THREE people have been charged with the possession of counterfeit cards and card-making equipment.
Trivan Guytan, 30, Karishma Mohammed, 25, and Luann Boyce, 47, all of La Pastora in Santa Cruz are expected to appear before a Port-of-Spain magistrate on Monday.
They are each charged with one count of possession of card-making equipment and two counts of possession of a counterfeit card while Guytan faces an additional charge of trafficking in counterfeit cards.
Reports indicated that officers of the Fraud Squad’s ABM Task Force, received a call for assistance from the North-Eastern Division Task Force (NEDTF) on Tuesday and proceeded to the Santa Cruz district.
There, they met with NEDTF officers who showed them several items appearing to be card skimming devices which were found in the home of a male suspect.
Further searches resulted in more cards and equipment being discovered inside a black KIA Sportage motor vehicle which was parked on the premises.
The officers seized all the equipment and cards and arrested three suspects who were on the property at the time of the search.
A quantity of cash was also seized and handed over to officers of the Financial Intelligence Bureau for further investigations.
Acting Cpl Nowbutt of the ABM Task Force charged Guytan, Mohammed and Boyce, in connection with the offences on Friday 15th May 2020.
