A store manager of a Dollar General in Boone County has been arrested for stealing cash and gift cards he activated. Facing one felony charge is 52-year-old Shawn Robert English of Harrison.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, the district manager of the store on Arkansas State Highway 392, or Capps Road, in Capps contacted the sheriff’s office saying surveillance footage showed a pattern of fraudulent activity involving English.
When investigators reviewed the footage from one day, they saw English:
-Remove multiple iPhone gift cards from the display rack near the register.
-Activate the cards at the register without any payment or corresponding transactions being entered.
-Photograph the gift card numbers.
-Dispose of the gift cards and receipts in the trash can behind the counter.
-Access the store’s cash reserve from the safe and take the money into the employee break room, which is off camera.
-Returning without the money bag in view.
The initial reconciliation from that day revealed losses included:
-$1,500 in fraudulently activated iPhone gift cards.
-$2,634 in a missing store deposit.
-$400 missing from the register.
-$918 missing from the store’s change fund.
Those losses totaled $5,452.
The following day, the district manager contacted the sheriff’s office to say the last five day’s worth of nightly deposits had not been made.
English is facing a felony charge of theft of property between $5,000 and $25,000. He is free after posting $10,000 bond.
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