They clocked in for work and clocked out with charges. Let's see how that worked out for them. Here are five cases when dumb employees get their act caught stealing on the job. Number five, teen employee tries to get away with stealing at Ross. A 19-year-old Ross cashier finds herself at the center of a store theft case involving over $1,200 in losses. The losses stem from improper scanning, item deletion, fraudulent returns, and unauthorized discounts. Store investigators catch on after noticing irregular patterns at a register. So, classes employed the basically um under so discounts and then also under the manner of like let's say I want this shirt or this pants. I'mma scan a random item that's like 99 cent or 49 cent for that item. Um passing merchandise is not scanning it, putting it in the bag. That video of it. Yeah. Yeah. Everything Everything's already. Um so the total she admitted to was 12.92 94 because I also had her for cash. She's here. Yeah, she's here. I had her for a cash shortage from before um last year, but I couldn't but I was able to add to the case value as well. So, um she's back here. Yeah, she's back in there. She knows you guys called us. So, I have all of the transactions where the loss occurred where the losses occurred and then there, like I said, she admitted to You got videos and everything on on the disc. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got it on my thumb drive and then she admitted to the cash stuff. We don't have video of that cuz to it today just now. Yeah. Did you do a statement? Yeah. Uh written statement. Yeah. I'll just take a picture of that and then I I mean I still got show to you. She's really cooperative. [Applause] So you come in here first. All right. So detailed transaction reports reveal how she manipulates the system. right in there. So, this is all for you, including this. This is you. There's nine transactions on there. This is her personal information, including her birthday. No social on there. And these are all the transactions. So, basically, she would item delete items, and then she would also pass off items. This the property she saw. So what's highlighted is what you guys lost. Yeah. On here and right here is the items that she deleted. Not necessarily just lost. Where's everything you guys lost total? That's what I'm trying to explain. Like it's it's it's a little bit more complicated. So unless you want me to like put for each transaction how much, but basically you add this up is a certain amount plus adding this up is a certain amount. So I have that. If you want me to write that down, I have that on my other um I have that on my uh It's just one incident. Yeah. Each one of these is one incident. It's nine separate transactions. So, basically, it's a mixture of stuff. So, this one, she item deleted stuff and then didn't scan stuff. This is the property receipt for the stuff that she didn't scan. Okay. Same thing here. Item deleted a bunch of stuff. It's obviously still left with the stuff. These are the stuff that she didn't actually scan. Um, and then in one of the transactions, this is just discounts that she gave out under ringing. Once again, items that were deleted versus items that she just didn't scan. And in this transaction in particular, she basically scanned the same 49 cent uh skew here for random items or whatnot. And these are all of the items that um these are all of the items that she ended up uh putting in the bag. But as you can see, everything's at 49. In some cases, she scans a 49 cent item multiple times in place of higher priced products. In others, she deletes items midtransaction, but still bags them or applies heavy discounts without authorization. Um, and then once again, this is another transaction. Item deletes. These are all the items that were not scanning and past. So once again, item deletes. Um, this item was deleted and then rescan. It was highlighted, right? Yeah. The item that's deleted was highlighted and then rescan under um a lower item. So, more under ringing. And then this is another under ring where she gave 50% discount on this under ringing. And then this is refund fraud plus item delete. So, she uh this is a return initiated, but she returned two items. when the customer only presented one item and then at the end of the transaction the customer made a purchase. So it's like a purchase and a return at the same time and then she deleted the last item on there for $69. So if you want me to write these totals I got you I already So yeah, so she's in there. She admitted me to everything $100 cuz she needed money. So she took cash too. Yeah, but I don't have that on video. She if she's scanning those two she's scanning that somebody else like somebody else involves purchasing those and she's giving them the discount or she's scanning them herself. Oh the customer comes with all the stuff. So every single time it was involving another customer it wasn't by herself organized and and during the interview she said she just met the lady the lady. Yeah it is unfortunately. And then the lady apparently gave her money like a discount. So she admitted to all except for the $100. Yeah, that was just her. She said she other stuff taking $100 on top of it. Yeah. All right. You going to break that down? See how much it is? Yeah. Um I already got it here. I just have to transfer it. Okay. I'm going to bring her right here cuz it's a big A few moments later, the officer confronts the employee and begins questioning. I'm required to warn you before you make any statements. You have the following constitutional rights. You understand? You have the right to remain silent and not answer any questions. You understand? Yes. Yeah. Yes. You have the right to the presence of a lawyer of your choice before you make any statements and during question. You understand? Yes. You cannot afford lawyer. You're entitled to the presence of a court appointed lawyer before you make any statements and during question. You understand? Yes. Any statements can and may be used against you in the court of law. Do you understand? Yes. Any statements you make must be freely and voluntary given. Do you understand? Yes. If at any time during the interview you do not wish to answer any questions, you are privileged to remain silent. Do you understand? Yes. I cannot make any threats or promise to induce you to make a statement. It must be of your own free will. You understand what I'm saying? Yes. Okay. So, I'll tell you what I have to do. Um, they called me in the total of everything. They called me in to um thought it was for some training thing or whatever, but to talk to him and we went over um like everything, I guess. He was asking me like going over scenarios like um what do you do if somebody comes to you overturn? Basically going over like training and stuff, what I've learned since I been here. So went over that and then that's when he got into the topic of death and stuff like that and um he said we had they had seen an investigation on my team giving discounts and stuff. So So I admitted to it though. So you're not really breaking down like as far as what you do. I mean I'm pretty sure you know what you did. Mhm. So, can you break down as far as I gave out discounts to other During the police interview, she confesses to under ringing items and allows this mystery woman to leave with unpaid merchandise