Felony charges were filed Tuesday against two men allegedly involved in a multicounty card-skimming operation.

Butler Township Police Lt. Matt Pearson said they were alerted locally to the possibility of a skimming operation that may have touched Butler County.

On Tuesday, Constatin Colceag, 41, and Raul-Mihai Cojucaru, 40, both of Slough, England, were charged with felony counts of device fraud and criminal conspiracy, after police discovered a skimming device at the Sam’s Club in Butler Township.

“We have it,” Pearson said of the skimming device.

The men have been in Allegheny County Prison on $25,000 bond each awaiting their June 6 preliminary hearing on charges filed Friday by Frazier Township Police. Those charges include felony counts of device fraud and criminal conspiracy.

According to charging documents in the local case, a Butler Township detective found the device on a self-checkout register.

“The device fit over top of the Sam’s Club payment screen and was held on by a blue adhesive,” said the detective in the affidavit.

Police said the brand of the device was an identical match to the one used in the Frazier incident, and a later review of surveillance footage showed both Colceag and Cojucaru installing the device.

Police said they also found the gray Chevrolet Equinox the pair was using was a rental fitted with a GPS unit.

“The GPS locations were listed at Sam’s Club, Moraine Pointe Plaza, Butler, on May 19 at 5:55 p.m. and New Castle Road, Butler, on May 19 at 6:27 p.m.,” police said.

A preliminary hearing for the Butler County case has yet to be scheduled.

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