MILTON, Ga. — Milton police have charged a Walmart cashier after they said she stole nearly $2,000 in merchandise from her employer.
Police told Channel 2's Mike Petchenik loss prevention officers at the Windward Parkway location of the retail giant noticed inventory discrepancies and went back to look at surveillance video of cashier Sienna Drew Gray.
"They noticed over a term of a week, that on six different occasions, had been ringing up items and voiding them out in the same transaction or sometimes just not ringing them up at all," said Captain Shawn McCarty. "It was the same customer each time."
McCarty said police were still trying to identify the other customer with whom they believe Drew Gray was working. Police arrested the Atlanta woman on Dec. 19 and charged her with felony theft.
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"Usually the largest amount of loss from any business is internal theft, and in this case loss prevention was very adept and finding out what was going on," McCarty said.
Petchenik spoke to a security expert whose company specializes in helping companies avoid hiring problematic employees in the first place.
"The issue with only relying on a criminal background screen is you're only understanding is what someone has been caught doing in the past," said Marc Goldberg, CEO of Verensics.
In this case, online jail records show Drew Gray had no previous felony arrests, at least in Fulton County.
Goldberg's company administers an online questionnaire to a company's prospective hire that can help them determine whether a person has the "propensity" to commit a crime.
"We use core analytics to understand the level or risk associated with an individual," he said. "That risk can be whether it's workplace violence or fraud or bribery, any sort of counterproductive behavior."
Drew Gray has bonded out of jail.
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