Port St. Lucie man arrested for using stolen credit cards at gas stations
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Port St. Lucie man arrested for using stolen credit cards at gas stations
Updated: 2:49 PM EDT Oct 29, 2025
What started as a casual beer run turned into a felony arrest for one local man who allegedly used stolen credit cards to fund his purchases.Stay up to date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25Deputies say 57-year-old Carlos Alberto Becquer Estepe used a stolen card to buy two 24-packs of Corona at a Wawa on SE Prima Vista Boulevard on Oct. 18.Investigators say he found a lost wallet in the parking lot of a dd’s Discounts on South U.S. Highway 1 with credit cards and used them at a local gas station.Estepe was arrested Wednesday. He now faces two counts of Fraudulent Use of a Credit Card and is currently being held at the St. Lucie County Jail.Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. —
What started as a casual beer run turned into a felony arrest for one local man who allegedly used stolen credit cards to fund his purchases.
Stay up to date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25
Deputies say 57-year-old Carlos Alberto Becquer Estepe used a stolen card to buy two 24-packs of Corona at a Wawa on SE Prima Vista Boulevard on Oct. 18.
Investigators say he found a lost wallet in the parking lot of a dd’s Discounts on South U.S. Highway 1 with credit cards and used them at a local gas station.
Estepe was arrested Wednesday. He now faces two counts of Fraudulent Use of a Credit Card and is currently being held at the St. Lucie County Jail.
Get the latest weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.