Grocery Store Employee Returned Non-Existent Items to Give Himself $1M in Refunds

Talk about a five-finger discount!

This young Kroger employee used his ingenuity to create over 40 returns for non-existent items and put them on several credit cards.

Tre Brown made returns ranging in value from $75 to over $87,000.

Some of the phony transactions involved lottery "redemption codes,” where Brown typed in the lottery codes and deposited the funds onto his debit card.

In all, 19-year-old Tre Brown tried to forge over $980,000 before corporate employees noticed the fraud and called the cops.

Brown was arrested and fired, but not before he bought clothes, guns, shoes, and two cars with the money. Brown already crashed and wrecked one of the cars. Police were able to recover “a large sum” of the money.

"This person who was stealing decided to go real big," said Gwinnett County, Georgia police corporal Collin Flynn. "The first one he did was in the range of 10 dollars and as he continued to get away with it the prices continued to go up until he made a return of over 87,000 that returned to a credit card.”

Brown is charged with theft by taking, and now faces up to ten years in prison.

Go big or go home! Or in this case, go to prison.

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