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Samira Sadeque

Home Depot worker allegedly swapped $387,500 in play money for real bills

Shoppers walk into a Home Depot store.
A Home Depot employee in Arizona scammed the company out of $387,500 over four years using fake bills. Photograph: Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/Rex/Shutterstock

An employee at a Home Depot in Arizona has scammed the company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2018, by swapping out cash from the registers for fake $100 bills, according to a criminal complaint.

Adrian Jean Pineda, who used to be in charge of counting the money in Home Depot registers in Tempe, allegedly siphoned $387,500 over four years through this scheme, the New York Times reported.

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