Thief Makes 250 Withdrawals From the Same ATM in 4 Days

Police find 150 debit cards in man's apartment

An alleged Broward County thief must have suffered from intellectual withdrawal after he went to the same ATM over 250 times using different debit cards.

Jose Garcia Payero, 43, was arrested Thursday and charged with grand theft and criminal use of personal identification for his compulsive ATM use. Police said none of the debit cards belonged to him.

Coconut Creek police received a call from the Chase Bank branch on State Road 7 that the same man had made an uncharacteristic amount of withdrawals from their machine in a four-day span.

When police showed up to Payero's apartment, they found 150 debit cards that weren't his. Investigators think Payero is part of a bigger fraud scheme that centers around debit gift cards. The IRS has also been called in to investigate.

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