Very few of us make the huge amount of money we think we deserve, but most teenagers – unless they are among the lucky few whose YouTube channels really take off – are even more deprived. All those fancy, paid jobs go to people with higher education and MBAs. If you are a minor and insufficiently educated and inexperienced, the best thing you can hope for is a decent hourly wage and the patience to straighten out.
Tre Brown, a 19-year-old man from Gwinnett County, Georgia, right next to Atlanta, was unhappy with his salary in Kroger, where he worked at the fuel center. Atlanta Journal-Constitution rEPORTS. But he saw an opportunity and took advantage of it: while the employee who was responsible for reporting fraudulent transactions went on vacation for two weeks, Brown created returns for more than 40 non-existent orders, ranging from $ 75 to $ 75. over $ 87,000, and put the money on several credit cards. The total was over $ 980,000.
When a theft is so ambitious, people are forced to notice it most likely sooner rather than later. Which the Kroger company did. The costumes contacted Gwinnett police, who took Brown into custody on January 14. Before that, however, Brown had gone shopping and bought new clothes, weapons, and two cars, one of which (a Chevy Camaro) he destroyed just before his arrest.
Brown was released from Gwinnett Prison on $ 11,200 bail the same day he was arrested. Shortly afterwards AJC reports, “a large sum of money” had been returned, but the store did not answer the newspaper’s questions.