Gift Card Fraud: Two Arrested In Bayonne
Two Brooklyn residents were arrested in Bayonne for using gift cards to skim money from ATMs, police said.
Neculai Candet, 31, and Madalina Balmus, 41, were taken into custody on Friday, April 28, following a weeklong investigation, police said.
On Friday, April 21, a man reported four withdrawals from an ATM at a CVS, at either 560 Avenue C or Goldsborough Drive, totaling $560, police said. Later that day, two more people reported $200 and $343 withdrawn from their bank accounts, respectively, police said.
Officers observed Candet and Balmus outside the ATM at Goldsborough Drive, police s…
