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Rapper Sauce Kid bags 2-yr sentence for stealing credit card info

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Rapper Sauce Kids bags 2-yr sentence for stealing credit card info

Soft spoken Nigerian rapper Babalola Falemi aka Sauce Kid will now spend the next two years behind bars after he was found guilty by an American court for stealing the sum of $15,388 using stolen credit card numbers in Boise and Meridian.

Revealing his mode of operation, a source said Sauce Kid allegedly stole bank card numbers and identifying information from their owners; he then encoded the account numbers onto blank plastic cards which he used to withdraw cash from the accounts.

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The source further revealed that Sauce Kid used an automated system to change account PINs and was able to withdraw cash from bank ATMS and buy merchandise from stores between July 23 and 26 2016.

Court documents revealed that all the withdrawals took place at Boise ATMs owned by Idaho Central Credit Union and at Albertsons stores in Meridian.

According to police sources, Sauce Kid was arrested at the Boise Airport as he was about to board a flight and he was caught with a card encoding device and more than $6,000 in cash.

 

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