{"id":82706,"date":"2025-12-23T08:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82706"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:14:56","slug":"three-men-arrested-in-14-million-gift-card-scheme-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/23\/three-men-arrested-in-14-million-gift-card-scheme-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men arrested in $14 million gift card scheme, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1SR18x.img?w=534&amp;h=274&amp;m=6&amp;x=19&amp;y=96&amp;s=703&amp;d=209\" alt=\"From left to right, Kristians Petrovskis, Romunds Cubrevics and Nurmunds Ulevicus were charged with fraudulent possession of gift cards, a first-degree felony (Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three men have been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0arrested<\/a>\u00a0in a $14 million<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/experts-warn-holiday-scams-b2868424.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0gift card scheme<\/a> where they stole from 10 stores a day for months, according to officials. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/three-men-arrested-in-14-million-gift-card-scheme-officials-say\/ar-AA1SQFWG?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=694a4a98216642caa7879f5ba4db3ae4&amp;ei=27\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Three men have been\u00a0arrested\u00a0in a $14 million\u00a0gift card scheme where they stole from 10 stores a day for months, according to officials&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gift-card-thieves.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82708,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82706\/revisions\/82708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}