K-Mart employee charged with electronics theft
Date: Wednesday, January 16 @ 11:49:31 UTC
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A 21-year-old Sheboygan K-mart employee was charged today with stealing more than $7,000 in electronics by packing them in larger boxes that he later purchased, according to a criminal complaint.
Nathaniel A. Gustafson, of 2509 Henry St., faces up to three years in prison if convicted on the count of felony theft.
According to the complaint:
Gustafson was arrested Thursday after admitting to the thefts in an interview with a loss prevention officers at the store, 2633 S. Business Drive.
Gustafson told police he started taking sodas from K-mart in August, and in December moved up to electronics. In his first significant theft, Gustafson took 30 DVDs, two Xbox controllers and ten Value games, concealing them in a Crock-Pot box that he returned and purchased a few days later.
A week later, he took a camcorder, 10 Value games and 10 movies in a toaster oven box, which he similarly purchased a few days later.
Wednesday, he found an old set of keys and used them to take an Xbox 360 hard drive, two Xbox 360 HD DVD players, two PlayStation 3 systems and other items from a locked video game case. He concealed them in boxes for a microwave and toaster oven box, but set off alarms as he was leaving the store with the toaster oven box.
The items totaled $7,218.
News-Source: sheboygan-press.com
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