An alert merchant in Key Largo quickly called the Sheriff’s
Office after a Hialeah man attempted to use multiple fraudulent credit cards in
his store to purchase high end merchandise. That call led to the arrest of the
man who is now in jail on 60 felony counts related to the fraud.
The manager of West Marine in Key Largo said 41 year old
Rogelio Rodriguez walked into the store at about noon and asked to see one of
the most expensive models of Garmin GPS, which they did not have in stock. He
then asked for the second most expensive
GPS and said he would take it without asking any questions about the device at
all. He produced an Ohio driver’s license with the name Jesus Mardonado on it;
he then swiped a credit card with the same name, which was declined. He tried
six more cards, which were all declined. He then walked out of the store and
drove away in a black 2014 Nissan sport
utility vehicle.
The manager called the Sheriff’s Office and reported the
suspicious activity, giving a detailed description of the vehicle, which he
said was traveling southbound. Sheriff’s deputies and a Florida Highway Patrol
trooper spotted the vehicle at the 101 mile marker of the highway and stopped
it.
Detectives Bob Dosh and Jacques Rozek responded to the scene
to investigate. Rodriguez had a stack of credit cards in his pocket. He gave
detectives permission to search his vehicle. Inside, they found more
counterfeit credit cards. Rodriguez had a total of 25 counterfeit credit cards
in his possession. He told detectives he did not want to talk to them about the
cards; he said he is a two-time convicted felon and if they asked him any
questions, he would just say he “didn’t know.”
He was arrested. He was charged with 32 counts of use of another
person’s identification without their permission; 25 counts illegal use of
credit cards; grand theft, trafficking in counterfeited credit cards,
manufacturing counterfeit identification and illegal use of a credit card. He
was booked into jail.
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