I'm sure they can hear us out here talk to you all right defin be Frankie with the sheriff's office I pay the money back please I can't go to jail my grand everything I can't do to jail you got $3,100 I can pay payments I can do something that's that's not on my hands that's on them but they want right on January 8th 20123 officers responded to a minor fraud scheme at a local Burlington Coat Factory where an employee decided to steal from their employer here's how it worked the employee would work as a cashier during the day and during breakes select various clothing items when back at the register she would ring up the clothing as if making a legitimate purchase but just before the amount was marked as paid she would suspend the transaction making it appear as though the items were paid for she also recruited other employees to participate in this fraud oh yeah yeah [Applause] yeah man y good so what's going on when officers arrived the manager explained exactly how the fraud worked the suspect decided to recruit almost everyone on the entire shift to steal various clothing items and make the transactions appear as if they were paid for she got away with this for almost 3 weeks but what she didn't know was that loss prevention could see all suspended transactions which made their scheme easy to uncover she was always the cashier like she was always giving them the stuff for free you know the other associates I haven't found any were there picking her up she's just she's just a cashier so she's really admitted to like $3,000 which is about what I came up with um so minimum of $3,000 she allowed to leave the store and not properly ring it um but I I put it on here like I kind of put this is her so she's responsible for let should say three grand the other one from what I can see on the transactions 16 of that is what this asso walked out with and this one here is like a ass she recently quit that's just their names I just had had all the other but that person you have prison here today she was involved in all the transaction she was involved all she was the cash she was the crash so she was like letting the employee leave with all those stuff she would ring some of the stuff up it look so it looks if anybody's looking it looks like everything's getting rang but then she's instead of cashing it out it would hit suspend so it just suspends the transaction but she still gave them the stuff and they walked out they never paid for it like on this this here that's every one of these are I have it's taken or none of that was paid for okay that's I just want to make sure 3100 this is H generic statement yeah but it's not swor to us no no I know I didn't know if you need give me one second right let me go and talk her at least let me make cont know what's going on I'm sure we can hear us out here here to talk to you all right I'm defy Frank you with the Sheriff's Office well you unfortunately there's no choice you're going today can I pay the money back please I can't go to Jud off my grandy everything I came do to jail you got $3,100 I can pay payment I can do that's that's not on my hands that's on them but they want right now they're prosecuted pleas I know I can't I can't go to jail I really can't go to jail I'm single I can't I can make payments I can do a payment plan please just talk to them I can't go to jail right and I and I I did just I know I know it's but I did and they you know it's please can you call back talk to them and explain to them I can't go to jail I will I will call him back but I don't you know I don't know it's to them I can't go to jail I can't I will I will I will call him but just talk to this guy well first we're going to talk and then we'll go from there and just um but I I will go step out and call but like I said I did tell him all that ahead of time you know I canay do anything I was wrong please don't take me to jail okay please we'll talk to this guy all right do you what's your name ma'am yes all right so I'm going to read your Miranda because we are going to talk so just make sure you acknowledge everything that I say all right you have the right to remain silent not answer any questions do you understand yes any statement must be freely and voluntarily given do do you understand I just need a yes for now okay you have the right to attorney of your choice or a court appoint attorney before you make any statement or any question to understand make no promise to Duce you to make a statement this must be in your own free will do you understand any statement can and will be used against you in a court of law do you understand your rights so far yes okay do you want to speak to me with happen because we got a lot of stuff here so would you like to talk to me about what's going on or hello I'm sorry that was wrong okay well I mean I know I know you you spontaneously got it at a few times what I'm getting at is okay so we have all these transactions that were not rung up okay you with me so far yes and some of these were for employees that work here correct okay so do you want to explain like like we have one that's on layway like what happened what happened here I mean were you ringing were did you ring it up and just let them walk out and not pay for the product is that what's happening you and he's going to call corporate so nothing's official yet but we are going to talk cuz so they've got they say about $ 31 almost $3,100 in items so far but like I I don't even know half of them people I told it might was a mistake for some of them but they saying that thece receipt came out after they put their card there and the receipt came I didn't know if I suspend it or not I just explain that to some of them people I don't even know oh explain I don't understand what you mean by suspend that's what I don't understand what does that mean so like this one here has your name right yes so this was a transaction for 13 items on the 20th right so and it says status suspended what does that mean the the the transaction was suspended okay was that a declined card or let [Music] see no it just was I just canel the whole transaction all right so you can you shoulds spended that transaction right so your your end of the day count is not looking for that money because that transaction was suspended correct so we have a total of uh like $103 so did you allow the product to leave the store yes did you know that this that the that the transaction was suspended yes is that something you the no it's this is she used one person used the card she put her card in but the receipt still came out he said I put suspended so the receipt