Kathy Williams
Westlake, OH
According to police reports, a sophisticated theft by deception took place shortly after 7 p.m. July 17 at Giant Eagle in the Promenade. A black woman, calling herself Kathy Williams, asked customer service staff to check for a note from another employee regarding a refund due to her. The note instructed the staff, by name, to give the suspect a cash refund of $284 for returned money orders.
The note also instructed the staff to not question the suspect, due to her having complained repeatedly to the store manager. The woman was given the money, but it was later determined that the note was not from any employee. Police are unsure how the note got behind the counter, but the suspect had laid extensive groundwork to complete the theft.
Found in the Sun News
August 1st, 2006 at 3:37 am
Sounds like an awful lot of work for $284. She probably has a confederate who works at the store, with whom she will have to split the money. At any rate, I’m surprised nobody called the manager, I would have. Complaints notwithstanding the whole set-up kinda smells like, well, not too fresh, if ya get my drift…
August 1st, 2006 at 8:13 am
It may be a small amount, but making the amount too large would make the crime much more difficult to pull off. small wins could make a lifetime of crime. And if she does get caught, she is only on the hook for a few hundred dollar’s in theft.
The only thing I want to know is where is this store. Any store that gives cash away so easily needs to get to know my bank account.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:39 am
Where I live, anyone could slip behind a counter and leave a note, because the employees are rarely at their stations. On the other side of this coin, we had a Home Depot employee who liked to tell customers that the Gift Card they’d been given had expired, and when customers didn’t ask for them back, she’d keep the cards for herself.
August 1st, 2006 at 11:53 am
leahmarie that HD employee’s picture is in the dictionary next to the definition for true scumbag.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:30 am
You’re right, stone, and at the end of that definition it says: -see Scuzzbucket.