{"id":284808,"date":"2026-05-26T15:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284808\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:21:09","slug":"police-duo-caught-placing-skimming-device-at-supermarket-in-west-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284808\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Duo caught placing skimming device at supermarket in West Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 26, 2026 at 10:55 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TYWC6Y7I4FFQHMEXEJA7CRDTPQ.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Police officers arrested Pylip Vionov on Monday in West Miami. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WEST MIAMI, Fla.  \u2014 Two men who were born in Ukraine and live in New York were caught setting up a card skimming fraud on Monday in West Miami, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/26\/policia-capturan-a-duo-colocando-dispositivo-de-clonacion-en-supermercado-de-west-miami\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/26\/policia-capturan-a-duo-colocando-dispositivo-de-clonacion-en-supermercado-de-west-miami\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pylip Vionov and Anton Levkun \u201cplaced a skimming device on a credit card point-of-sale machine\u201d at Sabor Tropical Supermarket in West Miami\u2019s Alameda area, according to a police report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A surveillance camera at the supermarket at 6190 SW 8 St. recorded video showing Vionov, 45, \u201ccovering the credit card machine with a large aluminum tray and distracting the cashier,\u201d according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The surveillance video also shows Levkun, 41, positioning the \u201cskimming device onto the credit card reader\u201d before a police officer found it and removed it, according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police officers found Vionov and Levkun walking westbound on Southwest Eighth Street, and their parked car at Southwest Sixth Street and 63rd Avenue, according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Levkun had \u201cclear plastic wrap covering all ten fingertips\u201d and \u201cbegan removing the coverings and discarded them on the ground,\u201d according to the police officer\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade corrections booked Vionov on Monday afternoon at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vionov and Levkun each faced charges of unlawful use of a scanning device or reencoder, and organized scheme to defraud. Their bond was $5,000 each. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 26, 2026 at 10:55 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPolice officers arrested Pylip Vionov on Monday in West Miami. 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