Thread: FL-4 Bulgarians arrested in $2 million ATM thefts

4 Bulgarians arrested in $2 million ATM thefts
Posted on Thu, Apr. 10, 2008
BY ELINOR J. BRECHER
ebrecher@MiamiHerald.com



From top left to right, Nikolai H. Arabov, 37, Denislav Filipov, 19, Diyan N. Dobrev, 34, and Stanimir G. Kolev, 36.
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Four one-way tickets Sofia-Miami: About $4,000.

Haul from the heist: At least $2 million.

Busting the four Bulgarians who figured out yet another ingenious way to hijack ATMS -- literally from the inside out, with tiny cameras: Priceless.

''It was very satisfying,'' said the Miami Beach police detective who led six undercover colleagues in tracking down and arresting the four men, who are now in the Miami-Dade County Jail.

The quartet is accused of installing ''skimmers'' on the outside of ATMs and cameras inside to capture PIN and account numbers, then reprogramming retail-store gift cards and nefariously acquired credit cards with the information to withdraw cash.

Miami Beach police spokesman Detective Juan Sanchez asked that the names of the undercover officers -- from the economic crimes and auto-theft unit -- not be used, to protect their anonymity.

Sanchez said that federal and other local law-enforcement agencies had been chasing the four men for two years, during which time they stole from ''thousands of victims'' from South Florida to New Jersey.

Facing multiple felony charges, including grand theft, criminal use of personal identification, credit-card fraud, violations of the Communications Fraud Act and tampering with evidence, are: Nikolai H. Arabov, 37, also charged with cocaine possession; Diyan N. Dobrev, 34; Stanimir G. Kolev, 36, and Denislav Filipov, 19.

Police said that all four men were in the United States legally, on legitimate visas.


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you people just dont know how wild Florida has become... it is all but out of control because of the lack of immigration inforcement as far as I can see

Are these guys actually illegal immigrants?

Police said that all four men were in the United States legally, on legitimate visas.

Florida is a big draw for organized crime, Illegal Aliens and an infusion of Cuban's, Eastern Europeans and Illegal Alien's... this is the new Wild West

The article says they had legal visas to come here. If the Secret Service was after them for two years, I don't understand why their visas weren't revoked. There should be conditions when a visa can be revoked or does a visa holder have to be proved guilty in a court of law before a visa is revoked? Doesn't say what type of visa they had.

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Airborne is absolutely right! Florida is not only indinated with the illegals, we also have the Cubans and their specialized crimes -- grow houses, drugs, insurance fraud, chop shops, thefts against their employers, boat thefts for human smuggling, shoplifting, crooked politicians, unliscensed dump trucks on our roads -- you name it, they specialize in it -- any way to take advantage of our system, one step up the intelligence ladder from the lowly illegal crimes! And we have to put up with it because of Wet Foot/Dry Foot. Florida is a magnet for criminals, just like this scum from Bulgaria!

Florida is what it is.... Old People are Con'ed out of their life savings. Politicians are out of control... take a real good look at Miami... It is the prime example of what is heading your way. Miami looks like a third world country and it's not getting any better

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