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Two shoppers from Veracruz are behind bars in the Rio Grande Valley after being caught with dozens of fake credit cards and other fake IDs.
U.S. Secret Service agents charged Roberto Carlos Calderon-Lara and Isabel Martinez-Rodriguez under federal counterfeiting charges on Friday.
The Veracruz couple flew in to the Reynosa airport and took a taxi to the Pharr International Bridge.
The couple told customs officers that they came to buy clothes but authorities became suspicious when they saw that they had dozens of credit cards.
Court documents show that the names on the credit cards did not match their real names.
The couple allegedly had at least 53 counterfeit credit cards and handwritten lists with several numbers on them.
Among their belongings were also a Mexican voter registration card and a Sam's Club card using fake names as well as three genuine credit cards.
It's not clear how they made or came to be in possession of the credit cards of if they would have actually worked in local stores but the case remains under investigation by the Secret Service.
The couple appeared before U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Peter Ormsby in McAllen on Monday morning.
Judge Ormsby ordered they remain in custody without bond until a Thursday morning hearing.
