According to a plea agreement in the case, the ringleader of a organized group of ATM thieves that operated in Nevada and New Mexico faces a sentence of no more than five years in prison as well as the forfeiture of over $1 million and 11 boats, cars and other vehicles.
|In the filing, Bulgarian native Dimitar Dimitrov pleaded guilty to having organzed four other people to create ATM skimming devices, deploying those devices to capture ATM users card numbers and personal identification codes and then creating counterfeit ATM cards that they then used to steal money from card holder's accounts.
|According to the plea agreements, the gang used the counterfeit cards "on a rotating basis" at ATMs in Nevada and New Mexico usually on the same day and often within minutes of one another.
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