Thursday, January 8, 2009

Deputies: Cashier Made Fake Refunds

A cashier at a North Naples home design store is charged with a felony after deputies say he made fraudulent refunds and then credited them to his personal credit cards.

Jeff WayneWahlers, 20, 3845 Groton Court, East Naples, was arrested Wednesday and charged with grand theft.

Arrest reports say Wahlers went back into customer orders and refunded merchandise back to several of his own credit cards while working as a cashier at Home Depot Expo Design Center, 1000 Immokalee Road.

Wahlers made dozens of fraudulent transactions totaling $7,010.44 between October 2008 and January 2009, arrest reports said.