Former Employee at Rock Hill Walmart Embezzled $10,000
A former Walmart loss prevention manager has been charged with breach of trust and fraud after she reportedly embezzled more than $10,000 from the Rock Hill store where she worked.
Last month, asset protection manager David Lyle Boulevard told police that he had been conducting an internal investigation into another loss prevention manager. His investigation had found that the other manager had created fictitious refunds and routed the money to a prepaid Mastercard, which was used primarily by the Walmart corporate office to deposit payments into employee bank accounts.
Boulevard said he found six transactions totaling more than $10,000. He gave police copies of receipts for the transactions, as well as video evidence.
The credit card company monitoring those transactions said they noticed too much money was being deposited into the other manager’s bank account, according to Rock Hill Police Detective Keith Dugan. The company contacted Walmart’s corporate investigators, who matched the dates of the in-store video of the manager making refunds to the dates of the fraudulent transactions.
Andrea Rodgers, the loss prevention manager in question, turned herself in on Monday, August 12th, and posted $6,000 bond. She has received charges related to the money she embezzled, including breach of trust and financial transaction card fraud.
According to Dugan, Rodgers had been working at the Rock Hill Walmart as a loss prevention manager for just a year, but she had worked at Walmart in other capacities since 2008.
Charges of Embezzlement and Breach of Trust in South Carolina
In the business sense you’ll see the term breach of trust sometimes related particularly to the administration of trusts. Breach of trust may be used to show how a person purposely or through neglect failed to act in the terms specified in agreements; an accountant who embezzles funds breaks trust with his clients.
Breach of trust with fraudulent intent:
(A) A person committing a breach of trust with a fraudulent intention or a person who hires or counsels another person to commit a breach of trust with a fraudulent intention is guilty of larceny.
A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a:
(1) misdemeanor triable in magistrates court or municipal court if the amount is two thousand dollars or less. Upon conviction, the person must be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days;
(2) felony and, upon conviction, must be fined in the discretion of the court or imprisoned not more than five years if the amount is more than two thousand dollars but less than ten thousand dollars;
(3) felony and, upon conviction, must be fined in the discretion of the court or imprisoned not more than ten years if the amount is ten thousand dollars or more.
Being arrested and charged with embezzlement or breach of trust puts your personal and professional life at stake. Conviction on embezzlement charges can have a lasting impact beyond jail time and any potential fine, effectively ending your career.
If the embezzled amount is $5,000.00 or more: Upon conviction, you are guilty of a felony and must be fined in the discretion of the court or imprisoned not more than ten years.
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