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Las Vegas businessman accused of credit card fraud

By Antonio Planas
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Posted: Feb. 7, 2011 | 6:16 p.m.

A 53-year-old man was arrested last week on credit card fraud charges, Las Vegas police said .

Police said Las Vegan Gevorg Gorj Kegeyan was arrested after search warrants were served at his home and three businesses Wednesday. Warrants were served at The Cigarette Box, 5891 W. Craig Road; Colton's General Store, 675 U.S. Highway 95 in Searchlight; and The Cigarette Box, 2311 S. Casino Drive in Laughlin.

Police said several credit card skimming machines were discovered at the businesses, with 350 credit cards, ATM cards and gift cards.

Police said Kegeyan would illegally obtain credit card information from existing accounts and transfer the information to cards in his possession, then fraudulently use them.

Police said Kegeyan will face additional charges. He was not listed as an inmate at the Clark County Detention Center on Monday.

Contact reporter Antonio Planas at aplanas@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-4638.

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  1. Fanny Mae Feb. 8, 2011 | 6:30 p.m. Report Abuse

    Big Dope. The love of money... there you go. Many people can downsize. They should think about it... consider it. Sometimes you don't know what you can live without until you try.

  2. Green Dragon Regular Feb. 8, 2011 | 10:19 a.m. Report Abuse

    @mrability-

    So, by your definition, people with best-selling books, high television and radio ratings, raking in bags of money are failures?

    Wow, your "ability" must have the bar set pretty high...

  3. mark_schaffer Feb. 8, 2011 | 4:06 a.m. Report Abuse

    Mrability, do u molest children?

  4. John.Dough Feb. 7, 2011 | 8:19 p.m. Report Abuse

    Opulence, He has it.

  5. mrability Feb. 7, 2011 | 7:37 p.m. Report Abuse

    probally a failed right winger like beck limbo palin ect

  6. Worldsgreatest Feb. 7, 2011 | 7:32 p.m. Report Abuse

    Too bad he didn't work for LVMPD. He could retire, collect PERS and just give it back. Honest! I swear! Metro is user friendly! You have no idea! ROFL

  7. hamisch Feb. 7, 2011 | 7:05 p.m. Report Abuse

    Damn, you can't trust stores. Just pay for everything with cash.

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