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good evening. i'm jennifer leigh. i'm keith cate. thanks for joining us tonight. first up tonight id theft

car hire venice beach, to go, a man from new york is in the pinellas county jail after deputies tell us he had all the makings of a

counterfeit credit card operation inside a stolen rental car. peter bernard is on the nightbeat in pinellas county. how did they find and catch this guy, peter? reporter: an alert clerk did it all at the hotel

noticing a woman trying to use the stolen credit card. meanwhile outside in the parking lot they found a guy inside with a whole bunch of stolen credit cards and brillo pads that he used to get rid of the legitimate number and name and turn into counterfeit cards

for himself. you're watching a man create a fake credit card with a few pulls of a lever. another machine adds gold gloss and it's almost done. this is just one of a few items deputies found in a stolen rented camaro found in the park

of the grand plaza -- parking lot of the grand plaza hotel at st. pete beach. 23-year-old deshawn brown that arrest documents say also had an array of products used to steal id and make counter fit credit cards. i'm not surprised --

counterfeit credit cards. i'm not surprised. reporter: just up the road in treasure island the general manager of the bill maher beach resort trains employees how to be on guard for signs of fraud. he's just installed new terminals and asks all guests

for id. part of our housekeeping training is to keep their eyes and ears open. if they see something unusual in a room, be it recording equipment, just equipment that's not part of your beach stay, we encourage them to let

us know. reporter: inside the stolen camaro an arrest affidavit says deshawn brown had the embosser, 27 counterfeit credit cards, a skimming device and id from someone in georgia. job well done he says to the plaza clerk.

deputies are still looking for the woman who went into the plaza to get a room. she ran when the deputies arrived, but they know her name and have her accomplice. where did deshawn get the stolen camaro? s have

reporter: hertz, hertz rent a car in knoxville, tennessee.

they reported it stolen december 9th, but they have evidence he actually got it sometime before thanksgiving.