Ariel Perez-Calvo of Miami, Florida, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to serve 3½ years in federal prison for using fraudulent credit cards in central and coastal Maine, including in Androscoggin County.

Perez-Calvo, 28, will also serve three years of supervised release for charges of credit card fraud and identity theft, and was ordered to pay $35,000 in restitution to the victims, U.S. District Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced.

According to a written statement from the U.S. Department of Justice, in January 2016 Perez-Calvo and Roberto Lueje-Rodriquez used debit and credit card account numbers belonging to bank customers in Penobscot, Knox, Hancock, Piscataquis, Franklin, Somerset, Kennebec and Androscoggin counties. Together they made unauthorized purchases totaling more than $48,000.

According to the release, the two engaged in similar conduct in New Hampshire in November 2015, making unauthorized purchases totaling more than $1,000.

The name embossed on each fake card was “David Cuan,” according to the release, which was not the name of any of the victims. Each fake card bore a unique account number and appeared to be an authentic debit or credit card, but the magnetic strips were encoded with the true account numbers of the victims.

At sentencing, according to the release, Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. said “the crimes you engaged in are insidious and destructive. First you steal private information and then you steal money.”

Lueje-Rodriquez pleaded guilty to access device fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in July. He has not been sentenced.

The investigation was conducted by the Maine State Police, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations; Bangor, Brewer, Dexter, Dover-Foxcroft, Ellsworth, Hampden, Lincoln, Millinocket, Newport, Pittsfield, Rockland, Saco and Waterville police departments, as well as the Londonderry Police Department in New Hampshire.