{"id":376601,"date":"2026-08-20T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376601\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:56:31","slug":"secret-service-agents-work-with-hialeah-and-homestead-police-to-remove-13-credit-card-skimmers-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376601\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service agents work with Hialeah and Homestead police to remove 13 credit card skimmers &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HIALEAH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A major crackdown in Miami-Dade County brought together federal and local authorities to take aim at credit card skimmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities said surveillance video shows two crooks at work inside a grocery store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators said one subject distracts a cashier while the other person installs a skimmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Secret Service worked with the Hialeah and Homestead police departments to find those devices. They visited 378 businesses, including gas stations, and inspected thousands of point-of-sale terminals, ATMs and gas pumps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said they removed 13 illegal skimming devices during the operation, preventing more than $13 million in potential fraud losses.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIALEAH, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A major crackdown in Miami-Dade County brought together federal and local authorities to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-376601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}