multiple times. It happened multiple times. So, the first time was like in November, I think, and she had um a bunch of home stuff and she wanted discounts on it. So, I just gave her discounts cuz she's late. You know the lady? Mhm. Family, friend. I guess you could say that. I don't even know her name. As far as uh the money, um the $100. You tell me about Oh, I had to take $100 out my register long time ago. Um, and um, yeah, with the lady, I kept giving her like free stuff. So, what's the lady's name? I don't know her name. So, you're giving free stuff to somebody you don't know their name. Come on. I mean, you're you're already confessing to it, so you might as well just be truthful through the whole thing. Be truthful. You wouldn't risk your life and your, you know, future on somebody you don't know. I'm serious. You want to check my phone? I don't know her. I don't know her name. What's your phone number? I don't. Does she call you ahead of time? Be like, "Hey, I'm coming in." This her number. I don't know her name. So, how do you guys organize it? You She calls you or you call her? She just comes in and How does it start happening? Uh I think like the second time she came in, she asked for my number and my name. So I gave it and that's when um she's saying that she has like a gift for me and stuff like that. She you buy me stuff. So I guess in return I just give her free stuff. She explains that a woman, someone she doesn't even know well, repeatedly came to her for discounts and free items. In return, the woman would bring her gifts which added a transactional layer to the theft. You remember how many transactions you It was a lot. But what it consisted of a transaction. So you would she would bring bring up items and do Oh yeah. She would bring items and I would basically like scan some of the items but not all of them. And I would put the other stuff in the bag and not scan them. Not Stephanie. Huh? Not Steph, right? I know. [Applause] Sure. You know her, huh? over here. Now I got to go over your phone. Where do you live? H forunately the severity of the crime the amount of money it's not something that we can look past ID. It's in my bag. It's on the left. Officers gather statements, confirm the video evidence, and walk her out of the store. While you finish that, I'm going to take her outside. All right. And you can bring me the all that paper. And you got the thumb drive, right? H the video. I had gave it to you. I just got to do I get a statement from you. I got it. Okay. I got it on my It's a paper I got to come get, right? Oh, you got to physically take a s. Yeah, just take a s when you come outside. Okay, you got to face it. You did it, right? I would prefer not to be here, but we do right the long way around. No, we're going to go this way. Get you out here as fast as possible. probably going to have to take all those earrings off. But you take that off and I'm not going to take it off me. Don't worry about it. [Music] It was nice working with you. I'm sorry. It's It's me being nice. Wait. Let me just go this way. No, no. We're going to go this way. We're going to go this way. Don't worry about nothing else. We got this. Bye, guys. I'm saying bye to you, girl. Yes, ma'am. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you go from employee of the month to a mugsh shot in record time. Number four, she got caught stealing at work and her reason is wild. Officers respond to a theft report at a local Nordstrom involving Aurora, a store employee who has been under suspicion for weeks. Hi. Hi. So, you guys know the officer recording right now. Okay. Um, so this is Aurora. Um, she is one of our employees. We've been watching her for quite some time. Um, and she has taken from us. Here's a list of everything that she has stolen um throughout the course of a few weeks. It is uh $2,2545. She's currently wearing one of our items underneath her clothing. It's a blue romper. Okay. Um how do you know that? Uh because she admitted to it. I asked her where is the romper cuz we have the ticket and it's underneath her clothing right now. Okay. Um, so yeah, this is items that she took today and then these are just items that she's taken throughout the week. Uh, shoes and and things like that. Okay. Um, obviously we are going to need to get that back, but obviously we have to step up that. Yeah. Um, and you said you have everything recorded. Yeah. Okay. That's your first name, right? Okay. You speak English? Yes. Okay. So, you understand English? I do. Okay. I'm just going to read you something. Okay. You can just look up so I know that you're understanding. You have the right to remain silent, not answer any questions. Any statement you make must be freely and voluntarily given. You have the right to the presence and representation of a lawyer of your choice before you make any statements and during any questioning. If you can't afford an lawyer, you are entitled to the presence and representation of a courtappointed 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 privileged to remain silent. I can make no threats or promises to induce you to make a statement. This must be of your own free will. Any statement can and will be used against you in the court of law. Do you understand what I just read you? Okay. So, do you want to explain like what what's been going on or what happened? She doesn't deny her actions and begins to explain. Her personal life, she says, has unraveled and she's acted out by stealing. I I don't understand. You know, my my husband left me after 40. Can you look up just so I can hear you? Go ahead. I said this is crazy because I never did this in my whole life. My husband left me after 40 something years and I think I got I don't know. So what did you do from time to time? I I I took something and I I I give it to people. Okay. So you make a gift to make me feel good, I guess. I don't know. So what do you take from here? Yeah. What items do you like? What type of stuff? Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. No. Just to give away. Who do you sell it to? I didn't sell anything. No. No. Okay. So, do you have do you have an ID by any chance? Sure. It's over there. How long have you been taking items for? Like 10 days or something. 10 days. How long have you worked here for? 6 months. And when did you start taking stuff? Like like I said like what has happened like 9 10 days ago for 10 days. Okay. Now what are you wearing underneath that they Oh no I have here I can take it off. Is that Nornstrom's? Okay. Have you ever been um arrested before? Never been arrested in your life? No. This is This is your first time. Okay. Despite never having a prior arrest record, Aurora acknowledges wrongdoing. Over 10 days, you said? Yeah. And who do you give the items to? I don't know, but I just want to make somebody happy. Come on now. I swear. Facebook Marketplace. No, I just don't I just Are you working with anybody like with these items to make extra cash on the side? Do you know the people that you're giving it to or do you just ran like somebody just walking around that you've never met before? I go to my with my dogs in the park and you just hand talk with people. No, I did hand talk to people and hand them clothes. I don't He's sick. You're sick, I guess. So, so you don't the stuff that you're giving out, you don't even know these people. No, but I