Three Men Steal More Than $38K in Apple Products from a Chesapeake Walmart & Get Away in a Dark Pickup Truck

Three men steal more than $38K of Apple products from Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia on January 4, 2024 around 10:40 p.m. One of the men distracts a Walmart sales associate while two other men pry open caged lockers containing "a large amount of Apple products." They fled through the employee break room and drove away in a dark pickup truck.

Apple products (stock photo) by Julian O'havon on Unsplash

Three Men Steal More than $38K of Apple Products from Virginia Walmart

WAVY 10 News reported that three men stole over $38K worth of Apple products on January 4, 2024, around 10:40 p.m. One of the men distracts a Walmart sales associate while two other men pry open caged lockers containing "a large amount of Apple products." They fled through the employee break room and drove away in a dark pickup truck.

This theft took place at the Walmart located at 632 Grassfield Parkway in Chesapeake, Virginia, and was captured on their surveillance camera. This is a busy road in Chesapeake.

A Chesapeake deputy working part-time witnessed the three men get into a dark pickup and speed off.

Stealing more than $1,000 of goods in the state of Virginia is a felony, which is punishable by up to 20 years in state prison, and because they used a tool, this is also considered a felony, which could add an additional 5 years of prison time to their sentence.

WAVY 10 News reported that local residents were shocked, as they "have never seen anything like this happen at that Walmart before."

 

Chesapeake resident Tim Pickett said:

“The people that walked in and stole this amount of money out of Apple products, I don’t understand how that was — people watching them do that and how that was allowed,” Pickett said. “And then watching the segment on WAVY 10 last night, I saw they went out the employees’ entrance. So I was stunned for, like, how that happens in our neighborhood.”

$6,800 Taken from California Woman's Wells Fargo Bank Account Days After Receiving Fraudulent Phone Call

 In August 2023, Nadwa Perket received a phone call claiming to be from Wells Fargo. Days later, $6,800 was taken from her bank account and sent to Florida.

Wells Fargo bank (stock photo) by Mike Mozart; CC BY 2.0 DEED

A woman in her 60s from San Diego lost $6,800 from her Wells Fargo bank account after being tricked by a scammer who pretended to be a Wells Fargo bank employee. Nadwa Perket said she felt betrayed by the bank, which refused to reimburse her money.

California Woman Receives Scam Call and Loses Money from Bank Account

The U.S. Sun reported that Nadwa Perket from San Diego received a phone call in August 2023 from a man who claimed to be from the Wells Fargo fraud team. He told her that someone had tried to wire money to an account in Florida and that he needed to add extra security layers to her bank account.

Perket said the caller sounded very professional and convincing. She did not give him her password or username, but she did provide him with some personal information and a one-time access code that he requested.

A few days later, she got a notification on her phone that her account balance was low. She checked her account and found out that $6,800 had been withdrawn from her account.

Perket contacted Wells Fargo and reported the fraud, but the bank told her that "she had authorized the transaction" and that they would not refund her money. She said she was "shocked and angry that the bank did not protect her as a client."

She said:

"It didn't look fishy to them." -Nadwa Perket

She said she then had to borrow money just to pay her rent and that she felt like the bank did not care about her. 

Questions for the Readers

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• Do you think that commercial banks care about their customers?
• Do you think they will take care of customers that are victims of fraud?
• Have you ever seen fraudulent charges on your debit or credit card?