{"id":376657,"date":"2026-08-20T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376657\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:08:08","slug":"u-s-secret-services-operation-heat-check-finds-13-skimmers-in-hialeah-homestead-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376657\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Secret Service\u2019s \u2018Operation Heat Check\u2019 finds 13 skimmers in Hialeah, Homestead \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Secret Service operation targeting illegal card skimmers uncovered 13 skimming devices in Hialeah and Homestead, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operation Heat Check&#8221; involved nearly 3,000 inspections of point-of-sale terminals, gas pumps and ATMs at 378 businesses, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Working with Hialeah and Homestead Police, 13 illegal skimming devices were removed, preventing an estimated $13.5 million in fraud losses, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The effort is part of an ongoing nationwide initiative to combat payment card skimming, EBT fraud and other forms of financial crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operation HEAT CHECK demonstrates that, alongside our local partners, the U.S. Secret Service is committed to identifying and pursuing those who prey on South Florida communities,&#8221; said Special Agent in Charge Michael Townsend of the U.S. Secret Service Miami Field Office. &#8220;Our approach is proactive. Rather than waiting for consumers to become victims, we are working with businesses to help them recognize and report skimming devices before more people are impacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Secret Service operation targeting illegal card skimmers uncovered 13 skimming devices in Hialeah and Homestead, authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,807],"class_list":["post-376657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376657","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=376657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}