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Target employee charged in retail crime scam www.privateofficer.com
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Loss prevention agents at a local Target store have arrested an employee for theft and conspiracy.
Cheryl Jean Mizak, 52, of the 4N100 block of Kenwood Avenue in West Chicago, was arrested Saturday and charged after repeated thefts while working as a cashier, according to store investigators.
The police report indicates Mizak used two different methods to steal. One was having a friend come to her register to buy items with coupons. Mizak would scan the coupons twice to lower the sale prices beyond what they would normally be.
.The second method was having a friend pay for items with Mizak’s Target debit card and request cash back. Mizak would then give the friend more cash than was requested.
Store security agents began investigating the thefts and took Mizk into custody and notified police.
The total amount the store lost was about $1,345.
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K-Mart employee charged in felony theft scam www.privateofficer.com
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http://www.privateofficer.com/ Authorities say that they were notified by a local loss prevention manager that an employee had scammed the store out of a large amount of merchandise and cash.
Police investigators assisted security agents at the K-Mart store where they found that an electronics department employee had been stealing both mass amounts of merchandise and cash from her employer. The Rahway woman was arrested Friday for allegedly having stolen $130,000 in cash and merchandise from the K-Mart store she worked at for about a year, police said Monday
According to the investigation by internal loss prevention agents, employee Alexandria Dozier, 21, had carried electronics out of the St. Georges Avenue store in K-Mart bags for several months, a police report said.
She was booked into and then later released from the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick on Saturday after posting $25,000 bail, according to officials there.
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Wal-Mart employee charged in refund scam www.privateofficer.com
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West Monroe police arrested a Wal-Mart employee Thursday night on allegations she stole more than $1,800 from the store.
April Vanburen, 24, 1009 S. Eighth St., Monroe, was charged with theft by fraud.
One of the store’s loss prevention agents investigated Vanburen, a customer service manager at the Wal-Mart at 1025 Glenwood Drive in West Monroe.
Video surveillance showed Vanburen making fraudulent returns.
Vanburen would then put the return funds on gift cards for her own personal use, according to an arrest affidavit.
She admitted to running the scam since August.
She was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center. Bond is $2,000.
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Wal-Mart employee charged with internal theft www.privateofficer.com
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Police say that the Haverhill, Mass., man was arrested Thursday afternoon and charged with stealing money out of the cash registers at Wal-Mart.
Cameron Martin, 20, of 127 How St., was working in the electronics department when security investigators recorded the incident on security camera and captured him pocketing money during customer transactions, Deputy Chief Kathleen Jones said. Martin was charged with theft by unauthorized taking and released on $5,000 personal recognizance, she said.
The incidents took place on Sept. 6 and 10, Jones said.
Police say that Martin was confronted during the second incident and that he admitted he took $60 each time.
He’s due in Plaistow District Court on Nov. 3.
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Dollar General Employee Charged With Felony Theft www.privateofficer.com
Dollar General Employee Charged With Felony Theft http://www.privateofficer.com
Monroe police arrested a woman Tuesday on allegations she stole nearly $2,000 from her employer, Dollar General
Jamie M. Goodin, 25, 40 Carroll Drive, Monroe, was charged with criminal conspiracy and felony theft.
Loss prevention officers who contacted Monroe police reportedly discovered the theft.
Police believe Goodin was letting at least three customers take things from the store without paying.
A report states she was either bagging their items without ringing them up or was charging the customers a discounted price.
Others involved have not been arrested, but police continue to investigate the case.
Goodin was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center. Bond is $4,000
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Marriott Hotel Employee Arrested For Theft www.privateofficer.com
Marriott Hotel Employee Arrested For Thefts Of Guests Property http://www.privateofficer.com
Spartanburg Public Safety officers investigated the theft of a diamond wedding band from a room on May 23.
The woman who owned the ring said she left it on the night stand in the room for a few hours while she was gone, and when she returned, it was gone. she called police and filed a report which was turned over to detectives.
On June 7, another hotel guest said that while they were gone for a few hours, someone went into their room and stole an iPod and cash.
Public Safety officers working with Marriott management completed an investigation that led to the arrest of Phillout Lee Siamphone.
