A Home Depot cashier in Arizona was arrested for swapping almost $400,000 of the store’s money with counterfeit currency he purchased on Amazon, the U.S. Secret Service said in a news release Friday.
Adrian Jean Pineda was a vault associate at the home improvement store, which made him responsible for organizing cash from the registers and depositing the receipts at a Wells Fargo bank.
Secret Service agents arrested Mr. Pineda at the Home Depot in Tempe, Arizona, on Jan. 31.
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From January 2018 to January 2022, Home Depot recorded $387,500 in losses due to receiving counterfeit notes in their cash deposits, according to the complaint.
Agents seized $5,000 in counterfeit currency and recovered $5,300 in genuine currency during the arrest, and an additional $22,000 in genuine currency was recovered in a search of Mr. Pineda’s residence.
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