Police arrested a pair of convenience store owners in Florida on Monday for allegedly conducting a food stamp scam and using taxpayer money to stock the shelves of their store, according to The Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Bassam Sale Abu Diab, 55, and his son, Matthew Bassam Abu Diab, 22, bought EBT cards for discounted prices from customers with cash and then used the credits to buy goods for their shop 4M Food Mart in Daytona Beach, according to police spokesperson Jimmie Flynt.

The father and son bought the cards from sellers for between 20 and 40 cents on the dollar. In other words, they would pay roughly $200 for an EBT card loaded with $500 in credits. Then they used the cards to buy goods at Walmart and Save-A-Lot stores as a cheap way to stock their own shop.

After an investigation that began in December with the help of undercover officers, the Abu Diabs were arrested this week and state and federal agents raided their store with two search warrants, Flynt said. The Abu Diabs allegedly made at least $88,000 through EBT transactions at the store, according to the report. The noted amount does not include the value of the merchandise the Abu Diabs bought at Walmart and Save-A-Lot stores. They were each charged with three counts of misappropriating public assistance funds, making misrepresentations to a credit card issuer, obtaining property by fraud and communications fraud. 

"This guy is running a business on the taxpayers' back," Daytona Beach Police Chief Michael Chitwood told Daytona local news station WFTV Channel 9. "It's a fraud."

When a WFTV Channel 9 reporter asked Matthew, "Do you know why your dad was buying those EBT cards?" he replied, "Hey (expletive) you."

His father was asked, "Can you tell us just why you were buying these cards for cash?" He responded with, "I am not. I was not. How would you know?"

"Oh, you believe everything police say?" he added.