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Two Sentenced After Stealing 170 Credit Card Numbers

Last updated on Monday, September 28, 2015

(SEYMOUR) - Two Louisville men who were arrested in February after police discovered more than 170 credit cards containing stolen numbers in their vehicle near Seymour.

Both 29-year-old Rene Perez and 25-year-old Brian Diaz, received three-year prison terms.

Jackson Circuit Judge Richard W. Poynter sentenced each man after they both plead guilty to one Level 5 felony count of fraud on a financial institution.

In a plea deal the state agreed to dismiss 32 other counts of the same charge against the pair in exchange for a guilty plea.

The pair were arrested after an Indiana State trooper Indiana State Police Trooper James Wells reported stopping a blue 2005 Mercedes for making an unsafe lane change while following another vehicle too closely in the southbound lanes of Interstate 65 near the 49-mile marker.

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