Waxhaw police: Man charged with credit card cloning – WSOC Charlotte

by: Liz Foster Updated: Mar 3, 2017 - 10:17 PM

WAXHAW, N.C. - A man accused of cloning credit cards and using them across the entire region is facing charges after being arrested in Louisiana.

Waxhaw police have been looking for Derrick Butler for several months.

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They said he cloned a credit card belonging to a Waxhaw woman, used it at a Charlotte store and signed his real name.

Detectives got surveillance video from the store and matched the picture and signature to the one on his drivers license. Butler was charged with identity theft and credit card fraud.

Investigators believe Butler is part of a larger group of people who are cloning credit cards and using them across the entire middle part of the state.

They said the group may be cloning cards and using them across the Charlotte area.

Detectives told Channel 9 at one point, Butler and others were in the High Point areaand found in possession ofdozens of cloned cards.

The case is still under investigation and Waxhaw police are trying to identify at least one other person suspected of fraud. They're also trying to figure out how the credit cards were cloned.

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