still came out so he said I suspended and the items didn't leave the store okay so the the the transaction was suspended you knew it was suspended and not this one it's another one that I know was suspended okay so regardless how does it go and suspended is it because the payment wasn't accepted or there was no payment or is there something you have to do you can press f2 f you can press your number on there and they suspend it okay so that's that's happened and so you knew that this transaction was suspended for whatever reason then you allowed the product to leave I'm sorry not on all of them because the receip will come out if they put their phone right there it won't tell me if you want pay it's just the receipt will come out okay but it does it always have suspended I mean every one of these receipts has suspended on them that's what the sister said okay when also have one here I'm looking for that was a layaway that they came back in the next day that layaway was then cancelled and then the product still left the store so I guess where I'm getting at here is um I mean you knowing allowing this stuff to leave the store correct so so why would you do that I told I was Hing up are you getting any Kickback for that are you Ian are they giving you anything for this product or how long you work for barington I started in March in March yeah all CU they also got video which they're going to provide us for all these transactions so I guess another question is how do you pick and choose who are you allowing to leave without paying for product cuz some of these are some of these are Associates that work here two of them are two of them were definitely Associates that we know of um is there something they do that they told you about cuz I mean they coming up to you asking I mean do you know them from like the neighbor I mean how do you know them are they are they didn't work two of them work two one of them I know that works here yeah you know them prior to working here and the they the they tell you that this goes on no you ever been arrested before no you ever been in trouble no all right I know he's talking to some people but as of right now if this goes away it is it's it's a felony you will have to take you if they do decide to prosecute it's up to them they could turn around and be like we'll work something out with you I have no control over that if they do the only thing I would definitely be cognizant of is that this is a felony so they have a certain amount of time that they can report this without any repercussions so if they decide to work out a payment plan which I have no control over at all and you fail on that payment plan they can call us right back and there's without with everything I have here and after speaking with you there's there's without a doubt probable cause for a fony theft of of three grand um so if that's something that they allow to happen again I have no control then is something that you need to uh stay stay with because there's enough here I mean you there's a $1,000 it's you could almost be charged with uh um a scheme to defraud if you're working with other people to defraud GRT that's another charge on top of it it's not just a theft of three grand because you didn't keep the product you don't have it you allowed it to walk out so there's a charge on the books it's called a scheme to defraud which is you're facilitating it and other people are benefiting from it because you're not benefiting you didn't get any of the product it's not like it's sitting in the car waiting for you to get out unless you all are taking it and reselling it on the outside I I get it listen times are tough right I I I get it trust me I I I understand that but you also have to understand too that you know you're not talking a couple hundred $3,000 you've been here since March yeah yep that's I thought yeah that okay all right well we're going to have to uh we're going I am going to to be cordial and I'm going to respect you we're going to get everything we need from him we're going to walk you out like a like normal you give us any indication that you're not going to cooperate you're going in cffs you're going to go in cffs at one point but instead of what they call per walking you through the store and embarrassing you in front of all these people we can do it cordially and then we go outside cuz this isn't going to be you get released or you you have to go you're going to go to County so you're going to buy that I mean if it was under if it was a miser could release you on scene I can't this is $30,000 I can't do that so you have to um you going to have to see a judge if you ain't got no rec tonight in there what's that got stay tonight only if we don't get you down there quick enough yeah I can't I can't undo that but if you got a good record no history you know it might be an RO that's up to the judge um where do you stay at he so guess what I'll take you out there all right because I can take you to Gun Club which means someone got to come all way over here to Coast to get you I can take you out to the Glades which is where we're supposed to take you and then when you get out you're right there all right I'm going to do as best I can as long as you cooperate with us and be cordial then we can work and he's with me we we got we can take care of this but if you start acting up cuffs and all the way through all right where's your Pur in the locker all right in her vehicle all right she's got what she wants out of it so if you if you want to go go back to the sub with me and help me do the property real quick all right and then we can get her down where we got to go like I said man' if you cooperate let's go this route if you don't well you want to leave your stuff in the car to the the bag all right she's going to take a couple items that she need in the [Applause] rest show us where your car is one of us will take that out there and drop it off once you go to my car we have to go and c and then we'll give you I'll double them up and we'll transport you to our district our Pap do here in Fr [Music] this what's that it's the black Chevy Chevy black Chevy Impala all right do you want to get that in the keys this is me right here we try and make it as comfortable as we can right they ain't built for Comfort hold on we got one we're going to double it up which will give you a little bit more freedom all right the employee was charged with Grand Theft and sentenced to 9 months of probation to make matters worse while on probation she was charged with petty theft after being caught stealing again talk about a lesson and learned