Man pleads guilty to installing card skimmers in Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — United States Attorney Zachary Cunha said that a Romanian man plead guilty to installing card skimmers in ATMs in six states.

Mario Demarco, a/k/a Marius Lupu a/k/a David Ademec, until recently residing in Queens, New York, plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

His co-conspirator, Stefano Garioli, a/k/a Dumitru Bogdan Pancu a/k/a Leon Vutkus, also of Queens, pled guilty to the same charge in December 2024.

The two men would place skimming devices on ATM machines in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and then would create fake bank cards with the stolen information.

After two years of getting away with it they were finally caught when a bank manager in Warwick saw them doing it on video.

Demarco and Garioli are set to be sentenced in May.