BATON ROUGE - An Illinois man was sentenced to more than 6 years in prison after he was caught at a Baton Rouge hotel with a device to make fraudulent credit cards. 

U.S. Attorney Kurt Wall said Jason Brown, 40, rented a vehicle on a fake card and drove to Baton Rouge, where they stayed at a Bluebonnet Boulevard hotel. The room was paid for on another counterfeit card, and the owner contacted law enforcement who found Brown with a fake licenses and credit cards, blank cards, an encoder machine and 4,176 real credit card numbers. 

“Clearly this was a professional fraudster,” Wall said.

Brown was sentenced to 76 months in prison and an additional three years of supervised release.