see how happy they are about leggings. You just hand random people leggings. It's not leggings. They are socks like panty holes. Yeah, you just random people panty hoes. No, that doesn't make sense, doesn't And I did. I think I need to see a doctor. For what reason? For what I did. H for what I did. For what you did, I guess so. because it's not normal. What dog park in Europe where I come from? I'm I was a lawyer. Are you from like Romania? Where are you from? Germany. Okay. Yeah. So, what have you taken from here? A list. So, that list is correct. I suppose so. you supposed to or like this is a lot of items. She confirms the list of stolen items is accurate and owns up to taking them. So you have you did do it. You've taken them. I don't know. And who are you giving them to? You're not you're not just giving them to random people. Yes, ma'am. I I wasn't born yesterday. I might see I might seem like a You know what I mean? And I'm not don't talk to me like this. But I'm just saying I I I have respect and I Yes. I didn't I give it I give it. What dog park? I go I go to I go to uh and work for free help people because I'm here so does all this sound pretty like this is all the items that you've taken? I signed. I don't know. I signed. You did sign. Okay. Yeah. What do you do with all the gift sets? Where do you find like where did you find the boxes? Just on the floor. So for this here, these this this one, but for like majority of them, they were just tossed out over this is your clear purse, right? Yeah. This is yours. Yeah. Okay. All right. We're going to go have a seat. Like do you mind? All right. Don't bring anything in the chair right there. So, we're going to show you some videos. Okay. Have you seen these yet? Right here. Aurora. Have you seen these yet? These videos. Aurora. No. Okay. Oh, this is that Charlotte Tilbury. You What are you doing with that box? Oh, no. Surveillance footage is then reviewed with her. She recognizes herself in the video, stuffing products into her purse and walking off. Aurora, can I get a lawyer? If you don't want to talk, you don't I'm I'm asking you what you're I sign and I I want to pay everything back what I what I took. So, you're admitting to stealing and putting everything in your clear purse. Okay. Yeah. Is that you on camera? Yes. Okay. Not you putting items in your clear purse that belong to Nornstrom. Okay. Do you want to keep continuing or do you not want to talk to me? Aurora, I have to go to the court anyway, right? You will have to go to court. Yes. I I I never did this in my whole life. I don't know. I get that this is your first time doing it. I'm just I I just if you don't want to keep looking, I just want to make like that you putting the items into your clear purse that you still have here today, correct? Yeah. Okay. Throughout how many days have you been doing this? 10 days. Okay. Okay. All right. So, we're done looking at videos then? Yeah. Okay. All right. You can go have a seat. Do you have anything, Nelson? Be called me one day at 7. Okay. Bye. Thanks. She ran. She doesn't want to watch the camera footage anymore. She But she admit that it was her. Yeah. And that's a creeper. So, she's put everything into. All right. Go ahead. Stand up for me. Turn. Turn around. Turn around. Yep. Officers escort her as she prepares to leave the store under police custody. I checked her already. Go ahead. Have a seat. Is your phone on while I feel it ringing? Yes, it's on. It is on. Can you put the props in the front? I cannot. Oh. Are you pregnant? No. Okay. It all ends with Aurora being formally arrested and charged with retail theft exceeding $750. Number three, employee caught pocketing thousands while on the clock. At a Burlington coat factory, a cashier is discovered stealing nearly $2,000 across four shifts. Instead of depositing customer cash into the register, she pockets it discreetly during each transaction. Police arrive after management compiles and presents the video evidence. Show me 10 of the homeowner. I'm going to take the truck stop. I'm Julian. Hi. Hi, Julian. I'm officer. Nice to meet you. Thanks for What's going on? Yeah, so we have an employee. Okay. Um she was a cashier. So four shifts starting um on the 23rd of December. The last one was on the 1st. Okay. She was a cashier. Uh, ring up ring up customers. Customers would hand her the cash. She take the cash, put it on the side of the register, finish a transaction, she takes the cash. Yeah. Yep. As they head to the loss prevention office, the manager shares additional details about the theft with the officer. So, um, if I read the notes right, it was a total of almost two grand. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Over. Yeah. She did it um she admitted to doing it and and for like medical stuff for her mom. Okay. I thought you said something. Can you do a separate case number for the traffic stop? She didn't walk past us. Detective Thomas use the bathroom. No, he went to the break room. That's a break room. Here she is. Yeah, [Music] if you guys want to have a seat, you can. Yeah, please. Ladies first. Morning. Yeah, go ahead. All right. Hi, ma'am. I'm officer also. Do you have your ID or driver's license with you today? If I may. So, what do you do for Burlington? I'm a cashier. Gotcha. And this is49. Okay. This is a statement written by you. Okay. All right. So, currently we being detained for an investigation. So, before I can ask you questions relating to that, I do have to read your Miranda rightits. This is my caveat and I say this to everybody. Me reading your Miranda rights does not mean that you're currently under arrest at this time. It's just because you're not free to leave. I have to. The manager meets with a suspect, explains her rights, and she agrees to speak. Go ahead. Trini 74 to 29. She has a val class E that expires in 2024 and her 1043 from the call. 104. Thank you. All right. If there's any part of it you don't understand, let me know, okay? Cuz this isn't something that people have done very often, if at all. Okay? You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to talk to a lawyer and have him present with you while you're being questioned. If you cannot afford to hire a lawyer, one will be appointed to represent you before any questioning if you wish. You can decide at any time to execute these rights and not answer any questions or make any statements. Do you understand your rights? Have I explained them to you? Would you like to speak with me about what's going on? Okay. So, my understanding is that you have taken some money while you're working as a cashier at the front. Can you tell me about that? Like what what's what's the purpose behind all this? I needed the money. Okay. Short on bills or my mom. Your mom? She's sick. Like she's got like cancer like really badly sick kind of stuff. How long has she been sick? For a while. She needs, you know, she has surgery and medications, right? Does she not have insurance or anything? No. Okay. So before we go into the other stuff, there are programs out there to help. Okay? A lot of your hospitals and medical facilities are going to have case workers that can potentially point you in the right direction for programs or even alternatives to insurance, right? Um a lot of pharmaceutical companies, if you fall short on something, some of them are very well known to assist with