HAYWARD — An worker at a House Depot retailer right here has been arrested as a suspect within the theft of tons of of hundreds of dollars of retailer merchandise, authorities mentioned.
The individual’s title was not instantly launched. The worker was arrested Tuesday on the retailer at 21287 Hesperian Blvd.
The investigation started March 1 when the California Freeway Patrol’s Golden Gate Division Organized Retail Crime Job Power was contacted by House Depot loss prevention investigators relating to a number of thefts believed to have been dedicated by a Hayward retailer worker.
The worker was suspected of stealing merchandise — principally assorted instruments — whereas performing after-hours work, the CHP mentioned. The estimated loss suffered by the shop exceeded $300,000, the CHP mentioned.
Loss prevention investigators offered the duty drive with video surveillance of the worker and the car utilized in a number of of the incidents.
On Tuesday the duty drive, with the help of CHP officers, executed a search warrant on the worker’s house, within the metropolis of Patterson in Stanislaus County. Through the search of the residence, roughly 600 stolen retail gadgets estimated at a worth of $80,000 have been recovered, the CHP mentioned.
Investigators additionally seized almost $90,000 in money as proceeds from illicit felony exercise. The worker was arrested on the Hayward retailer and booked at Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of organized retail crime, grand theft, possession of stolen property and conspiracy to commit against the law.
