ATM Scam Connected To Wilmington Pharmacy, Police Say
The FBI has jumped into the investigation of a major ATM scam in the local area.
The NBC 10 investigators first told you about dozens of victims and the arrest of two men in July.
Sources are calling this an Armenian organized crime ring.
Last week two men were charged with stealing from dozens of ATM accounts in Tredyfferin Township and now the FBI said it has connected the scam to a Wilmington pharmacy.
The FBI said Artur Grigoryan and his partner, Artur Harutyunyan, had a slick operation at the Rite Aid Pharmacy in North Wilmington.
Agents claim the two men replaced a real card swipe keypad with a skimming device that looked just like it, for a month. The FBI believes the skimmer collected ATM card and pin numbers.
Then police believe the men put that stolen information on gift cards and then withdrew money from dozens of bank accounts without victims ever knowing.
The FBI said the suspects usually went to automated teller machines at Wawas to make the withdrawals.
We're told police have been looking for the men for months, believing they have been moving from state to state.
An Upper Merion police officer recognized one of them at a King Of Prussia Wawa a couple of weeks ago and made the first arrest.
Rite Aid said it has updated all of it's debit card scanners to help prevent this from happening again.
The two men have a preliminary hearing Thursday morning.
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