Wal-mart Store #2705
Fired and Arrested for Embezzlement After Price Override Accusation

Wal-mart had employed me August as a full time cashier, I've had so many problems with that store and how they treated me. I had previously worked at two other wal-marts when I lived in California. Well Wal-Mart had fired me for going home when a customer spilled a gallon of lemonade all over me.

I went home the next morning I came to work and I got fired. I called Home Office and a Week later I had my job back. Well I think this is why I was targeted the way I was, because management was mad that I called home office on them because I went over their heads and they had no choice but to give me my job back.

Well August 4th someone came up to me and told me that co. Manager jennifer wanted to see me in the back office. So I went back there and she had two men and herself in there and they proceeded to shut the door and tell me to sit down.

They asked me if I knew why they had called me into the office and I said no, they proceeded to tell me that they had been watching me and they had noticed that I had been doing a lot of price over-rides, which is changing the prices of merchandise. I said, "well yes everyone does that".

They proceeded to accuse me of embezzling over $4,500 from Wal-Mart by means of price over-rides and that i had been doing it for several of my friends. I said that I have done no such things. I admitted to changing the prices for two people, but never in excess of even $100.00 let alone $4,500. They said that they had sheets of all the things that I price over-ridden and that was their proof.

They said that they believed that I was a good person and that they didn't think that I did these things on purpose and that if I agreed to pay them restitution they would not press charges on me or have me arrested. They left the room drawn up the restitution papers came back in and had me sign them.

They left the room again and the Loss Prevention leader said that he was going to go tell his boss that I agreed to pay back restitution and he said that he didn't think that it was going to be necessary to press charges. Well co. Manager Jennifer and his self came back into the managers office with detective Delgado and police officer unser, had me escorted out of the store, in hand cuffs, put into a police car and had me taken to jail charging me with felony embezzlement.

At one time we went to court and they wanted to settle saying that they could only prove 400.00 and that's all I had to pay back. Then they took it to circuit court and my public defender said that since in the state of commonwealth of Virginia, The law is embezzlement of over 200.00 is a felony and they had paper evidence or whatever evidence they had, exceeded that amount by 200.00, If I fought it I could go to jail for a maximum of 5 years. I didn't want to take the chance of going to jail, being in a holding cell of the jail for a day and a half was enough for me to realize that.

So Wal-Mart coughed up a plea bargain which said that I must plea guilty and pursuant to a guilty plea I would serve 5 years supervised probation and pay back $4,500. Of course I took the plea bargain.

I would like to see any proof that Wal-Mart has, and I want to know why they had me publicly humiliated the way that they did. Because there is another former Wal-Mart employee that lives a few doors down from me and, she got fired for the same thing I got arrested for, about 2 months later. They figured that she had embezzled over $19,000 from the company.

And she is willing to testify that they agreed to her paying back restitution so she wouldn't get arrested. So why if Wal-mart said that she embezzled $19,000, did she not get arrested and treated as unjustly as I had? That is my complaint.

My husband currently still works at Wal-Mart, he gets harassed about me daily and they are constantly questioning his integrity.

Company: Wal-mart Store #2705
Country: USA
State: Virginia
City: Franklin
Phone: 7575623705

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