Target employee charged with theft www.privateofficer.com

Target employee charged with theft http://www.privateofficer.com

FRAMINGHAM MA Aug 29 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private officers

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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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Walmart employee charged in felony theft www.privateofficer.com

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FRAMINGHAM MA. June 15 2008
A Worcester man working at the Wal-Mart in Framingham was arrested on charges he bilked the store out of thousands of dollars, police said.
Police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said police Sgt. Michael Esposito arrested Isabel Omar Leiva, 24, of 71 Southgate St., Apt. 2, Worcester, on the charge of larceny over $250.
Leiva was arrested Thursday at 4:40 p.m. at Wal-Mart, 121 Worcester Road, after store security saw him using a computer register to scan discarded receipts from customers and credit himself with refunds, Shastany said.
Leiva had been crediting himself with receipts from customers since February and had amassed more than $11,000 worth of store credit, the lieutenant said.
The scam worked, police said, because Leiva “was an employee authorized to use the computer system at registers.”
On Thursday alone, Leiva scanned 10 receipts and was able to credit himself with $601 in gift cards and another $105 in cash, police said.
The largest item Leiva bought from the store using gift cards was a 47-inch plasma television, police said.
Police said they were unsure when Leiva began working at Wal-Mart.

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