Walmart employee charged with repeated ticket-switching to pay reduced prices for items
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Juliza Marie Santiago Rodriguez, 30, was arrested early yesterday morning and charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud after scanning price tags from lower-priced items to “buy” higher-priced items during her overnight shifts at Walmart.
At about 2:23 a.m. on June 6, a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to a call from the Walmart at Butler Plaza (2900 SW 42nd Street), where the Loss Prevention Officer (LPO) said he had been watching surveillance video for an unrelated overnight issue and found that Santiago Rodriguez had been “ticket-switching” and mis-scanning merchandise at checkout registers.
The LPO said that although the store is closed at night, three cash registers stay open so the staff who stock the shelves overnight can make purchases during their breaks or when they leave. He said that when he saw Santiago Rodriguez ticket-switching, he went back and found 39 incidents in which she had allegedly used a price tag for $1.97 to cover tags for higher-priced items; she also allegedly mis-scanned many items and cleared the error codes herself on the registers. The loss came to $1,628.
Post Miranda, Santiago Rodriguez reportedly admitted mis-scanning items and said her husband is disabled and they are having financial problems.
Santiago Rodriguez has been charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud, a felony. She has no local criminal history, and Judge Susan Miller-Jones ordered her released on her own recognizance.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
I would love to see how much theft actually occurs at Walmart around the country, and how much it affects their bottom line. The Walmart stores here get robbed daily, it seems. If this is happening everywhere, you gotta wonder if it is worth the cost of doing business after awhile…..(yes, I know Walmart is huge, cash cow, etc…I guess their marketing has worked and everyone knows them, but that also makes them the prime target for theft, so it seems)
It’s all part of their business model. Walmart is able to stomach these losses because they are so heavily subsidized by EBT cards and because they source products from third world slave countries all while destroying small local businesses.
Remember fake Covid19?…who was “able” to stay open and who wasn’t?
Until people stop supporting these monstrosities nothing will change.
Hmm! COVID! CCP Bio warfare! It is coming out on Non-fake news now!
Geez, was the defeated Ono part of the CCP Attack Plan? UM + CCP = Dead Americans!
Don’t ask “who wasn’t” able to be open, if you couldn’t cook your own food you were “screwed!” Grocery Stores were open, along with stores selling necessities! Home Depot and Lowes were open, along with many other small businesses not into selling coffee or sandwiches!
Of course, the AC BOCC played Gestapo and extended the lines outside stores for as long as they could.
Don’t Steal & All your other names:
Please go get Therapy.
All of your illogical rants with different names.
Seek Professional Counselling Services Please.
Thank you.
Are you okay? Blink twice if you need help. The mental health crisis line is 988.
I guess Walmart should stop accepting EBT and SNAP cards from users! That way, we can stop Walmart from receiving the associated Federal Government subsidies for accepting these two forms of low income people buying food.
People like you deserve to starve to death because you gleefully fantasize about the deaths of people you think beneath you. The bar does not go any lower than you, you are on rock bottom.
Theres been discussions where businesses would like to go to mini distribution centers where items are paid for ahead of time and are either delivered or taken to pick up areas in parking lot. This gets them out of having to have transactions occur in store to take the temptation away from employees and customers. The only registers would be in the return area.
I will give walmart credit compared to target in regards to prosecuting theft. Target tends to be allergic to it, walmart doesn’t really play in that regards.
Walmart makes beaucoup bucks. That said, the Walmart on Waldo Road at one time held first place for losses out the back door….in the world.
They can stand to give out higher wages for the hourly employees…but instead the only one’s making money is the salary one’s who don’t do as nearly much work as us hourly employees…..they look at us more than the thieves that come in at least 3 to 4 times a day
walmart steals millions of dollars a year in wage theft, anyone who works there should be stealing as much as possible
“Wage theft” is defined by people who do diddly squat for work because they’re convinced that they deserve $1000/hr for doing diddly squat. The people who claim “wage theft” deserve the true minimum wage, which is $0/hr.
are you suggesting that wage theft isn’t real? it’s the largest form of theft in the united states by dollars stolen. Walmart employs people full time who don’t even make enough to get off food stamps, our tax dollars are subsidizing walmarts giant payroll because they’re so greedy. Everyone working there, and quite frankly everyone else should steal as much as they want.
There is never a good enough reason to steal from anyone! No one has “the right”to steal and that fact that you condone that behavior is disturbing.
it’s fine when the corporation does it on a scale in the billions but when the average person steals $500 it’s a heinous crime??? There is plenty good enough reason to “steal” from walmart. It’s money they’ve stolen from us. It’s not even their money and they’re certainly not a helpless person like you’re making them out to be.
‘Wage theft’ is commie-speak for I don’t have a skill-set worth more than minimum wage.
Commie speak??? OUR TAXES ARE SUBSIDIZING FOOD FOR WALMART EMPLOYEES CAUSE THEY DON’T GET PAID ENOUGH. When a corporation gets our tax dollars it’s fine but when we get our own tax dollars it’s communism, you people are hopeless
This gravy seal can’t define communism yet calls everyone it sees a commie. I bet he can’t get within 1000 feet of a school.
Dee Dee: you are such a negative person…always the blame game…
“Thou shalt not steal”..you communists always want free stuff…you reap what you sow!
Deedee is a nutjob.
Look how easily she gets triggered!
She’s unhinged and using caps to express her commie lunacy forcibly. 🤪
thinking capital letters are “force.” There really is no match for the conservative victim complex
It’d help to know what type items were stolen. If it’s necessities vs luxuries, it’s different.
I’m sure it’s difficult to live in a college town with a disabled hubby (unless he’s a student). It’s good they’re married at least. We’d do newcomers like this a huge favor by telling them college towns are the last place they should settle in, find work at decent wages, and decent housing — with one job.
Ah! So it’s ok to steal if you can’t afford to pay? It is called budget! Something most people today know nothing about!
Not a one time occurrence.
Don’t defend lawlessness!
She was just doing a ‘Price Rollback.’
Stealing is WRONG. Go to the Middle East and see what happens when you steal.
I agree with Dee Dee. All you conservative people here are the d*u*m*b*e*s*t people I ever heard of. It’s about time they locked you all up in a l*u*n*a*t*i*c – a*s*y*l*u*m.
It is not right for an employer to get anything subsidized from the government, when a full time employee at that store cannot earn enough to be above the poverty line.
It is also not right to expect a single wage earner working at minimum wage to be able to support a family with that income.
Gape is in her future to pay them bills.