WEST MIAMI, Fla. — Two men who were born in Ukraine and live in New York were caught setting up a card skimming fraud on Monday in West Miami, according to police.
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Pylip Vionov and Anton Levkun “placed a skimming device on a credit card point-of-sale machine” at Sabor Tropical Supermarket in West Miami’s Alameda area, according to a police report.
A surveillance camera at the supermarket at 6190 SW 8 St. recorded video showing Vionov, 45, “covering the credit card machine with a large aluminum tray and distracting the cashier,” according to police.
The surveillance video also shows Levkun, 41, positioning the “skimming device onto the credit card reader” before a police officer found it and removed it, according to the arrest report.
Police officers found Vionov and Levkun walking westbound on Southwest Eighth Street, and their parked car at Southwest Sixth Street and 63rd Avenue, according to the arrest report.
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Levkun had “clear plastic wrap covering all ten fingertips” and “began removing the coverings and discarded them on the ground,” according to the police officer’s arrest report.
Miami-Dade corrections booked Vionov on Monday afternoon at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Vionov and Levkun each faced charges of unlawful use of a scanning device or reencoder, and organized scheme to defraud or conspiracy. They each had a $5,000 bond.
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Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.
