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Driver Found With 11 Fake Credit Cards During SoHo Traffic Stop, Police Say

 A man pulled over for changing lanes without signaling had a marijuana cigarette, police said.
A man pulled over for changing lanes without signaling had a marijuana cigarette, police said.
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SOHO — A 23-year-old man pulled over early Thursday morning for failing to signal while changing lanes was found to be carrying a marijuana joint and 11 forged credit cards, police said.

Police said the driver was headed westbound on Houston Street about 1:20 a.m. on March 3 with his headlights and taillights off when he changed lanes without signaling.

When they stopped him at the northwest corner of Thompson and Houston Streets, they saw a joint on the car’s center console, police said. They searched the driver and found he was carrying 11 fraudulent credit cards, they said.

The cards had been forged to look like real ones, but the "holograms on the backs of the cards are not three-dimensional like the holograms on genuine credit cards; the cards are lacking the four digit number that appears below the sixteen digit number that is on the front of genuine credit cards [and] the numbers in the security codes on the backs of the cards are spaced farther apart than the numbers in security codes on the backs of genuine credit cards," police said.

The driver was arraigned for felony criminal possession of a forged instrument and misdemeanor criminal possession of marijuana. He paid $5,000 cash bail at his arraignment and is due back in court on May 5.

His lawyer did not immediately return a message seeking comment.