Posted on 10/10/2009 6:27:49 AM PDT by inflorida
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- It was a crime so well planned you'd think it was part of a movie. In just minutes, deputies say a man walked into the Wal-Mart store on Turkey Lake Road in Orange County, stole as much as $200,000 and then casually walked out the door.
It was July 10 at 9:36pm when he pulled up to the Wal-Mart and then the heist began. The thief used two disguises. First, he acted like a shopper and put two small white boxes into a shopping cart. Once he was inside the store, he was able to get around without any problems because he used disguise number two, an authentic-looking Wal-Mart name tag.
At 9:37pm, the thief walked right by an employee at the customer service counter. Her eyes followed the man as he made his way to the back office.
The thief was able to get into the first office door because it was unlocked. Then he used a standard key to get through the second door.
At 9:38pm he went in, appearing very comfortable. He entered the combinations to the safe, opened it and filled the two boxes up with the cash
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Sounds like a former employee to me, who had made a copy of his name tag and knew the combination to the safe. That didn’t take a genius, but it did take nerve.
NOw THAT is LOW Prices!!! I wonder what the yellow smiley wallmart Icon would say about this!!
“Clean up on Aisle 1 in the Back Room!”
At 9:38pm he went in, appearing very comfortable. He entered the combinations to the safe, opened it and filled the two boxes up with the cash...
Got to be an inside job!
I agree. Someone who works there gave him the combination.
This should be pretty easy to solve. Having said that, I know WalMarts do huge business and can’t have cash pickups all day long, but isn’t $200K a bit much to have on the premises?
Clean out the Back Room for sure! Was the gentleman on the tape Middle eastern?
I think I read somewhere that all WalMart stores are laid out and constructed the same.
If that’s true, it could have been a former employee from another store who got the combination from a confederate.
Interesting.
I wonder if there was computer hacking involved in this. Where does a company like WalMart store safe combinations? Decades ago, I was a fast food manager for a while, and I can’t really recall how the safe issue worked. I know the norm was for a store manager to just tell assistant managers the combination, but I don’t recall if the safe also had a key lock, that presumably somebody at corporate headquarters would have had the key or key-making info for. I suspect that nowadays big companies have some sort of central safe combination repository, and also uses computers to track when safe combinations have been changed, and make sure they’re being changed when there
s change in a store’s management team.
Many types of safes are incredibly hard to get into. I remember about 8 years ago, a fireproof file-drawer safe at my office had to be broken into by a locksmith — it had a combination and I think it had a key lock as well, but nobody had the combination or key or key-making code. The locksmith spent a whole afternoon drilling away with a huge drill bit, and had to come back the next day to finish breaking in (the noise was deafening!). For a business like WalMart, having a store safe out of operation for even a few hours would be incredibly disruptive to business, so I suspect they’ve got some sort of central repository for combinations.
I agree, $200K is way too much cash to have in a store. What if it wasn’t really $200K in the safe, but the theft is a convenient way to explain the loss of $200K?
The list of those with the safe combination is very, very short. There is almost no way for the confederate not to get exposed.
He appears to be an obama.
....this kind of thing happens...our local WalMart just remodeled...an outside contractor came in to do some of the work...they were issued name tag badges...after the job was done, two of them came back to the store....they walked into the store pharmacy and proceeded to steal drugs...they got caught leaving with $6000 worth of street value pills.
Most posts are assuming a confederate gave the thief the combination. Is it possible, he was able to get some form of surveillance to obtain the combination?
“...explain the loss of $200K?”
Interesting possibility. Actually, 200K might not be too much cash. Maybe that is the day people at a large employer got paid - and they came to Wally World to shop and cash their checks. If this is an inside job, and it looks like it may be, and if he got the combination from an insider - they would also know the best time to hit the safe.-—JM
I totally believe that - guess what? JULY 10TH WAS A FRIDAY! Payday for many people.
It is odd they say how much was stolen. Smart companies won’t report this. Is the reporter just guessing?
WMT ping.
“Got to be an inside job!”
They’ll lean on everyone who had the combinations, polygraph them, fire the ones who won’t take it, and they go to the top of the suspect list.
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