RALEIGH Another suspect was arrested Tuesday and charged with implanting stolen credit card numbers on gift cards, less than a week after police arrested seven others on the same charge.
Mamadou Barrie, 31, of Bronx County, New York, is charged with financial card forgery, his bond set at $1 million.
Seven others were arrested Dec. 28 after police enter a North Raleigh apartment to investigate a stolen cell phone and discovered hundreds of phony gift cards and a machine that could encode them with stolen credit card numbers.
Four of the seven arrested last week were from North Carolina: Seiko Gained Barrie, 25, and Jasmin N. McCartney, 22, both of Raleigh; and Keshena Danielle-Roberts Joyner, 23, and Jakema Harris, 18, both of New Bern.
The other three were from New York: Ibrahim Diablo, 25, and Manado L. Blah, 20, both of Bronx County; and Maidu Diablo, 22, of Syracuse.