NewzA South Florida Home Depot employee is facing felony charges after police said he conducted a scheme to defraud the company of thousands of dollars. Leer en españolPolice in North Miami arrested Marvin Colin, 28, on Tuesday at the Home Depot store located at 12055 Biscayne Blvd.According to investigators, Home Depot management provided officers with what they described as an “asset protection investigative packet” that contained “transaction records, surveillance photographs, dates, times, register information and supporting documentation” for 13 different incidents in which they said Colin conducted the alleged fraudulent transactions. Police said Colin would select “older customer orders where prior attempts to contact the customers had been unsuccessful or where customer information had changed” and after accessing those legitimate orders, he “processed unauthorized refunds despite the merchandise not being present.”Those transactions were all processed between June 6 and July 16, per Colin’s arrest form, and totaled a financial loss of $5,133.52.
Evidence compiled by Home Depot also indicated that Colin’s employee ID number was used to process each of the fraudulent transactions at the customer service register, which was corroborated by surveillance photographs, police said. Authorities said some of the fraudulent refunds were given to two unknown individuals, but did not say whether they were seeking to identify either of those people, while other refunds were directed “to a debit card not associated with the original purchase,” though police did not say who that debit card belonged to. Colin is facing felony charges of grand theft between $5,000 and $10,000 and organized fraud of $20,000 or less.
As of Wednesday morning, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond. .l10-neighborhood, .l10-neighborhood * { box-sizing: border-box; } .l10-neighborhood{ --blue-dark:#0d2c73; --blue:#1f57c4; --blue-light:#3370e6; --gray-bg:#f2f3f5; --gray-border:#d6d8dc; --text-dark:#1a1a1a; --white:#ffffff; font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Arial,sans-serif; max-width:860px; margin:1.5rem auto; border-radius:10px; overflow:hidden; border:1px solid var(--gray-border); background:var(--gray-bg); box-shadow:0 4px 14px rgba(0,0,0,.12); text-align:center; } .l10-head{ background:linear-gradient(90deg,var(--blue-dark)…
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