y what's going on so today we got a video from a matter of crime and the title of the video is Tire Kingdom employee caught red-handed stealing 14,000 from register 14,000 that's a lot of money now we've always heard stories of Thieves doing the unthinkable depriving honest individuals of either money or goods for their monetary gain well in this case this thief got very bold with their crime time here's how it worked a local mechanic who worked for a major mechanic company thought it would be a good idea to steal customers credit card information from his workplace the thief would take the card information create a fictitious invoice and tender out the payment then take cash from the register 911 what's your emergency what exactly happened I had a had an employee here took over $13,500 uh in cash from the store uh we have uh you know identified who it is and you know want to want to make a police report okay is that person uh working right now [Music] yes me oh so you're Chris they told me you weren't here hold on I don't want to let him know oh yeah we had an office up here but um so cash where we're a larger Corporation to we have uh stores all over the country so cash management calls me on the district manager they called me say hey we got a lot of when officers arrived they immediately met with the district manager who stated that there had been over 50 chargebacks from customers in just one month due to this claim they would launch an internal investigation monitoring all employees responsible for financial transactions um I went through some data I looked at orders saw that only using one specific part can figure it out use your mind um to basically run the money like use someone's car yes and pay for all the tickets on one car the manager explained to the officers exactly how the scheme worked he would take all the credit card information create one big invoice Mark it as paid and then take the cash when confronted about his theft the perpetrator panicked and pulled out nearly $113,000 in cash handing it to the manager he gave us back 135 1300 13,000 he gave you back 13,000 correct CU you don't want toh no problem got office you got an office hey honestly the fact that he had the money to give back like right then and there on the spot that was that's pretty impressive I ain't going to lie because a lot of people they would have spent they would have spent that money like that would be gone you know what I'm saying so he had some type of scheme going on and he didn't even spend all the bread so like why do it what's your name sir hey uh we got to have a talk for a second all right me Fair keep your hands out your [Applause] Pock it's right right got Miranda okay um yeah go ahead all right so listen before um we talk to you how old are you by the way 23 all right so before we talk to you we're going to um read your rights it just protects you against self-incrimination it's not saying you're guilty or you're under arrest but this is just for us to conduct our investigation we've got to read this to you um 40 your rights okay that's all right all right say your name is yeah all matter fact before you do that you got your ID on your partner um do you have an ID I have an ID okay where's it at it's in the car okay that's fine let's get his uh let's get his um let me step over here you guys have paper tril or anything that I can use as that this is going to work but I got the cash that he gave me and then I also have so this is cash so far what what we receive back from the bank M and within August to November 21th is 13,000 34485 these are all the tickets that he had invoiced a render see some actually his name so how did obtain the cash from the guest comeing pay for whatever services but he would be the one to close out basically at the end of the night take can render the invoices that the guests paid with and paid with take someone else's card information which is the same see see this is the same card information each of these work orders and who and who are those names we can't even figure out who that is because he manly punch it in and the bank will not offer give us that information of a lawyer of your choice before you make any statements and during any questioning if you cannot afford a lawyer you're entitled to the presence and representation of a court appointed lawyer before you make any statement and during any questioning if at any time during the interview you do not wish to answer any questions you are privilege to remain silent you understand yeah okay so with that being said before they start talking right he doesn't know this right the the guy who the 23 year old he doesn't know this but they don't actually have like they got some evidence but they don't really have a good amount of like okay he's doing this this this this this like you know what I'm saying so this is where you have the right to remain silent might work in your benefit because they're going to rely heavily on his own admission I if he starts talking and give himself up yeah how long you been working here man at this business I'm not sure I've been like less than a year less than a year here did you work attire Kingdom before this or anything like that no where were you working before this Landscaping Landscaping okay so you've been working here less than a year okay um during that time have you been working have you been working with the register or anything like that yeah yeah do you do a lot of payments you take all the payments that come in or how does that work not all of them but I'm mostly the one with do okay and you work what you is there a certain time frame you work when you come in do you have like a specific schedule no all day every day all day every day okay even weekends yeah okay and then so during the time that you're working you have access to the register cards and all that good stuff yeah what do you mean like like if do you have access to like cards and reg and you take payments and everything like that okay all right um do you kind of understand where we're here do you have a kind of like a idea on why we're here right now okay why do you think we're here taking money from a tour okay you took physical cash or was it something that along the line of cards or what was ital Cash okay all right so just um you mind yeah no you're good just to just explain to us I mean we're sitting here talking honesty is the best key I appreciate that door huh you want to close it door we'll talk so honesty is the best thing and that's the only thing that we can do to fix this at this point all right cuz at the end of the day I don't think you're a bad person we all fall short of times and we all need help at some point and just sometimes we're that desperate that we we stoop to a level that's not our personality right right right and we just makes mistakes right that's all it is okay but we want to write the wrong okay so I just need you to tell me exactly how this