payment plans or even potentially doing things for free. Okay. The biggest thing for you and mom is you have to ask the right questions, okay? With what you've got going on, I I shouldn't be here having this conversation with you. I think we can all empathize with you. That that's that's a very serious thing to have to go through. The officer responds with empathy, but also explains other options. Financial aid, hospital programs, even pharmaceutical support that could have helped her avoid resorting to theft. Okay. But there's help out there. You just have to ask for it. Okay. How many times did this happen? Um, a few. What's a few? Because a few to me might be three or four. It might be seven, eight to you. Three or four. Okay. Can you kind of tell me about how you proceeded with this? Like what was like how did this happen? Like how did you obtain this money? Oh, um, transaction I would put it in the numbers, but I wouldn't put the money in. Okay. Were you still given like the customers or change and whatnot, but you just put the money to the side and kept this for yourself? And this happened approximately four times on the same day or different days? Different days. Okay. Were any of those like more than one on one day or just all spread across four different shifts? Okay, I got you. And you wrote this today at 4:27 p.m. And this is your signature? Okay. Okay. Mash here Burlington. I caused a loss of cash from the register within the last week. I need the money from my mom. She's very sick and needs surgery and medications. I know it was wrong because stealing isn't right, but I was in a desperate position. It's not like me to do so. Customer would pay and I would not put in register. I would put in aside and then continue transactions totaling $1,985. How much is mom's medical expenses? It's a lot. The surgery alone. I got thousands of dollars, right? Does anybody else live at home with mom or is it just you and mom? It's just her. Okay. So, it would be very disheartening and ill- advised for me just to not show some sense of sympathy. Despite her confession, Burlington chooses to pursue charges. Surveillance footage confirms the whole process and there's no denying her involvement. Depending on what Burley Ting decides to do at this point in time, is there anybody that would you would need to contact so mom has someone to help her out? friend, a family member. Okay, it's just me. Okay. Do you think mom would be okay for a day by herself if that were to be the case? Um, cuz obviously we don't want to leave mom by herself if she's so badly ill. She has to take her medications. She can barely walk. Is she bedridden? Basically. Okay. She just have to get up. Okay. Gotcha. All right. Is Burlington wanting to prosecute? Uh, yes. Okay. Can I see these videos if you have them available? And I'll write on my uh email for you if you'd like. Oh, yep. My fat behind in this chair. Yeah. So, here's an instance. Has she seen this? Uh, no. We haven't shown it to her. Okay. Is it against y'all's policy for her to see it? Um, no, she can. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. If you want her to Yeah, that's okay. This This is you in the black sweater with your hair up. Yeah. Okay. Can I rewind this at all or? Um Yeah. Yeah, I got it. Okay. Yeah. And then like the clips are all They're right. Same. Yeah. Same as that, just different. Gotcha. So, is this what you were talking about where you take the customer's cash, you stick it next to the register? Yes. This is December 23rd. Yeah, that was the first at 8:05. Did you put the money in your pocket just then? Is that what I was seeing? Yeah. Okay. I don't want to mess up your computer. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're good. Yeah. And then I mean the clips are all Sorry. The employee is seen pocketing cash multiple times, often hiding it beside the register before slipping it into her pocket. Yeah, they're all similar, you know, same Mhm. same type of process. The cash will go on the side here and go in the pocket. Okay. Another one at 8:49. Now, how were you folks able to determine the total um based on so um watching um the cash be handed and then um the amount that was typed in so yeah comparison to the tickets. Yeah. Comparison. Yep. Yeah. So if it was like you know 120 cash all no cash went in all went to the side. Okay. Um and then based on to I can show you um like our reporting what that looks like in terms of the shortages. And if it's possible to get a copy of that that would be great as well. Yeah. Yeah. I can show after this video. And either way if you want to if you want to email all it to me that works too. Okay. It looks like you had did this twice on the 23rd and then this day on the 30th is pretty much the same thing. You put the money next to the register and then you pocket it. And I appreciate your cander, Mrs. Con. I really do. Yeah, she was. Yeah. Yeah. Really open. So, what's this here? Is at one point you covered up some of the funds with this. Is that like a roll of paper towels or trash bag roll or something? I'll bring it back so you see it. So, based off of the facts and circumstances, Burlington does want to pursue with criminal investigation. Okay. So, because of the amount and the pattern under the activity, the way that you conducted yourself, it is a felony. So, yes, you're going to be placed under arrest at this time. If you need to call mom, text her, whatever the case is. Like I said, to show you some form of compassion, go ahead and call her, make a text message, whatever you need to. All right? But at the end of the day, I want to make sure mom's The officer lets her contact her mother, who is home alone and needs medication. He also initiates a well-being check through family services to ensure her mother's safety. So if there's someone that we need to call for, let's do that. Um the next thing is I can call the Department of Children and Families and just say, "Hey, look, you know, unfortunately the daughter was placed under arrest today. Mom's, you know, in her mid to late 50s. She's very sick, which is what led to the to the incident. So we're just a little concerned for mom and someone can just go and do a well-being check on her, make sure that she's okay, and offer her some services if she needs it. So essentially what it this is is there's a bond schedule that we have to look at. All right. What the bond schedule is is you pay a certain amount of money to a bondsman, some form of collateral, and you can get out within a few hours. If you're unable to bond yourself out of jail or have someone bond you out, you would have to go to first appearance in the morning. Okay? And then the judge will look over all the paperwork, everything that me and you have talked about that I'm going to put in that paperwork and they'll make a determination from there. you know, especially if you don't have any other previous criminal history or anything like that if they'll let you go. Okay. Do you have any other questions for me that I may have not answered as of yet? Sorry. Sincerely, I wish your mom well. But I'll follow up with you if I don't get them tonight. I'll I'll call you tomorrow. Okay. Okay. Sorry. 