Law
enforcement officials in New Jersey have arrested 14 people in connection
with a crime spree that has forced banks across the nation to replace hundreds
of thousands of debit cards. The suspects, all U.S. citizens, are accused
of using stolen credit and debit card information to produce counterfeit cards
that were used to make fraudulent purchases and withdrawals from card-holder
accounts, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said. Most of the arrests were
made during the past two weeks.