This is a situation where Mr. Brown would have likely gotten away with it if he had some patience.
You can’t expect to scam a million in two weeks and hope no one notices, someone is going to figure it out.
If he was scamming a $1k a week, maybe he gets away with it.
Detectives have arrested a Gwinnett County (Atlanta) teenager accused of scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars from Kroger.
Officials with the Gwinnett County Police Department say 19-year-old Tre Brown ended up scamming over $980,000 from the grocery store where he worked on Steve Reynolds Boulevard.
In just two weeks, detectives believe Brown created over 40 returns for non-existent items ranging from $75 to over $87,000.
“This employee was essentially creating fake items. Taking those items and returning them to a credit card he had and just making up prices for those items,” Flynn said.
Officials say Brown would take the money from the returns and put them on credit cards, using the money to buy clothes, guns, shoes, and two vehicles – one of which he totaled.
“The first one he did was in the range of 10 dollars and as he continued to get away with it the prices continued to go up until he made a return of over 87,000 that returned to a credit card,” Flynn said.
Police began an investigation into Brown after Kroger employees noticed the transactions.
See that $87k one is a problem.
You work at a grocery store sir, not the Gucci store.
Flip the page to see how his co-workers snitched on him.