Man who stole $600,000 in Home Depot merchandise sentenced to prison

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - SEPTEMBER 22: A general view of the Home Depot branch on September 23, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Workers at the northeast Philadelphia Home Depot branch filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board on September 19, with 274 employees seeking representation.
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A St. Louis County man is going to prison after stealing almost $600,000 from Home Depot.

Xavier Brown's system was to steal things from the store, then return the items at the customer service counter for gift cards at Home Depots in at least 20 different states. He ended up returning more than 1,900 items and used more than 1,700 temporary drivers licenses to hide his scam.

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Customers who want to return things to Home Depot but don't have a receipt just have to show a photo ID and then recieve a gift card.

Home Depot called the FBI and they tracked Brown down. The 46-year-old man was convicted in a jury trial in May, and is now sentenced to nine years in prison. He was also ordered to pay back the hundreds of thousands of dollars he stole from the chain.

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