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Police bust credit card fraud ring in southwest valley

By Mary Manning (contact)

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | 7:27 p.m.

A traffic stop by a Metro Police officer Monday led to a house in the southwest Las Vegas Valley where stolen credit cards and a tampered machine was discovered.

Police say they have been investigating the credit card fraud ring for more than 18 months and are continuing their investigation.

In addition to credit cards and a false ID in a car driven by 38-year-old Davit Kudugulyan, jewelry, DVD players and more credit cards were discovered at a house on Chicory Falls Court, police said.

In addition to a point-of-sale machine that someone tampered with at the residence, police found a card-swipe machine that records magnetic information on credit cards in a smoke shop.

At the Chicory Court house, police arrested 29-year-old Arytun Khoudagoulian, and a third man also has been arrested in connection with the investigation, identified as Hrachya Arakelyan.

Kudugulyan was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on six charges, including two counts of credit card forgery, using a credit card fraudulently, obtaining and possessing a credit card without the owner's permission, using identification of someone else and burglary.

Khoudagoulian and Arakelyan were booked on obtaining and possessing credit cards without the cardholder's consent.

Discussion: 9 comments so far…

  1. By stevem
    3/25/09 at 8:49 p.m.
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    finally, the police got some garbage off the street.

  2. By sp33dd3mon13
    3/26/09 at 12:53 a.m.
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    let the cops arrest drug dealers and gang members instead of armenians...

  3. By sp33dd3mon13
    3/26/09 at 12:54 a.m.
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    freakin haters...

  4. By sp33dd3mon13
    3/26/09 at 12:55 a.m.
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    Tkem dzakvoxneri achkerin!

  5. By bdover
    3/26/09 at 7:48 p.m.
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    This is obviously a case of discrimination against people of Armenian descent. Or maybe Turkmenistan or Ukraine-God knows how they get here, but they sure bring their habits with them.

  6. By nkls3713
    3/27/09 at 9:26 a.m.
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    Treat Armenian criminals like any other criminals, charge em, try em, and jail em.

  7. By airweare
    3/27/09 at 1:54 p.m.
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    Good Armenian boys got to America and learned bad habits; they got busted. Now they'll get to go to prison and learn worse habits. Where'll it end up? Worm food, like the rest of us. A little Armenian, a little French, some Polish. Yum some native American. Some African. All worm food tastes good to the worms. Anybody else care? Didn't think so.

  8. By SunriseGirl
    3/28/09 at 12:07 a.m.
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    Karma is gonna get everyone back go do something aboout people and children getting raped on daily basis and drug and abuse please they make this into a huge deal when theres other things in the world that people need to focus on GET A FREAKIN LIFE!!!!!!!!!

  9. By SunriseGirl
    3/28/09 at 11:36 a.m.
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    ITS SO SAD THAT ALOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD ARE HATERS AND DONT HAVE A LIFE

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