Four arrested for selling fake tickets to Bucs fans

TAMPA - Three men from Atlanta managed to sell over 200 fake tickets to Saturday's Buccaneers-Cowboys game before they were caught, according to Tampa Police.

Officials say 30-year-old Albert Ford II, Tony D. Davis and Oterious Lamar Wims, both 30, rented a van and a Chevrolet Tahoe, and drove to Tampa with a stack of high quality, counterfeit tickets.

Once here they managed to sell 211 of the faux-tickets to unsuspecting fans at an average cost of 100 dollars a pop, cops said.

Ford and Davis were caught by two undercover officers posing as fans looking for tickets. The pair had 14 fake tickets on them at the time.

Wims was arrested after officers pulled over the rental cars at the corner of Braddock and Glenn and found in possession of four counterfeit tickets.

One of the counterfeiters victims, 25-year-old Trevor Hendricks, was also arrested by a Hillsborough Sheriff's deputy. Police say after realizing the ticket he bought was fake, he tried to sell it to another unsuspecting customer.

The remaining 184 fake tickets were recovered in the Buccaneers ticket office.

Many of the fans who bought tickets from the men were denied access to Raymond James Stadium, although police said some of them made it inside.

Officials said ticket takers at gate A were not scanning the bar codes as they were supposed to, but merely, tearing the stubs.