5 6 5 7 10 15. [Music] Yeah, we'll worry about that some other time. Um, would it be an issue for her husband to come back later and grab her belongings? Anything that's left here? Oh, yeah. No. Yeah, we can do that. Like, if you want to take I mean, we can grab the only issue is if it's perishable stuff, it goes to the jail. They're just going to throw it in the trash. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's just containers unless you can actually. As the situation unfolds, she's formally arrested and taken into custody. We're just going to go here to the right. Yes, ma'am. Right. And Mrs. Cons. Yeah. And there's there's a very good reason as to why. I won't tell you why, but I tell this to everybody. Not pointing fingers at you. I highly doubt it's the case with you especially. Okay. But if there's anything on your person inside your clothing or anything when you go to the jail, even if it's just tobacco, if it goes into the jail, it's an additional charge for introduction. Okay, gotcha. Like I said, I tell it to everybody. Okay. Ultimately, she receives 9 months of probation for grand theft. Number two, $2,000 gone in one day. Target manager's bold move backfires. A newly promoted manager at a Target store gets caught up in a significant theft case on her very first day overseeing cash registers. Not long into her shift, nearly $2,000 goes missing, prompting internal investigation. The loss prevention team starts reviewing surveillance footage to track down what happened. And her drawers were short every day then. Yeah, the shortage was there. Okay. How are you aware made aware of this? So, I'm made aware of this every time a team member opens the register drawer. Um, it flags in the system that's not for sale. Um, and as well as I review the closing caches have been been closing. I review all of our closing cash operations regularly. Um, while I was reviewing, we were missing a cash bag, an entire bag. Um, and we were trying to find out where it went. So I'm like, "All right, I'm just gonna start reviewing a video on the and on the 20th I found that both bags were put there, but then I watch this team number go to another register that register." Okay. And can see the cash. I'll show you that initial video, but this is the one I clicked on first. There's our team number there. And I have a better picture of the shot. Didn't coincide. You're good. You're good. They coincide timewise, but this this is a nice clear zoomed in over the top shot. Okay. Can you pause it for a second? Hey. Um, so we're in here just reviewing video real quick. It's It's Can you just make sure she doesn't try to walk out? All right. She's probably going to be a 15. Cursive. So, we're looking at ones, fives, tens, 20s, 50s, and hundreds or in the last right. It's a a little bit more video cuz I got the whole process, but So, you combine the 50s and hundreds in the far right. Mhm. Is that how every register is supposed to be? That's standard. Yeah. So, what she does is she takes all of the money out of the register. Um, and once she has it all out, she fans it all out. And then you can see the left side, which be the larger bills are cuz she's setting it up that way. She'll take multiple what it looks like on the low cameras catch her in the act. how she collects the money from the registers and stashes it away. Okay, so we went with three. Now, is this common for a cashier to sit here and pull all the money out at the cash register and count it and then typically they should just take it all out, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and put it in one of those bags. So, they're not usually counting it at the register. They don't count at the register. We have a cash office in the machine that counts it. Okay. So, smaller bills on top, bigger bills on the bottom in the order that she pulled it off from. right there. Rolls it up. Puts a rubber band on it. Sets it on top. Puts that my device little phone thing on top of it. Puts the remainder of the money in the bag. Those are coupons that are manufactured coupons. Those get processed as well. Okay. She then rebanks the register with the money that's supposed to go in there all the way left. place the bag on top. That's standard. Places that bag into the cart. And then she comes back and retrieves both her phone and the money that's underneath the right there into the right part. This is her going over to that same register. It's just a different camera angle. So you can see that it's positive identification of her doing it. Are these 360 cams? Is that how you're able to move it or I can move only certain cameras. They are 360. Um, I was live here watching this from my office. Okay. That's how I was able to zoom in and get that real clear clean clear shot, but this is a similar video. You can kind of see her do it here, but the top one's the best one. It's just another angle. Okay. So, is this common for her to go from register to register to take the money out, put it in the bag, and bring it to you guys? Or is it We have a team member that typically does it. Um whether it's her or another team member at the typical practice they go register register take the money out put in the bags put it in this cart and it locks into the cart and then cash this is what she was assigned to do that at that at that point to do another camera angle supports the findings and a missing money bag pushes the team to escalate the situation I'm going to review cash I was actually looking for a missing bag one of these green bags was missing so I'm like reviewing days worth of video trying to find the bag still haven't found it. Um, and then I saw her do this on one of the the camera shots. I was like, I'll show you which one that is. That's on the 20th at 10:30 or 10:24 p.m. I was just curious. Yeah. No, it's it's really cool that it logs that way. So, like even if someone was doing this on like a regular transaction like cash, we can be able to see it then, too. Do you think she had something to do with that bag? I can't prove it. Um, but Okay. It went missing and that's what tree. After reviewing the surveillance footage, officers approached the employee to address the situation. Officer Kelly, I work for West Palm Beach Police Department. I'm sure you're aware of why we're here cuz they told me that they had spoken to you about it. Yeah, I Okay. Um, but first off, before I start, I have to read you your rights. It doesn't mean you're under arrest. It just something I have to do before I ask you any questions. Okay. Have you ever heard of the Miranda warnings? Okay. I'm going to read them to you after each one that I read to you. I just need you to give me a verbal yes or no if you understand it. If you don't understand it, I'll go ahead and explain it to you. Okay? All right. You have the right to remain silent, not answer any questions. Do you understand that? You have the right to the presence of a lawyer of your choice before you make any statement ending any question. You understand that? You cannot afford a lawyer. You're entitled to the presence of a courtappointed lawyer before you make any statement enduring any question. Do you understand that? Mhm. Any statement can and may be used against you in the court of law. Do you understand that? Mhm. Any statement you make must be freely and voluntarily given. You understand that? At any time during the interview, you do not wish to answer any questions, your privilege remains silent. You understand that? I can make no threats or promises to induce you to make a statement. This