Credit card scam alleged at Joliet-area hotels

Police charged 10 owners, managers and employees of seven Joliet-area hotels Thursday with selling credit card numbers of guests in a scam that authorities said could be going on across the country.

The arrests were made as about 50 officers, including FBI forensic computer experts, executed search warrants at the hotels, all part of national chains, though their corporate parents were not implicated.

In some cases, the forensic experts copied hard drives. In others, they took the computers.

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