FDL Credit Card Skimming Suspect Pleads Guilty
22 April 2019 News
One of the two Romanian immigrants suspected of forging and cloning 137 credit cards in Fond du Lac last June has been convicted of seven felonies. Thirty-six-year-old Catalin Capanu pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of wire fraud, three counts of theft from a financial institution and a battery by prisoner charge from another case. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney says a tip from a resident that saw some suspicious activity at a credit union ATM machine in Fond du Lac led to the investigation. “A citizen saw what he believed to be some unusual activity at an ATM in the city of Fond du Lac so he called to report that and that ultimately is what sprung this investigation.” Capanu could get up to 21 years in prison and 21 years of extended supervision when he is sentenced on July 9th. Capanu’s co-defendant, 27-year-old Mihai-Alexandru Preda, has a week-long jury trial scheduled in October.
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