Three persons are expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate on Monday, charged with possession of counterfeit cards and card-making equipment.

Tristan Guytan, 30, Karishma Mohammed, 25, and Luann Boyce, 47, all of La Pastora, Santa Cruz, are each charged with one count of possession of card-making equipment and two counts of possession of a counterfeit card.

Guytan faces an additional charge of trafficking in counterfeit cards.

Officers of the Fraud Squad’s ABM Task Force received a call for assistance from the North-Eastern Division Task Force (NEDTF) last Tuesday and proceeded to the Santa Cruz district. There, they met with NEDTF officers who showed them several items appearing to be card skimming devices which were found in Guytan’s home.

Further searches resulted in more cards and equipment being discovered inside a black KIA Sportage vehicle which was parked on the premises.

The officers seized all the equipment and cards and arrested three suspects who were on the property at the time of the search.

A quantity of cash was also seized and handed over to officers of the Financial Intelligence Bureau for further investigations.