must be of your own free will. Do you understand that? Okay. I'm just going to have you sign the back of this here. This states that I read you your rights and that you understand your rights. Does it say that on there? No, but you verbally told me. But I know that that's what the signature is for. Yeah, that is for that's not an admission of guilt or anything like that. Just stating that. All right. So, as I spoke to your colleagues there, um they basically they're accusing you of taking in unknown amount of money at this point. Um somewhere close to the range of $1,400. Do you know anything about this at all? No. Okay. Um how long have you worked here for? Almost three years. Okay. And you've had no other issues like this within the last 3 years, correct? Um, I noticed on camera that you were uh responsible for going from register to register and taking the money out of the drawer. Is that a common practice of yours? She agrees to talk and listens closely as they explain what was observed. Throughout the conversation, she stays calm and continues to insist she hasn't done anything wrong. And what is included in that practice? What What do you do? Can you explain to me? So I am taking the money from the day out and putting new money for the next day. Okay. And when you take the money out, do you count it or anything like that? So you just So how would you take it out of the drawer? Just take it out, put in the red or green bag, and then put the next bag into the Okay. So you basically just go from each money slot, pull it out, place it in a bag, don't look at it or anything, right? I fix it up if I need to prove it. So if it's out of order or something, you'll you'll fix it up. Okay. Would there be any reason why you would roll up money? No. Okay. So, you wouldn't roll it in to any kind of like money roll and then put a rubber band over it or anything? No. Okay. So, when I was watching the video footage, it's pretty clear that it was that it's what you were doing is rolling it into a money roll, placing a rubber band over it, and then placing it on top of the desk. Why would you be doing that? I didn't do that. You didn't do that? Okay. So, why would the video footage show you doing that? You see where I'm at here, right? I'm watching a video footage that's unedited from the department store, who has no reason to accuse you of this. I don't know if it's unedited, but I have never done anything like that. Okay. Is there anything else you'd like to add to this? All right. So, Mr. Janine, based off the video evidence and uh the statements made by your co-workers, I'm going to be taking you to jail tonight. Is there anything on your person that might poke or stick me? Okay. Can you stand up for me, please? What is going to happen with my items? Uh, they're going to go with you to jail. Okay. Can you take this jacket off? Okay, thank you. Eventually, officers place her under arrest, backed by surveillance footage and statements from co-workers. When do I get to speak to a lawyer? Um, that will be after processing. So, once you get proed into the jail, processed into the jail, then you'll have an opportunity to call whoever you would like. It's like your jacket. That's their stuff. This is No, the jacket. Oh, that's okay. The jacket's yours. Yeah. Chris, do you mind grabbing that? Yeah. Is there no other pleasant way to do this? Like walking out of the store? Unfortunately though, cuz uh once you're in our custody, we have to place you in handcuffs in case you try to run away. We've had people run away and crack their head. So, it's a liability thing. So, we have to detain you like this, unfortunately. And you guys are walking out of side doors. I'm assuming if there is a side door available. Yeah, we can do that. No, why not? However, our cars are parked at the front. So, I I know you guys know the fire emergency doors or whatever. I've actually never been through that. So, I don't especially with stairs either. Are you guys walk? That's really embarrassing. They're going to be embarrassed after they are proven wrong. Okay, I'll just walk with you. Can one of you guys lead us out? Yeah. Thank you. Just like that she goes from store manager to sitting in a jail cell. Am I just leaning against the car? Could you loosen the left side? Left side. Yeah. Is it because it's caught in your hair band, do you think, or is it It's starting to Let me take this. It's okay. Notice you. I'm going to reach around you and I'm going to put the seat belt on. Okay. Actually, I'll wait because I have a female officer that's going to come and do a thorough search on you. Okay. Um I'm going to drive you to the back over there. So, we're not doing all this right up front. Okay. In the end, she's sentenced to just 12 months of probation and is required to pay $2,500 in restitution. The most shocking part, within months of her conviction, she manages to secure another retail job. Number one, Subway worker's bold $10,000 theft ends with a visit from police. Police rushed to a subway after reports that an employee swiped $10,000 from the safe. What happens next is all caught on camera. Mr. Smith, step away. Turn around. Turn that way. Turn that way. Turn that way. Face that way, please. Thank you very much. Ladies, it's going to be a moment for your sandwiches. I do apologize. This in no way, shape, or form reflects poorly on Subway. I hope that you guys do refresh and you enjoy your meal. Thank you, sir. Come on, please. Any knives or anything on your No, no. Someone will be right out to help you. No, she is. She'll be right back. See you in a second. Step on. [Music] Step. All right, we are going to park right over here for a moment. 63 delta 1050. Watch that. 10:15. Same location. If you can't send road patrol for transport if you would just lean against that formal. Thank you, sir. Anything on you that I should know about? No, just my cell phone. Okay. Nothing that sharp or I don't have to worry about being stuck. I've been stuck before is a reasons. Oh, some cash flowing out of your pocket. Looks like 25. I'm going put it right back here in your pocket. All [Applause] right. What about these keys? Uh, that's store key. Store key. Okay. I'm going to make sure that I leave that here. All right. The officer reads him as Miranda writes, and although the employee appears slightly confused, he complies. What's in here? Oh, nothing. Not getting fresh, man. All right. Looks like more cash. Got a lot of zippers, man. Not getting fresh. Can I be act while I'm being I was asked by another detective to pick you up and detain you so he can have a chat with you. Um, if you would just give me a few moments. All right. Can you sit still with this uh this gentleman for a moment? I need to go grab my Miranda card real quick. Sit over here on the curb. Okay. Another detective said to come. Yes, sir. He did. Can you check the transform? Can I ask why? He He knows all about it. It's not my case, but just in case you do want to chat with me, I'll get you a Miranda card real quick so you understand. No, I don't want to talk. I just Well, hold on. You leave. I just want to give her like my stuff. Okay. Well, I understand all that and I want to call I want to call someone. Go have a seat. Okay. Have a seat. Subway. He's got keys right there. Yeah, but my house. All right, Mr. Lewis, I'm not asking you any questions, but I am going to