Investigators said Siamphone is charged with burglary and grand larceny in reference to the theft of the wedding ring, burglary and larceny in reference to the theft of the iPod and cash and breach of trust in a separate incident involving the theft of a Nintendo DS from the Marriott’s lost and found.
Siamphone was employed at the Marriott at the time of the thefts.
He is in custody at the Spartanburg County Detention Facility.
Investigators said there have been several reported thefts at the Marriott since Jan. 1 and more arrests are expected.
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Target employee charged with theft www.privateofficer.com
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A Framingham teen was arrested Monday after she stole $800 in cash and gift cards from the Target department store where she worked, police said.
According to asset security agents, employee lginna Jean-Pierre, 19, admitted to investigators that she stole $100 and two $50 gift cards on Monday, but denied any other thefts, police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said.
Store security called police around 10:15 p.m. They said they watched Jean-Pierre take a $100 bill and pocket it instead of putting it in the register.
Shastany admitted that she also activated two, $50 gift cards and put them into her pocket. “Apparently, the customers were charged for the gift cards,” he said.
Jean-Pierre also stole $69 in clothing, Shastany said.
A security officer said he watched Jean-Pierre steal $200 in cash and one $100 gift card on Saturday, and $100 in cash and $200 worth of gift cards on Sunday.
“She would not admit to the Saturday or Sunday thefts,” Shastany said.
Jean-Pierre, of 62B Second St., was charged with larceny of more than $250.
She pleaded not guilty at her Framingham District Court arraignment yesterday. She was released without bail and is due back in court Oct. 9 for a pretrial conference.
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Police arrest store employee for theft and fraud www.privateofficer.com
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An employee of an area store is accused of stealing nearly $5,500 in merchandise and cash from a store she worked at inside the Salina Central Mall according to police.
Police say that they were notified by the business that while 27-year-old Tiffany Quevedo was employed at Claire’s, she wrote 85 checks to the business.
The store management filed a complaint with the police department for fraud after terminating Quevedo and she was arrested Wednesday.
Police say that charges range from felony theft, issuing bad checks and fraud.
The ex-employee was taken to the county jail and was being held pending bail.
Police aren’t sure yet if there are other retailers in the mall who may have also received checks form Quevedo.
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Police arrest Kinko employee for fraud www.privateofficer.com
Police arrest Kinko’s employee for fraud http://www.privateofficer.com
Authorities say that they were notified thant an employee of FedEx Kinko’s Inc., 1329 Anderson Ave., had been involved in theft from the store and was suspected of theft and other possible crimes at the business.
Investigators assisted by store management were able to determine that indeed an individual had been involved in a “refund scheme” and police say he was charged Monday with nine counts of theft and nine counts of computer crime, according to a Riley County Police Department report.
RCPD Lt. Hank Nelson said FedEx Kinko’s Inc. employee Kristofer Bailey, 22, was making false refunds and putting the money on his personal credit card.
A FedEx Kinko’s internal investigation revealed Bailey had stolen about $9,000 over a six-month period, Nelson said.
Bailey was taken into custody and transported to the county jail where he is being held on an undisclosed amount of bond.
FedEx Kinko’s had no comment about the arrest.
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Armored truck robbed, employee, 2 others arrested www.privateofficer.com
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An armored truck employee was arrested after arranging for two friends to rob his armored truck during an early morning delivery at Walt Disney World.
Three men who worked in the armored truck made a delivery at the hotel and returned to find one of the doors open and money missing.
Police made a second arrest this afternoon. Sondra Tarrell Farmer, 24, was arrested in connection to the robbery of the armored truck.
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Macy’s employee arrested in refund scheme www.privateofficer.com
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Vazquez is scheduled to appear in court April 18 on a felony retail theft charge resulting from incidents between the morning of June 23 and the night of April 9 in Macy’s at the Old Orchard mall.
Police said Vazquez, a Macy’s employee, refunded merchandise that he had stolen from the store and that was not his own and then credited his credit card account.
The internal investigation showed that Vazquez took more than $50,707 from last June to April.
Authorities call this a large retail theft case but would not say if any other employee of Macy’s was involved in this refund scheme.
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