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FLINT, Mich. – A Michigan man who switched amount stickers on Home Depot articles and again alternate the items for refunds was bedevilled Thursday to 2 1/2 years in bastille in a multi-state arrangement that amount the big banker added than $300,000.
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Larry D. Fields, Chris M. Smith and others accomplished the betray over two years at added than 100 Home Depot food in 13 states, according to federal agents.
Fields appeared Thursday in federal cloister in Flint, a few months afterwards Smith was bedevilled to 3 1/2 years in bastille for his role.
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The artifice was simple but lucrative: They took bar cipher stickers off bargain items and placed them on appurtenances that amount added afore advantageous at a self-checkout register. The items afterwards were alternate to Home Depot with the aboriginal college amount code.
Refunds were put on Home Depot abundance cards that were peddled to others. Some items that weren't anon alternate were put in accumulator in the Detroit breadth or resold for a profit.
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After his arrest aftermost May, Smith met with Home Depot admiral and "offered suggestions as to how to advance abundance aegis measures in adjustment to anticipate agnate schemes from occurring in the future," Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Vance said in a cloister filing.
During one of Smith's abounding visits to a store, he bought lights account $530 for aloof $40. He got a ablution cesspool costing $85 for $4.20 afterwards switching bar codes. Other articles included a alternation saw, duke truck, battery drains and beam tiles.
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In Atlanta, Home Depot agent Stephen Holmes said the aggregation was beholden for the assignment of federal agents. He beneath to say whether the case has afflicted how the banker puts prices on its products.
"I wouldn't be able to altercate any of our aegis measures, alike in general," Holmes said.
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