The arrest comes months after a man placed a skimming device on an ATM at a New Jersey store.

Authorities said a California man was charged with installing an ATM skimming device at a central New Jersey store.

Local police said Thursday that Alexanderu Crisan, 34, of Los Angeles was charged last week with defrauding others by using a scanning device in the Middlesex neighborhood.

The device was located on March 22 and reported to police the same day, said Detective Lt. Sean Flanagan. Police declined to say how Crisan was caught or the name of the business, other than to say it was located on Union Avenue.

Crisan was released on a summons and is scheduled for a July 11 hearing. He has not been charged in any other related cases in New Jersey, according to city court records. An attorney was not immediately available.

The Middlesex Borough store was one of several businesses across the state where skimming devices were found in ATMs this year.

Authorities said the devices were also installed in ATMs at stores and banks in Cinnaminson, Galloway, Pennsauken, Nutley, Bayonne, Roselle and Union.

During the winter, Roselle and Union devices were installed in Aldi stores.

Previous arrests this year involved skimming devices in Westfield, where two men were accused of installing the devices in ATMs in the city. One is from Anaheim, Calif., the other from Brooklyn, New York. Both are suspected of stealing $165,500 in the New Jersey area and $142,360 in Chicago, Westfield police said at the time.

According to officials, once an ATM card is swiped, the skimming device stores information about the victim. The device is later removed by the thieves. But with the right technology, the thieves don’t even have to return to the business.

“The increasing use of cellular and Bluetooth technologies allows cybercriminals to quickly and remotely access data with a low probability of detection,” the New Jersey Cybersecurity and Investigations Unit said in a statement.

In addition to skimmers, hidden cameras and fake number pads can capture and record pressed keys such as PINs and passwords, cybersecurity officials say.

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