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SALT LAKE CITY — An employee of a bulk grocery store warehouse has been arrested for allegedly using lost IDs to defraud the store out of more than $40,000.
The 27-year-old man was arrested Wednesday for investigation of unlawful use of technology to defraud and four counts of unlawfully possessing someone else's identification card.
Salt Lake police say the man worked at Sam's Club, 1905 S. 300 West. For the past two months, the employee took "customer identification cards" that were being stored in the lost-and-found, looked up what that person had recently purchased, and then issued cash refunds for those items and pocketed the money, police stated.
Investigators believe he took more than $40,000, according to a police booking affidavit. When police searched him as he was being arrested, "four Utah driver licenses belonging to other people were discovered inside of his left pants pocket along with two receipts for cash refunds and a large amount of money inside of a pouch," the affidavit states.
The man allegedly told officers that he had already spent most of the stolen money, according to the affidavit.