read this to you. I'm required to warn you before you make any statement. You have constitutional rights. You have the right to remain silent, not answer any questions. Any statement you make must be freely and voluntarily given. You have the right to the presence and representation of a lawyer of your choice before you make any statement during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, you are entitled to the presence and representation of a courtappointed lawyer before you make any statement during any questioning. If at any time during the interview you do not wish to answer any questions, you are privileged to remain silent. I can make no threats or promises to induce you to make a statement. This must be of your own free will. Any statement can and will be used against you in a court of law. Did you understand all those? Do you want me to repeat any of them? I'm sorry, sir. Say, can you say it out loud? Um, okay. I just want to make sure you understood me and there was no there was no misinterpretation. All right. Give us a few moments. When the employee gets here, we'll separate the keys. Make sure that you've got your personal stuff. All right. How do you explain to them the detective not cars? At the police station, the store manager explains what led to the arrest. Now, Jake, you already made a police report with us and what we're going to do is I'm going to swear you in. Okay. Okay. So, everything you tell me from here is going to be the truth. Okay. Okay. So, raise your right hand. You swear everything you're telling me is going to be the truth. I do. All right. So, let's get started. Uh Jake, briefly what the major calls initially? Well, I just started noticing the sales were lower than they should be. Well, it start off um what store are we subway to? Okay. And you are the owner? Yes. And what is the address of the subway? 12041 Southern Boulevard, sweet 2 L. Okay. And um what day did you notice the shortage? Um see it's been well I've noticed the sales been down for a while but last uh two Saturdays ago would have been the third I went to the store and there was you know I open the safe expecting there to be money and there was none. So that kind of got me. The employee on the other hand acknowledges what happened but shifts between accepting responsibility and offering justifications. Louis. Yes, sir. Yeah. To take the beer, man. I do. Good. You? Well, I'm always good. You always good? I'm always good unless I'm sick. All right. So, you know why you're under arrest? No, sir. All right. I was just going to explain why you're under arrest. All right. You already told my partner here you don't want to talk, but I will at least inform you what's going on. Okay. No, I didn't tell him I didn't want to. He was ringing me to Miranda, and I was like, okay. I guess he wanted me to um I guess converse about it. But the Miranda I know you know there's nothing you could really say but you understand you understood your rights in the Miranda right as she explains your rights that you reported. Of course but right before that you said no I don't want to talk. Was that in reference to what's going on or do you want to talk to him in general? No when when he was talking about I was just waiting on him to read the Miranda. He didn't read me the Miranda then. Oh okay. So you wanted It's pointless to talk about anything. So you wanted your rights read first before you not even but it's like we come on we grown man we a we we don't have time to be playing around like you know all right so over the course of I would say two weeks Mhm. All right. You have been voing out transactions, taking cash from customers, and it doesn't go into cash detail. Wow. You've been pocketing the money. So, there's a lot of video matching up with all your cancellations. So, your boss came to us and said, "Hey, I have Mr. Smith has 86 voided transactions over a two week period which is far above normal right so there's an aotted amount of voided transactions you bring up applesauce or whatever you're going to void it out you voiding a whole transaction like three subs it's revealed that over a twoe period he voided 86 transactions far above the norm and pocketed the cash from customers instead of placing it in the register and then in a video when we correlate the transaction to the video. You see, you take the cash, you tell the people the card's not working or the card's not working, whatever it may be. They give you cash, you take the cash, you go back to the back of the room, I don't know what's back there, and if they need change, you hand them change from wherever you got the change from, but it's not coming from the till. Okay. Okay. So then the manager started matching up because the profits were low and these were all on days you're working by yourself. Mhm. Okay. So this is why you're under arrest. Okay. Okay. Do you understand that? Um sort of kind of. Yeah. Sort of kind of. Yeah. Sort of. Okay. So I mean you were read I mean read Miranda. So if you want to talk about why you're doing it. I don't know. Maybe you're not getting paid enough or needing more money for your bills as just like a side hustle to get some extra cash. I don't know. Um, I don't know how you get to work. I know you have a suspended license, revoked license, right? So, I don't know if you need money to get home and this is why you're doing this. It's not a lot of money cuz, you know, Subway doesn't It's not like $100 bill. It was like 20 bucks, 10 bucks, right? And he did this morning, too, cuz he was sending me a video this morning until the other employee showed up and then the transaction stopped. So, do you have anything to say about that? Um, you want to watch one of the videos? No, I I I don't got anything to say, you know. I I I don't have anything to say, you know. Yeah. It's just a universe, you know. So, I'm not really, you know. Well, universe what? No, I'm just saying that's just the universe. Like, you know, things happen, you know, like what things have happened. No, I'm just saying like things happen. I'm not I'm not, you know, I don't I'm not feeling like, you know, like really like on some other type of time. I I I'm aware of what's going He never directly admits to the full scale of theft, but leans into vague philosophical points about the universe and fairness. But is there a reason is there like a like a reason that you have to do this or is this just you're just doing it? Um, uh, listen, I understand like rent's expensive, right? A lot of [ __ ] expensive, right? And I understand that working a job like that and then you also just got out of prison a couple years ago. Yeah. So, it's hard to get a job that's going to pay No, it ain't got nothing to do with that. No, I'm cuz if that's the case, if that's the case, I would have been back in prison for real getting it. I went to prison for I went getting the big rips. No, I'm just saying if that was the case. Yeah, that's not really the case. Like, you know, you gotta you gotta you gotta It's like I don't I don't know. I don't know what the you know, I'm not saying I didn't do it. I'm not saying I did do it, but like you know, you gota you you you know, I know I'm a black guy, whatever. You know what I'm saying? I know I'm overqualified for the job. You know what I'm saying? I just feel like, you know, this, like I said, it's just the universe. Like, I wasn't like, you know, I take full responsibility or whatever. I'm a man for anything. