LAKE MARY, Fla. -- Lake Mary police say a man used fraudulent credit cards to buy thousands of dollars worth of cigarettes at a gas station going back to January and his getaway attempt had police falling all over themselves. Police believe the man, who they only know as John Doe, may have manufactured the credit cards himself.

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Every time the man showed up at the counter of the AM/PM on West Lake Mary Boulevard (see map), the credit cards wouldn't swipe so the clerks would type in the numbers. They didn't know the cards were fakes until later when the credit card company denied the charges.

The man who Lake Mary police are calling John Doe showed up at the convenience store Monday to buy a carton of cigarettes like he always does.

"He was doing a lot of Marlboro Lights, Newports, Marlboros, five cartons at a time," said Det. Jeff Napier, Lake Mary Police Department.

On Monday, one of the clerks recognized him as the man who had used bogus credit cards to buy more than $2,000 worth of cigarettes, so she called police. By the time officers arrived, he had already left, but he came back a short time later to buy more cigarettes.

"That's just what he did, run it for as many times as he could and wait a while, come back and use a different card," Napier explained.

This time, police were waiting. Just as they went to arrest him, he ran full speed into the glass door, scaring a customer who had just walked out, and then fell flat on his face. Now police are desperate to figure out who he is.

The man had two different wallets with three different Florida driver's licenses and nine fraudulent credit cards that police are having a hard time tracing.

"All of those banks come out of Italy, Hungary," Napier said.

Police are hoping someone will recognize the guy, because he's not talking to police. They are also looking for a second suspect who they believe was waiting in a getaway car.