RANDOLPH COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – One woman has been arrested after taking nearly $3,000 while a cashier at a convenience store.
According to the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, on November 20, 2023, Deputies received a call from the Manager at ParMar #46 in reference to an employee identified as Anna Hammonds, the defendant, voiding transactions at work and then keeping the money after customers had already paid for their merchandise.
Upon arrival at the ParMar, Deputies received a written statement from the Regional Manager and the Manager.
The Manager stated that while conducting an audit on November 15, 2023, the Manager of Par-Mar #46, had an inventory that was short $1,950.00 in lottery, and $1,801.04 in cigarettes, which the Par-Mar states they consider a “controllable category”.
The Regional Manager advised Deputies the controllable category meant that they could track the transactions tied to the short audit.
Both Managers then stated that after reviewing surveillance footage from the store, they observed the defendant on camera, ringing customers up then hitting the void ticket button on the register, then hitting the “no sale key”.
The Managers then advised that after hitting these buttons on the register it would void the transaction but open the cash drawer for the defendant to put the cash in the register.
The Managers further stated that the defendant would let the customers take the product and that she would keep the receipts, or write the total on her hand.
They then advised that after the customers left, the defendant would open the cash drawer back up and take the money equaling the same amount from the transaction she voided.
The Managers advised Deputies that after reviewing more surveillance footage and transaction histories recorded on their system, they determined that the defendant had been doing this since September 17, 2023.
The Regional Manager then stated that she printed off the transactions that were voided and provided all of the receipts documenting each incident in which the defendant took money from the store.
She further advised that when the defendant came to work on November 20, 2023, she confronted her about the situation and asked how long she had been doing this, to which the defendant advised her “just for a few weeks.”
Upon further investigation, the Managers for ParMar provided police with incident reports, receipts, and surveillance footage for several dozen incidents in which the defendant had taken money.
The total dollar amount that was documented by video of the defendant stealing money throughout multiple incidents, totaled approximately $2,881.15 in U.S. Currency.
They also provided police with additional receipts in which they suspected the defendant had also done the same thing but were unable to identify exactly who had done it because the footage had been overwritten.
