y a reward for hard work but at one target store a newly promoted manager took a different approach to his new role instead of upholding the company values he decided to help himself to the cash in multiple registers he was entrusted to manage what led him down this path and how did it all unfold here's what happened next [Music] [Music] why I to do an audio recorder it's charging I use it too much it's not truee problems [Music] how you doing office kind of briefly inform me of what was going on today and in order for me to talk to you I need to read you your right have you ever been arrested before sir all right sir so you have the right to remain silent do you understand that anything you say can be used against you in court do you understand that yes sir you have the right to have an attorney present now or at any time during questioning do you understand that yes sir if you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for you without cost do you understand that if you talk to me you have the right to stop answering questions or speak to an attorney at any time do you understand that yes sir all right with your uh rights in mind you wish to talk to me today yeah that's fine okay so I was notified by Target that apparently over the course of your employment there's a lot of cash registers that were turned up short and that they have video surveillance of you uh folding money in your hand and instead of putting it into money counter you slip it into your pocket yeah is that accurate yes sir okay is there a reason why this was happening are you it was just like Financial hardships um and then it turned into a bad habit that should have subsided long long AG go or never even started but yeah that's all it stem from okay do you happen to have a drug problem cuz we do have like drug Corp we have programs to get people help addicted to drugs nothing addictive nothing like that just needed to get out of a hole and then it stuck with a bad habit really okay um do you roughly know about how much it's been going on for the past you know almost a year or six months um I believe it was 6 months since I started that's when I bought bought my house that's when I needed to um finalize some things that okay yeah okay you got how much money roughly they're they're estimating 10,000 10,000 yeah okay do you think it might be a little bit more than that cuz I know it's about 10,000 only in the last two months two months yeah the last two last uh 30 to maybe 90 30 I would say 30 to 60 days is about just over 9 Grand wellow yeah not that I'm aware of like I told them I I when I received it I I spend it on on like materials and stuff because I'm remodeling my house so okay nothing that I'm aware of okay understandable you married sir any kids just engaged got kids yeah okay how many kids do you have um technically two okay mhm biological or no okay all right um you have anything You' like to add no if you what I would do is the whole statement form if he wants to well they have a an admission form here can I see that is this your form sir that you uh you signed out if you can read Itor [Applause] okay and this is your signature here on the statement okay okay let I can get a copy of that that one all right sir well today you you yes okay and you are being trespassed from the store as well okay means you cannot come back to the store property unless you actually speak with somebody from the store and then they lift it but in order for them to lift it they have to contact us because it's going to be documented that you are trespassed okay from just this location or every location this location yeah so if you'd like to come back to this target then you make sure you get in touch with management and management has to call us to cancel the trespass okay that's fine you look at me real quick I need a picture for the trespass all right stand up for me well before you do you have anything in your pocket you like to take out do you have I just got keys and a phone and a wallet Key phone wall okay you can take it out no uh no knives or anything nothing harmful take off this watch okay we're going to take off this watch okay so that way we have some room and you're not getting cut off circulation okay and it doesn't damage your watch thank you the back of your phon yeah I wait for gloves to do I got nothing gross in no you just listen in this line of work you you seen it all I just don't to put my hands in people's pockets so I got gloves on just walk front and then I'll hold the door open I grab this property are you able to grab that backpack under the thing where under the bench right there is that your backpack yes that's his backpack too a going to go off I yeah now oh this ain't cold it's cold though all right we're going to go back to that second car back there yes man it's that truck right there big one can't come back after I'll have my fiance I do it yeah that's fine here space this fly right in front of that sure got gloves grab some yeah I got so I don't run away or run no I'm not worried about the Running part I'm not worried about the Running part either that no no we do a lot of scenarios with tasers and trust me I'm pretty accurate so I doubt that you would have run away from from me at least I don't know about him did you guys get tast I'm fairly past sucks I'm fairly past you know do we know how it feels we don't want to taste somebody else yeah but if we got to we got to not that bad all right we'll try on you later you guys anything from me NOP we're good I'm going to go help thank you all right I take this opportunity to let people know that we make decisions in life great you learn from them and that's the important thing and I hope that regardless of what happens you learn from this today and what you done consequences that come with doing what you did yeah this one's going to [ __ ] me up though I want I was going in the fire service so I work out you got to figure it out maybe you can work it out with I hope so but that's what 306 that I've wanted to do and then like this yeah but regardless if it works out if it doesn't work out you'll have a story to tell and just got to make better decisions than you've already made what's in this pocket like and probably some earpods I'm trying it man keys and airpods you said yeah did you membership I don't go to yeah we all have this they might not be 30 where you yeah they're just not want to come out there either I don't want to go drop them all over the place thanks right there nothing up here right no good yeah give me just a second go ahead and take a seat thank you hey Cameron you've been so honest with us is there any money in your wallet that belongs to Target uh just the big bills I think okay one second one 373 14 it's warm in here man ready I don't like being cold for I don't like being really hot or really cold so I can turn if it's too hot just let me know right you're honest with us hold on is the backpack good to go in haven't checked that this is everything that doesn't need to be searched wallet and that does need to get searched you got an extra pair of gloves I'll stand right here where you get me some of course I have gloves I need to go back to the FD and get some more I keep on meaning to grab the bag black but you don't like the FD ones no I know you like how they go all the way up your elbow but I like the black ones they look better out they also don't show blood very well so I told Cam that he's been so honest with us right and that I was going to search his wallet I asked him was there any money in here that belong to Target he said just the big bills okay so if you want to continue with that line I can pull out whatever feel free to yeah 50s hundreds when is this from this money I don't know it's it's is this from it's not from today it's from previous days okay so how much money supposed to be in here I don't I don't have is it safe to say that most of this money is from Target or changed from 5 $100 bills hold that for so six 7 eight nine I'm just separating by [Music] th000 1,29 C okay what what are you thinking with this uh I mean he he admitted that most of his money is either change or money from so unfortunately I have to do a currency to get it back to them no cuz if it's going to go into property at Sheriff office then it needs a currency form and it has to be signed off by a sergeant yeah literal literal the suspect was charged with felony grand theft and received 5 years of probation 100 hours of community service and a $10,000 bill in rest tution fees looks like he'll be spending more