An ambitious Atlanta teenager tricks Kroger into nearly a million dollars

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Very few of us make as much money as we think we deserve, but most teenagers, unless they’re the lucky few to whom YouTube channels really take off, are even more private. All of these high-paying jobs go to people with college degrees and MBAs. If you are a minor, uneducated and inexperienced, the best you can expect is a decent hourly wage and patience to work.

Tre Brown, a 19-year-old from Gwinnett County, Georgia, on the outskirts of Atlanta, was dissatisfied with his salary at the Kroger location where he worked at the fuel Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. But he saw an opportunity and took advantage of it: while the employee who was responsible for marking fraudulent transactions was on vacation for two weeks, Brown created returns of more than 40 non-existent orders, ranging from $ 75 to $ 87,000. , and put the money on several credit cards. The total amount amounted to more than $ 980,000.

When a robbery is so ambitious, people are likely to notice it, and most likely sooner rather than later. Kroger’s corporate thing. The lawsuits contacted Gwinnett police, who arrested Brown on January 14. Earlier, however, Brown had gone to the store and bought new clothes, weapons and two cars, one of which (a Chevy Camaro) he destroyed before his arrest.

Brown was released from Gwinnett Prison on $ 11,200 bail the same day he was arrested. Shortly afterwards, the AJC according to reports, “a large sum of money” had been returned, but the store no longer answered the newspaper’s questions.

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