The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrested three men Monday in connection for stealing credit card information from an ATM outside of a Publix supermarket.
Deputies arrested Ion Nistor, 25, Soniard Nistor, 33, and Giovani Hornea, 21, on resisting arrest, tampering with evidence and multiple fraud charges, according to an ASO arrest report.
The report gave the following account: At about 6:30 a.m. Monday, Ion Nistor walked to an ATM outside Publix, 14130 W. Newberry Road, and placed a credit card reader and camera onto the machine. He then left. For the next three hours, the device and camera captured credit card information. A Publix surveillance tape recorded at least 10 transactions during that time.
When Ion Nistor and Hornea returned, they took the devices and left in a Chrysler minivan driven by Soniard Nistor.
When deputies later stopped the van at a Waffle House parking lot, the men got out and ran away. Deputies caught all three men. Deputies found a laptop, several cellphones and $2,000 cash in the van.
Ion Nistor and Soniard Nistor were booked into the Alachua County Jail at about 8:30 p.m. Monday, where they remained Tuesday night with $255,000 bonds.
Contact Kathryn Varn at kvarn@alligator.org.
