe the pair had already hit stores Fultondale, Vestavia, The Galleria in Hoover, and Alabaster.
The men flew into Birmingham rented a car and plans to to fly back to New York, police believe. They had gift cards for Southwest Airlines in their possession.
53 Comments
Annamaria Kovacs Murray
Great job Trussville police!!
Annamaria Kovacs Murray
Great job Trussville police!!
Gloria Langley Vaughan
Good job !!
Gloria Langley Vaughan
Good job !!
Wendy Dunn Treglown
Way to go TPD! My credit card number has been stolen twice in the last four months. Thankfully my cc company noticed the strange purchases and contacted me immediately and we shut the account down before they could do too much damage. But, what a pain! I have things that automatically charge my cc- like the newspaper, etc. that I have to call and go through the hassle of changing, all because of crooks. Makes me so ill. I think these people should be punished extensively so that this ends- although I know it won’t. Anyway, way to go TPD!! Glad they took some criminals off the street.
Wendy Dunn Treglown
Way to go TPD! My credit card number has been stolen twice in the last four months. Thankfully my cc company noticed the strange purchases and contacted me immediately and we shut the account down before they could do too much damage. But, what a pain! I have things that automatically charge my cc- like the newspaper, etc. that I have to call and go through the hassle of changing, all because of crooks. Makes me so ill. I think these people should be punished extensively so that this ends- although I know it won’t. Anyway, way to go TPD!! Glad they took some criminals off the street.
Denise Hall Ross
Great Job!
Denise Hall Ross
Great Job!
Lamar Adkins
All these credit cards maybe that’s why I have to wait in line at Wells Fargo at the drive-thru when I see people standing and put one card after another card after card in the machine
Lamar Adkins
All these credit cards maybe that’s why I have to wait in line at Wells Fargo at the drive-thru when I see people standing and put one card after another card after card in the machine
Pamela Christian
Good Job
Lauren Davis
Great job!!!
Tracy Bibb Slone
Kudos to Regions Bank & Trussville PD!!!
Sandra Merchant
Great job TPD!!!!
Nikki Smith
Michael Smith
René Self Davis
Great job Regions and TPD!!!!
Deanna Hunt
True
Deanna Hunt
True
Chris Clark
Finally I guess this can count as good news. Great job TPD and Regions at Trussville.
Delane HoneyCutt Parker
Good job!!
Margie White Dill
I haven’t been in trussville but I went to Walmart in Sumiton Sunday and used my debit card and that afternoon in Alexandria La my card was used at a Walmart and a sam’s for over $100
April Hughes
Great job!!!
Bridget Smith
Outstanding job!!!
RobertandJerry Motley
Congrats
Angela McRae-Hooks
Joy Thompson Smith
Kenneth Mcintyre
Thugs ! Coming to a city near you real soon !
Joy Thompson Smith
Yeah I was reading it while you were tagging me lol
Angela McRae-Hooks
Lol
Joy Thompson Smith
I was about to tag you because it said Regions lol
Doris Alexander Harrison
Great job, Regions and Trussville PD!
Laura Joiner
Don’t mess with TPD
Janice Gafnea Gallagher
Way to go TPD, you rock!
Freda Maddox Carmichael
Great job TPD.
Peggy Dorriety Jones
Great job TPD!
Jan Mareno Dunn
Elena Llivina
Our awesome blue lives at work! Thank you!
Patty Dison
Good job Trussville PD!
Jodi Greenway
Mine has been hacked 3 times over the past 2 years! It’s a HUGE pain in the butt!
Betty Klie
Anna Claire Klie, Aren’t you glad they didn’t visit your store!
Lisa Park
Yea TPD❗️ They need to stick it hard to these crooks❗️Keep up the Great Work
Tracy Wingard Perry
Great job! Unfortunately my husband went thru this. They used his card for smaller purchases before they tried a big purchase. Thank God Regions called him to ask if he was in New York making these purchases.
Gail Smith Wright
Good job!
Destini Goodwin
Audrey Stewart did this happen to y’all?
Pam Srofe
Shania Glover Wheeler
Audrey Stewart
Yes
Steve Waid
Great job, TPD!
Suzanne Robinson Evans
Good work Regions!
Joyce Mitchell
Thanks! Awesome job people!!
Ashley Knight Thimaras
Don’t bother coming down South. We don’t play those games here.
Scott Coffey
That’s funny. Last summer I filed a report with Trussville PD about stolen credit card activity and never received any help with the fraud. I just figured that Trussville PD just rides around hides in bushes to write speeding tickets .
Gary D. Wilson
Tamika Wilson Williams
Sandra Barksdale
Thanks and great job
Rita Morgan
Thank you