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, it happened. Um, you know, I'mma just deal with whatever. Was it just something easy to do over the course of time? Nah, it's it's not that cuz it's like since you guys got camera footage, you could go back and I've haven't stole from him. Feel what I'm saying? Like I've been working for him for a minute. Two months. Yeah. And it started like right at the end of January. So it's like so it's been recent like last um I don't know about right at the end of January but like I don't you know it's it's like if you're getting accused for something and you just get into the store it's like I ain't even been here that long. But that wasn't right when he got Instead of taking responsibility for his actions he talks about being underpaid and managing the store solo. It hasn't it wasn't right when you got in the store. What you mean? You got you started working two months ago. So this is like a little bit later, right? This is Right. But I'm saying like the videos I have go back to February 3rd. Right. Right. Right. Okay. So Right. I got it. All right. So that's what two weeks ago. It's over. What the 17th? Today 17. So it's about two weeks. Right. So the last two weeks. So in the last two weeks the universe changed for you where you No. Oh, what I what I mean by the universe meaning whatever someone does, they either going to have to accept it or run from it for real. Well, that's everything in life. Consequences. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's so the universe. So, everyone has consequences to every action. Well, for for sure. That's why I'm not I'm not, you know, it it is what it is. I'm I'm not going to sit up here and and you know like I I you know I I've haven't been treated fairly. You feel what I'm saying? So you know today No, no, no. I'm just saying like in general like I you know you I run the store you know I like I said it wasn't like I've been for the work you're doing you should have got compensated a little more money or compensated a higher rate. Not even. It's like you got to treat you got to treat you got to treat the people right, man. You got So what were the inequities at Subway? What was the owner? Was the owner not doing something right? Um you know, man, I I don't Was it leaving you by yourself too much? Um I don't know. You could say that maybe, but it's like, you know, just you got to do your people right, man. If someone's working for you. No, I understand. You got to treat your employees properly, right? But I'm saying, what did he do that wasn't proper? What What was he doing to to make it unfair for you? Um um I just I don't I don't really I don't really know. That's a That's a very good question. I don't really I don't really know. Even now, his answers remain vague and he fails to give any clear explanation for his actions. I don't really know for real. I met the guy. You seem like a nice dude. Yeah, but you know, man, listen, man. I'm not I'm not sitting up here making it a race issue. Okay. You know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day, like I'm a black man for real. Okay. Well, I'm a minority, too. Yeah. But but we not but we not talking about you. You're talking about me. I understand it. I'm minority. But what do you do? I know I know there's inequities for minorities, right? And I can point something out. Treat treat just treat your people fairly, man. Okay. list while I was asking what was he not just treating people fairly like I'm not gonna sit up here and talk about the guy like he's a bad guy was he just degrading you or demeaning towards you. Yeah. Like you know you could say you could say you know but it's like treat your people right man. You know you got somebody that's working at your store and they the only one working you know what I'm saying like come on man you got to treat your people fairly. You know what I'm saying? So, were other employees getting treated differently? Nah, it's only two employees. So, Oh, the the girl you switched on. Yeah. So, that that's it. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's like you got to treat got to treat us right. Like, you know what I'm saying? I got you. I'm going to wear whatever I got to wear. You know, I'm a real uh whatever whatever comes behind this, I'm going accept it. I'm not running from anything. You know what I'm saying? So, I understand. That's what we got to do. Well, right. That that's what it is. So, and then um I got another question for you. Yeah. Um, do you still live in for uh Lauder Hill? Um, no. Okay. I'm going to need your new address because the jail's going to need one when you get booked in because out of county changes bonds changes stuff like that. What you mean like out of higher bonds? Lauder Hill is out of Palm Beach County. Lauder Hills and Broward. So So where am I where am I going? You're going to Palm Beach County Jail. So I'm I'mma be in there for the weekend. No, you'll get be given a bond. Despite stealing $10,000 in such a short time, he still manages to paint himself as the victim in all of this. You giving the ball today? Yeah. So, I wasn't like I won't I won't even sit up here and be like I was like, man, I'm for the people. So, it is what it is. You know, it is what it is. I'm for the people. Okay. You know, so it wasn't like I was taking from like it wasn't like I was like robbing them like you know what I'm saying? Like understand that's why we didn't go with robbery. That's why we went with the scheme to defraud. Right. Right. I I get it. I get it. I'm for the people though, man. I'm for the people, man. I'm like, it is what it is. So is the was the money going to the people? I'm for the people. Yeah. You damn sure. For sure. You're like Robin Hood. Um you're doing some Robin Hood Robin Hood, right? I guess you taking money from people got money and giving it to the people. I I guess I guess giving them deals, whatever. I I guess you know I That's what Hey, that's what Robin Hood did, right? That's the whole Yeah. No, I ain't never tapping into Robin Hood. I ain't never tapping into Robin Hood. That's what he did. He He took from all the people and got a lot of money and hooked hooked up every What time I'm going to be able to bond out though? Uh once you get booked in, uh I think it takes like about an hour or two and then they'll give you a phone call to a bondsman. You call Bondsman and uh you get your bond set. All right, let's get on it because I got I got I got a show tonight, man. A show? I do music. I do music. Rap. Yeah, I do music. I do all that. So, are you rapping tonight or are you playing instruments or you playing the Um I'm playing for the band tonight. Opening up. Yeah. What night? What are you playing? Drums. Um n I'm opening up. Opening up for some artists. Where? Um where is it? Um, what is the the venue? It's in Miami. Oh, you're going to Miami? Yeah. Oh, you got a long way long drive ahead of you. Yeah. All right. Well, let me get your uh West Palm address and then I can get Oh, I don't have a West Palm address. Where do you live? I stay in like Oakland, Oakland Park. Oh, you still in Broward? Yeah. Ultimately, he's sentenced to 5 years of probation. If you're thinking of pulling a fast one at work, let this be your warning. Someone's always watching.