{"id":8718,"date":"2022-01-28T20:08:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci029870463000240b"},"modified":"2025-02-26T02:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:19:27","slug":"amazon-employee-admits-to-stealing-over-273000-from-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/amazon-employee-admits-to-stealing-over-273000-from-company\/","title":{"rendered":"AMAZON EMPLOYEE ADMITS TO STEALING OVER $273,000 FROM COMPANY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Douglas Wright, 27, was an Amazon employee in Charlotte, NC. On January 28, 2022 Douglas pleaded guilty to mail fraud, for stealing merchandise from Amazon worth over $273,000. Jeff Bezos is the owner of Amazon and he makes billions of dollars a month. So Douglas stole from the richest man in the world. <\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/.image\/c_fit,h_600,w_600\/MTg3MDIyODU4NjcxNjI5ODA3\/amazon-imjg_8686.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to plea documents and court hearings, from June 2020 to September 2021, Douglas executed a scheme to defraud Amazon by stealing merchandise worth over $273,000 from the company\u2019s warehouse in Charlotte, NC. <\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the scheme, Douglas  was employed as an operation\u2019s manager at Amazon\u2019s warehouse in Charlotte. Douglas misused his access to Amazon&#8217;s computers to target certain merchandise, particularly expensive computer parts such as internal hard drives, processors, and graphic processing units, and shipped those items from the warehouse to his home address. <\/p>\n<p> Douglas  admitted in court that he then sold the stolen merchandise for profit to a computer wholesale company in California. Amazon became aware of the situation and contacted police. Douglas was arrested on September 8, 2021.<\/p>\n<p> Douglas  pleaded guilty to mail fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. A sentencing date has not been set yet.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/charlottealerts\/news\/amazon-employee-steals-4-000-in-merchandise-ships-empty-packages-to-customers\">An  Amazon fulfillment center  employee was accused of taking $4,000 worth of customers&#8217; items and then shipping empty boxes to the customers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/charlottealerts\/news\/amazon-had-over-19-000-employees-diagnosed-with-the-coronavirus\">Amazon released comprehensive data that showed 19,816 of their United States employees caught the Coronavirus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/charlottealerts\/news\/amazon-female-employee-stabbed-by-man-inside-amazon-distribution-center\">A female Amazon employee was stabbed inside an Amazon distribution center in Charlotte, NC.<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He worked for the richest man in the world, and this Amazon employee stole like it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[717,27,283,87,31,154,38,921,260,261,363,256,615,228,254,630,36],"class_list":["post-8718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-business-district","tag-commercial-shipment","tag-company","tag-computer","tag-employee","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-mail","tag-mail-carrier","tag-merchandise","tag-steal","tag-stolen","tag-store","tag-us-mail","tag-warehouse","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17824,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions\/17824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}