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Title: Credit cards seized
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was also used in stories dated July 18, 1983, and September 17, 1986.; Title supplied by cataloger.
The Bunco-Forgery Division was formed more than 50 years ago and mostly handled 'street bunco and con games'; it was later renamed the Financial Crimes Division to better reflect the nature of its targeted crimes.
Sgts. Greg Schwien (left) and Russell Meltzer of LAPL Bunco-Forgery Division display Visa cards confiscated in huge weekend raid. Photograph dated February 22, 1982.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085918
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b078_f6_i3
CARL0004775196
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26285
Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department
Bank credit cards--California--Los Angeles
Credit card fraud--California--Los Angeles
Credit cards--California--Los Angeles
Credit cards--Forgeries--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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