happened for our documentation purposes and for us to fix this um I didn't to explain to you yeah but we're here talking to you because you're the allegations are against you you understand me and you're sitting here telling us that you did something he can't tell us what you did exactly to the tea because he wasn't there you're here you're the one that did it so you got to be so you you got to be the one explain it for us to help your case you understand what I'm saying got you get what I'm saying yeah you understand what I'm saying got you get what I'm saying yeah I got all right so let's start from the top of how this happened well you got bought out recently by them then you know the system y got a notepad or something yeah okay I'm I'm going to so you say we you guys got bought out recently we got bought out recently and okay the system like sh see no pictur nothing okay um we're learning it and then after that like system will go down and we'll take people's information like their card and stuff so you'll write down the card information information and then I use that render Che it the cash when you say render what can you kind of explain rendering he um we put if we say it's um card but Chang the cash or on in the system yes okay so you'll take a payment and you say it's a card but then you take cash from the person or how does that work so you take cash from the person but you put in the system that was a card yeah okay continue sorry a question does that card ever gets charged card yeah does the card get charged yeah the card get charged so you charge the card and you take the cash no no no I charge they give me the cash I put in this SMS card and then I put um somebody else C okay that I that that was given to us okay gotta okay understood so what happens as he would um and correct me if I'm wrong so he would let say the system was down so they kept people they would write down people's information to charge later correct so they would charge the card due to retener and he would put it in as paid cash it looks like they paid card it looks like he paid a card but they paid in cash so he would keep the cash because on paper it looks like it was paid so to the untrained eye on paper on face plate it looks like it's pain correct okay all and and when did you first start this that I'm not sure how with months years oh no months months when's the last time you can remember that the first time you did it other thing I don't remember and what drove you to do this what go hey I'm going to do this what like what made you think about it what was the motive behind it to be honest I don't I don't really you remember what I was I was doing I just seen it and then I saw the opportunity I just did it yeah but why cuz I mean you're you see you're smart you're not dumb a smart kid to pull this off in this amount you're a smart guy so what at what moment go man you know [ __ ] I need some new rims or I need this what made you go I'm GNA do this cuz we don't just wake up in the morning and decide we're going to start doing something no I didn't well to be honest I didn't have any plans with with it I mean I gave to I had the money saved up and all that I mean I gave it back but I didn't have any idea to do it then okay so you didn't have any reason you just get it just to because yeah I did it just because but I didn't have cuz I I didn't know what to do with um this what what I had okay all right now is there anyone else here that helped you with it no just me just you okay um when's the last time you did it like two months ago two months ago he said I had all this bread I ain't know what to do with it he said listen he 23 he probably never seen that type of money at you know in one shot like that or you know big lump sums maybe he probably maybe taking 3,000 out of pop or something like that or whatever but he said listen I got all this bread I don't know what to do with it that's why I still got the bread so yeah now on average on a 7day work week how many times a week were you doing this it would either be by a weekly or a month I don't know one time two times a month you had to estimate just like two times a month prob weeko okay I'm not so your other week yeah and how much in total would you do each transaction either be a small amount or a big amount just depends on the and what's the biggest amount you've done um I think like 92,000 okay and what's the smallest amount you've ever done maybe like 100 bucks 100 bucks okay and um where did you keep the cash I kept the stash okay at your home the house okay and how much in total um they told me 14 but I'm not 100% sure how much did you get back I gave back everything I had you get back everything you had yeah okay okay all right um you say how long you've been working cuz you said you don't know exactly when to start it right but you said you only been working a couple months when when like if um if I'm correct it'll be it should be February February when it started when you started no not when I started this when I started working here oh so sometimes between between February and October September cuz you said two months ago right sometime in between there this is collective over that time frame right yeah okay all right but listen so you're going to be placed under arrest all right for scheme of Def fraud and Grand Theft you just stand up you have anything in your pockets can't do this outside outside no but for our safety no we're going have to do that in here by Van put your hands on your my okay put your hands on your back is there anything else in your pocket needles anything like that nothing all right where's your car it's in the front no just take this off it's in the front I'm going to let him know that it's going to be parked there okay all right I'm going to need a second cup put two on you all right just to be a little bit more comfortable all right how much how much don't where these customers have in here cuz I was going to walk him out but I didn't want to T your place with them walking out of handcuffs got wait for hey Chris never mind our cars are in the back this car is going to be everything all right your keys Chris uh my keys phones and airpods can you give it a Snider is it in the office oh you have okay you want to give it to him give a SN you said SN everything yeah everything airod right yep 6 one make sure got nothing it's all safety safety stuff s the meds it want you can got it say again um I can't so it's not going to be too long the perpetrator was taken into custody and spent a night in the local jail where he was given a few days to think about his actions he was charged with Grand Theft and de to defraud a few days later State prosecutors decided to drop all charges against him presumably because he paid back the money before his arrest it seems you can buy your way out of a crime watch when I get in for the you see me I see you no FaceTime my sh green 2K [ __ ] that get a [ __ ]