40-year-old Adrid Gamez Fernandez of Florida listens as an interpreter translates Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Judge Elizabeth Thomakos' sentencing order for his unauthorized use of telecommunications property conviction. (Tusco TV)

NEW PHILADELPHIA (Tusco TV) - The second of three Cuban immigrants accused of installing a skimmer on a Dover Township gas pump will spend a year on probation for his involvement.  

Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Judge Elizabeth Thomakos handed down the probation order Monday as part of the sentence against 40-year-old Adrid Gamez Fernandez of Kentucky. She also imposed a thousand dollar fine and 44 days of local incarceration with the same number of days credited for time already served in the county jail since his October jury conviction. Prosecutor Ryan Styer says Fernandez drove to the other two men to the BP gas station on Tuscarawas and was in the car when 31-year-old Michel Olivera-Fernandez of Kentucky installed the device on the pump. 

"He was the driver and the lookout while Michel, a rear passenger was installing the device. It’s pretty evident from the surveillance that Michel was installing the skimmer on the gas pump," he says. 

Styer says the second man didn’t show up for his jury trial and now has a warrant out for his arrest, and the third is finishing up a 30-day jail term after having his felony charge reduced to a misdemeanor.  

"The state’s theory is that he was a distraction. He went in to buy cigarettes and took an inordinate amount of time doing that so the other two co-defendants could install the skimmer," he says.

Styer says he says he suspects they weren’t the masterminds but investigators found no evidence they were part of an organized criminal operation. He says the device intercepted about a half dozen card numbers but thanks to the company's longstanding practice of inspecting the pumps multiple times a day, it was detected and removed before any information was compromised. 

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