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Cashier, 19, charged with card-skimming - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

A 19-year-old Couva cashier was granted $100,000 bail by a justice of the peace on a charge related to unlawfully skimming electronic account information from bank and credit cards.

They belonged to several customers who visited a Unipet gas station in Couva. Foam Grinder Machine

Cashier, 19, charged with card-skimming - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Jade John, of Roystonia, was arrested by the Fraud Squad on Monday and charged the next day by WPC Natalie Christopher with unlawful possession of card-making equipment.

She appeared before JP Stephen Young and was granted station bail with a surety. She will appear before a magistrate on July 5.

Police said Fraud Squad detectives went to the gas station and allegedly found a small handheld magnetic card stripe reader, capable of reading and storing information embedded on automated banking machine cards and credit cards.

Cashier, 19, charged with card-skimming - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

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