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Police: 500 Fake Credit Cards Found Before Florida Fraudster Hits Newark Police: 500 Fake Credit Cards Found Before Florida Fraudster Hits Newark
Police: 500 Fake Credit Cards Found Before Florida Fraudster Hits Newark After finding 500 bogus credit and gift cards in his checked luggage, police at Orlando Airport called ahead to their Port Authority colleagues, who arrested a convicted con man as he got off a plane in Newark, authorities said. Robert Smith-Merced, 46, Kissimmee FL, "was unaware that the luggage holding the fraudulent cards was still being held by authorities in Orlando" when he got off the Delta flight around 10 a.m. Thursday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. Officers waiting at the gate found him carrying three fake credit cards and a bogus Connecticut driver's license, …

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by Jerry DeMarco