Earlier this month, Italy's Luca Pizzingrilli and Romania's Savin Iantoc were arrested by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Pizzingrilli and Iantoc are accused of placing skimming devices to hack an ATM in the city, and are currently being held in Charlotte on $25 million and $30 million bonds, respectively.
According to the CMPD, the two were arrested after personnel from the Sun Trust Bank alerted the authorities about the risk of skimming activities in one of their ATMs. In a press conference regarding the situation, a representative from the CMPD defined the whole operation as a "fantastic work from the CMPD officers" as they were able to identify the two criminals and arrest them shortly after the bank hinted at the skimming risk.