TYLER, Texas — A Smith County jury has sentenced a man to life in prison in connection with a card-skimming incident in July 2018.
According to Smith County judicial records, Yoerlan Suarez-Corrales, 39, was convicted and given his sentence on Wednesday in the 144th District Court of Judge Christi Kennedy.
Suarez-Corrales was arrested on July 27, 2018, by Tyler police at the Exxon gas station in the 800 block of South Southeast Loop 323.
Police said Suarez-Corrales, along with Felipe Manuel Nieves-Perez, 33, and Dairon Julio Jimenez-Roja, 28, all of Austin, had returned to the gas station to collect gas skimmers they had previously installed when they were taken into custody.
The trio was charged with engaging in organized criminal activity.
In December 2018, Jimenez-Roja pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
A jury trial for Nieves-Perez is slated for March 11, 2019.
