Hayward Home Depot Worker Arrested For Stealing Merchandise As Part Of Retail Theft Scheme

CBS San Francisco

March 234, 2023

HAYWARD -- California Highway Patrol investigators have arrested a Hayward Home Depot worker suspected of stealing merchandise from the store as part of an organized retail theft scheme, the CHP announced Thursday.

The CHP Golden Gate Division said in a Facebook post its Organized Retail Crime Task Force was contacted by the store's loss prevention investigators on March 1 about several thefts committed by a store employee while working after hours. The store investigators also provided the CHP task force with surveillance video of the employee and the vehicle used in several of the incidents, the CHP said.

Home Depot estimated the loss from the stolen merchandise in excess of $300,000.

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