- A woman from Georgia is accused of racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering and fraud charges for her alleged role in stealing $300,000 worth of items from three retail stores.
- Santina Green, also known as Santina Hill, from Decatur, was allegedly the ringleader in the scheme targeting TJX Companies Inc. stores including TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods.
- Police say between November 2020 and May 2021, a group of fraudsters purchased expensive rugs then used the receipts at other TJX locations to return cheaper, non-TJX rugs with forged price codes.
- They are accused of exploiting delays in reconciliation between combo and standalone store point-of-sale systems, enabling multiple returns on a single receipt before national flagging occurred.
- Authorities identified Green as the primary suspect through government-issued IDs, multiple aliases, store surveillance video, return data, and bank records, linking her to 84 fraudulent transactions in Florida and several co-subjects.
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