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2 Men Arrested for Buying Almost 500 Gallons of Gas Worth $1.7k Using Stolen Credit Cards

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Two East Bay men were arrested by SanJosePD at Safeway gas station on Cottle Rd. while they were using fraudulent credit card numbers to purchase $1,700 worth of gas.

Twenty-six-year-old, Deanthony Adams and 28-year-old Deanndray Miles, both from Pittsburg, were arrested by San Jose police on Wednesday after store employees noticed the men using fraudulent credit card numbers to purchase a large amount of gas at this Safeway Gas Station on Cottle Road.

Officers received a call from a Credit Union reporting the two suspects around 1 p.m.

According to police, the suspects were filling gas up into two trucks and external tanks in their truck beds that totaled out to be $1,700.

The suspects confessed to getting the credit card details from the dark web.

Police said their Fraud Unit will investigate the case with Adams and Miles and conduct a follow-up to see if there is a connection to other similar incidents in San Jose and throughout the Bay Area.

The suspects were arrested and booked into Santa Clara County Jail for grand theft by credit card, organized retail theft, conspiracy to commit a felony, and identity theft.

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