{"id":388551,"date":"2026-07-28T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388551\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:32:07","slug":"two-men-face-felony-charges-after-credit-card-skimmer-found-at-south-lubbock-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388551\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men face felony charges after credit card skimmer found at south Lubbock Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock police say a credit card skimming operation at a south Lubbock Walmart compromised dozens of customers\u2019 accounts and is connected to a larger Romanian crime ring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An incident report shows investigators with the Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center identified 20-year-old Francesco Matei and 22-year-old Iosiv-Roberto Curea as the men who planted a skimmer device on a register at the Walmart Neighborhood Market at 98th St. and University Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detectives said store video shows one man concealing the device behind a roll of paper towels while the other purchased water and gum as a distraction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The device allegedly captured information from nearly 150 credit and debit cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The case has been filed with the Lubbock County District Attorney. Both men face multiple felony counts for credit card fraud, identity theft, and illegal interception of electronic communications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Matei and Curea were arrested in Bexar County and are now held at the Lubbock County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock police say a credit card skimming operation at a south Lubbock Walmart compromised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[136930,294,3697,136928,136929,319,100014,168,13589,136932,1742,170,169,223,111523,5159,374,122987,20263,136931],"class_list":["post-388551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-credit-card-skimmer","tag-crime","tag-felony","tag-francesco-matei","tag-iosiv-roberto-curea","tag-kcbd","tag-kcbd-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-county","tag-lubbock-county-district-attorney","tag-lubbock-crime","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-skimmer","tag-south-lubbock","tag-south-plains","tag-texas-financial-crimes-intelligence-center","tag-walmart","tag-walmart-neighborhood-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}