LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prosecutors want to try two California teenagers as adults for what prosecutors say was the teens’ involvement in an ATM fraud scheme.
Police suspect the two are part of a group of Romanians under investigation for mounting “skimming” devices and pinhole cameras on ATMs so they can steal account numbers. The two were arrested Sept. 25 in Lincoln after one was seen planting devices on a bank ATM.
On Wednesday a judge delayed a decision on the request by Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Christopher Reid to move the case out of juvenile court. Defense attorney Steffanie Kotik argued that if the operation is as sophisticated as prosecutors believe, the teens clearly “are not the brains behind the organization.”